Sports Weekend

It was a pretty busy weekend of sports activities for me. Saturday there was a volleyball tournament put on by the UQ Beach Volleyball Club, and my team made it to the semi-finals. Later that night, a group of us went to an Australian Football League game. Australian rules football is a pretty entertaining sport- it's sort of like a combination between soccer and a little bit of American football played on an oval shaped field. The Brisbane Lions played the West Coast Eagles, and won 114 - 82. Sunday, my roommate and I went to a National Rugby League game with an international student group from school, QUEST. The Brisbane Broncos played the New Zealand Warriors and lost 16 - 48. It was cool to see Australian sports in person, since Australia is known to be a very sport-centered country.

At the AFL Game

At the NRL Game

The Hinterlands

Today I went with an international student group, QUEST, to Springbrook National Park in the Gold Coast Hinterlands. It was an hour and a half bus ride from Brisbane and we walked through a cave of glow worms, fed some tropical birds, and did a couple hikes to some waterfalls.

Australia Zoo

Today I went to the Australia Zoo with an international student group from school called QUEST. The zoo is pretty famous in Australia because it is owned by Steve Irwin's family and is where he worked. It featured mostly native Australian animals and was pretty cool. Highlights of the day included: playing with kangaroos, petting a koala, feeding an elephant, and watching tiger playtime.