The Life Of James Murphy.

Sorry I haven’t posted or told people who read my blog where I went, I went away to Queensland, Australia for a week on a school camp. Not sure why they called it a camp, we visited theme parks everyday and ended up shopping everyday with a 4 star hotel room to pass out in!
How can that possibly be camping? I’m not complaining but I wish every camp was this great! I’m not sure if I’ll write a full break down of how camp was, A lot is still a complete blur to me. It’s something you’ll only ever experience once, being able to talk to people you’ve never interacted with ever and actually getting along with them and being yourself, I actually told some close friends things about me, like that I was on anti-depressants or things that have gone on in my life. The amount of money paid for camp was worth it, i know I’ve made friends I’ll never lose now and looking back at camp, It makes me smile and just wish it went for longer.

Here’s a quick break down of my trip.

• 7am Sunday Morning - We all have to meet at the school so we can board for our long bus trip ahead of us.
• We stopped for several stops through-out the day and night, Roughly every 3-4 hours. Stopping at a McDonald’s or a petrol station, Everyone would anxiously get off the bus, stretch the legs and stock up on lollies, food and energy drinks. We stopped for dinner at about 8pm in an Aboriginal town, warned to keep safe and not to talk to anyone, that freaked a lot of us out but we kept to ourselves and got the fuck out of there!
• Nobody slept during the night, We watched several movies and I can remember the movie was just getting scary, into the next scene where you’d shit yourself. All you heard was a massive BANG everything jumped and you could hear screams coming from the bus but it was not from the movie…. We hit and killed an adult kangaroo. I remember pulling over and looking at the damage, It was not that bad but would have totaled a car, easily.
• Monday - During the night we hit and most likely killed several more kangaroos and finally got into Queensland at 2:42am on Monday morning, we still had a few hours of travel left and everyone was still wide eye awake, giggling and flirting became as natural as talking.. Many of the scenes we past reminded me of horror movies…
• Once getting off the bus, We walked around Surfers Paradise. Around the shops and on the beautiful beach, we finally checked in, had dinner and everyone was pretty much asleep.
• Tuesday - We went to Warner Brothers MovieWorld. This is my second time at this park and It was still great in my eyes! - We got home about 6, had dinner, chilled and went to bed.
• Wednesday - We went to DreamWorld, I’ve actually never been here before, I was excited till I got in, It was just a stupid kids park. Filled with all things I watched as a child.
• Thursday - We had a free day to ourselves, a few mates and I went up to harbour town (A great shopping centre) We Looked around then went back to the hotel, went up to Pacific Fair ( Biggest shopping centre in Southern hemisophere) and watched a movie, went and shopped for abit and got complimented on the band shirt i had on - Ended up going to Hooters thursday night for dinner with family (Not with camp) and got photos with the hooter girls!
• Friday -  We went to Sea world, Sadly all the water rides were closed so this park was quite shit to be honest, we then got on a plane at about 5pm after being delayed and ended up back at the airport at 7:45 - We got on the bus and rode back to school - I ended up home by 9pm!

I’ve got photos, souvenirs and memories. I’ll get some photos of what I brought and some of the photos I’ve got.