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The journey begins!
The first flight is now booked, we’ll be flying from Brisbane to Cairns tomorrow morning and will head directly towards Port Douglas in the afternoon. The only problem is that it’s really the high/peak season up in Cairns right now, so it seems kind of hard to get a place to stay for decent money, but money talks of course!
We’ll probably stay hoovering around Cairns, Port Douglas and the surroundings of the Great Barrier Reef for a week or so, eventually making our way to New Zealand or Melbourne to take the Great Ocean Road, the only problem is that if it’s high season up in Cairns, it means exactly the opposite on NZ, which essentially means that +30 goes to +15, brrr…
Anyway, can’t wait to see Cairns and Port Douglas!
Cyclone
The timing could really had been better as my mom and dad are currently flying down here. Today there was a cyclone warning down over Byron Bay and Coolangatta with winds topping at 150 km/h, really sick shit. It’s mild to say that there’s a storm going on outside and that it has been raining for the past 3 days, topping it off with the fact that it is the first time in 3 months that it actually rains – at all.
Schools out fooooorevah!
I don’t think I’ve understood it quite yet. Yesterday was my last exam – ever! Communication Strategies went quite alright and it was a pretty expected exam to be honest. After the exam me and a couple of the boys from class went down to Don’s for two quick pints, just to start up the night so to say. Then it was the “goodbye” dinner at Santorini with Joel, Rick and Melissa. Joel and Rick went to Thailand yesterday and will be going up to Sweden eventually, I’m pretty lucky that the parents are coming down this week, since everyone else is leaving. The turk left for Melbourne this morning but will be back on Tuesday, and on Wednesday Philipp is leaving for Germany, it’s going to be a sad goodbye.
After dinner me, Nils, Tom, Romain, Philipp and Mehmet (along with the rest of the uni :)) hit Don’s again, it was really packed, but nothing else was expected from the End of Semester Bash either. 3-4 hours and around 20-25 jugs later we found ourself standing in a 200m line to get into Melbas, it was a pretty easy decision not to go in and we went along around the corner to hit The Drink instead, god I hate that place – unfortunately the rest of the crew seem to like it. It was a BIG NIGHT anyway and today me and Philipp has been watching Entourage the whole day, followed by a sauna session with Nils and Tom which are also doing dinner tonight, nice! It’s on again!
1 to go
Boom! The final assignment for Entrepreneurship was just handed in. It was a Feasibility Study for a company that we’d like to call BTravel, that’s about all I can say at the moment as we’re currently talking to an Investor in Dubai (!) to come up with the money to finance the different stages. It’s hardly the case that they’d cover all the risk (that is, all the money) that is needed as it stretches a bit over US$1M but a kick-off to start discussions is always nice. 50 pages down in a Feasibility Study might seem much, but that also means we have a solid ground if we decide to go with a Business Plan to be presented to Venture Capitalists or other Investors.
Anyway. Only one exam to go, ever. Oh, what a feeling, keep believing … schalala.