weekending it up in narooma

My roommate, Jessie, took me home this weekend to meet the family. (She actually went for her mom’s birthday, which was on Saturday!) Jessie lives 3 ½ hours south along the coast in a town called Narooma (pop. About 8,000). Jessie’s parents are named Sue and Graham. Sue is a kindergarten teacher, and Graham is a high school counsellor. Her sister, Elisa, is in year 11 and is really sweet! She’s into music and is a very good artist.

Jessie has an awesome house, and her room has the most beautiful view of the ocean! On Saturday we went into the cute little town that had lots of cool, quirky shops. We looked at clothes, art, gifts, and my favourite – the old fashioned candy shop! Yum-o! After that we all took a nice walk along the beach – it’s beautiful! Then Jessie and I headed to the Australian movie Oyster Farmer, which her parents had seen last week and had highly recommended it to us! The movie was excellent – kinda arty and apparently “very Australian”.

Once we got back we had the best “tea” ever! We had fresh prawns, then garlic prawns with rice, and then fish! Plus, yummy chocolate birthday cake! It was so good!

We had a sunny Sunday and I was anxious to go surfing! (Saturday had been kinda dreary.) Sue has been surfing for about 18 months now, but she’s really into it and very good. Sue let me use her board and she was basically my surf coach – pushing me onto waves and giving me tips. It was great and I really improved! I stood up quite a bit! It was SO fun! Jessie and Elisa caught a few waves while I was learning. They make it look so easy! We went out again later that day. Apparently the surf hasn’t been that good, but it was okay for me to learn on and stuff. It was such a great time! It really wears ya out though! That evening we watched Hitch and then headed to bed early because we woke up at 6:30 Monday morning to head for Wollongong.

I can’t wait to go surfing again! Jessie doesn’t like surfing here as much as she does back home, but hopefully we can go out here sometime soon!!!

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