Day Three-Four—Theme ParksWe got up relatively early the next morning, so did most of our other dorm mates. Living in a mixed 12 people dorm meant a line-up to use the bathroom, but also a chance to watch guys wi th only their undies :P I was thrilled at the first. But then later when I saw the large number of topless guys on the beach I realised that they prob ably just didn't care showing one or two pieces of their muscles. Anyway I quite enjoyed my view there. After a pretty simple breakfast (I don’t even rememb er what I ate), we went to the bus stop not far from our hostel. It was only 10am and there were already a lot of people waiting. The main bus at the stop was a theme park express, going to both movie world and dream world. We were heading to movie world today, and apparently most of t he people around had the same destination. The bus didn’t let us wait long, and there were two of them coming at once. I guess it was just to make sure everybody could get on board. There was one thing interesting about Queensland’ s transport system, that is until you actually get on the bus you can buy your ticket from the driver, before that you can hardly buy any pre-paid ticket elsewhere (there is probably somewhere you can get it but really rare, I didn’t see it). So the getting-on-board section was extremely long at every stop with a lot of drama. Still me and panpan was pretty excited, thinking that we could finally get student concession here legitimately (NSW and Victoria are the only two states where internationally students d on’t get their concession rights). And we got it, until next time panpa n accidentally showed her student card to a bus driver (I don’t even know why she did it), and we were told that the concession discount is only to students enrolled in a Queensland institution. How unfair! Most of the theme parks in gold coast are located in the same area, to the north shore, proximately 45 minutes drive from surfers pa radise. When the bus got to movie world, 3/4 of the passengers took off, including us. In front of the big gate, we had a preview of our day, huge queues lining to get in. there we also saw a few student groups from china. Panpan stood with them unconsciously, but I found out that with our pre-paid ticket, we could just get in from the express entry. That saved us quite a bit of time. It was such a fancy world inside.
