Australia Day

I had my first experience with celebrating Australia day this week. The night before Australia day there was a famous DJ that played at club vanity. DJ Havana is here name and she is the most famous female DJ in Australia and she DJ's for Brittany Spears. She was pretty good though. When it hit midnight and it was officially Australia day everyone cheered. We ended up staying there it 3:00 or so in the morning. The worst thing was my ears were ringing for the next couple of days cause the music was so loud.
On the actual Australia day, we went downtown to Broad Beach to see if we could find fireworks or a parade or something. We didn't see anything other than a bunch of drunk ozzies. Some were wearing the national flag some where passed out on the bushes or the lawn from a day of constant drinking. That is what Australia day is from what I could tell. Drink all day and have BBQ's.
It is kind of strange that they celebrate a day like this anyway. Australia day is the day that the English landed in Australia and took over the land controlled by the aboriginal people. The aboriginals I have talked to call this day "Invasion day" and refuse to celebrate it. I don't have a shirt with anything Australia on it, yet. So, I just wore my shirt with the British flag on it. No one got upset.
Although, the people of Australia as a whole are pretty nice, I have definitely run into some rude people. Mainly at restaurants. If you try to specialize the order in any sort of way they get upset. If I ask for no mushrooms for example. Trying to ask for the prices also angers employees as I learned when trying to order a value meal at McDonald's. The worst thing was at pre-Australia day bash. I won a free hat and ,granted it was free, but I left for 10 minutes to go dance a little and some Australia snatched it up. It was a women's hat so I gave it to one of my friends but when I saw the guy dancing with it I confronted him. I asked him where he got it and he said he didn't know. I told him that I am pretty sure that he stole my friend's hat. He looked dumbfounded but then his buddy came in from around the corner claiming that he had the hat all along and that he won it, ect. I just let him have it if he really wanted it that bad. I saw the guy later and he works for the BUSA administration which is supposed to help students on campus.