Australian Immigration & Customs

Wow!!! Australian immigration and customs was quite an experience...When I got up to the immigration counter, they told me that they couldn't find my visa at first in the system (since I had done it online) and then they realized that it was because I had forgotten to put my middle name on the form when I signed up online...A woman then took my passport and had to go and input the change into the system...Then I overheard this woman getting interrogated by the immigration officers because she and her husband had gone through immigration separately...It was hard for this woman to understand what she was being asked because she didn't appear to speak much English...After I picked up my bag, a man asked me for my passport and started asking me more questions...Then when you go through customs, you have to put your bags on a conveyer belt to go through more security...Since I had been in India, they made me take off my shoes to see if they had any sand or anything on them because they don't want things like that coming into Australia...Quite an interesting beginning, but now I am at my hostel in Brisbane, the sun is shining, and it's about 80 degrees outside!!!!!!!!!! What a life!!!!!!!