Back to School

Hellooooo!!

okay i know it has once again been a while. but to my credit, my internet has been going extremely slow because it is nearing the month end so yesterday i tried to update and it wouldn't even let me connect.

anyways. life has been hard getting back into the swing of things after spring break. after our big trip up east, we headed north again to new castle to celebrate our friend morgans 18th birthday! since it is like their 21, it is a big deal. but also funny being the oldest there. new castle is this pretty beach town about 2 and a half hours north of sydney and after taking the train up there, we had lunch with morgan and her sister faryn at a small little cafe. we then got a private tour from morgan of all the different beaches and the lay of the land before heading out to her house- about 20 minutes from downtown. their house was precious! and it felt so good to be in a home again. we got to have a home cooked australian bbq and homemade cake! it was delicious. after dinner we headed to the city and went to a few different clubs. we even got to see our friends that we made on our previous spring break trip so that was fun too. we headed back to sydney the next day and to our dismay, the train ahead of us had some weird leak or something... moral of the story it ended up taking us about 5 hours to get home instead of the scheduled 2 and a half. so that was frustrating.

the rest of the weekend we kinda bummed around. it was anzac day on saturday- australia's labor day- but we didn't go out because i was supposed to have a test on monday. so i studied all weekend and then come monday it actually was cancelled because the teacher had a misprint. okay, i was not happy about this to say the least.

the rest of the week i tried to get some stuff done at the library. it is hard here because everything is always due so close together and i am the worst procrastinator... so i try to work ahead but then get bored and such. needless to say, i only have 3 papers and 2 finals until the end of the semester. CRAZY. i cannot believe how time has flown. kinda freaks me out. so still trying to work ahead in order to be all ready for when my mom, bird and clare come!! we will see how that goes.

friday we hung out at my friends joe and kevins place. they live above marie and it was such a gorgeous day that we filled up water balloons and tried to drop them on our friends walking by. we hung out on the balacony and then later went to a party over by my place for a little.

saturday we headed to the city early to celebrate a finnish holiday with our friends from finland. now while they explained it to us many a times, i am still not really sure what it is all about. they say it is like their labor day but they also said everyone wears overalls and different hats to represent their uni. so yeah. we had a pinic by their house which also looks right onto the sydney harbor and flew the kite my mom sent for easter (thanks becs!). soon the rain came though so we headed into their place, watched the movie australia (yes henry, we finally watched australia in australia!)- it was good although my friend simo had already seen it, so he kept distracting us all. afterwards we headed into the city to our favorite german place to meet morgan and her sister and a bunch of other peeps. it was kaitlin's roommates birthday so we hung out with them and danced and sang so much my voice is still a little raspy!

back to school this week. trying to write my drugs across cultures paper about tobacco- with the help of margaret!!- thanks. and so far so good. wednesday we are going to the brooks and dunn concert along with dierks bentley with our tour guide from spring break!! it should be really fun. then more school stuff and maybe a rugby game saturday. should be a good week :).

before i go back to philosophy- some interesting things i have noticed in sydney i thought i would share: 1. now that it is getting a little cooler and their fall season you would think snow is on the ground. aussies do not know the meaning of cold. it is 75 degrees and a beautiful day and they are all walking around in coats and scarves. odd. 2. it is completely normal for someone to ask to share a table you are sitting at- whether this be in the library, at the mall, or even while you are eating lunch. this week i was eating lunch by myself and reading my book and all of a sudden this girl came over to ask if she could sit on the other side. trying to be nice i said yes, but she failed to mention that she had 2 friends with her. so the three of them sat down and started jabbering away. i had to surrender my table and move cause i couldn't even here myself think.

okay that is all for now. hope everyone is well.

cheers mates :)