Helloooo all!
Okay two weeks I know is a long time but I have gotten a little distracted trying to soak up all my time here and a little with school work as well. Due to the fact that some people named sarah thomas lloyd, don't appreciate dialogue blogs, i thought i would not that if you do not appreciate the dialogue, there is the option of not reading any further. that said...
so last i checked we had just gone to brooks and dunn and had a few beach days. well that weekend we had the end of the semester party with club exchange. it was in north sydney... so a short bus ride. because apparently not that many peeps wanted to go, the party was not all that hopping. it was at a hotel and the theme was supposed to be "emergency" but not that many people (including myself) dressed up. it was kind of a hard theme unless you wanted to buy something and i didn't really want to. so we went there and it was fun cause it was probably one of the last time all of our school friends will all be in one place. so it was good to just have everybody there for a little dance party and a good send off. since everyone has lots to do this next month and doing lots of travelling, it is going to be interesting/kinda sad to see how much more we get to see the people we have spent our whole semester with.
saturday we had the laziest day. it was so rainy out and we were tried after a party night, so we decided to order pizza and watch movies. my roommate ryan just got this sweet thing to hook his computer up to the tv and since he has sooo many movies, we can watch lots of different ones. so we watched accepted and notting hill. it was a good day just to bum around.
saturday night, my house threw a party!! now be it that my roommates are not all so much party peeps, this was a first. we had a bunch of ryan's soccer buddies over and some of our other friends from around the village. i was exhausted from the night before so i headed to bed around midnight, but apparently they stayed almost all night long. slept through that. haha.
sunday and monday we had library days. since monday night the village (where we live) was giving away free pancakes, marie and kevin came over after the lib and we ate pancakes and hung around. tuesday was spent in class as usual, but tuesday night i went into the city with kaitlin to stay at the hotel her family was going to be staying/coming to on wednesday!!! because her family was getting in at 6:30am wednesday morning, they got the hotel room for tuesday so we wouldn't be so far from the airport to meet them there. we found the hotel tuesday night- very pretty and good location- and had a nice dinner and went to bed earlier in BIG beds and lots of pillows.
off to the airport at 6am we were kinda cranky but also really excited to finally see some faces from home :). after waiting in the usual meeting place for a while, i walked down to see if i saw some info and found her cousin and her brother! so that was a success. we caught a cab back to the city and although i would have loved to stay and played, i had to head back for class from 10-12. after class i took a nap and then headed over to maries to get ready to go to the city. since it was molly and kerrys (kaitlins cousin/brothers) first night in town, we had planned to go to this bar and meet out with our tour guide from spring break. he had said it was so much fun and they actually race real crabs!! so naturally we went and he was right!! they do crab racing and other sorts of competitions- including hoola hoop (which we realized is not my strong point). one of our crabs one and kerry got a tshirt and meggo got some free beer. all in all it was a really fun/different scene. afterwords we went to scruffy murphys for a little and then marie and i headed home.
thursday- off to gold coast :). deciding to show kerry and molly more than just sydney- we had planned a trip up to the gold coast in queensland. be it that we hadn't been there before we thought it would be fun to check it out with them on board. arrving thursday marie and i headed off to explore some of the city while kaitlin, kerry and molly got some food, worked out, and took naps. marie and i headed towards broadbeach and found some shopping areas and a cute little mall area that we soon discovered was hosting a blues festival this weekend!! so after walking around for a bit we headed back. naps and then showers, we didn't end up heading out to dinner till around 10. we ate at this cute little italian place and decided to call it a night due to some jet lag for the bowens and just tiredness on our parts.
friday we got breakfast and then after a dip in the hot tub, we headed down the other way to surfers paradise and walked along the beach SO PRETTY. this area was a little more hopping and downtown like. we saw some interesting stores and folks and did some shopping before heading back. after showers we went back to this area and got dinner at a seafood place. we then went to a little irish pub and listen to a great live band and danced for a little.
saturday morning it was beautiful out! after breakfast we headed to the pool and although our hotel was apparently hosting a graduation, we got some sun in and relaxed. later we decided we should go check out the blues festival so we walked down and heard some good music while catching a late lunch and happy hour.
saturday night we decided, since we had an early sunday morning (our flight left at 7am this morning and i have been up since 5:15- hence maybe some typos) we should take it easy. we watched "he's just not that into you" and went to bed early.
it was more a relaxing weekend at the gold coast but one we enjoyed. it is fun to have kerry and molly here and to be so close to the beach and the ocean- my favorite. the sun shining was a nice change too since sydney has been kinda rainy lately.
other updates include: the fact that people here walk very slow. marie says it is because we walk too fast with americans always being in a hurry. but still SLOW. also, this is the last week of official classes :(. it is soooo crazy to think that a month from today i will be packing up and heading home. i am soo excited for my mom and teresa and clare to come visit but i also know their time here will fly and then it will pratically be time to come home. this experience has been so great and i really feel like i have learned so much about myself and the world. it will be fun to come back and to apply it to life back at school and such. but weird to embrace the fact that this adventure is almost coming to an end. ill be back sooner than you all know it.
this week we are doing lots of fun touristy things with the bowens and finishing classes, as mentioned before. we have one last hooplah with our spring break program this thursday with a party cruise around the harbour so that should be fun!! ill try to update every week for the last couple. so we will see how that goes.
mish ya all. cheers :)
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