I haven't been getting up to too much lately, just catching up on some school and hanging around town. Unfortunately we're all on a little break from travelling so there won't be too many posts to make you all jealous for the next little while.. but I'm still in Australia... so you can still be a little jealous.
Since I got back from Thailand I've been given a larger load of work than I remember being used to, ugh... school here is real, kind of. All my teachers are so unorganized, or "unorganised" as the Aussie's would spell it (as I've come to notice from actually reading my textbooks), that when I returned after my trip I was the only student who wasn't placed in any groups for the upcoming projects/presentations that were assigned between weeks 7 and 12 in every class. So they simply decided "Oh.. sorry about that, you can just rock up with next week's group and present with them". Cool... three days of class next week... three group presentations next week. Meeting all of these different people for the first time and throwing a presentation together the night before and morning of... somehow managed to work out, well.
Other than that we had a massive party on the 13th to celebrate the birthdays of six of our friends! Steph, Erin, Ryan, Joey, Sebastian, Jake. Since Ryan lives in the apartment attached to our house and happens to be a DJ and it happened to also be his birthday our house became a night club. Speakers, lights, lasers, fog. All night. Our friends didn't have to worry about cabbing home because they were able to take the first train home when it opened at 5:30 a.m, and then there were our friends who just decided to pass out all over my room. It was a grrreat night resulting in the largest amount of recycling I have ever witnessed along with ridiculous complaint phone calls to our landlord...
We also went to our first AFL game! Australian football. A sport unlike any other. It is played only on weekends on an enormous circular field with 18 players from each team on the field at the same time. This sport is HUGE in Melbourne. Our Aussie friend Nic who was on exchange at Western last semester has recruited us to cheer for his team, and they say that once you commit you must remain dedicated to that team for the rest of your life so GO Hawthorn Hawks!... not Hufflepuff. To help you get an idea of how massive this sport is in Melbourne, Hawthorn as well as their opponent, Collingwood are nothing more than a couple of suburbs of the city that are equivalent to Etobicoke maybe... and this regular season game brought out 72,000 spectators!!
On a more relaxing note, my friend Anna and I decided to take a half day meditation session. We journeyed across the entire city train system to the end of the line, ending up in the Dandenong region of Melbourne... whatever that means. We got picked up from the station and driven up along beautiful rolling hills and farm fields to a Buddhist Temple to learn how to meditate. It was really interesting to learn a little bit about Buddhism and how they use meditation to achieve inner happiness and to balance and open the mind and all that jazz. Along with free cookies, tea, and lunch it turned out to be a grrrreat day!
April is somehow wrapping up already. I don't have any travel plans as of now, other than another rock climbing camping trip that is coming up in a couple weeks. So I'll be hanging around Melbourne doing the school thing and shtuff like that. I've definitely be missing all you guys back at home and am a slightly jealous that I still have to go to school while you lot are finished your exams!
Sincerely,
AUS
P.S. In case you haven't heard, my mumma will be joining me down here in June! I couldn't be more excited for her to come!
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