Adventure Recreation Management

Well school has started. It is freakin cold here when it rains!!! It pours sooo hard that I can't sleep when its raining because its so loud! So I live in this place called "The Village" Its actually the student village but mostly its just called the village, which kind of creeps me out cuz I saw that movie. Everyone parties here A LOT. That is basically ALL they do. I made soup tonight and my flatmates always try my cooking and tell me it is "ok" or they pretend it is good, but its really not as good as they could do. Well tonight, my soup ROCKED!! I wrote down the recipe so if anyone wants to try it sometime I can give it to them or make it for them.
Classes are ok, soooooooooooooooo much work but I only have each class for a couple hours all in a row one time a week. It's awesome. I'm taking 1.Leisure, Lifestyle, and Programing, 2. The principles of Eco-Recreation, 3. Marketing. 4. Adventure Recreation Management. In 2 of my classes we have to plan an overnight trip, one of them is a 2 night and 3 day bike ride. I'm so excited! we are also going kayaking, sailing, and abseiling (climbing).
So some of the other lingo here, people always say, heaps! Oh yeah I was over at the baa (bar) and there were heaps of chaps there. haha, they never pronounce their R's, its fun though trying to figure it out. One of the assistant professors here just got back from New York and saw that I had an Alaska shirt on and we started talking and he wants to visit Chicken, AK, I laughed, I told him there is nothing there but he said there is a bar he wants to go to. haha. Anyway, I have been watching Australian Idol, and Big Brother which are really big shows over here. We (Maggie and Frank and I) are still trying to go running but our times class a lot and I'm starting to get shin splints. They have this really good cocoa which is called Milo and it is THE BEST!! Well its good raw, and with milk but cruddy with hot water. I am reading, "Into thin Air" and a Lance Armstrong book for 2 of my classes. I also have to do 35 hours of volunteer work in the rec field, its called Prac, man sometimes in class the profs will say something and I am just like whoa I have to stay after and ask them what that ment or ask someone next to me. My marketing prof is sooo witty!! He cracks me up, he is Japanese with a really loud strong voice and has an Australian Accent. I was surprised but he is really easy to understand. Oh and we call all the profs by their first name. My Principles of Eco-rec prof is named Annie and she was the first female national park ranger in the state of Western Australia.
In my Adventure Rec Mang. class we looked at slides of my profs days at camp like 20 years ago when he was a leader and we talked about the risk management issues and I can't believe the rules and regulations they have here!!! Its like, you can't touch a student or camper at all, not even a hug, if they go near water there has to be 1 leader to every 8 people and the leader has to have their water and surf rescue license or something like that, he also showed us these slides of a hike they did in the mountains in Australia where it was really snowy, it looked like Alaska in a blizzard. The leaders had to have cross country ski licences!!! My mouth was gaping at the whole shpeal I couldn't believe the crap they have to do!! I be eventually America will have the same or similar rules and regulations though.
I have met a lot of cool people from all over, oh I met a girl from Austria today! I was really excited cuz that is where Sarah is going. Oh it is a requirement by our uni (thats what everyone calls it) that we do a group project and a presentation in every unit we take. It is so confusing the language here cuz they say we live in a Unit and we are taking Units and we go to a Uni, ahhh!!! Make different names, I guess they just ran out of words. Anyway, I tried some Vegimite the other night and it was discustofight! I made that up. My Ipod won't update anymore, I don't know whats up with that but hopefully it will start working again. Oh today I had a meat and vegetable pie, just for you dad! NOONE plays frisbee here. It’s the saddest thing EVER!! On a lighter note I saw some sweet movies, Wimbledon, Madagascar! They are sooo good!! Well thats all from me for right now. Until then, I can tell that we are gonna be friends.