Fern Gully

I cut my hair!!!!! Well actually my flatmate Sofia did it. She is from Sweden and is super cool, we get along great and she is so energetic and just glows and everyone loves her, she lived in Australia for 8 months last year then returned to Sweden and came back again for 8 months this year but in the mean time has traveled all around. She went to Thailand for a month and has amazing pictures!!! I am thinking of traveling there over during the Christmas break for about a month.
This week has been pretty good, Classes were great. My profs really open my mind to new ideas and life theories and ideas that I want to remember. I also learned how to change a bike chain, and patch a tire. I am also planning a trek with 3 other girls on bikes for 3 days and 2 nights which, can you believe it, is our major assignment for a course!!! The same day we decided to go together I set up my Prac, or practical work. I have to do 35 hours of volunteer work for a class so I am volunteering at a camp for 5 days plus training, and the training is great it certifies me to work at other camps as well. So that will be a good experience, it is over the semester break which is only a week but my bike trip is the weekend before the week starts so I will have a few days of REAL break after the camp finishes Friday so I may take a train or bus to a sweet beach and hang out there.
I have been chowing down on dry Milo (cocoa mix), tea (herbal), fruit, and tortillas with cheese, meat, and salad. Oh my other specialty is onions, tomato, and carrots all fried up with a Mongolian or teriyaki sauce then add cooked ramen noodles and/or meat and mix, its pretty much the best thing ever!!!
My dad's 50th was on Wednesday so I gave the fam a call which was cool, I also got to talk to Kaela, Katie and Sarah, so it was a pretty good day. I have still been running quite often but it has been really stormy lately. I went running earlier today and it just rained a bit and then it was really blustery. After I thought it cleared up I tried to go to the city library and as soon as I was out of the building it started POURING. I was huddled under a tree that I thought was going to fall on me then when it finally died down I ran to the library only to find out it was closed!! Oh well it was a fun walk back because it poured even harder and I decided I didn't want to hide under a tree forever so I just walked in the rain and was soaked!! The girls upstairs got like 6 movies and called it a movie day, there is a mix of Disney and horror so its good times they are going back and forth, we just watched Fern Gully, that movie is so good!! It was made in Australia too!! (The picture is of Sofia)
So last night was this huge party at a club with like 200 people and EVERYONE from the village went but I was going to a church dance so I took the train which is really cool by the way. Then someone told me that you could see the church from the train station so I stood outside looking around then decided it must be on the other side of the freeway so I walked over there and went to a petro (gas) station and asked for a phonebook to look up the address and then went back to the station to look up the road on a map cuz no one knew where it was. Then I only found a park with the same name as the road it was on so I decided it had to be around there. So I started walking and after an hour of walking in a circle I finally found it! It was right next to the train station!!! So frustrating. There is no way you can see it either. Anyway so then there was NO ONE there!!!!! So I guess I got my day or time wrong. Anyway I took the train back and a footy game just got over so thankfully there was a lot of people on the train. I was so tired when I got back I had chips and cheese and watched 2 movies. (the pic is the entrence to my Uni its suppose to look like a ship with sails))
I'm reading the book "Into Thin Air" which I love!!! It is really well written and inspires me to be hardcore. That’s about all I have been doing. I love Australia, one day a bunch of us were just hanging out and we started talking about Aussie lingo and they say No like noiee haha so it sounds like no-yee. Say it fast and it will be right. So now every time someone says no-yee I start laughing. Sometimes they do it on purpose just to amuse us Americans haha. Oh so Sofia MADE Justin and I go to this place called DUSK, it’s a tavern, and hang out and they played the Napoleon Dynamite dance song. Then we met some people from the Village there and this dude Rene from Germany and I started a dance off it was sooo funny!!! I did the moon walk and he busted some great moves, he is a really good dancer, I couldn't stop laughing at how serious he looked when he busted a move. He is skinny as a rail and witty. We get along great, we have Eco-recreation together it's pretty funny, our prof Annie will say something and we will both look at each other, realize the other doesn't know what it means either and go back to paying attention mutually deciding to disregard what she said as not super important. (this pic is of Maggie and I doing a V for Victory after conquering the shopping center)
So after our dance off everyone from the village was watching us and they clapped for us then I decided I wanted to get the heck out of there so Justin and I walked back and right after we left he was like “why didn’t you tell me you could dance!!!” Which was pretty flattering because I don’t think I’m that good a dancer it is just really fun. He said I would put him to shame on the dance floor and he was glad HE didn’t dance with me. Then we found a trolley (shopping cart) on the walk home and he pushed me in it then I pushed him and crashed oops. It was a good time. Then we just started talking about our lives which was really cool, and deep this guy is awesome! He is hardly ever here though but he is really fun to be around. I love my unit!!!!! The diversity of everyone makes it special because we all get along great and help each other out. So stay out of those Dodgy areas and have heaps of fun!!! (This pic is just a view from the village of the beautiful skin distructive sun)