The last time I blogged I believe it was Saturday the 12... it is now the 20th so a bunch to catch up on!
Sunday 13- ehh I don't think anything too exciting happened, of all days sundays are the most boring here because everyone is just doing work in prep for the week. Which I guess does make sense because due we are here to go to uni but honestly... it's lame- there should be something fun. Well actually I take it back Sunday's here are "Hawaiian themed" so we all wear tropicalish clothing and have a bbq for lunch with yummy food but thats not a funtivity!
Monday 14- Ben from downstairs turned 21. wooooah was that a mess for him, and most of all of us who celebrated with him. I didn't go out of the college to the bars with him because I have an early class on tuesday's but wow he got so so drunk. Ben is one of the americans who is not here with my program but one through his school, Dickinson, so clearly unlike the Australian's turning 21 is a huge deal. Talking to him the next morning he does not remember a thing past 7 pm so I guess that's a great sign. Also every monday the entire college comes together for a weekly meeting called "pound" I think I may have mentioned it before in previous postings but this week's pound was really fun because they finally got the slide show to work and let's just say they had many scandalous photos of tons of people hooking up since the beginning of school. That always just makes me laugh.
Tuesday: Ash turned 22! or as he was referring to it, the first anniversary of his 21st birthday. I like this better as well. Ash is one of the exec members of the college, I think he's VP but I could be wrong, and he's become someone who I have become pretty good friends with so tonight I had to go out and celebrate! We actually ended up having a surprise event anyway where they rented out a bar for us so it worked out and we got free transportation there! (never get it back though because that would be too hard to organize and they would have to waste money paying the bus drivers to just sit outside whatever bar we go to) We went to me and Sophie's favorite bar called Embassy. (We previously visited this heavenly place on our last stop during pub crawl during O Week) and what makes it our favorite place are the Sex on the Beach Jugs for $10. which allow you to consume oodles amounts of alcohol for a relatively cheap price compared to everything that we have found down under! We all ended up having a great great night that for some rather than others went later but all and all I know Ash definitely had a fun time and celebrating birthdays are the best so it was extremely fun... here is a pic of the 3 of us drinking our fav drink!Wednesday 16: happpy happppy HALF birthday to me! I have miraculously made it halfway through my 20th year! (crazy I know, but then again I am soo close to that magic 21) Class was okay, actually no I take that back- I hate hate hate wednesdays in regards to classes because I only have one class for the entire day and it's at 5 pm and waiting to go to class, when it's really a class that I am not too interested in anyway IS LAME. But as is Wednesday's tradition we tried our next restaurant at the ville. It was a japanese place called Edamame! soo sooo goood, I got this wonderful noodle dish with tons of fresh veggies, tofu, and the most delicious spices ever, and it was served to me on a wonderful wooden board? Which was quite silly actually because when I tried to pour soy sauce onto the noodles it was a flat board so it kinda went anywhere but ehh! still yummy. Not my favorite place though and not exactly sure if I would ever go back- we will have to see. Tonight also was someone else's birthdays but there is only so many times I can celebrate so Isa I am sorry that I did not party for your 20th birthday but I know that you definitely had a good time and that is all that counts. I also did not go out on Wednesday because the next day was ST. PATTTTYS DAYYY!
ST. PAT'S DAY! 17- Arguably one of the most fun holiday's on the American calendar and boy did us Americans really do it justice this year! Not sure if I mentioned this or not but I got a job here as a waitress for the weekly formal dinners at the college and the other events that the college may host so at 2 pm after my classes had finished I went to set up for it- let me just say that minimum wage here for someone who is of the age of 20 is 20 dollars. It is outrageously AMAZING so set up took a while because we had to arrange the tables in the right direction and polish the silver utensils because tonight was the academic awards banquet for the people in the college who had gotten gpa's of 6 and above. (I think that the equivalent of their 6 is like a 3.5? But you cannot quote me on that, I honestly have no idea- I just know that it is out of 7 so in all my classes I am striving to get either 6s or 7s) So after setup I went back to an American's room and hung out with them before having to go back at 530 to serve the dinner and woah were they having a WONDERFUL TIME. Having started drinking at 11 then were all sloshed but it was still fun to hang with them- they put some of their green juice (I call it juice for lack of any idea what type of alcohol was in it, and because it was green it kinda looked like juice) in a nice water bottle for me and told me to drink it after I got off work. Anyways at 530 I worked the dinner until unfortunately 1030, which was good the amount of money I made but it took away precious partying on St. Pat's day time! Whatever! After I got out I dressed in my best green outfit and hit the town! Caught up with all of them at the local irish bar (the Pig 'n' Whistle) and celebrated the wonderful holiday in style!
Friday- tough to get up day! but I don't have any uni on friday so it worked out for the best! (: had a lazy day of shopping and walking around Brisbane until after dinner when a few of us girls (me morgan and soph) went with some of the Aussie boys to the Red v. Rebels Rugby Union game in downtown Brisbane! Tickets were cheap because we are students and because you buy tickets online and print them out you can get free transportation on the public transportation system if you just flash the ticket! So that was awesome. The game started at 740 and honestly was probably the best sporting event that I have ever been to/watched. Rugby Union is 80 minutes of NONSTOP ACTION, and when I say nonstop I mean LITERALLY NO STOPS. No timeouts, no tv commercials, no injury time- yes there is a half time but that was rather short. And they just play- it was honestly the coolest thing to watch and sitting there with a 5 dollar beer in my hand watching sports was heaven. Plus, one of the guys was sitting next to me explaining to me the rules the entire time so I wasn't lost which was super nice of him. The Brisbane team- The Reds ended up killing the other team 53-3 so although it wasn't an excting game for someone who watches rugby, I throughly enjoyed it! After we just went back to college and hung out, pretty chill night.
Saturday 19- ehh nothing too crazy happened yesterday other than it down poured all day :( which stinks but still got some fun bonding time in with the people in the college so I was pretty happy about that.
Today: rain as well but this morning at 730 I played tennis for emmanuel and won my singles game giving us just the amount of points to beat Union College (our opponent this morning) Yay, it was so much fun to go out and play tennis, plus I got to wear the cool Emmanuel College singlet that all the athletes wear so win win win.
So not too much fun themed stuff this week but should be a fun week coming up I hope!
Miss you all (:
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