playing catch up

Again I find myself apologizing for not writing in a long time, I have been so busy with uni (aka school, except “school” is only used for kids in elementary or something) and traveling…and I thought I was busy in College Station HA!

So I guess I’m just going to go through that list from the first post, give a very brief description/commentary, and just move on…looking back, it’s much more boring than stuff from the last 2 weeks. I’ll probably break it up into a few posts so you don’t get bored and quit half way through haha. So here goes:

- orientation from wed-Sunday: we pretty much sat in one of our class rooms and had listened to presentations about Sydney/other vacay places in Australia/class stuff. We had a few “tours” to choose from, (the one to the beaches got rained out and I ended up at the Rocks…see later part about that…)

- housing (bbq/EY building - cough cough cassie): I live in a building/facility called UniLodge. It’s a mix between apartments and a hotel. There are people that stay for a couple days, and students like us who are here for at least a semesters…it’s kinda odd, but we’ve gotten used to it. There’s a café downstairs in the lobby that has DELICIOUS double chocolate chip muffins…I pretty much lived off them for the first 2-3 days. There are a couple pictures of my room up on my facebook…you don’t need facebook to look at them, just click on the link. I’ll put up another post of all the other albums. (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2810521&id=8376733&l=66a12e060d) The first night here, BU threw us a BBQ on the roof, and the fist thing I saw when I got up there was the huge Ernst & Young building. Haha how can I miss you if you won’t go away cassie? Jk

- harbour cruise: the second night our whole program walked to Circular Quay (pronounced KEY) and had a dinner cruise-ish thing. A couple things stood out about this night. 1. The views were absolutely amazing, we went around Sydney Harbour and got to see the Harbour Bridge and Opera House in the light/during sunset/lit up at night. Breathtaking…I felt like I was in a movie, because I still didn’t believe I was actually in Oz. 2. The food looked absolutely amazing. I was soo excited…there was some sort of meat, lots of potatoes, asparagus, tortellini, and a bunch of other things I actually eat – too bad when I started to eat them EVERYTHING was awful L the meat/asparagus was cold and gross. Everything else was just horribly off. With that being said, all in all, it was a beautiful night. There are also a bunch of pictures from that night. It’s in the same album as my flat that’s up there ^