G'day mates!
It's currently Monday 15th February and my sixth day down under. I haven't been setting an alarm because I've been waking up pretty early on my own (sunshine pours into my room most morning)...but today I almost missed breakfast! I blame it on the Bachelor. As a Valentine's treat to myself I decided to watch last week's episode online last night...I think it cost me about $5. So worth it, though! But I got a late start and kind of forgot that they are all 2 hour episodes.
For the first time, too, I woke in the middle of the night and had to use the bathroom...and saw the biggest cockroach I've ever seen in my entire life hangin out in the hallway! Eww! I literally ran past him...because I didn't want to lose a toe or anything. That's the only problem with the absolutely gorgeous weather here...bugs love it too! On return to my room I approached armed with a clear plastic cup...with a plan to at least trap it. It was seriously too large to squash wearing my flip-flops (already got 2 smaller guys other nights). He was no where to be found. That's the worst.
I'm staying at the International House on campus temporarily, and it's been a lot of fun. I hope I can be a surrogate IHer as these kids sound like they do a lot of fun things together.
And I do mean kids. For the first time ever I felt the need to change my birthday info on Facebook. But I've made a handful of friends and I hope we keep in touch even after I'm outta here (Friday morning). My two closest friends so far are Ayako, a lovely Canadian (lots of those here!) who's Japanese and Soo-Jae, the social butterfly of this place, from South Korea.
Okay...much more to come! I've taken loads of photos but haven't downloaded any yet. If you're viewing this thing, you probably already know that I am quite verbose...so I won't even apologise (ha!) in advance. I'll likely be treating this as a journal throughout my time here (minus uber personal bits). Hope you enjoy...thanks for reading.
Off to the pool!
Cheers,
Beth
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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