G'day!

Just got back from caf (dinner), and now everyone in my res is getting ready for the "infamous" Drag & Devo Night. The guys dress in drag, and the girls dress, well, to put it tastefully, skimpy. Should be a good time. But yes, thought I'd take a few minutes to update on the last day or so.

Things have certainly calmed down since classes started. There's been "Dis-O" Week in the evening, but that still leaves quite a bit of time during the day to be filled. I finally got the internet set up in my room (which could be a very good or very bad thing, depending), so that's helped pass the time a bit. Aside from that, it's been finding new classes, buying books, watching dvds, reading, and hanging out. Oh, and eating. Been doing a pretty decent amount of that lately, which is why I'm going to sign up for the gym and take a boxing class (need to stay fit so I'm back in fighting shape when I get back to Kildare's...), as well as a spin bike class with Rachel.

Some notables in the last few days include the Traffic Light event Monday night... they bussed us into Geelong, and we were instructed to dress in traffic light colors, depending upon our relationship status. Naturally, I was green. It was a pretty fun night overall, but some of the other Americans and I agreed that the Aussie kids party waaay harder than we do. We're used to going out at ten or so, then being done by one at the latest. These kids head out at eight, and are still going hard around midnight. Bit much for us, but I'm sure we'll get acquainted. Yesterday was a day off... it was kindof rainy out, so I stayed in and read for a while. We had an international/new kid gathering in the PM, that was a good time. My team won trivia, good deals. As a prize, I got a package of crackers and vegemite. Haven't tried it yet. I'll be sure to update when I do. After our trivia night/dessert time in the Lakehouse, me and a few of the other kids watched Pulp Fiction. What a great movie. "Marvin, whaddya make of all dis?" "Man, I don't even have an opinion!" Classic.

Today I had my children's lit class. It sounds pretty amazing. We watched part of E.T. and analyzed it. We're doing non-fiction next week, then the movie Robots. Pretty excellent, in my opinion. Bought my books after class, hung around for a bit and played around on the school's P2P network, then went to caf and here I am now. We're due to meet at eight, so I suppose I should start to get ready. Until next time...

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