hiiii everyone who happens to be reading this!! its tuesday afternoon here in australia- everyone is in class and i just happened to be sitting on the verandah painting my nails and listening to music, and thought i would write another little blog-ster.
its really nice here today, probably like 70 something, so me and 2 girls in my building went to the beach and hung out, dug some holes to china, worked on our tans......every tuesday nite me and jen and this british guy tim go and get nachos, but its this other girls birthday today so i think a group of us are gonna go out to dinner in a few hours. i should shower before that occurs.
...a shower will not help my fat lip though- i have a fat lip, its a long story but my teeth are still in my head- i just have a swollen lip. but anyways...

sometimes i dont know what to write because everything sounds so boring! but i swear i am going out and doing stuff- i just dont really think that everyday stuff would be very interesting to read, not that this is interesting in any sense. haha.
ohhh heres a good story---

this guy in our dorm has a fake play phone thing where if you push any of the buttons, it will shock you. so last nite we went out with some girls in the other dorm (they live in boston--and go to sacred heart---roadtrips! erin nollen we love boston) but we were out and we were just making conversation with these guys about travelling around australia, and we were talking about margaret river, and turns out one of them lives there- so gillian was like, ok lets get each others numbers----and it barely crossed my mind that i had the fake shocking phone in my purse, but i handed it to him, and needless to say--after he was shocked and his friends were done laughing---he said "you american girls think you are so funny."

i thought it was hilarious. but i thought that was a good story. hahahah.

gillians mom is coming to visit in october...so we have lots of trips planned for that. were going snorkeling one day, margaret river to wineries and the beach and stuff for a few days..things like that.taking her around---

i am really looking forward to the travelling gillian and i are doing when we are done the semester...our plans- i dont know if i posted this already, obviously i am really excited:) but we are doing...i really think i posted this already so you can just skip this part---
sydney, brisbane, gold coast, great barrier reef, and then fiji.

in about 3 weeks for our australian history class we fly up north to broome and camp and stay with aboriginals and camp and do the whole australian bush thing for a week. should be fun, apparently we cant take showers, which is fine, because i hate showers anyways. and i think we have to hunt our own food or something? ill just be really smelly and thin when we get back.

i cant wait till the weather becomes more regulated and i can wear a bathing suit to class and then just go to the beach- its such a good thing i chose smelly philly to go to school; if i were at a college anywhere near the beach id be in trouble.

this saturday for my coastal and marine systems class (the one with the 50 page paper) we are going to rottnest island, you take a ferry there and stuff..we are going for the day to conduct research for this paper we have to do eventually. my group is researching sediment distribution and the affect of direction ( like north south those things) on the formation of the beach ...and tide and sea and swell and all those things i still dont understand. but we get to rent bikes and just ride around the island all day. barb and dave went- they have pictures up, i think there are like 50+ beaches around the island....

besides that class i have australian history (really interesting), history of the church (my prof is a silly old man) and geography---i have this teacher who is apparently an amazing cross country runner and he had the chance to be on the australian olympic team..but i dunno..he has a rat tail, maybe it slowed him down when he was running. very likely. as aub would say, he had some mullet action power going on. a combo between a mullet and a rat tail...hot.

weve made some really good friends in the other buildings, people from notre dame in the us...there are 3 dorms of international students...

im so lucky im here. its such an amazing experiance..im so so so glad i decided to do this. hugeee huge huge thank you to my parents for letting this even be a possibility- i wouldnt change anything about my current life situation. besides missing everyone from home, im a very content little cookie.

:)
xoxo