Monday, May 23, 2011

Hello reality. Hello University of Sunshine Coast!

Okay, once again I have neglected my poor little blog. Oopsies! Well… some exciting things have happened but the main reason why it gets neglected is because not every day in Australia is worth talking about, I know I make it sound like it is with my blog but in reality… it’s not. Besides school, assignments, readings, studying, library, sleeping, eating, and gym not much has been going on for almost two weeks. I hope you all took note of the first five things I wrote on that list! The best part about this is that it’s actually true (Yuck, I used the word ‘best’ in the same paragraph I was talking about school, there are so many other appropriate words to use here besides, b-e-s-t) haha.

Anyways, since I have wrote last; Ian has left, I upped my cardio, I have turned in 1 assignment, I have been working on two more to turn in this week, I have gone to the Plaza, Hayley has almost got a job, I have gone grocery shopping at Woolies, I got two summer job rejection e-mails, Lucy’s sister got married, I saw a kangaroo with a baby roo in its pocket sleeping, I have cooked a lot of food, made a few bowls of cereal, and it has been sunny and rainy.

So, Ian left last week and we had such an amazing 10 days, and it was definitely a needed time together. The last few days together we didn’t get to do too much exciting but our big thing was to go to Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef and we kicked that off the bucket list right away.

The last couple days Ian was here we just hung around my apartment, went to Mooloolaba beach, had a BBQ at the community BBQ at our apartments with some friends and worked on my assignments. Nothing too exciting but just being together was more fun than anything, even if we were working on assignments.

Anas, Seppy, Ian and I all spent one day at Mooloolaba because it was nice out and we wanted to do something fun before he left (besides working on homework of course). It was a great time and the water was really nice. Anas, Ian and I swam for a while and caught some waves.
. Ian had never swam in waves like that before so he was really anxious to do it. He thought it was so much fun after he got the hang of it. I explained it in some of my beginning blogs when I first got here and went to the beach. It can be dangerous but it’s easy to avoid the danger of it. You can either go under the wave when it comes and grab onto the sand below while your under water until the wave is over you, you can jump over it if it is small enough (usually not) or you can swim (sprint swim) with the wave which is the most fun.
Or you can let it take you out which is also fun and sometimes unavoidable. Anyway, Ian loved this part, (it is a lot of fun, so I have to give it to him) I swam with him for a while then I went back to my towel and warmed up under the sun while Ian stayed in the water. Later I convinced Anas that the water was not cold and so he went in with Ian for a while.
After awhile of warming up I went back in and I snapped some photos with my new water camera case. Once we got too cold to be in the water we went back to our towels and dried off and walked around the shops in Mooloolaba. Anas and Seppy went to go get something to eat and Ian and I ate at home so we were not hungry. We separated from them for 40 minutes while they ate and we looked in the shops, and of course we got ice-cream because there is NOTHING better than ice-cream after swimming in the ocean, something sweet after all that salt. So Ian and I got ice cream, and then I got a coffee because I knew I had to go home and work on my assignments and then we met back up with Anas and Seppy and caught the bus home.

When we got home we showered and got comphy and I started working on my assignments. We did take a break and go next door so I could introduce Ian to my friends Danielle and Jennifer. He met Danielle on the bus earlier that day but I wanted to introduce him to Jenn (Danielle’s roommie) and we had to gossip a little bit about their trip that they are planning to Melbourne. After that it was back to work till bedtime.

The next night was the night we had the BBQ. We just invited a few of my friends and we all went to the BBQ and cooked. Krista, Ian and I all got salmon and split it. Ian has a special little marinade for salmon and whenever he makes it, it always turns out so good. So we had that and hung outside around the BBQ for the night and then we came home after we ate and packed up everything Ian brought. The other 75% of his suitcase that was not being used was all my stuff that he took home with him. I stuffed his suitcase soo good so I could fit all of my stuff when it is time for me to pack up everything, this way I don’t have to leave anything behind that I don’t want to. Since it is getting cooler here I sent him home with some dresses and tank-tops. When I say cooler, I mean it is not like Montana or Wisconsin, cooler means that it will not get colder than 60 degrees (except at night it will go down to 40).

So then it was about bedtime and the next morning Ian was off at 7am. I walked him to the front gate where his shuttle was picking him up and said good bye and went back to bed for an hour. It was sad for him to leave but not that sad because I know I will be back in a month and that is nothing because we just went 3 months without seeing each other. I guess since we have lived 6 hours from each other in the states for a year we are kind of used to a 1 month period away. Usually we get to see each other for 1-2 weekends a month. I know this last month is going to go by so fast. Saying good bye to him was cake compared to all of the good byes I will have to say in the next month. Those goodbyes are going to be really hard because I have met some amazing people since being here and I can’t put a time on when I will see them again so that makes it harder.

Well anyway, that is pretty much all that I have been up to the last two weeks. I have three exams to study for and I have 2 assignments to turn in this week and that is going to be a BIG relief to finally hand them in and never look at them again until I see a grade on it. I have been working on these assignments since before Ian got here. I will turn in my last assignment on Friday and then the week after that I have to give a 15 minute presentation. And between now and 33 days I will have two visitors coming from America. I will host Sam for about 5 days and we will have fun and play around the Sunshine Coast and he leaves and Shawna will come for 10 days and we will plan lots of fun stuff (besides studying, haha). After that I will have to take 3 exams and then I will be finished and will officially be a SENIOR! WOOO HOO! I will take my last exam on the 23rd of July and I will fly back to Chicago on the 25th. Pretty crazy that it is all going to come to an abrupt end so fast.
Well… I’ll write again about anything exciting that happens. Sam will be here Thursday and we will go to Noosa on Saturday, (Noosa is a National Park, famous area that is a bus ride away from school). Ian and I spent some time there while he was there and it is beautiful and fun so I am sure that Sam will like it.
Thanks for reading! Stay tuned :) !!

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