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Okkkk I'll update, I suppose. It's just been not very exciting around here at all. The weather's been pretty chilly.. like 60s.. we're conserving money while we're here so we can spend more during spring break... class isn't too exciting, although certainly not bad... yeah.. just generally a lack of things to bother updating about. But my dad has been harassing me, so I guess I'll try to. Haha.

Umm... class. We're doing an environmental studies class here. Supposedly about sustainable development, but mostly about World Heritage areas and tourism and how to reconcile the two. Some days if it's really nice out our professor, Lorne, will say "Let's stuff class and go for a hike!" Which is fun to do, but not very exciting to write about. He does try and trick us a bit and say it's just a "short walk" but then suddenly we're bushwalking straight up a mountain.. in jeans... lol. And he says this is only training for our big fieldtrip! That's coming up this Monday until Thursday.

I'm supposed to be registering for classes next Wednesday while we're away but not only does the hostel not get any internet connection, the ENTIRE TOWN doesn't. So I had to email Rachel and she offered to try to sign me up on my day. Hopefully this will go well because since I'll be a senior I only have a few choices to finish my degree. I also am registering for my Anthro minor and hopefully switching my TV-Radio concentration from video production to international communication. Same major, just a slightly different focus. My advisor is supposed to do that for me and let me know if I need to actually apply for it.. hopefully I won't since as I said it's the same major. Secretly, it'll be nice to have a different advisor, because the one I have now was never very helpfully and also very scary most of the time. He needs to learn not to respond to emails in all caps because it sounds like shouting.

Last weekend was a lot of fun, there were some golfers here from the Queensland Academy of Sports (or something like that) in Brisbane competing in a tournament. They were staying here at Grosvenor Court and were lots of fun. Kept us from boredom for a few days, which was nice. We exchanged emails with three of them and hope to keep in touch. Two of them are going to schools in the states next year, one in Texas and one in Minneapolis. However, Monday night, Maria and I were hanging out with the last three of them (well two, one had gone to bed) and they wanted to make a list of all the states they knew.. they had about 23 names total.. but Alaska was listed twice, as was Milwaukee and "New England." Haha. And at one point we heard them go, "What's that one with the big bridge... San Diego!! Yeah! Write that down!" and even though we had said we couldn't help out til the end we had to be like "First of all, the Golden Gate? Yeah, that's in San Francisco... and second of all, they're both cities..." Hahaha.

Another interesting fact: there's the Commonwealth Games that just finished being hosted in Melbourne this year.. like the Olympics, but for all the countries that have been part of the English Commonwealth.. But so, there was supposed to be daylight savings here last weekend, but the prime minister didn't want to disrupt the games. So he postponed daylight savings. Most Americans would freeeeak out if that happened! Freakin Aussies.

Ok I'm gonna go. Don't wanna bore you, bc trust me, that was boring talking about. Haahajkjk. Oh! And I went on a tour of the Cadbury factory today! But Maria has most of the good pics on her camera, so I'll write about that when I get them. Soon, I promise ;) Tomorrow we're renting a car to go visit a town about two hours away to go on a canopy AirWalk tour and check out some caves. This weekend is turbo-charged tourism since we've been so boooreeed. Will write again soon. Love yas.

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