"I'd like, totally go to war with the Southern states again..."

Thank you Leah Leavitt for the title quote. lol.

Well it's been one ball of a World Cup week with half the group here staying up until ungodly hours of the morning and then sleeping well into the afternoon. Fun if I were interested in sports at all, not so fun if all I wanna do is DANCE! through my last week of Australia. Haha, but no, a lot of funny things have been happening as I try to make this last week memorable.

We did go out Friday night and that was great. Apparently it was the only club in Melbourne to let you actually dance on the bar? A few people took diggers off it. Eups, but they were all ok in the end. Other memorable moments from the night: Leah and her dance moves. I love it when that girl shakes her thang. Haha.

So, as I said, one week left in this land down under. Or down undaah. and here's what I've got left to do:
1) Take advantage everyday of this gym we have downstairs (check, went running today)
2) Write a paper by Friday on the book "The two worlds of Jimmie Barker" on either how the ideologies and structures of colonialism shaped his life, or, more broadly, how he describes and lived his Aboriginal identity. Which topic should I pick?? Naw, it'll be fine..
3) Send flowers to the great aunt I've discovered here in Melbourne but who refuses to meet with me because she's very elderly and doesn't want to relive the past
4) HAVE TONS OF FUN WITH MY GROUP BECAUSE I LOVE THEM TO DEATH!
and I think that's about it.

Oh and hang out with Colin once while I'm here if he ever decides to forget about boys for a minute. In his words, "booyah, grandma."

But, yayy, I did get to hang out with Vera and that was tonnns of fun! I joined her on her karaoke night, although I missed her apparently excellent rendition of some cheesy 80s song. I was kinda panicky when I first got there and I couldn't find her anywhere, but luckily she'd only been in the bathroom. Why did I just share that?

Also, Sally put me in charge of rationing Nessie's TimTams while she's away in Sydney for the long weekend. I'm trying my best and while it's keeping Nessie under control, I've bought TimTam Fingers from the vending machine twice now. Sooo delicious! I'm definitely bringing lots home to share.

Ok, nothing else is leaping to mind. I'm going to try to update a few times this week, just so I can look back myself on the last week here, it'll help me cope with leaving. So until next time...