My Weekend

For those of you who don't know by now, I'm a bit of a story teller. That is why my entries are long. I DO NOT know how to make them concise and interesting (not to say that they are interesting LoL)

This weekend the MI (Murdoch International) sponsered an Amazing Race for the Intn'l students. We were put in groups for 6 or so and raced around ALL of Perth. Each leg we had to answer questions about the local area and figure out the clue and where to go. At each stop we had to do a task. Such as eat vegimite (GROSS) or chug a ginger beer (it's like root beer). It forced us to use public transportation the whole way. Which helped greatly since I had no understanding of public transportation. But now I understand it, and it's not that bad. It's quite fun actually. I met alot of people from different areas. Two german girls, a boy from Wisconsin, a boy from Singapore and 2 other indian looking boys were in my groupd. They were all really cool.

The next day (Sunday), Lauren, Dilya and I decided to go to the beach. Cottsloe Beach is suppose to be one of the best beached in the world. It was so different from what Im used to when I go to the beach. As we walked from the train to the beach we were walking into pine trees! and the street only had houses, no businesses like most beach areas. When we finally got to the beach (yay Indian Ocean!!!!) there was a strip of shops, resturants, and pubs. It was soooo hot, no clouds in the sky. Diyla said it was too hot for her, so she just stayed up under the shade. Lauren and I ventured down to the beach. OMG was the sand hot. It felt like we were walking on a stove top. We decided we were going to play in the water for a bit. It was so blue and inviting. But it tricked us. It was quite cold. We managed to play in it for a while, but soon it became to cold for us and we decided to sun bath. Don't worry, I but on sunscreen multiple times. But i still managed to get a little burn. The water was so refreshing after laying out in the sun all day.

After laying around for an hour or so we gathered Dilya. She was very intrigued about "sun bathing". We explained why we did it and how our burns actually turn into tans if we don't get too burnt. She's quite funny. We went to this fish and chips place called Amber Jacks that my tour book said was good. And yes it was quite good. Too much food tho, I had to bring a serving back for later and yes I ate left overs! :-O It was a fun relaxing day of lazing around.

Today (Mon) we went back to Kardinya (the shopping center) and this time we den't get lost. And we learned that Murdoch and Kardinya have a contract in which we are allowed to bring the trolleys back with us! Nice to know now huh? It was still a bit of a hike expecially in the heat. I made stuff to make sun-brewed tea. My flatmates looked at my funny when I said I was going to sun-brew tea. Haha! I didn't think it was that wierd. I can't wait to have some!

Oh yeah! I have a roommate now. Her name is Kara, she is from around this area. It is her first year moving into the Village but her 5th year at Uni. That doens't mean she is a super senior, but she is double majoring (or getting a double degree, as they say here) in Psych and Law. She said before she would have to travel 1.5 hours via public transport to get to Uni! I told her most people in the states just move onto the campus if thats the case. Apparently they tend to stay at home in Oz. She seems real nice. She said she's a bit messy so I hope we'll get along in that asspect. But right now she is scrubing our entire flat! LoL More power to her!

My other flatmate, Dilya, live across the hall from us. She lives in a single. She is from Singapore and like Lauren and I only staying for a semester. She also is a Psych student. She is real sweet and i love hanging out with her. I think I'll learn alot from her. She is Muslim and it's definetly interesting to learn about her religion since I know nothing about it.

Well I think that's all for today! I don't think this is too long considering It is a whole weekends worth of activites. :-)