Australia and her CYCLONE (think Baby Bash)

That's right, tropical Australia is experiencing cyclone Hamish right now. Luckily my first cyclone/hurricane experience never happened! Hamish, which by word of mouth I heard is a category 4 cyclone, went south of Townsville. I've been learning about cyclones in my environmental science class coincidentally. They sound an awful lot like tornadoes on the water. I've been learning a lot of interesting things in that class actually. I think its my favorite.

I say I think because I'm taking a class called Linking Indigenous, which only meets two time the entire semester, but all day from 9-5. One of the classes is this weekend and then we have a field trip to go on this weekend, which sounds really fun. The description says we get to throw spears and boomerangs so I'm really excited about it!

I've been making a list of places to go and so far I've signed up to go on a sailing excursion at Whitsunday on Easter weekend break. Apparently its a tourist island with gorgeous beaches, but I'm really excited to sail. I haven't been sailing since I was a camper at Calvary Camp. I also am planning to go get certified in open water diving at Magnetic Island and go skydiving over the great barrier reef with some of my American friends. I am really interested in going to Sydney and taking the Indian Pacific Train across the country to Perth as well as see Ayer's Rock/Uluru. Luckily our campus has an organization that sponsors a ton of trips, which makes the planning process a lot easier.

Yesterday was a crazy night in town. It was a triple birthday! I had an Aussie friend with a birthday and two American girls had a birthday too. Needless to say a good time was had by all. Well exept for me. I wasn't allowed into one of the bars that my friends went into because they said I was too drunk! Fortunately, I was not drunk and avoided a confrontation that I would most likely have lost. Slightly angry and annoyed and not knowing where else to go, I walked back. Two hours later and many wrong turns later I arrived back at my dorm. Now I know the way back, but I will taking the bus from now on.

Nothing else all that exciting. I'm getting around fine on the bus and I made a few friends with cars. I've been eating delicious food, when I don't eat in my dorm cafeteria. One thing I would like to do more of is get into shape. I joined the netball team my dorm has and we play other dorm buildings. Hopefully, I will start going to the gym since I paid $60 for a little over a month! More updates to come as always.