Today is a very special day. Not only is it a day that comes every four years but it is also the day the most amazing, wonderful, supportive, loving, kind, generous, remarkable dad was born. This year my dad is 12!! It’s his last year before he is officially a teenager. Since I am not home and missed the family dinner and present opening, I will do the family tradition of what I love about my father on this post. What I love about my dad is how he always puts everyone, especially his family before himself. He is a very selfless man who wants to give his family the absolute best. I love that he works so hard and works ever harder at home with his family. I love how he makes his best effort to be as present in all of his kids lives as he can. I love that he loves and cares for my mom. He is one of the best dad’s you could ever ask for. I don’t know what I would do without my dad in my life. He has been such an inspiring, amazing, and influential person in my life that I will always look up to and want to be like. I miss you tons and love you so so much. Thank you for all that you have given me and I hope that you have one of the best birthdays at Disneyland, the happiest place on earth!!
Me and Dad before I left for Australia
It was an early morning this morning but I had enough time to make a healthy delicious breakfast
Mushroom and Cucumber Omelet with Salsa and Avocado on top!!
Today I had my Introduction into Human Resource Management Lecture. I loved this lecture! Not only was the teacher enthusiastic about the subject but he did a wonderful job of incorporating real life examples to make the topics more relatable and interesting for us students. After class I went back to my apartment and made a quick lunch of a salad with cucumber, mushrooms, avocado, and rice and a hard boil egg. Then I was off to campus again for my second lecture of the day Practical Ethics. In this lecture my teacher is from South Africa, but has a British accent because her mom is from Zimbabwe. This class will be attention-grabbing because it is about euthanasia, abortion, suicide and other super depressing topics.
It was raining and has been raining all day, so I stayed at the hub and checked/wrote emails, skyped my mom, Devon, my Grandma Ann, and Lindsey from Marquette. I thought the rain would let up but after doing all that it was still raining so I just walked home in the rain. My shoes were soaked and my clothes were pretty wet by the time I reached my apartment. I still have yet to invest in an umbrella but really need to with all this rain. Supposedly today was one of the coldest day of summer in 15 years or something like that. Anyways once I got home I cooked myself some dinner. I made chicken marinated in onions, garlic, and wine over rice and I had mushrooms and cucumbers on the side.
My marinated chicken over rice with mushrooms and cucumbers
Later I did laundry, watched some tv (they have very interesting reality tv shows over here. There are a lot that are a spin off the shows we have, but they also have a few of their own). Tash came over and we got to talking about home and I got homesick again. Glad Tash was there to cheer me up. I think this is just a hard time because it is the transition from constantly being with people and having fun to getting back into the swing of school and all being on different schedules. After my little meltdown I cleaned the apartment haha. I vacuumed, cleaned the kitchen and bathroom. Later I showered, finished my laundry and did some stuff for school.
Its been raining all day and all night and there are flash flood warnings that are coming up but its nice because it has cooled things down a lot. The humidity has been really high the past few days. I finished my work and went to bed because I have an even earlier morning tomorrow. Yay for 8am’s that are 2 hours long!!