Beginning of O-Week (February 27)

I slept in today because I was not feeling 100% I woke up at 7 but then fell back asleep till 11. Minna, Suzy, and Taylor all had classes but I am lucky and pretty much have a 5 day weekend!! My first class isn’t till 5pm tomorrow. I still had to go over to the uni to figure out a few last minute things with my classes and I also wanted to check out some of O-week. After sorting my classes out I went around to all the different booths seeing what they had to offer. I ended up filling out an application for an on campus job, getting free things like rice, coke, chips, and BBQ for lunch. I signed up to join the swim and water polo clubs as well. I loved being on campus today because there were so many people and everyone was really getting into the clubs they were supporting and it just felt like I was at school again.

All the tents are up

this is the center of campus

Quick video of the activities going on in the center of campus during O-Week

After an hour or so I headed back and quickly got ready for the beach. Michael, Ben, Dean, Tim, Lewis, Rosemary, Tash, and myself were off to Mona Vale Beach for the day. This turned into quite an interesting trip. What we thought would be a quick hour bus ride turned into 2 hours because of an accident in the road

the accident that took hours to clean up

After finally getting there I grabbed a delicious toasted turkey sanwhich inside the shopping mall where the bus dropped us off and then we made the 10 minute walk down to Mona Vale. It turned out to be not super crowded which I loved. The walk down had a beautiful view.

Bus ride there

view walking down the hill

the golf course next to the beach

We were there for about an hour till we had to head back up to catch the last bus.

Right view of Mona Vale

Left view of Mona Vale

the sand (its a slightly different color then the sand at home)

took a while to get the group together for a photo

the best group photo we could get haha. Ben, Michael, Dean, Tim, Rosemary, Lewis, Me, and Tash

The view coming up the hill heading to the bus stop

We made it to the top and ended up waiting 45 minutes for the bus because apparently the accident still had not been cleaned up 4 hours later. When the bus arrived the driver said that he had been driving for 3 hours and that it would be ‘dangerous’ for him to drive any longer so we had to wait for another bus to come. The other bus finally came but it only took us to Gordon so we had to go from there get on a train to Chatswood then from Chatswood transfer to a train that took us to Macq Uni. After the long journey there and back (we spent more time traveling then we did on the beach) we went home and took showers.

On Mondays it is tradition to do Mexican Monday. We get a big group of us and someone goes shopping and then we make burritos in one apartment. Everyone ends up having to pay about 4 dollars but we get these massive burritos that are delicious and we all shit and hang out and do whatever. I guess a handful of students from last semester started doing this every Monday and they carried it on to this semester as well. I really enjoyed it. It was like a big family dinner. After dinner I came home and hung out with Minna and Suzy then called it a night.