Well O-week is about to finish and I find myself exhausted but with heaps of new friends and new experiences. It truly was one of the longest weeks of my life. We started out with an all day obstacle course and campus tour, where the showed us what NOT to do. They had parked a car in the wrong spot and so they smashed the car to pieces! We had a slip and slide, a tunnel crawl, and a run where they threw garlic powder, veggie mite, peanut butter and all kinds of gross things at us after we were soaked with water. Needless to say it took me two days to stop smelling like garlic. We also had a pub crawl or pub night every night. So not only do they want us to get drunk at night, they want us to suffer every morning. At 7AM sharp, they played the most atrocious and ear-piercing techno song. They banged on our doors and forced us out of bed to do exercises, milk chugging relays and other ridiculous things. Ugh!! My body still cringes at the thought of that awful techno song. We had a toga party on a boat ride around the river, a quiz night where we could win all kinds of cool prizes (my team didn't do that well, so we didn't win anything). Today we had drop offs. We were dressed up in ridiculous outfits...and I mean ridiculous. Some guys were in dresses with obscene things written on their arms, some girls in hats, bikinis, scuba gear, everything. Then we were paired up, duct taped to our pair, blind folded and dropped off somewhere and had to make it home. We were given an envelope with money and a phone number, for EMERGENCIES only. If you opened it, you were automatically disqualified. I was dressed in a sweatshirt as pants (my legs through the arm holes), and pants taped to my arms. I was duct taped to a guy and he was duct taped to a girl. We were blind folded and dropped off in a junk yard at a the Port. We had quite an adventure getting back involving a drunk bum taking a picture of us with his cellphone, a car full of guy threatening us for the obscene things written on the guy (it was saying something awful about the Port cricket team), and an old lady helping us find a bus station. Thanks to the mercy of the bus driver, who let us ride in the back of the bus for free. We made it back to St. Mark's in one piece and with a great story!! Wooo!!
For the first time since Sunday, I'm going to be able to sleep in without that awful song playing. You have no idea how happy I am, seriously. Uni will be starting on Monday and I have to get myself actually prepared for school!! How crazy!! I've been in Australia for almost 3 weeks and have yet to go to a single class. That will all change on Monday and I'm actually really excited for it. I'm taking the History of Indigenous People, Gender and Race in Australia, and Australian Pop Culture. I'm like really excited!! Tonight should be pretty low key, I think everyone has hit their limit today. We are watching Animal House on the lawn. I'm going to try and put pictures up, now that I have some free time. I'll post the links ASAP!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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