What a week

Man this week was awesome. We met this group of students called the Red Frogs (named after red frog gummy candy, like sweedish fish). They're great people. They organized a pool tournament for the dorm, but they also have done stuff with us like taken us to the beach and on friday brought us to this SICK Chinese restaurant and then bowling after. I have gone to the beach a lot but I haven't gotten this swimming thing down yet. And man are the beaches crazy. One beach we went to had lots of seaweed but another one was just gorgeous.

I think Wednesday we went on a cafe crawl where the red frog people showed us great cafes in Wollongong. I had some delicious baklava. After that I met up with the other Colgate people at the Glasshouse, a nearby bar and chilled there but decided to head home early at around midnight (although that's late for people here, I guess).

Saturday all the Colgate kids got up at 7AM to visit Australia's capital, Canberra and went through their war memorial and through their version of parliament (facebook pics up sometime...). That night we all went to the pub I went to the first day arriving here, the North Gong. I drank an entire bottle of wine and realized how low my tolerance had slipped to. Long story short, we got there, chilled for a bit and I could NOT stop talking in a Scottish accent. I realized this and actually tried to stop but it was too hard. We came back and Kevin guided me to my room.

Today, Sunday was the first day that the weather wasn't perfect. It rained today and although Sunday is a big going out day, I decided to avoid the thunderstorms and stay in. Besides I have an 8:30 AM class tomorrow and it is the first day of classes.

Speaking of classes, here's my schedule:
INDS 150: Introduction to Indigenous Australia
Lecture: Mon 8:30-9:30
Tutorial: Tue 13:30-15:30

MATH302: Differential Equations 2
Lecture/video conference (?): Mon 11:30-13:30 and Wed 9:30-10:30

PHYS325: Electromagnetism
Lecture: Tue 9:30-10:30 and Wed 10:30-12:30
Practical: Thu 13:30-16:30

Professor Soja's course is probably going to be on Thursday night. My lab was scheduled on Thursday with all the other Colgate kids. I wanted it on Wednesday to have a long day and have Thurs and Friday off, and have Soja's course on Monday but it didn't work out. At least I have Friday off, woot.

Alright I should get to bed. I don't know how the hell I'm going to get my ass out of bed at 7AM, but I'll do it.

Dangerous animal count: 1 (saw a spider in the park)