Orientation Day ~July 19, 2010~

I have so so much to write I feel like it could fill a novel already! Yesterday we went to the beach with Danielle's roomates. Chris is Australia, Seray is from Holloand (and I don't know how to spell her name lol) and Sebastian is from Norway. Also, Sara from Sweden came with us who is a friend of Seray's. They are all so cool and so nice and great to talk to! We went to Alexandra's Headlands (Alex Heads) near Mooloolaba Beach. We took the bus from campus to Sunshine Plaza and it only cost $3.00 for an all day pass! We walked to the beach and even though it's winter here it is so nice! The shade is pretty chilly at times, but the sun is SO much hotter here. You can literally feel the ozone is thinner here. I guess that's why 1 out of 3 Australian's get skin cancer. Even Chris had skin cancer once and got it removed and now has a huge scar on his back! I'll try and put pictures up soon. The beach was gorgeous and cold but not intolerable. Kind of felt like the Atlantic in Rhode Island, at South Shore but a little colder. We took pictures, played football, laid in the sun, talked ect... Then disaster hit...Not really, but Sebastian went on top of this huge sand hill, jumped off and did a flip!! Then Chris was going to try and he fell and rolled and smashed his legs on a rock. Oops... So he had 2 gashes in his shins, one on each leg and they were bleeding and looked liked indents in his bone. It was really gross and he was in some pain. But these Australians are so funny, always saying "no worries" and "cheers." He resisted for hours but he finally went to the medical centre. The medical centre's are for non-emergency and hospital's are for emergencies. So he got a couple stitches and he's fine, thank goodness. So we went back to Uni and ate lunch, napped and such. Danielle hung out with our friend Ryan (who studied at St. Norbert last semester), Kelly watched a movie with her roomate Alice and I hung out with my roomate Matt. He's from England, but has been here for 4 years and at USC for 2 years. Ben is watching Happy Gilmore with his friends in the other room right now. He's Australian. I have heard from the ladies on campus (the ones who checked all us in) that I live with the party people on campus. LOL. Of course, only me haha.

So, its been a couple of days and I haven't gone out yet. That's okay, all in good time. I am pretty happy right now with just relaxing and getting to know people. Today was so so boring at orientation. It goes on all week and I'm not excited about it. I'm going to get a pre-paid cell phone soon, but for now I am happy with my internet. Hopefully I can get a job asap. I heard from so many people that it's really hard, but Matt told me about this pizza and pasta place down the street is hiring, so I'm going to try there in a few days, but I need some other stuff to be able to work, like a tax file number and ect...

I happy so far, except for I wish I had more money, but hopefully SNC will pull through for me and get me my money asap in September. Kelly and Danielle want to go on all these trips, like tours, and surfing and camping and stuff and I don't have any money for that, it sucks. Oh well. I'll be fine. I don't really miss the states yet. It's really weird not seeing people who I used to hang out with every day like Doug and Marissa, and I miss them, but I have been so busy with new and interesting things here, it's hard to focus on those things. I'm not sure what I have planned tonight, hopefully something fun!