Week 2 ~July 30, 2010~

I know it's been a long time since my last post! My bad! I'll have to start from where I left off on Sunday night at O'Malleys... So that was one of the best nights out so far! Everyone was in the pav playing games, drinking, talking, laughing, it's so crazy how different it is than St. Norbert. (Or any other American school for that matter.) The culture here is so visibly different and I can't say I hate it lol. Then me, Danielle, Chris, Seb, Chris & Sascha (the Germans) went to play games in Kelly's room. Her roomate Michael also came to drink with us after some convincing! He's from Australia and he's really nice, as well as his girlfriend Ashleigh. At quarter to 10 we caught the bus with everyone else at this school it seems to the kareokee bar. It was pretty packed but there was more room to move around than at 240V on last Thursday. Me and Justin were going to sing but every song we picked they had already played, so maybe this Sunday I'll get on stage! ...Maybe... We all danced and it was so much fun! Also, I don't think I have been hit on so much! It's very flattering and one Aussie even kissed me!! We were leaving and he was saying "nice to meet you" to my friends and I, then he leaned over and gave me a little peck! It was so cute, but unexpected, I still can't believe it! I feel like that would never happen in the States! I should bring my camera out one of these nights, but I don't want to lose or break it by accident! So, anyway, we caught a maxi taxi back to Uni and it was $48.00!! But we had 10 people so $5 each was cheap for a safe ride home! I really like that about here, is that everyone is really into catching buses and taxis and not driving after drinking. Also, everyone wears the seatbelts all the time here, and I like that as well. Tuesday was my first day of class. I had my History of Australian Popular Culture and Journalism class. On Thursday I sat through two back to back two hour lectures. UGH. Social pyschology and Managing Organisational Change. (They spell things differently here.."s" instead of "z," "u" in colour and behaviour, and ect...) No tutorials made for a really short week, which unfortunately won't be the case from now on. At Uni there is one lecture and one tutorial (tute). They are either 1 hour or 2 hours...depending on the class. So this week was the first week so there was no tutes because there was not much material covered. Lectures have everyone in class in them and the tutes divide the students up in smaller groups to have more intimate practices and discussions of the material. Out of all my classes I have 11 assessments (papers and assignments) and only 1 exam... :) I am a little nervous though because I think the writing style for essays and referencing will be a bit different here.
On Wednesday we got pizza from Dominos for dinner. Americans would freak because these pizzas are crap compared to there. They are smaller and the topping aren't ha fresh or even good looking and they are more expensive! I was pretty pissed off actually. Oh and on their burgers they put beats and BBQ sauce and they call "lettuce", "salad" and you have to pay for "tomato sauce" (ketchup) at restaurants for your "chips" or "hot chips" (french fries).
Kelly just got here, we are going to lay by the pool so I will write about last night and stuff later! (I won't forget!...I hope..!)