This update is going to be considerably more cheerful than the first one for a few good reasons. These include the fact that I am on a fairly normalized sleep schedule finally as well as it no longer being the time of the month. As you can see, no sleep and hoards of hormones can really muck with you mind and make Anna craaaanky.

So. Australia. It's pretty swell.

This week began orientation and on Monday, we went for an all day snoozefest that was completely mandatory. Even though they served us some delicious breakfast, SUBWAY for lunch (wtf, good to know I come 11,000 miles and still be given Subway) and some interesting pizza and beer at the campus tavern (yes, they have a full-fledged tavern on campus- awesome I know) it was the longest and most boring day everrr. Sure, some of the speakers were fairly interesting and a little helpful, such as the guys who talked about clubs including Perth International club for all us foreigners, and this one guy who made us all complete a typical Perthian conversation to each other which goes about like this:

A: Howyagoin?
B: Good.
A: ____'s me name.
B: ____.

...and then something ridiculous about rain since I can't remember.

Anyway, the rest of the day was boring, from 8am right to 5pm. I didn't really care about somebody saying how to fill tax forms or about how you don't want to walk around campus at night time (duh). Therefore, I was bored.

Later that night a few of us hit the bottleshop in preparation for going out, even though we never made it out that evening. The boys who came with us got waylaid when a massive soccer outbreak occurred. And let me tell you, boys are nuts about sports. Not only that but these were primarily EUROPEAN boys. Playing SOCCER. Do the math. They were INSANE. It was super, super entertaining to watch since it was vicious and very fast-paced, but they were playing in this small basketball court with low fences and you had to watch out that the ball didn't come flying over and smacking you in the face. After some time, 4 of us girls got bored and decided we wanted in on the action and changed into some trainers. They put 2 boys and 2 girls on a team and just let us go. They were mostly really patient with us and it was a rule that only girls could score but what it really taught me was that I'm super out of shape. We played again Tuesday night but it was freezing cold- and apparently the coldest day on RECORD IN PERTH- so it was clearly not as much fun as the first night.

Tuesday was a boring day and I did absolutely nothing. Literally.

Today was registration which was full of long lines. My time to register was between 10:30 and 11:30, so I arrived promptly at the correct time. However, due to congestion, I finally finished at 2:30. It's been a very long day. However, apparently Wednesdays are the big nights to go out, and particularly since there's nothing on the slate tomorrow for any of us, we as a college are going out big tonight. Half priced drinks I heard. Sounds muy good. I know, my grammar is superb. Anyway I took an adventure down this one road in hunt of a proper grocery store and finally found one. I bought soup, EasyMac, WEIRD tasting BBQ chips, and Mountain Dew, as well as detergent, a bowl, and plastic cups. Then I meant to get a small pack of each spoons, forks, and knives and came home to realize I had bought 2 spoon packs and one knife pack. I am displeased. Also, my feet hurt.

I've met so many people from so many different countries and starting tomorrow, all the Aussies who live in Trinity are going to start to trickle in. It's kind of lame but I like our little (well...there's like 40 of us but still) group of foreigners. Here's all the countries I've met people from:

Great Britain
Canada
Australia
USA
Italy
Spain
Singapore
China
Norway
Switzerland
South Africa
Sweden
Germany
Zimbabwe

...That's all I can remember right now. Ridic, though, right?

Time to shower. Oh, and there's a little sign in our shower that says "PLEASE LIMIT SHOWER TO 3 MINUTES." It's IMPOSSIBLE.