It has been three weeks?? What!?

Today is the three week anniversary of my arrival in Tasmania and I still cannot believe I am here!  I have already met lots of people and done a lot of things.

On Monday I met three girls in my Children’s Lit class that were really good friends with Brett (he goes to Butler and is my band with me and was here last year) so that was a nice surprise.  Their names are Jess, Annie, and Eva and they are super nice and definitely make that class more bearable (the professor is terrible!).  I also had my first two tutorials on Monday.  In tutorials we actually have discussions and work with each other so that has helped me to meet people.  However, in my Aboriginal Studies I feel like my professor always calls me out whenever we talk about the U.S. and of course I never know the answers (example:  what is the archaeology trash dig in Arizona??).

Tuesday… Can’t really remember anything special.  Victoria my neighbor made some delicious turkey burgers with cole slaw for me for dinner.  Then we watched Master Chef (like Hell’s Kitchen) and Packed to the Rafters.  She is really picking up the American accent because we have been hanging out a lot.  We also went to the grocery store and she told what foods to try (mostly junk!) which was cool. 

Wednesday.  Well, it did not start out too well.  I had two boring tutorials and the last one my professor decided to make it longer without telling us so I missed the bus that I catch to go to my art class.  So I had to take another one that didn’t come until 1:12 and my class starts at 1:10 and of course the bus was running ten minutes late.  So I finally get on the bus, get off at my stop, walk to building where I have class (about a five minute walk), walk up to the studio room and find that there is sign that says class cancelled due to illness.  I was so upset because even though I was half an hour late I still came to class.  So now I am trying to figure that whole situation out and I do not wan to drop the art class because I love it even though I really do not need it.

Then my weekend started since I have no class on Thursdays and Fridays.  I sang karaoke with our friend Sam (Follow Me by Uncle Kracker haha), which was a lot of fun.  We also got dresses up and went to a fancy restaurant called the Metz (had some yummy pumpkin, dried tomato, pesto penne pasta) and then went to a play called the Producers.  I had never heard of this show and did not know what to expect and it was definitely not what I was expecting, but it had its humor.  The theatre was very old and a cool place to go to though.

Random:

-They use the word heaps a lot… it means many or a lot

-You have to be separated for a year before you can get a divorce

-They do not have biscuits and gravy here and the girls on my floor think it sounds disgusting.

-Americans get made fun of for how big our portions are at McDonald’s (Mackers is what they call it) and etc.

-They do not have Dr. Pepper here, which makes me very sad

-We made rice crispy treats one night because they do not have them here and it was actually hard to find regular marshmallows because they mainly have flavored ones.