My first exam is tomorrow, so I have been studying pretty much constantly for a few days now. However, UQ allows a whole week for studying that I put to much better use traveling about. The first weekend of SWOTVAC (read: study week) I went to Moreton Island, and that was really fun. We went sandboarding (like sledding, but on sand), and I got to climb on some giant sand cliffs, and the beaches were beautiful, and we did a bit of snorkeling also. It was an overnight trip, so we camped out that night and I went out to the beach and looked at all the stars. There were many. It was a nice weekend.
Later in the week I went to the Gold Coast for a night with Kailey and Kimberly, and Lauren was with us for a little while also. We stayed in Surfer's Paradise and it was really nice. The Gold Coast is basically your standard touristy city, but the beach that it is on is amazing. It's just huge, with white sand and nice waves. I enjoyed it immensely, even though I am now a teeny bit sunburned. One other downside is that the skyscrapers make shadows in the beach as soon as the sun starts going down. Unfortunate. In the night we went to this thing called Infinity, which was also pretty cool. It was like a maze of different rooms that was all based around lights and lasers and mirrors to make all kinds of weird illusions. It was really trippy and really fun. We explored some other aspects of the city too, but the beach was definitely the best part.
You may be interested to know that the Women's College is now decorated for Christmas, and we had Christmas dinner the other day (on Halloween, oddly enough). At first I thought I was really weirded out by all the Christmas stuff just because it was so early (I never realized how important Halloween and Thanksgiving were in limiting the length of the Christmas season). However, now I realize it's especially weird because it is so hot out. It is pretty much summer here. I can't quite believe I will be home in two weeks, or that it will be cold when I get there.
I have two things to say in closing: one is to ask Jenelle's Mom, who I know occasionally reads my blog, where she gets her secret American supply of TimTams from?
The second is to tell everyone to make sure they VOTE on Tuesday!!!!!!!!
Saying Goodbye
11 years ago
5 comments:
Kate -
In the US you can get TimTams from Everything Australian at
http://www.everythingaustralian.com/index.html
Are TimTams the best, or what?
- Jenelle's Mom (sometimes known as Jane)
oh man that is such exciting news! (although i think i will get a limited tim tam supply from friends here and i will send them crunch bars and reeses pieces in return)
glad to hear you're having fun!
it is a little disconcerting to me that my mother commented on your blog before i did... ;)
good luck on exams!
oh and i expect some sharing of the tim tams
I voted well before Tuesday.
yeah, I did update my address, but it just sent me to the same page. It's okay though because I emailed the registrar and they got it worked out!
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