July 4, 2008

Happy Independence Day!!! Today we were suppose to go the rocks for a fieldtrip with our history professor but it was raining really bad so we didn’t get to go. Instead we are going to do it during world youth week because our campus is going to be overrun with Pope and all of his people. So we went to the campus instead and watched Ned Kelley. But before we left for campus we had time to come upstairs and there was a building on fire! I could only see the smoke but it was crazy. Now I have already seen this movie and read a story about Ned Kelley and so needless to say by the end of the movie I fell asleep during the last half hour. Today was also the day we went to the symphony. It was a piece by Mahler and it was really good. We were sitting right behind the orchestra so it was really cool. The conductor was this jolly looking man and he was getting so into it. It was neat to see how he directs the orchestra because I could never understand who he actually wanted to play. And the Opera was really cool. The things they had set up for better sound were really cool. They are the circle looking things in the picture. After the symphony we went to a club called Retro because they were having a 4^th of July party. We could get in for free if we showed our U.S. identification. It was really cool there because on one floor they had 90’s music and the next floor it was 80’s music and on the third floor is usually 70’s music but they were having a private party so we couldn’t go up there. But it was a really good time.

July 3, 2008

So today we were suppose to have our first session with the premier team but basically we got there and the person we were suppose to meet wasn’t to be found and we talked to the coach and he had no idea who we were and so we came back. That was basically all that happened today so nothing to exciting to tell.

July 2, 2008

Today we had our first class for the history of Australia class. It was really interesting and I like my professor. I know I learned a little about the history this past spring for one of my classes but it will be more interesting to see it in person. Tamika and I went to work out today and the gym is really neat. It has two levels and there are a lot of cardio equipment and LOTS of weight lifting equipment. Then we went to the State of Origin game. That was lots of fun. It is a rugby game between Queensland and New South Wales, which are two of the states, and lots of people are into this. I think they said 75,000 were in attendance. There were people all daya wearing their respective jerseys and it reminded me of football season. I had a really good time.

July 1, 2008

We had a quiz today in class. I think it went ok but we will see. We start our history of Australia class tomorrow and I am really excited about that. I think it will be really interesting. We practiced today with the soccer team but it was their 3^rd tier team and the girls were nice and it was really hard for me because they didn’t have anyone there to warm me up and I had to jump into it and that isn’t what I wanted to do. My shoulder is a little sore right now and I am going to be sore for a while I am sure. The team was kind of unorganized so that was really frustrating. I did get frustrated though because I haven’t done any soccer in FOREVER but hopefully it will get better. The super-league team will be back on Thursday I believe and I really want to train with them because maybe there would be more organized goalie training.