Time Turned Fragile

So it has been far too long since I’ve last updated; I don’t even know where to begin. It might be a bit jumbled, but I believe I left off at the semi…

Semi-Formal was a few weekends ago, and so everyone from my dorm got dressed up in “Fairy Tale” theme and went. I arrived and felt like I was at a Halloween party, seeing as how everyone got really into it. I guess Halloween isn’t big down here, so this is their excuse to get all dressed up. I went as a fairy and enjoyed a nice meal with all the people from my dorm; they had an after party later that night in the dining hall with dancing, and by midnight, I was out. But the whole thing was really fun.

Classes have been…. Meh. But I was thinking about it, and after this week, I have roughly 7 more days of class and then finals! Finals stretch out for 2 weeks here so I’m planning on studying my butt off to make up for…. Well, I don’t want to say “lack of work” that I’ve done here, but…

In other news, Trina, Lauren, and I decided that it would be a good idea to go on a cleanse detox. Whether it WAS a good idea, I have yet to decide. Basically, the Master Cleanse involves drinking a bunch of salt water in the AM, this lemon juice/water/syrup/cayenne pepper mixture throughout the day, and tea at night. With no food. We started on Tuesday, and the cleanse is supposed to last for 10 days. Now, I know myself well enough that 10 days without food was just not going to happen, so I shortened it to 5. We were all going pretty strong… until Day 4. And then we crashed. But I will tell you: my mood has never changed so fast as when I first ate that sandwich after 4 days of nothing but this mixture that basically tasted like sour lemonade sweetened with syrup. I was elated. It was definitely… an experience, I will say that.

Work has been going well- nothing new to report there. But it is slowly starting to hit me that I will be home in less than 5 weeks. And that thought excites me. Don’t get me wrong, AUS (and NZ) have been awesome, but it will be so good to be home again. Also, the fact that everyone from home is out of school and tanning by the pool, while I am here with my heater turned on as it gets perpetually colder, kind of makes me jealous. I was so excited that I was leaving the snow for sun that I didn’t even think about the way home. Last week, it rained for most of the week. Now, I love rainy days, but when you can’t eat and you’re supposed to be in the sunniest place on earth, getting up to walk through the wind to class is not appealing.

This past weekend was basically spent living at my friends’ apartment. Daniel was scubadiving in Cairns for the weekend so the girls pushed the mattresses together and we had OC watching marathons (with our rediscovered love of food). The girls also could have had a bake sale with how much food they baked one night. But now, I have to do work and get everything organized before I leave for Sydney. I leave on Thursday and I have no idea what I’m going to be doing there once my plane arrives. But I’m sure I will have a blast catching up with people from the CIS (the study abroad program I went through).

I will be putting up pictures of my life recently soon and will update about the wonderful city of Sydney when I get back. I’m sure I forgot a lot of things to write on this blog, but that will just give you another post to look forward to… :)