so, I updated before the weekend right? Here's a quick summary of what happened;

Saturday, a group of us bought 'see sydney' passes, which are a cheaper way of seeing several things in sydney and sydney area. With them in hand, we went to the opera house and on a tour of it. It was interesting and cool, and much smaller than I expected. The biggest theatre in it only holds approx. 2,600 people, the second biggest, the opera room, only holds about 1,600.

After that we went to the local zoo, and stuck around the australian animals, figured that we can see the others anywhere. Didn't get to see a platypus though, we couldn't find it in the exhibit. I did get to see a koala, kangaroo, and a few other native australian animals.

After that, we got lost on our way to the aquarium, eventually found it, and it was cool. They have two exhibits where you go under the water in a tunnel and look around you to see the fish. It was really cool, but the ramps down to those displays were definitely not. After it we went to a pub just down the street, I payed $8 for a single bottle of heineken, and most of our group went back to the school (including me).

Sunday, I mostly just chilled out around the school, would have updated, but I was waiting till after the rock concert I'm about to tell you about.

We bought the tickets before the tour, me and the other two guys John and Ian that is. The concert started at 8:30, it was an opening band called Palace of Fire and the featured band Battle. The opening band wasn't bad overall, but I did NOT like the lead singer.

The featured band, Battle (maybe it was Battles?) sucked. At least from where I was sitting it sounded like disorganized noise more than half the time. It was good occasionally, but got really repeatitive.

So I didn't like the concert, and when we got back to the warf (we take a ferry between where we stay and sydney) the last ferry back had left twenty minutes previous. I cursed a bit, we figured out where we had to go for the night bus, and had to sit and wait for it for almost an hour.

On the bus, we realized we didn't know when it would actually be back in manly, and by my lucky guessing, I picked the stop that was closest to the school to ask the bus driver when we'd be in manly. It was still a fifteen minute walk though... ended up getting to bed around 2 am, when the concert had gotten out at about 11:15. Shitty performances, shitty time getting back, boring day previous... I had a shitty sunday. Oh well, life goes like that sometimes. I'll get to go hiking tomorrow at least.

Class isn't bad, interesting stuff really. For example, hopping, as kangaroos do, is the most effecient form of movement that an animal can evolve.

PS, I love you Hannah, and miss you!

Second Update!

So yesterday we had class (yea, boring) and went to a convict museum of how life was back in the day when Australia was being founded. It was kinda interesting, but meh. The highlight of the day was the evening :P. There was a sorta party thing, and a performance by a crocodile man who brought several animals with him, including a cukobarra (sp?), a funnelweb spider, a small python, a young anaconda, a larger python, and a caimen (sp?) which is like a small crocodile.

I got pictures holding the cuccobarra, the larger python, and the caimen. I'd upload them to here, but I'm too lazy to try and make the camera work with the school computers, I'll upload good pics when I'm home.

Today we had class (still boring) and went to paraliment house. That was a bit interesting, and then me and two of my classmates went to one of the 'malls', I didn't buy anything, but it was a nice place, definitely a LOT nicer than what we have back home. Everything is really expensive here, even after the exchange rate.

I miss you all, and while I'm enjoying myself, part of me can't wait to be home again. Love you all. One of the things I miss I guess is the open time and doing things on my own. Plus, my roommates snore, so that makes sleeping less than perfect. Oh well. I'll cya all later!

PS. I love you Hannah

Where the bloody hell are you ya' old bastard?

Hey! so, as I told mom, and as mom insisted would not be the case, my cell phone does NOT work here!

I am working on finding the time to buy a phone card and a few other items, but our schedule is jam packed, I'm crunched for time just to be able to write this, but we should be getting more free time as the week goes on.

My initial plans to buy a kukri whilst here may have to be abandoned, apparently Australian laws are a little more stringent on weaponry. Oh well, I can still get a cool hat or something.

So me and my two roommates have decided that we'll probably be getting up around 6 am each morning for a walk, maybe a jog once we get used to the slopes. We've done it twice now walking, first day we got lost a little, and today we took a nice walk up to a place called the north head. There is a gorgeous view up there, and I can't wait to show you all pictures. I wish you could have been there with me Hannah.

Class has been interesting, Australia is even younger than america though as far as the european culture invasion. We've gotten to learn a decent amount about the aboriginals too. My team did alright on the scavenger hunt yesterday, and I now feel comfortable getting around sydney and manly areas. I'm having a bunch of fun, but I definitely miss you people back home.

The cocktail party last night was a bit 'meh', you know me, it only took about forty five minutes before I was sitting in a corner sipping on a glass of wine. Me and some of the other abroad students left early and went down to the warf for food, it was fun. I still need to get some australian currency, since some places don't take credit cards apparentely :(.

Well, that's all I can think of for now, hopefully I can update more often.

PS. I love you Hannah, and I miss you already.

Not gone yet!

Okay, I leave Saturday, and this is just a preliminary post to get stuff going, I'm not sure how often I'll be able to post while I'm there.