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!