Update--Pre-Broome

3-4-09
Oh goodness, so much to catch up on from the past five days… and yet, need to sleep ‘cause am getting up at 4:30 am since we leave from Broome tomorrow. So here’re the highlights. Monday: I got Ds on both of my philosophy journals, so that made me pretty happy (D is for distinction, so it’s GOOD). I came back from PH and started working on my project w/ Jami, and up pops this little skype bubble from Bass that says, ‘hello beautiful’. And it totally made my day. Nicole sent an email about the March Madness brackets, and I am STILL winning (by 20 points). Apparently I’m the only one who had all my picks alive for the final four, so we’ll see… There was other cool stuff, but here’s the best part: 2 boys, 1:30. Sounds like a title… or somethin’. So… Matt messages me around 7 pm and says he’ll come over Tuesday at 1:30 so we can work on our project (since we have begun meeting every Tuesday, in addition to Thursday class and the break). I don’t have any plans, so I tell him that’s fine. I realize Kendall doesn’t get out ‘til 2:30, but I’m like whatever, go ahead and come early. Later on, around 10 pm, I see Chris is on facebook (‘cause he had just written on my wall) and so I get on real quick to talk to him. So… I’m talking to Chris AND Matt is talking to me at the same time. Chris wants to talk at 10:30 pm his time Tuesday, so he asks, “Do you have class at 1:30?” **This is the exact same time Matt is supposed to come over**. So I respond “No, I’m actually free, but my friend Matt is supposed to come over at that time. I’ll just tell him to come an hour later.” And Chris was like “Sweet.” So I tell Matt to come an hour later, and he decides to come at 1:30 anyway and sit on my bed with noise-cancelling headphones. I tell him fine, whatever, come, but you are NOT going to be in my room during this conversation. So… the next day rolls around, class was cancelled (we got there at 8:30 and then found out, but it worked out ‘cause I got a lot of stuff done). I’m in mid-addressing my postcards, when a knock comes on my doorframe at 1:25. I look up, and there’s Matt! Thankfully, Brooke was here, so she could help entertain him somewhat. Meanwhile, 1:30 rolls around, and Chris and I start to talk, but we keep getting cut off ‘cause of the terrible connection in Villa. Matt is mocking me saying that Chris is ‘hanging up on me’. So… Chris and I are trying to have a conversation, Brooke and Matt are still in the room, the door’s wide open. Skype stops working, so we resort to facebook messaging and Chris decides to talk at 10 pm my time (which is 7 am his time). I tell him thanks for getting up so early, and he said that it’s ‘definitely worth it’. The next day was April Fools. The highlight of the day was the epic prank Cleos pulled on P&O. When all the St. John’s/St. Benz kids were in their evening seminar, some of the girls went over and stole all their chairs (plus pool balls and remotes and a couple shirts) and put them up on our balcony. I recorded almost all of it. But then… they didn’t come get it, so campus services made us return all the furniture today. But we kept the remotes and pool balls, although, last I heard, we may’ve had to return those too… I’m not sure. But hey, I mean we had their chairs for 2 days. But we’re locking our windows, our rooms, and our food lockers when we leave, so all should be well. Thursday was cool as well, very productive on the CO142 scale, with our new title of Flavour Child. Also, we got a D- on our presentation, so that was pretty sweet, although it’s only worth 10%. That evening, I got an email from Tony (of my ‘adopted’ family from Church; Tony and Elizabeth Curtis) inviting me to dinner sometime this weekend, and to bring a friend. So I brought Brooke. We got picked up tonight at 6 pm, and it was a total trip to ride in the front seat of the car, because there’s no steering wheel, and you have no control. Turns are really weird! We got there; they have a LOVELY house, rather, a villa. I was really glad Brooke was there. I passed up white wine in favor of lemonade (which is carbonated, but really good). For dinner, we had fish (which I decided tastes really good with lemon), the yummiest cooked potatoes, and salad. Then for dessert we had ice cream, berries, and a thin biscuit. Pretty sure it was the best meal I’ve had in Australia thus far. Homemade AND healthy! So that was tons of fun. And Tony gave us a tour when he was driving. They are making plans for a lamb roast, and for us to meet their family. Also, they said next time we come they’ll introduce us to some Aussie males, so we’ll see how that goes.