So we just finished up our semester break. I haven't posted in forever because I've been insanely busy. School is a ton of work, my classes are really tough, mostly due to the fact that I didn't have the same starting point as the rest of my class. Uni here is laid out in a very sequential order. For example, every Biology major takes the same classes in the same order, so things from previous courses are often referred to since everyone took the same classes. Stepping in to this system from another University is pretty difficult, since they do things in quite a different order back home. Here they take a lot of math early on, so the math involved is mostly stuff I'm unfamiliar with, and they also had a few chapters of intro to the topics covered last year, so I just started off behind and I've been playing serious catch up. With Uni, traveling, and just having a good time, it's hard to make time for the blog, sorry!
But since my last post, I've done a bit of traveling, went to Crescent Head for a surf camp which ended up being a pretty crazy time, lots of good stories from that! I also bought a car, everything's more expensive here, but I think I scored a good deal that I can possibly make money on in the future. I took the new station wagon on a road trip out to the outback. We did some camping, saw some incredible things, and got to experience some real outback. I hit a lot of outback pubs way out in the middle of nowhere, and meeting these extremely unique cultured people was great. They were a great help, telling us where to camp and even giving us gear and help us go "yabbying"! Yabbies are like blue lobsters that are in the river out there. We had a real good yabby fry, saw a ton of roos, tore through some real desolate areas off-roading in the wagon, and made a hell of a time of it.
I'm getting real used to living here, makes me wish I had more time here. Having a car is great, just a ton more freedom to explore. I'm getting a good feel for the Australian culture, it's hard to describe, maybe I'll write an essay on it sometime or something, but for now, that's what I'm up to. Needed to get something in the books, I'll be back soon hopefully.
