Spring Break?

It's hard to believe that it's spring break already! I've been here for 8 weeks: 1 weeks orientation and 7 weeks of classes. And there is only 6 weeks of classes left (and 1 weeks study and 2 weeks finals).

The weeks have been flying by-- we finally have some work now since it's mid-semester, though not nearly as much as at ND. And we've all been scrambling planning for spring break and after semester travel. Planning traveling has unnecessarily consumed way too much of my time, but oh well. Then I've also gone kayaking a few times in the river across the street with the Outdoors Club. Oh, and I've been going to lots of exercise classes like Body Pump, Body Combat and Flow.

And the weekends have been pretty busy as well. I've done lots of random stuff like shopping in Fremantle (port town about 15 min away), attending a footie (Australian rules football) game, going to a casino (I lost 2 dollars, sadface), playing badminton for my residential college, attending an engineering cocktail party, formal dinners and of course kayaking and exercise classes.

So I guess spring break is almost over. It's been pretty good. About half of the ND kids went up to Exmouth to hang out on the beach and scuba dive and snorkel in the Ningaloo Reef- but those plane tickets were like 600 dollars, which was too much for me. So this past weekend about 12 of us went to Lancelin, a tiny town about an hour and a half north. The weather wasn't ideal, but it wasn't too bad. We hung out on the beach a bit and explored the town. The water was beautiful and pretty warm too. On Sunday we all gave surfing a go; I didn't do very well, hopefully next attempt goes better. On Monday, most everyone else went down to Bunbury, a little city about 2 hours south. I decided to hang back to save some money. And then on Wednesday, they all went down to Pemberton/Walpole to go hiking; I would have loved to do that, but it would have involved spending 50 dollars to be on a bus for 7-8 hours, and then spending at least 7 hours traveling back three days later- which isn't really ideal for someone who gets motion sick on buses, but oh well. So I've just been hanging out here since Monday. It started out really well. On Monday the weather was absolutely beautiful and I went for a bike ride along the river. In the evening, I went kayaking on the river and there were dolphins! It was amazing. And then I played Net Ball with some people from my residential college. It was a lot of fun- I wasn't very good, but I don't think I was too bad considering I had never even seen it played before. And I even got a bit of work done too. But then on Tuesday I got very sick and barely slept on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, I ventured to the store to get some medicine and then I pretty much spent the rest of Wednesday and Thursday in bed, just got up for meals. I am doing a little better today, I have the energy to get out of bed, but slightly upset about my wasted week.