longest entry EVER
all right so this entry will actually be a combination of all the entries i've been writing without internet (3 of them actually) so it will be rather long. hats off to you if you get to the end in one sitting!
here's the first one, written shortly after i landed in brisbane
Traveling
So I’m sitting here in a slightly dingy hotel room in
The flying was looooong… but that was expected. The flight to LA was actually the most uncomfortable, but that was only 6 hours and I was still fresh. Got to LA and everyone in the air port was watching the super bowl haha. I picked up some food and called home before my next flight on a 747 to
One observation that was slightly unexpected, aussies drive on the left side of the road like the brits. I stood outside waiting for my ride wondering what was wrong and after about 5 min before I realized the cars were going the wrong way!! Too cool.
So Townsville, where I will be living starting the 10th, is apparently underwater right now. They’re having really bad flooding I guess, so we’ll see about that when I get up there…
Ok time to shower and brush teeth and stuff and things. I wish this room had a fan, its really hot, but I’d like to shut the window at some point because the trucks driving by (on the wrong side of the road) are really loud. Oh well its just for one night.
Orientation
So I’m once again sitting in a room without internet, so this will be pasted in on Monday when I have my cord and virus stuff and whatever. The difference being that I’m sitting in MY room at james cook! I’ll post pictures up later – I have a single room with my own balcony and a fan that I will never turn off.
SO orientation. We traveled from the air port in 3 charter busses for about an hour and a half to reach Noosa, a very touristy hot-spot that the Australians seem to be jealous we went (“oh well I’d like an orientation in noosa too!”) and rightfully so. It is gorgeous! I stayed in a room with 3 other Sara(h)s (one went by Jacquie but still, craziness!) and they were all going up to cairns instead of Townsville, and they were pretty chill. The first day was mainly meet-and-greet stuff, giving out cell phones and information packets and then a quick presentation about bush and beach safety – pretty much all the things on this lovely continent that can kill or injure you and how to be safe bout the whole thing. It didn’t help that most of them he said “well you won’t see these unless you go up north” and well, I am up north! After that we could go down to the beach… which is also a highway! Literally. Its marked on the maps as a highway. Mind you it is inaccessable during high tide and it wouldn’t be advisable to drive on without a 4WD truck of some veriety, but there was more traffic (hooners, hoonin’ down the road..haha) than you might expect. The water was soooo warm and pretty, we wore ourselves out and crawled into bed soon after diner.
The second day was info sessions and surf lessons, and I believe our group had the best schedule, info first and early, surfing a few hours after lunch. Dawn, our james cook coordinator, gave several presentations about academics, life in Townsville, stuff like that, and then it was surfs up! Our instructor was this nutty French guy (apparently world-class surfer) and he was great. I actually got up once or twice (followed by spectacular wipe-outs haha) before I got stung by a blue bottle jelly (the same the Portuguese man-o-war) and came running out of the water. It was just a stray tentacle that had gotten wrapped around my hand and caught in my ring – note to self, no jewelry when surfing. Its kinda like a bee sting in that it affects people differently. There were about 6 of us that got stung in my group, and some were find after about 30 min with ice one it, while mine persistently hurt for about 4 hours, and one girl had to go to the local hospital for a little steroid shot. It was an experience though, right? Anyhoo that night we had a presentation on Australian wild life.
Croc named bruiser, sugar baby- kinda like a flying squirrel only a marsupial, frill lizard, beard lizard, giant snake!!
The next day we had a trip to frasier island, the largest sand-island on the planet and a world heritage site. We got there in these truck-busses, which were needed because we used the beach highway to get there and then the island had no paved roads, they were all sand. So seat belts were a very good thing and a lot of people were feeling motion-sick by the end of our 3-hour journey. We arrived at
These ferns are virtually unchanged from their fossilized ancestors and so this spot was used in the filming of “walking with dinosaurs” how cool is that haha. And these trees are so cool! Nothing here is familiar, not even the plants. And then in the bathroom, up on the cinderblock wall was a 4-foot lizard, looked like this one only bigger, part of the joana (?) family. Anyway he was just chillin up on the wall and sarah was flipping out cuz he was so big! Too cool.
That night we had a presentation by an aborigional group (family actually) and they did some cool dances and showed us the didgeridoo – which women can’t touch or they will become pregnant haha. They also showed us some of the dances
o the hilarity.
Then yesterday was travel day again. The group coming to Townsville turned out to be the largest – about 35 of us total. We got on a 737 and landed in the tiny air port, and then a quick bus ride and I was here. A lot of the group went out last night but I wasn’t feeling good so I made my first night a quiet one and stayed in my room after diner.
That is one thing that is worrying me. All the Americans here seem to have come for one purpose: beer. I’m not a big drinker (rather a light weight actually) and I’m starting to worry that I won’t fit in too well here, because that’s basically what the aussies do as well, hit the bars. I suppose its something I’ll have to try eventually here but its really not that appealing to me.
But anyway, today I gotta go out and buy some stuff:
-sheets
-another pillow
-a fly swatter
-shampoo/conditioner/soap,
-laundry detergent
-laundry bag
-hangers
-curtains (maybe)
-binders/paper/pens/pencils
-scissors
-stapler
-phone card (maybe)
another one written in my room before the arival of the internet cord:
Some kulcha from Oz
So we had a presentation at noosa about aussie culture and I thought it was all rather interesting so here’s what we were told:
Aussies are seen widely as very friendly people, but apparently they’re rather difficult to become good friends with sometimes. Aussie humor is self-deprecating and unlike Americans who are taught from the get-go to be “winners” and push yourself to the front of the line, aussies are much more likely to try and blend in and be back with the pack. They won’t say great things about themselves (if they ace an exam and you ask them, they’ll say they did all right) but are far more likely to lift up their mates. And if someone gets really ahead, they tend to take the micky out of them a bit and bring them back down to earth. So if an aussie makes a really scathing remark about you with a big goofy grin on their face, that’s supposed to mean they’re getting to be more comfortable with you and you could be good friends. We’ll see how that all works out when I know some aussies better.
Also, at home the three topics that you should never discuss are politics, money and religion, right? Well apparently that’s all you’ll ever talk about in Oz. oh boy haha. We’ll see about that one.
Other observations, not necessarily culture but fun. I went down to the 
all rather beautiful. in the distance there is magnetic island, where we’ll be going later in the semester with the butler group. Awesome!
other things i've been getting used to, in addition to just the heat, is how its coped with. our halls are open to the elements a bit (probably to try and coax a breeze inside once in a while) and there is no such thing as a screen on the windows. so once in a while you'll get eaten alive by gnats and mozies (mosquitos) or see a small lizard crawling along the bathroom wall, or even find a dead goliath beetle on the tile floor by the showers. Also, there is no longer any ozone over australia, so the burn time here is about 6 min. i'll be going through sun screen a lot faster than shampoo. its also so humid that going for a day without showering is not really an option.
I’m becoming a bit scared that I will be the hermit girl here because I don’t want to go out tonight and I know a lot of people are. I just don’t feel that comfortable yet. We’ll see. At least there’s more people showing up at the school now. I still couldn’t get sheets today because all the shops are closed on Sundays. Oh well. Tomorrow then! I can go to the bank as well. Joy!
and that
brings me to today, with some pictures of my room :)
we all have lovely balconies and i now have sheets!
welcome and grey's anatomy
So yesterdaywe had our welcome tour of townsville via a lovely bus (with air conditioning - aircon!). i had already seen teh strand and cosino but it also took us up to the top of castle hill, and i got some great panaramic view shots up there. mountains in the distance and magnetic island and
everything. then it was off to riverside, a public area by the river with an art gallary and swimming area (even a sporting arena under construction) and we enjoyed an afternoon in the pool which was warm enough to feel like a bath. it was nice though - and all free so i'll have to make it back there soon. and i now have some lovely fliers for other activeties in the area that i plan to take advantage of. staying on magnetic island for a weekend seems doable, and i really want to make it over to the billabong sanctuary, probably this weekend, as well as the big waterfall site. sky diving and sea kyaking are also options i plan to look into.
so i've been here at the uni for almost a week and i feel like its been FOR-EV-ER. it all just goes so slowly without hardly any planned activeties. classes don't start untill the monday after next, and i'm sure Oweek will be more eventful i just wish more people were here now. why did we have to get dropped off here so early? we could have easily arrived today or tommorow and not really missed anything at all. megan and i have been hanging out and yesterday we were joined by joe, who lives in george robert's hall with aircon, so we went to his place and chilled watching american shows on TV. tonight it was just meg and i, we've been watching season 2 of grey's anatomy, as well as introducing her to dr who, and i was doing laundry so it was a slow day in. we are going out to stockland's tomorrow though, gotta set up health insurance and get myself a laundry bag. another large group of americans showed up today so maybe we'll have company. i met a girl who goes to CSU - how wierd is that? she's a biochem major and lives in my hall somewhere. pretty cool.
i also need to work out my schedule for Oweek tomorrow, they have a lot of presentations and its difficult to know which ones i need to go to. obviously the international students one but i don't think i need to go to the ones that are about going all 4 years here at james cook. we'll have a look. i think i got my classes sorted out already:
biological oceanography
evolution and biogeography of marine organisms
evolution and life history of coral reefs
linking indiginousness (i can't spell this word haha)
and that gives me a full schedule. there's also some uni-sponsored trips, i think snorkeling is one of them so i'll deffinately check it out.
i've mostly worked out how to avoid having bugs all over my bed. if I leave the window open at night i just can't have the flourescent light on. if i close the window AND door i can have the light on. it was really kinda uncomfortabl for the first few nights before i figured that out.
lots of love!
so finally yesterday all the first years arrived (freshers... they don't use the freshman-sophmore-junior-senior system and they get confused when i do haha) so now i'm getting to know my neighbors and we're actually having things explained to us... which is nice since i've just been figuring things out on my own untill this morning.
we sat through many-a boring speach about college life this morning, things that i mostly already know but its cool. almost everyone i've met so far has been at least 2 if not 3 or 4 years younger than me, one kid on the floor won't be 18 (and so can't drink) until september. its interesting. the mild "hazing/initiation" they have for us is these rags with our names on them we have to wear on out heads all week or get "punished." i don't really mind that so long as none of whatever else they have the freshers do gets out of hand. i could pull the "well i'm actually a 3rd year so ha" on them but i don't want to if i don't have to you know?
and of course it is interesting talking to all the aussies. brandon says i'm starting to pick up an accent (sweeeeeeet) and i notice i tend to slip into it a little if i haven't talked to any americans for a while. i can mostly understand people, unless they're mumbling, which in addition to strong accents makes it quite difficult. they say mine's a pretty thick accent, or they did untill i put on a southern drawl and then they were like.... wow haha ok your not so bad.
amy across the hall seems pretty chill, and her friend julie from upstairs. britt is about a foot taller than me and also pretty cool so hopefully i've got people to hang out with and watch movies and whatever. max and matt are the younguns, only 17 but pretty entertaining. justin next door has the share network in his room and helped set me up on it so i can share all my music and movies and steal other people's stuff too :) so peter hopefully i won't need you to send me BSG because i'm pretty sure i can find it here - joy!
well we've got a barbeque going on i think i'll check out here, more later on the interesting people i'm meeting :)
Oweek
so we're in the midst of Oweek right now, all the first years running about going to the "learn how to study and take notes and use computers" lectures. and the hazing is interesting... parently its a lot worse at the privat colleges, waking them up at 4am to scream and stuff but with ours last night was just making us run around campus screaming our very vulgar war song for uni hall. i won't put the lyris up here, they're pretty bad (and they call americans vulgar... heehee) then tonight is the toga party, that should be interesting. I'm pretty much done with all my orientation stuff, got signed up for classes and took my library tour, i don't really need to do anything else for the week but get my card from the bank, join the student union and go on some trips. thursday is going to be the trip to billabong sanctuary (holding koalas and playing with the crocs) and friday is the trip to magnetic island for the day, i'm thinking of getting a group together to rent a jeep for the day and drive around the island :) exciting
so i've met some awesome people that i think will make a great group for just hanging out with. julie, matt, amy, canadian girl (jen?) and brit all are much more like me in that they'd rather sit in and just hang out (not big on drinking but i think if there was a bottle of wine in the room it wouldn't be a problem) and don't have an interest in going out to the bars. max joins us too most of the time, tough i think he'd go out if he was 18. and justin and lex look in once in a while as well :) but we all sit in amy's room talking or watching movies, its great. julie has very similar tastes in movies and books and TV as me, she lent me a good fantasy book and we geeked out about lord of the rings. she's cute, she and her friend kate are fun to run around with. and hey all these people have cars!
can't wait for classes to start, i have field trips in 3 of my classes and i'm so psyched!
i leave you with some lovely pictures from my tours and such. Nemo first!! the last ones are when julie, amy, kate and i went out to explore campus and four a croc sculpture :)
oooooogltey
tim tams are amazing
so classes start tomorrow, fun stuff... i am actually quite excited about that. gotta pick out my tutorial times and sign up for field trips - joy! the past week doesn't seem to have gone by as fast as i expected now that i ave people to hang out with but i'm not really complaining, we've been having a good time
julie and amy introduced my to black books and little britain, two rather hilarious british comedy shows that are mostly skits and that was fun. julie also introduced me and the other americans/canadian to tim tams with hot chocolate. tim tams are little chocolate covered bisckets with soft chocolate in between the cookie bits, and if you bite off both ends of it you can use it as a straw in hot chocolate and its the most amazing thing EVER haha. it gets all mushy and melty and delicious. i may have to send a pack home... mwahahaha.
we've also been watching a lot of scrubs, i love that show. we'll all just pile on my bed and watch 3 or 4 episodes at a time, we've gotten through most of season 4 and a bit of 5 :)
i'm developing a habit of sitting at diner after everyone is finished and just talking to a large group. its usually me julie alysha amy mat brit dan mike xavier and mybe a few others but for 3 nights in a row now we've been just about the last people to leave the cafeteria. we usually end up comparing america and australia if only because me mike dan and alysha will start talking about something like food (recess peanut butter cups, for example) and the aussies at the table will be like... hu? its really helping me learn a lot more about oz :) i like it and hope it continues.
yesterday we decided to go see the aquarium in town, its reeeeaaally big and had some awesome fishies in it :) pictures!
we saw them feed all the various tanks after lunch, it was cool.
dunno whats going on today, probably just chillin, maybe taking a walk around campus with alysha. we shall seeeee.
1st week of class - busy all ready
haven't had a chance to post all week, so this might get lengthy.
classes started monday, with me getting a bit of a shock at how unprepared i am for one of them - oceanography. i spent 2 hours staring into a microscope looking at various plankton, surrounded by people who knew exactly what they were looking at... a little scary. luckily mike is in that class and essentially worked as an oceanographer for a summer so will waltz through that class like its nothing... and help me :) and with a little extra work i think i'll handle it. we have our mini field trip out on the collection boat next weekend so thats cool.
i had my coral reefs class the next day, and i feel a lot more comfortable in that class. the prof is the leading coral reefs researcher in the souther hemesphere, and we get to go on a 2.5 day field trip with the class to observe and collect data... entailing snorkeling/scuba and living on a boat for the trip. AWESOME. my biogiography class started wednesday and that one is cool as well, funny british prof talking about james bond movies.
outside of class, interesting happenings :) julie joined the reserves and has her uniform she has to wear on tuesdays now. we've been getting through the 3rd season of grey's anatomy fairly quickly and thats fun, also been watching some dr who :) also my camera picked the most inopportune moment to die on me. i'm going to see if i can get it fixed in town, i don't want to have to buy another one here but i do need my pictures. we've been makin plans all week about where we want to go. next weekend we're going out to magnetic island in a group to snorkle and kyak - i would be diving but i won't be completely certified untill the 25th (and its an expensive certification... bah) but snorkeling is still awesome. i just need to pick up some finns and a stinger suit - no more jelly stings for me thanks. and tonight we're having a cooking party, invading mike and robin's kitchen and i'm making key lime pie :) and we'll be treated to some lovely australian dishes. after i think we'll head to the strand for a night walk allong the beach and perhaps a dip in the rock pool after dark.
**later that night** allright so i took a longer break from writing this than i thought, i just got back from walking kate home with julie. we did indeed have our cooking party, robin made the biggest pie i've ever seen in my life - she used a turkey platter. so think about 5x the recepie... yea it was delicious but so rich we were calling people in who were walking by to come help us eat it, and we just barely made a dent. my key lime pies were a hit, and there is still left over for tomorrow night :) after eating we decided to play poker. i was first out but then joined kate - the joke now being that we shar a brain and are there fore half-brains... we argue about weather she has half of my brain or i have half of her brain (obviously the brain is mine and she only controls that half because i let her, right?) anyway we technically came in second but we just didn't want to keep playing with just 2 in.
tomorrow is beach and then bowling, o i'm excited :)
oddeties :)
just some more observances of the land down under i think are interesting.
-my door knob, and most doors with door knobs, are at the level of my shoulder.
-mcdonnalds = mackers, and they all have mccafe's that have comfy seats
-most houses in this town and many others are on stilts
-the aussies think i'm funny when i say "banana" or "berry" and think i overuse the words delicious and delectable (well we do talk about food a lot)
-PBJs are something aussies think are just odd
-dinner = tea
-instead of squirrels, this campus has turkeys
-there is no music programme at james cook
-i'm starting to spell things the british way :P
-american jelly = australian jam
-american jello = australian jelly
-american katsup = australian tomato sauce
-i'm getting some aussies to say jello and katsup :P
-the australian government gives students allowance - some people get over $700 a fortnight
-there is a lot of american television out here
-pies here are usually meat pies, not dessert
-instead of corn crops they have sugar cane crops
-they like full moon festivals
thats it for now, i'll add to this list at some point :)
we couldn't find the bowling alley last night so julie and kate and i just walked up and down the strand and then watched grey's anatomy untill 3am because the last three episodes of the season are OMGZZZ we couldn't stop. off to the beach with alysha today :)
smarty pants
so its been an interesting second week of class, and yesterday i felt quite smart :P i had my first prac (lab) in my bio-geo class, and i accidentally went to the room funn of the post-grad students. we were all doing the same lab this week so the prof said i should just stay in there and join a group... a group of post-grads. but we were doing cladistics! i can do cladistics in my sleep - my brain loves them! so i was doing up all the diagrams and explaining what i did to the grad students :) and thus i felt all smart haha. in my reefs prac i just have a nice long lab report due in 2 weeks. joy
in other news...
LAAAA! i hahve a new camera of the digital veriety! its a canon A530 with 5MP and 4x zoom and its pwitty. it doesn't have an underwater accessory but it will serve its purpose - i got a disposable water-proof for this weekend. i tried to find a pair of finns but the st00pid sports shop didn't have any in my size. i also now have a phone card for the calling of the states :)
we're heading out to maggie island tomorrow on th 3:45 ferry, snorkeling before dinner (a good dinner OMGZ i need real food) and then on saturday, those of us certified will scuba, and julie and i and a few others will snorklefor the morning, and then kayak in the afternoon, and then enjoy the evening on the island. mike and i have to leave fairly early sunday morning because we have a field trip with oceanography and we gotta be ready for it.
also i bought an australian flag! i think that will be my small and cheap suvenier from all the countries i visit :) and then i can decorate with them!
island paradise
this past weekend i went out to magnetic island with about 7 (or 9 depending on what night you counted) other people and it was AMAZING. seriously. Friday afternoon we got over to the ferry terminal and after 25min we were on the island.
bus over to magnum's hostle and we set up in our good sized room that fit 10, and kinda smelled (we later realized it was the oder of wet and unwashed dive gear... we didn't improve the stench). we walked 2 doors down to the dive shop and got all the gear we would need for the next few days - dive gear for mike, dan and jenna, snorkle gear for julie, will, andrea and me. we slipped into our stinger suits and all went for an evening snorkle in Geoffery Bay. (this is andrea in her stinger suit that was just a little too big... heehee
it was a quick one, mainly because visibility was crap so late in the day, and the bay was full of baby jellyfish. they were in great clouds and even though everyone got stung no one but julie (and mike a little) felt anything so it wasn't a big deal, just irritating. we went back and showered off the salt water (andrea and jenna in the shower here)
and then we had real food. OMGZ i haven't had anything but rez-hall crap for about a month so this is a big deal - i usually love how mel goes on about her fabulous meals and this is my first chance to do so! there was this little bistro place and it seemed like it might be crap but wow. chicken cesar heaven. 
after eating we played a few goames of pool, and discovered that all of us are terrible at pool. it didn't help that the pool balls are tiny over here lol. the tables were under black lights that attracted the usual moths, one large green one actually hissed at us when we tried to move it and when we threw it off the table, it landed on the bicep of a guy setting up his shot... so what does he do? he eats it! he bit it off his arm and spat it out - funniest thing i've seen in a long time. anyhoo, mike and dan eventually got more interested in the rugby game that was on TV, while will, jenn and julie played the longest game of pool EVER. we also played some poker, which i am getting better at :)
we soon retired to the room for the night since we were getting up early for water sports :D
and this was written under one of the beds, how nice :P
the next day we got up and ready for snorkle/scuba things, and headed over to Alma bay. Will, Julie, Andrea and i were snorkeling, and the water was beautiful. this bay was very sheltered so no jellies in the shallow parts, though once we got deeper there were still clouds of them. we swam a good ways out in the middle and couldn't see much from the surface, but when we got over to one side of the bay and it was more shallow, visibility was pristine. we saw big reefs and chased angel fish and swam into a school of very large parot fish, even saw a little sting ray :) i had a disposable underwater camera so eventually those pictures will be developed and scanned but for now here are some pictures i stole from mike, who was out with the divers - maradeth, dan, and jenna :)
After chillin on the beach for a bit, we walked back for lunch and a dip in the pool. i split a chicken burger with andrea which was soooo gooood, and then we had a little time to relax and return the stinger suits (the snorkelers did anyway) before the afternoon/evening activeties began
so while mike, dan and maradeth went for an afternoon dive followed by a night dive, the rest of us caught a bus up to horse shoe bay for sea kayaking. we sat on the beach for a bit eating ice cream while we waited for our guide to show up. he was this portly british guy named steve who was pretty entertaining and made us wear these rediculous suits to protect us from jellies just in case we happened to capsize. we got out to the bay in the 2-person kayaks and man, it was beautiful. there were sea turtles surfacing all around us - dozens! and they were BIG. we also saw some beautiful bird species, and a few of us (myself included) spotted dolphins! we then sat in our kayaks sipping champagn that steve brought out and we watched the sunset. paradise. again the pictures are on the water-proof disposable camera that will be developed and scanned in... eventually :P
after getting back on shore and changing into dry clothes we went to the mexican restaurant on the bay - called noodies. its the first mexican i've had in over a month, thats just madness to me! and julie had never had it before! i was actually impressed, their encheladas weren't bad (even if the salsa was ever so slightly pathetic) and the margaritas were descent :) we got a jug of strawberry margarita so it came with the sombrero, and i of course had a traditional margarita :P We were also visited by this little possum friend who was sitting on the roof
We got back and met up with the night divers (they saw a baby shark, we saw turtles, you descide who wins) and chilled for the night. the next morning, mike and julie and i left on the 8am ferry because bio oceanography had a field trip mike and i had to go on. julie just came back to study but its a good thing she did because i needed a ride back to the docks at 11. 9 people were supposed to show up for that group, and a grand total of 3 were there, including me. so that just meant a lot of work for the 3 of us, adding to my exhaustion but interesting all the same. the boat i went out on the the sample collection is aparently going to be in a movie - has been a set in fact - and has been carting around kate hudson and matthew maconahey (i can't spell his name) for a few months. cool right? we also sighted some dolphins on the way back - a little closer than what i saw on the kayaks.
off to get some food. not real food mind you, its back to gruel for a few more weeks :P
more pictures from maggie
i got some more pics from facebook :) and so i shall share them!
crystal creek and st. patt's
goodness i love weekends :P
thursday was julie's floor party, which was super-hero themed :) i crashed wearing my australian flag as a cape and julie was GI Jane, and it was just generally awesome.
Friday was supposed to be a night we went out with uni hall and took over the brewery, but we didn't end up going and once again it was down to mike's flat. we watched boondock saints and firefly.
my trip was one to crystal creek, about 40min north of townsville. it was a trip with the student association, and i had thought amy was coming but it turned out i didn't know anyone there. it didn't really matter, and i didn't really meet any cool people - didn't even get names. they called me tina fey for the whole trip :P and i read my book by the waterfalls after i dried off. we hiked a short ways to a few cool viewing stations in the tropical forest. and on the way home we stopped at the frosty mango for some delectable icecreams :D overall not bad, and i think i'll insist on going again with cooler people so we can jump off the cliffs into the waterfalls :) it is free!
yesterday was also st patty's day... and its a big deal here! the dive club had their pub crawl, but because of my trip i didn't sign up and i chilled with kate and julie for a bit. tea (= dinner) was atrocious so we decided to make a trip to hungry jacks (= burger king) and this guy brice tagged along for the (sort of) decent food. we somehow got on the topic of fighting and i don't know if i've mentioned it before but julie studies jujitsu, has for 3 years. she's maybe 5'6" and 130lbs at most. brice is a good sized fellow, about 6'2" and built like a rugby player. he said julie wouldn't be able to beat him and kate and i just started cracking up because he just didn't understand... and so julie got to demonstrate on him! she showed us all these awesome moves and blocks and what to do if someone has a knife and we sat near the kiddie area at hungry jack's for a good hour and a half, after which brice admitted he would probably loose a fight against julie. mwahahahaha
anyway, all in all we had a fabulous night. i woke up at like noon today and its now time to finnish my lab report i have due wednesday. ta!
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