Australia
February 15-July 1 2005
(The legal drinking age in Australia is 18; these entries contain no illegal material)
February 17:
There are four people from Wisconsin living on my floor, three of whom are from La Crosse: Becky, Paul and Luke. Luke coincidentally knows a kid from the Oshkosh University Honors Program who I've had a couple classes with. In these past two days we've started to get to know more people, but mostly I hang out with my girls I traveled with around New Zealand.
It was Becky's birthday yesterday, so we hit up Father Flannagan's, an Irish pub, with a whole bunch of people from our dorm complex (which they call a college), Chisholm College.
February 20:
Tomorrow is my birthday and hopefully it should be a fun and busy day. There's a fire drill tomorrow morning (which we're not supposed to know about), then breakfast with the RAs and crawling through the mud. I don't know why we're crawling through the mud, but nonetheless, that's what we're doing.
February 21:
My birthday was a bust. I ended up not going to the event where we crawled through the mud. My girls were missing in action. I should have gone by myself but didn't really want to. The New Zealand girls and I ended up grocery shopping and watching The Bone Collector, followed by six, yes, SIX episodes of The O.C.
February 26:
Today we went to see the Old Melbourne Gaol (pronounced Jail), the prison where Ned Kelly was held and executed. Ned Kelly to them is like Robin Hood to us. It was okay, but a bit of a letdown.
