Sunday, May 8, 2011

Updates and More Tasmania Stuff

So I've officially been in Australia for three months. Time is flying, but luckily I still have another two months to go! I was talking to my roommate, and she's getting home exactly a year after she left. I can't imagine being gone that long, five months seems like a lot.

This week was pretty slow for me. Getting back from Tasmania, I was instantly hit with a bad cold, so I spent most of the week sleeping and catching up on school work. It's a little weird for me, since I only have three more weeks of class, but I'm still in Australia for another three months. Part of the reason is that University of Melbourne holds exams over three weeks rather than the single week I'm used to at home. Don't ask me why, it seems a little excessive to me. Luckily I'll be finding out my exam schedule tomorrow (again, I don't know why it took so long to post the schedule, this school is a little unorganized I think), and hopefully I'll be able to do more traveling then.

On Thursday, we did have a mini Cinco de Mayo celebration. One of my friends here, Maddie, is half Mexican and she insisted on cooking a feast for us (not that any of us were protesting). It's one of the weird things here, Mexican food is hard to come by. I know geographically that makes sense, but I'm used to such good options at home. At this point I would kill for a Chipotle burrito bowl. But anyway, Maddie made us delicious guacamole and homemade salsa, and chicken tacos with two sauces on homemade tortillas. We also splurged and made margaritas. One of our Australian friends came and we had to explain the whole holiday to her since it is definitely not celebrated much in Australia (except by us Americans). Overall, it was a very fun night.

I'm getting really excited about New Zealand, the planning phase has definitely begun. If anybody at home has any suggestions, I'd appreciate them greatly! Unfortunately we're sticking to the South Island so I probably won't get to see them filming The Hobbit (Wellington, the main town they're working out of, is on the North Island). But we're leaving in one day less than three weeks! Time is flying!

I have a few pics from Tasmania that I've stolen from friends that I wanted to add, just to show some of the stuff we did on the trip I didn't get to document:

At Laser Skirmish. See how intense it was? There was even a German flag on my uniform

Group skirmish pic

Jet boating. We had to wear very silly waterproof outfits
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers in my life and happy birthday to my big sister! Hopefully Spring has finally come to the states, it's definitely Fall here (I'm writing this curled up in my comforter).

2 comments:

  1. So was that Laser Tag or Paint Ball? And how did you do?

    Your Mother's Day present was warmly received. We missed you. WE missed you at Martha's birthday dinner too.

    Dad

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  2. Lizzie,

    Your dad pointed me to your blog. Very impressive! It looks like you are ready to join Seal Team 6.

    Scott and Dyan

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