-Turned in my first paper here. It was for Asia: Culture, Environment and Development and the topic I decided to concentrate on was Islam in Southeast Asia. It was really interesting to read about, especially since I'll be taking classes on Islam for my Arabic major when I get back to ND. but I wish I could've just read about it and not have to write about it...I hate writing papers. That's why I love being a business major - hardly any papers.
-Had some really good food. A bunch of us went out to an Italian restaurant Wednesday night after class and Betsy and I split salmon avocado risotto and garlic bread - sooo good. And then we all got ice cream afterwards - Ferrero Roche with cookie dough. Then Friday me and some of the girls went to a cafe called Dome for lunch as a reward to ourselves for finishing our papers. I had a chicken, cheese and avocado sandwich with some really amazing fried (or chips). I'm definitely discovering a love of avocados here. Oh, AND Monday we got free food at a bar called the Deen in Perth. Every Monday they give out vouchers for free sausages/salad and a free pint, so since none of us have class Tuesdays I have a feeling that will become a weekly event for us.
-Decided that we will be celebrating Christmas day (not to be confused with Christmas Day) on September 6. A bunch of us are really missing Christmas and the season in general, so this Saturday we're going to spend the day doing Christmas-y stuff: watching Christmas movies (Muppet Christmas Carol, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Elf, and Love Actually), baking Christmas cookies, making white chocolate covered pretzels, drinking egg nog, having a Secret Santa gift exchange ($2 limit), making a Christmas dinner of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc. Needless to say, I'm kind of insanely excited for it...especially since it was my idea and now it has turned into kind of a big deal. I'm listening to Christmas music all this week to get ready :)
-Had a semi-conversation in Arabic with a native speaker! We went to a place called Paramount in Perth on Friday night and some of my friends starting talking to this guy, but it turned out that spoke Arabic and didn't speak much English so they came and grabbed me to go talk to him. It's been a while since I've spoken any Arabic but I was able to remember some words and he was really excited to find someone who knew Arabic.
-Sort of figured out my post-semester travel plans. Looks like we'll be going to Cairns first for about 4 days, then Sydney for 3 days, then New Zealand - either flying into Christchurch and flying out of Auckland or vis versa so we can see both the north and the south island. Not exactly sure when we're going to be leaving but we're aiming to fly back to LA in between the 6th through the 10th. We're going to the Qantas office in Perth tomorrow morning to try to get the stopovers booked, so I'm pretty excited to have that all set.
I uploaded a bunch more pictures to Picasa tonight, so feel free to check them out. There's something like 4 new albums, plus new pictures in my album of pictures taken by other people.
Ma'a salaama! (Goodbye in Arabic) :)
1 comment:
mich, Christmas day sounds like so much fun!!! how creative of you :) i'm so jealous of your ovens by the way! i've wanted to bake cookies and/or brownies for weeks, but we only have the kitchen ovens that they use to make our meals which we can only use from 3-5. sigh. i'll be sure to look through your pictures soon though!
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