Update time

It's Sunday so I guess I'll spend some time procrastinating by writing in here :)

Our work load for class has finally picked up a bit.  We have weekly reading for every class and a paper due Friday for our Asia Culture class.  And we have a midterm in Macroeconomics next week, sooo this week/weekend should be fairly busy.  

It dawned on me that I might come across as schizophrenic in a lot of these posts because I keep saying "we, us, our" as opposed to "I, me, my" which I'm sure seems kind of odd.  The reason for this is that I'm basically around all the same people (those of us from Notre Dame) all the time.  We live, cook, eat, study, go out, work out, shop, travel (you get the idea) together, so our lives (there I go again) are pretty much parallel to a certain degree.  If you've ever seen or heard of the MTV show Real World, that's pretty much what it's like, except without the sweet house and with school work.  It's sort of like being in a pressure cooker of 30 people.  In some ways it's great because we're all getting to know each other really well and really quickly, but in some ways it's not because we're around the same people ALLLLL the time.

Anyway, I guess the most exciting thing about last week was that we started footy practice!  Footy is Australian Rules Football, and there's a club called the South Fremantle Football Club that is based right here in Fremantle and practices at an oval about 10 minutes from our dorm.  Basically the study abroad students are able to sort of start up their own teams, so our girls team is made up of mostly ND girls plus some from other schools.  We're going to practice twice a week, and we'll have scrimmages against some other women's teams (I think it's the off-season for footy right now).  We'll also be running some clinics to teach little kids how to play, and then we go to a tournament in October or November.  The women's team last year actually won it, so hopefully we'll be able to do well too!  So far practice has been really fun - just learning how to handball the footy to each other and punting it to each other, stuff like that.  I'm pretty excited for it :)

Let's see, what else...I'm sad the Olympics are almost over.  We got to watch the men's indoor volleyball team beat Russia the other night, which was awesome because my friend Rose has a cousin on the team and he got a lot of on-camera time (Reid Priddy is her cousin - he's ridiculously good).  

We watched The Exorcist last night, which was gory and kind of really gross.  Oh, and the other night, me, Andria and Katie were really bored and didn't feel like watching a movie, so we decided to experiment in the kitchen.  Basically we ended up deciding to make cookies without using a recipe, which is kind of crucial in baking.  The dough was pretty good but the cookies actually tasted a lot more like cake.  They were pretty good when we added Nutella though.  That stuff is amazing. 

I'm a little behind on putting up pictures onto Picasa, but I'll put one here that I took of the sunset last night.  I walked down to the beach to get these and I think I got some good ones, but it's not hard when the subject matter is so gorgeous.

I think that's about it for now except for one more thing....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!! Love you!

Now I really am done :)

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