Mood:  happy

 Hello All!

 Nothing crazy happening today. I had class at 9 am (Early Years: Mathematics Tutorial) which was fun cause we got to play kids math games on the comp! it was pretty sweet lol. After that i hung out on the comp for an hour while i waited for Nathans class to finish up. Ended up chooseing the three schools for prac. YAY being productive! Then checked out the campus groups that were all around the main part of campus while enjoying the awesome +24 winter weather. Then headed home and opened all the windows and doors, turned up Meatloaf [cue crazy dancing and singing] and cleaned the entire place again. All in all a great day! Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Phrase Of The Day:  You shouldnt stick it in my ear orifice, you coulda blinded me!

BAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

and now for my new list of awesomeness:

Things Ive Learned Since Being in Australia:

1. Just cause a snake is sleeping doesnt mean you should poke it. **cough**NATHAN**cough**

2. The bigger the spider, the less dangerous it is.

3. You never know how great indoor heating is until you take it away.

4. Dunkin Doughnuts has got NOTHING on Timmies...[ aww i miss bagels]

5. Talking about Timmies makes you long for it even more. le sigh.

6. Only in Aust. can you walk down the road in t-shirts and shorts and look next to you and see a person with a winter coat and scarf.

7. Dancing around and singing to Meatloaf isnt nearly as much fun without your family around belting it out with you.

General update as follows: honeslty didnt do anything all that exciting this weekend. We decided just to take it easy seeing as we dont know when we will have that chance again with school starting and everything.

As for today, i had my first day of classes. Started it off with an 8am class in Early Years: Literacies. Went prety well. then had another one at 11 (Early years: Mathematics). Prof was kind dull but nothing to bad. Last class went from 4-7 and it was Diverse learners. It was actually really interesting. Had a good time and looking forward to this class next week. Unfortunatly with school comes 2 essays and 1 group project in the next few weeks. Peachy.... ugh well i have a migrane so im off to sleep. Night all!

Ps Happy 3 Years Babe! <3

So today we got up insanly early so we could catch the 715 bus and then the train then the other bus to get to the zoo. Finally at 930 ish we arrived! YAY! We saw some awesome animals throughout the day, but i do have to say that the Toronto Zoo is much much better lol. The Australian Zoo is more hands on tho which is kinda cool, you can go pet kangaroos and koalas and they do an AMAZING show where they shows a ton of animals (elephants that walk by , snakes in the pool, birds that fly around your head while they talk, and of course the crocs!) . At the beginning of the show the guy was calling out countries to see where ppl were from and he said canada and nate and i yelled ! LOL everyone looked at us cuz we were the only ones to yell heheee Go CANADA! It was really cool. They also have giant tributes to Steve Irwin all around the park. Sadly tho i forgot to charge my camera before we left so i have no pics of the tigers or the asia part of the zoo, but i did get a yrs pass so next time i go i will take pics of the ones i missed. All in all a good day.

http://s636.photobucket.com/albums/uu81/mcawesome-in-aussie/Zoo/

Oh btw i forgot to write it on here but when i went to the international meeting i met some really awesome people. Including a guy named Keenan who is oddly enough from Pickering! Small world eh!?

Well yesterday proved to be the most boring classes on the planet LOL stupid intro week. On an up side i got a teachers planner full of work sheets and tips for teaching elementry students for 10$ Kinda cool eh!? its like a giant agenda but has spots for you class list and phone call log, grade etc. its pretty sweet :)

Tonight we were supposed to go to a bush dance [dont ask i have no clue what it is LOL]. So we cleaned up all nice and headed down to the Gardens Point campus but it was really lame like a highschool dance where everyones just standing around waiting for someone to dance . On an up side the botanical garden they have on campus was all lit up and the trees looked awesome [ their roots are huge and reach to the ground from up in the air --crazy!] so we a took a few pics then left. Then Nate and I decided to just walk around the city for a bit cuz ive never been there after dark . It was really pretty all lit up. Check out my pics too see for yourself !

Wow so i was just informed that there was a Tsunami warning for all of brisbane and they were going to tell everyone to evacuate. Gah! we didnt have the tv on so we didnt know anything about it until right now. Apparently its been downgraded to a marine threat only - thank god! --Crazy  :S

http://s636.photobucket.com/albums/uu81/mcawesome-in-aussie/Brisbane%20at%20night/

ps: Zoo tomorrow! yay excited!

Today was my first day of Orienteering (aka Frosh week) here at the uni. Since im an international student i had to attened a meeting today which was possibly the longest two hours of my life but a got a free backpack out of it and a bubble pen...yep $20000 and a bag and a bubble pen is the best they can do.lame much? sigh. Tomorrow i have an entire day of info classes so wish me luck!!

Ps: Shoutout to Nona : HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Hello All,

 Weekend Update as follows:  *WARNING* = Uber lame weekend lol

Friday:  Really didnt do too too much. Our landlady offered to take us shopping so we dont have to take the bus home with our groceries. Shes really nice like that. Then we headed up to campus so that i could take care of some OSAP papers and mail em off then home to watch a couple movies.

 Saturday: Very uneventful. We woke up and did some extra house cleaning and some laundry. ..see lameeeeeeee.

*-*-*Shoutout to Julie and Cam: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!*-*-*

 Sunday: we hung out for a bit and then went to see Transformers. After the movie we passed a TON of people in rugby jerseys. I guess there was a game playing but they were all hyper and crazy ! it was halarious. What wasnt halarious was the man peeing in a corner fo a building right where the bus passes. I was not impressed. On an upside while i was waiting for Nate to unlock the house door somthign was jumping around in the tree behind me. So i took out the keychain flashlight to check it out and it was a POSSUM! how cool is that!? i knew that they lived in the trees above the house but its the first time ive seen one so i thought it was sweet!!

Mood:  happy

Nothing much really happened on Wed (hence the lack of update) but TONS happened today! Nathan and I woke up early and he decided to go pick macadamia nuts off the tree in the backyard [yes we have Macadamia nut trees, grapefruit tree, avacados, passionfruit trees all in our backyard!] . While doing so he came across an Eastern brown snake.

FYI - The Eastern Brown Snake is the second most venomous land snake in the world and is the species responsible for most deaths caused by snakebite in Australia

Crazy eh!? it was hibernating but Nathan thought it was a good idea to poke it lol Luckily it just slithered off to head back to sleep. - Never a dull start to the day around here! hahaha  *See pics of the snake, macadamia nut cracking in the album below *

After that interesting morning Nathan took me to explore Southbank. The first thing I saw was the giant farriswheel they have, apparently from the top you can see all of brisbane! They call it "the eye", we were going to go on it but id rather keep my $10 and see brisbane from the ground LOL. Then we follwed the giant pathway that goes all aroun southbank. It was B-E-A-UTIFUL! completely enclosed (for the most part) with green vines and pretty flowers. Then on the way to the beach we went through the "Rainforest Walk". It was small but very very relaxing. Then we went down to the river and waled along the boardwalk. We watched the citycat (a boat that acts like a bus) and found a friendship stone lol Then we checked out a part of the man made beach - most of it was closed for construction but should be opening in Aug. Then I found a bunch of Ibis birds and a place called Picnic island. SO PRETTY! OH! and while we were walking around Nathan found the kind of bush/tree he wants for the hedge maze! YAY ! (see the pics) We then decided to go to the next road over and found a bunch of little stores. Including one with very odd mannequins in the window - one had a pot on its head LOL dunno why but it made me laugh - and a candy shop! Where you could fill a bag of candy for cheap so of course we did! Then i found a sign in a window that reminded me of Jess and two chefs in a cart that made me think of Chris lol. Next we found a lego education center where i decided i wanted to teach at. Who doesnt want to play with lego all day?!? Nate and I then found a museum. We went to go check out how much it is and it was FREE! How cool is that?! There are a TON of photos from the museum below!. We wernt able to finish the whole museum while we were there but we will most def be heading back soon. So many things to read and look at!! After that we just headed home where Nathan made some delicious pizza for supper. Then we just hung out and watched Happy Feet and Ghost Rider until bedtime. All in all a fantastic day in Aussie!!

http://s636.photobucket.com/albums/uu81/mcawesome-in-aussie/Snake%20and%20Southbank%20Adventure/ ->Pics of the snake and southbank (all out of their order sorry!.. stupid photobucket)

http://s636.photobucket.com/albums/uu81/mcawesome-in-aussie/Snake%20and%20Southbank%20Adventure/Museum/ -> Pics from the Museum

Mood:  a-ok

Today was the first day of rain ive experienced here, and luckily it was a very light rain. Nate and I watched a movie before heading to the mall again so i could get some post cards for everyone and look into getting some slippers. While looking around in all the souvenir shops I found some of the funniest things evere such as Kangaroo Scrotum (no im not joking,  a real kangaroo scrotum right up there next to the Kangaroo paw). I laughed and decided that if it wasnt $30 then i would totally buy it for someone as their gift LOL.  On a sadder note I'm apparently a giant here when it comes to shoes lol. Even in payless (which always dedicates a full row or so to sizes higer then 10 back in Canada) they had maybe 20 shoes that were size 10w-12. So i guess Mom and Dad are shipping my slippers lol. laaaaame. 

hahahahaha Kangaroo Scrotum

Mood:  energetic

Today was an AWESOME day  Nathan and I ventured into downtown where we went to the Queen st Mall. Theres a huge outdoor courtyard and pathways lined with stores, so many things to look at and check out! Very exciting. After we walked around for a bit we caught another bus over to the Kelvin Grove campus of QUT. Seriously the building looks like its somthing off the OC lol. So awesome. Each of the buildings were marked by what I swear is a giant boggle letter LOL (see the pics to decide for yourself)While on campus I saw another wild turkey lol and got my Student ID card and my Blue card (a card needed to work with any children in Australia). Unfortunatly I have to go back on wed or thursday to have my password changed so i can log into my main school account as well as to get my courses all set up.Def a very fun and exciting day.

Check out the pics - http://s636.photobucket.com/albums/uu81/mcawesome-in-aussie/Campus/

After waking up and eating some cereal while watching cartoons Nate and I decided to head otu for a walk to explore the park beside our house. Turns out theres a huuuuge pathway through a forest so we decided to explore! it was a GOREGOUS gourgeous walk. Then we were off to Paddington again before heading home and having a movie night.

Pics from the forest and some from Paddinton below :)

http://s636.photobucket.com/albums/uu81/mcawesome-in-aussie/Forest%20Adventure/