Our little friend we found in the backyard.
Since Monday we have had been engulfed in “O-week”, also known as orientation week. By the end we began to realize that they assume that you will go to, at most, two of their activities because all of them say pretty much the same thing. I learned, roughly 3 times, how to get onto the two school websites, open my email correctly and find the library resources online. My housemates and I have met quite a few other international students, a bunch from the US, a few from Germany, Austria and Scandinavian countries, there is one boy from Stavanger! From all of our conversations we have gathered that quite a few of them are viewing this semester as one looong bar crawl. My housemates and I have realized that we don’t exactly want to be spending 30$ on bar crawls twice a week because it may mean one less overnight in the rainforest. We’ve begun creating lists of activities that we have to do before the semester is done, and trust me, it is quite long.
Today we went on a bus tour around the city, to kind of get our bearings and see the highlights of the city. On the walk home from “uni” (University) Jennifer fatally wounded a giant grasshopper, by giant I mean that its body was roughly three inches long. So, being a developing entomologist, I caught this creature in an empty Gatorade bottle to bring home for entomology class. At home I began the heart-pounding task of removing the grasshopper from the bottle to a Tupperware that could easily fit in our freezer. Now I am waiting to proudly display him, or her, in my pin box once class starts and I get my pin-box materials.
After an exciting day of lectures, bus rides and abnormal insects we added to the collage in our room from all the brochures we picked up along the pier and made a dinner of tortellini, ground beef and tomato sauce (not ketchup). We’re just starting to plan our day at Fitzroy Island tomorrow and preparing for an early start at 6:00.
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