Becky & Becca in Australia: Reuniting with Sydney

Our first week back at school was...tough. It has been really good being back with friends though!

On Monday, we traveled to Coogee to pick up the rest of our dirty clothes and things we had left at Albert's and took him out to dinner as a thank you for being our storage center and place to sleep for a night. We went to Moo Burger where we had some delicious burgers, and get this, TIM TAM MILKSHAKES!! Perfection.

On Tuesday, we went with a few friends we hadn't seen in weeks to glow in the dark bowling in the city! It was a lot of fun and Becky got lots of strikes!

Thursday, was our Aussie friend Cameron's birthday so we went out to the Uni-bar (seriously, University owned bar!!) to help him celebrate. It was fun to be reunited with our DLC friends!

Friday was International Night at our dorm! We were supposed to dress up in a costume that represents our home. However, neither of us brought our cowboy boots, or anything really American (besides Nike shorts) when we thought about it. We had the brilliant idea of getting sombreros, fake mustaches, and wearing seniorita dresses and we would be Tex Mex! It was a phenomenal idea and we got lots of laughs. It was fun to see everyone dressed up and we enjoyed a 3 course meal at our dorm! There were funny games between the courses. One of them was Fear Factor and the people involved were in a contest to win a bottle of liquor. To win it though they had to eat a chicken foot, liver, a 21 day old fertilized egg (yes there had to actually eat a baby chicken ughhhh), and the final round was a jar of Vegemite! It was so horrifying and amusing to watch all at the same time. After the dinner, we were worn out after seeing such shenanigans, and watched a movie.

We have attempted to have a productive Saturday....unfortunately, things like rain really make us want naps rather than being productive.

Reality is sinking in though. We have lots of essays due soon and we are trying to get a head start on those.

We both got our first 2 grades back and are having to face the truth that Australians are harder graders and A's just aren't given. Seriously, the teachers give the grades back and say no one got A's despite the fact that some people did the assignment perfectly. In what world does that make sense? Anyways, we do our best and just accept that this won't be our best semester grade wise.

We had our first workshop for our Music Theatre class which was totally interesting! We now have a 2 hour workshop once a week with one hour focusing on vocals and one hour focusing on our dancing. This week we got to do improv and each one of you reading this knows that you missed out on that good time!!

Tomorrow is ANZAC Day which is a big holiday in Australia! ANZAC Day is about Australians and New Zealander's who have fought for their countries. We are planning on going to a parade in the city for that tomorrow! We look forward to it and also the fact that they cancel school for it meaning that this upcoming week is a 2 day week of school!!