Ok so we know that we aren't keeping up with this very well, but we'll try to post more. no promises though. :) The weekend of the 21st was again quiet.  It's hard getting used to the fact that most people go home on the weekends.  We just hung around friday night, but went to a friend's 21st on saturday.  We met the birthday boy the first week we were here on the international cruise.  He works for the international office and studied in the U.S. for a year at La Crosse University in Wisconsin.

Last tuesday we were "sick" from classes and went to Philip Island.  Rebecca fed a bunch of kangaroos, a donkey, and a goat.  We saw a joey in the mom's pouch! It was so cool! It wasn't like in winnie the poo when roo just sticks his head out of the pouch as the mom walks. haha The joey's legs and head at one point were sticking out just a little, it seemed like a very uncomfortable position.  We sat on the beach at Philip Island for awhile and watched a "penguin parade".  At night the smallest penguins in the world come out of the ocean to sleep in their little houses in the grass.  When they feel comfortable enough one swims out of the water and waits for its friends to follow.  Then they walk as fast as they can up the beach to their houses.  Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take pictures so you'll just have to imagine what we saw.  On the walk back to the parking lot, you could hear the penguins in the grass, they sounded like ducks quacking.  It was so cute to see the little penguins walk right past our feet.

On thursday some of the aussie guys on our floor took us to an australian rules football game.  It's like football (kinda) without pads.  100,000 people fit in the stadium and apparently the game we went to see was supposed to be a really big game of the season (and the season opener) but the team that our friends wanted to win ended up losing by 100 points.  It was awesome to go to though because "footy" is a big deal here. If you click on this link, the youtube video shows how the game is played, it's a little blurry though. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-PFRrJQtew

On saturday we went to our friend's country football game.  It was cool to watch someone we know play and the game was so much different since it wasn't professional.  For dinner we finally got to eat what americans call "cheese" pizza! Australians love to put as many veggies and meat on their pizza as possible so it was especially delicious to have plain :)

Last week we also booked our flight and hostel to sydney for our spring break so that was really exciting!

We're still not in the school mode, but we have officially completed 2 essays for 2 different classes and we have a quiz on tuesday that we are actually reading and studying for! So yes, we're being studios here, sort of :)

We added a lot of new pics to our web site so check that out too! 

http://austdownunder.shutterfly.com/