Tuesday night we went to a restaurant called Mosskito's. We went for our floor dinner and to celebrate Rebecca's 21st as well as another girl Madeleine's 19th birthday on our floor. The restaurant is known for its chicken parm because it is bigger than the plate and also comes with fries and salad. It was enough food for two people to eat. On tuesdays it's also half price cocktails so we had a few drinks after dinner and Rebecca got a couple of free ones! :) After, a few of us went to a bar and spent the night dancing. Everyone was really excited to count down until midnight and celebrate Rebecca's birthday with her!

On Wednesday Rebecca kept running down the hallways and telling everyone that it was her birthday. She got Kelly Clarkson tickets from her bestest friend Sarah, a ring, bracelet and a few other small things from people on the floor, and a new digital camera from the best parents in the world! :) That night we just hung out and went to this college event at night where each dorm building auctioned something off. Our floor auctioned a poker tournament for 6 people and we raised money for a charity.

On Friday we went with Bianca to another AFL game, Geelong vs. Western Bulldogs. We were 7 rows from the field and the tickets were only $35! It was cool to see all the players up so close. We went to the game with the Down Under Program we had signed up for in the beginning of the year and it was a lot of fun.

The weekend was pretty relaxing. On saturday night we went with Bianca to the Pancake Parlour for dinner and to the movies to see Ghost of Girlfriends Past. It was a fun girly night. Sunday we just hung out and finished up an essay due on Monday. 3 more assignments to go before the semester is over already!

On Tuesday we went into the city again to the Queen Victoria Market. It's an outdoor market that is open everyday. There was so much fresh produce, cheap clothing, and a lot of jewelry. It was fun to walk around and don't worry we bought mostly souvenirs for our families so the money was well spent :) After, we went to the beach and sat by the water. It was a nice, autumn day out so it was relaxing to just sit and hang out. Some of our guy friends met up with us a little later so we hung out on the beach at night and had a few drinks.

We're trying to make everyday productive since our trip is slowly coming to a close. Sarah only has 2 more weeks left already!! :(

talk to everyone soon!

Birchip!

Hi everyone!

This weekend was definitely interesting. We went with some of our guy friends to Olly's house. He lives in a very small country town consisting of only 600 people. There are about 4 streets in  total in the town and you can walk everywhere unless you live on one of the farms a few minutes outside of the main streets. There are 3 pubs in the town, one cafe/diner, and a few local stores. In order to go shopping you would have to travel an hour to find the closest city with chain and franchise stores. On friday night when we got there his mom made us homemade vegetable soup and veggie burgers for dinner! Then we went to the local pub and bought a few beers from the outside drive-thru part. Sarah was like "if this was my town, this store would be robbed at gun point at least 5 times a day" because all the liquor bottles, soda, and beer were just sitting on shelves outside and no one was standing behind the counter to watch them. It's much different than home. The rest of the night we just hung out and played guitar hero.

On saturday we watched a couple of net ball and footy games at the local field. It was funny to watch Olly say hi to everyone as we walked to the field, so different from living in a big city. We watched Olly play in the footy games until he tore  a bunch of ligaments in his ankle and was out for the rest of the game. For dinner we ordered burgers from THE pub in town and then went to a pub at night for a little while. That was interesting as well because there were more adults than teenagers, and all the songs played were ones you'd here at a family party.

On sunday we drove around his town. On 3 sides of his house there were other houses and out the front was about 50 acres of flat land with absolutely nothing on it but a few trees. We went out into a field and shot a 22 rifle and a shotgun! It was really cool to shoot, but Olly had to brace us when we shot the shotgun so we didn't fall over :) The drive was amazing because for at least an hour all we could see out the windows was flat land with nothing on it. We were shocked. The weekend overall though was a lot of fun and definitely a very different experience.

Tonight we are going out to dinner with our building to celebrate Rebecca's birthday, she's turning 21 tomorrow!!! Then wednesday we'll have more celebrations and then nothing special until the AFL football game on friday night. We'll let you know how those events turn out :)

LOVE and MISS you all :)

sorry so delayed, technical issues

Hey everyone.. sorry we haven't written in a while. This site hasn't been letting us log in for some reason. We'll tell you about a few of the exciting things we've done lately. Last Thursday we attended a college night at a local bar which was pretty fun. They had a live band and cheap drinks, and our entire floor went. The band was pretty good, and we danced the night away! On Tuesday night we had an upperclassmen dinner for humanities students. The food was catered by the restaurant on campus and it was delicious! We even got dressed up for the event. We heard speeches from professors encouraging us to pursue our dreams, and had a trivia sheet that we completed with our table. Oh, and they gave us free wine which is always a plus. Last night there was an event called centurion at the conference center on campus. There were 100 pictures, 100 songs, and 100 trivia questions that we answered with our tables. We were also supposed to take 100 shots (of wine, not vodka..!) as each trivia question was asked. 

We only have three assignments left for the semester. Sarah leaves in 28 days! It's going to be really weird to come home and leave all of our friend behind. Hopefully they'll come visit though. 

Fun events coming up: This weekend we're going to our friend Olly's house, which is a few hours away. He lives in a very rural area and owns a farm, so that should be interesting to see. We'll be sure to take lots of pictures! On May 23rd we're going to an Australian rules football game, and on May 29th we have a farm excursion where we get to play with Australian animals!

Special shout out to our moms.. we're sorry we couldn't be there for Mother's Day, but we'll make up for it when we come home! We hope you both had special days even though we weren't there. Love you!