May 7-8

Friday ...

Saturday..Caught in the act: Crows chowing down on our pine cone bird feeders! Finally.

I snagged a mid morning "big blue" and jumped on a bus to Hyde Park where I stationed myself at the Starbucks from 1145-5pm. Almost completely my final for Business, Ethics, and the Law--which is due the day Drew leaves. This was a good environment change. I had the best time people watching and met some new friends. This Starbucks was crowded all day.

May 4-6

Yay more mail. Thanks Dad and Jenn:)

This week has flown by!

Wednesday..Cinco de Mayo had lots of salsaaaaa!

Thursday.. 1 class, 2 group project meetings.. tonight went out with two girlfriends. They refer to themselves as "brown" which isn't offensive in their culture (Indian--they are from Tanzania), but one studies in Canada. I had never had Indian food so we tried a restaurant in Surry Hills called Maya da Dhaba (http://www.mayadhaba.com.au/). I loved it! Very spicy and a change! Mukhawas is what they use as after meal mints.. it is a blend of colored spices and it's like have a mint.


Friday..Thanks Aunt Jenny for the mail!

May 2-3

Sunday was a summer day..I really don't think Australia's fall will ever come. I took a walk by the beach and opted out of doing laundry. No need my black trash bag isnt filled to the top yet. Watched some bowling.. in Australia the bowling is outdoors and you bowl barefoot. Tried a new cafe called Renato's for some carrot cake.

Monday: still no luck with the birds. Guess they'd rather be hand fed..I worked at the hospital today. They put me in the ward with all of the bone patients. Some had been there for years, others were in recovery. Lot of action: watched some Wii, did a little coloring, played animal dominos, built a few creations with blocks, sterilized some toys, cut some crafts up...

Drew arrives in 14 days for some crazy festivities. May try to get him to go skydiving---ya right.

May 1

First day of May...

My roommate and I were feeling crafty and decided we wanted to see how many birds we could attract to our window. So we took a walk to collect some pine cones.

Our old caretaker left lots of his loot/chow in the cabinents.. So in one bowl we mixed a concoction of peanut butter and vegetable oil. In another bowl we put nuts, fruit granola bars, raisins, rolling oats,and a broken up tortilla. Dipped the pine cones in the peanut butter and then in our mushy dry mix attached dental floss and hung them from our tree. WEnt to the beach and let the birds chow the rest of the mix out of our tubberware.

So far--- the birds hate our pine cones (too challenging for them), but loved the dry mix.

April 29-30

MOM LOVES THESE BIRDS...


Thanks for the mail MOM!

Walked to campus barefoot..probabaly stepped on a million cockroachess... what a walk on the wild side.

Thursday night was a girls night out for a little Max Brenners in downtown Paddington. I got my signature Choc-Banana Pizza and a few other girls got coffee (boringggg), strawberry crepes, and chocolate covered waffles.

Then we met up with an Australian from our class and he showed us a few "hidden gem" bars. One was very small, 75 maximum capacity, he said it was the American style of Australia. Had peanuts on the tables, an older crowd, and looked like a scene from Clue (the boardgame) or a bar in downtown Boston. The beers were American and the drinks were fresh squeezed in front of you. The owner was even cleaning tables...small town greatness.

Another place we headed to was called Doctor Pongs and there was a ping pong table in the middle. Different atmosphere.

April 20-28

Tuesday..Mom and I had an early morning class together and she headed to the airport.
I came back to my room at the end of the day to find little surprises that she had hidden in various parts of my room.
I am ready for her to come back. What is another 28 hours of traveling? Hopefully I will be able to convince her to go home check her mail, feed "Turtle" the fish and head to Logan again:) Wishful thinking.

Wednesday..its a sunny day..Mom is missing a crazy beach day..
Thursday...swamped with homework..lots to do (not the weekend yet: paper due at 4pm tomorrow
Friday...Saturday..Sundayy..Monday,...(Anzac Weekend)..
Tuesday.. Wednesday...classss and presentationssss...

one group in Business Ethics used this clip for secret surveillance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyYS6SrDkBg

so funny.

April 19

Today we had the back to normal tea beach date. Then headed for a surf adventure with Mojosurf (http://www.mojosurf.com.au/). We were picked up at 9am and headed out to an amazing beach in Botany. Mom caught thousands of waves--did a lot better than myself. She was a trooper. Long Day--we got home around 3am and had another tea date and soaked in the sun.

For Mom's last night we headed to Scubar (http://www.scubar.com.au/) for $10 all you can eat pizza night and some hard core hermit crab racing--Bilby and Cupcake disappointed us (but they tried their hardest)---

Then we hit Mcdonalds for $1.75 hot fudge sundaes and booked Mom a taxi for her travel back to the states in the am :(

So sad.