After the Storm

there is no after the storm in Sydney. My life is a constant storm. homework, beach, clubbing, eating, sleeping, there's no time for relaxing. But I'm okay with that.

This is what my past week entailed:
Monday - class (9am-7:30pm. every week.)
Tuesday - class then went to Manly Beach again
Wednesday - class then went to bed early
Thursday - class then hanging with the Flobians

Friday - we went to the Australian museum for my "Indiginous Cultures, History, and Identity class. It was pretty interesting. There was a section that we stayed in for the main part about the aboriginal people and special artifacts they had and how they lived before the white people took over. Its very similar to the Native Americans that we think of. Well we were separated into groups and were told that after we walked through, we would have to give a small presentation to the rest of the class.I'll tell you the presentation I gave on behalf of my group.

So way back when, there were these two aboriginal men named Eagle and Crow. One day, Eagle was going to go on a hunting trip with some of his mates, but he needed someone to look after his baby (because, apparently that's not what his wife could do. Idk maybe she was picking berries or something). So he goes to Crow's abode and is like "Crow, can you look after my baby? I need to go hunting." And Crows like "heck no, that baby is just going to be loud and obnoxious and crying and annoying like babies are." Eagle was persistent, however, "Please I'll give you a portion of what we find hunting I promise blah blah blah look after my baby, please." Crow is still talking about how he's never going to look after the baby and eventually gives in. "Fine I'll look after you baby blah blah don't take too long.
So Eagle leaves on his hunting trip and Crow is left looking after this drooling blabbering ball of fat. So as Crow is sitting with this baby, it is just crying and yelling up a storm so Crow's like "this thing needs to be quiet." So he goes out and gets a club, comes back into the house (no joke) and bashes the baby on the head. The baby is now dead. so he's like "Finally. Now I can go do the things that I need to do." So he builds a little cradle thing and gets busy doing stuff. Later, Eagle comes back from his hunting trip and goes to Crow's house to get his abby and sees Crow bent ovetr the cradel contraption and hears him cooing the baby and singing to it and stuff so he decides not to bother them and goes and gets the meat prepared for the village. A little while later, he goes back to Crow's house and is like "Crow I'm ready to take my baby back" and Crow's like "No no you can't its in a really deep sleep, don't wake it." But Eagle, being persistent and wanting to see his baby, says "No I think I want to see my baby and hold it and all that jazz." So he goes over to the crib and picks up baby Eagle and notices that there is blood dripping from the baby's head. Crow high tails it out of that joint. Eagle, furious, gathers the villager men and goes into the bush (kinda like the Outback, but not really) to get his revenge on Crow. The know that he is hiding in a certain place, so they surround it and set it on fire in hopes that he'll jump out and they can capture him. Well while it starts burning, they see a black bird fly out of the bush and perch on a nearby tree. Crow's punishment for his crime was turning into a crow. And that's how crows came to be.

Saturday - went to Coogee beach (Bondi's next door neighbor) and then went on another Sydney harbor cruise, but this time with the Flobians and Peter and Ruth. It was really fun and nice to see the harbor again from a boat. A large group of us went clubbing afterwards and danced the night away like it was nobody's business. good times. good times.

The Future Music Festival was also this day. It was pretty much just a huge concert with a bunch of famous artists (including Ke$ha). I didn't know about it until we drove by it on the way to Coogee and my friends and I wanted to go so badly, but it was like too expensive so we didn't. But whatever we'll go to something else. Maybe the "Supa Fest"

Sunday - We had a church service at the Baptist church affiliated with Flo as a kind of Flo-Student-Accomidation-Introduction-Happy-Beginning-of-the-Year Service. We had mroning tea, the church service, and then lunch with all the students at Flo. After that, Aaron (an ASCer with me at Flo), Matty (an Aussie at Flo), and I went to Coogee beach for a while. it was really nice weather and we had a good time.

Well that was pretty much all you've missed in the last week. :] let me know if you want to know about anything specific. I now have internet in my room so I can better communicate with everyone! hurray :]