I have absolutely no excuse for not having written here aside from my ability to be easily distracted and the fact that there's nothing really interesting going on. I may be in Australia, but I still have to go to school. I could tell you whats going on in my classes, but I'd rather not. I already have to live through them once, doing it twice is just asking for me to fall asleep halfway through a sentence. Basically, all classes here are more about working on your own and they all follow the same format. You have your lecture with a large group and then your tutorials with smaller groups of 20 or fewer people to discuss readings and lectures.
Anyway, when last I left you, I was about to go into our 2 week break. Holidays were fun. Two weeks off of school? How could it not be? I did a bit of traveling around South Australia. My friend
was driving to his hometown in Whyalla so I hitched a ride to spend some time there for the weekend, if anything to just get out of Adelaide for a bit. Its about a 5 hour trip so I got to see a bit of the countryside. And its a lot of nothing. Haha, some areas are really pretty. But some areas look like if someone was going to kill you, that's where they would bury the body. Anyway, to explain the picture I've added- this is one of my favorite Australian ideas, it's called a Driver Reviver. It's these stands they set up on holiday weekends when a lot of people are traveling. Basically you're supposed to take a break from driving every two hours and you can stop at these driver revivers to rest and have free coffee/juice/water/biscuits. We stopped and got to talk to some of the locals. I enjoy the little things :)Spent a couple of days in Whyalla before coming back. A couple of days later I headed out on my actual trip. A
friend and I went to Kangaroo Island. Its this little island about 3 hours away from Adelaide. It's a 2 hour drive and then about an hour ferry ride to get there. Then the beach house we were staying in was another hours drive from the ferry. I'd also like to mention at this point that there will be quite a few pictures involved in this post. The first couple of pictures are from the drive to the ferry. But continuing on.
We didn't actually get to Kangaroo island until pretty late at night so we had to find our way in the dark and had absolu
tely no idea what the place looked like until the next morning. We spent 4 days there and it was meant to rain the entire time but we got lucky and the times it did rain it really only rained at night. There was a couple of times when it got pretty overcast but it didn't stay like that for long and didn't stop us from exploring the area of the island we were on. The first picture is probably one of my favorite pictures. 
It wasn't honestly as stormy as it looks, but the way the sun hit the clouds and the rocks it makes it look really cool. The beach is the 'private' beach we had access to a few hundred feet away from our beach house. The picture to the right is a view from the beach house and you can see the path that leads to a hidden path which took us right down to the beach. We really just spent the days on the island hanging out and enjoying the beach. One day we went for a drive to a honey farm in the area that was supposedly famous and got some honey ice cream, which was delicious. However, I and my friend suspect I may have been allergic to the honey because I ended up with what I thought was ant bites but turned out to be hives later on.Then, one day we went to this place called Magic Beach which was about 5-10 minutes
down the road from us by car. It is quite possibly one of the most beautiful beaches I have seen here. It was this little cove surrounded by trees. Shady at parts, but sunny where it mattered and few waves. The area looked like not many people went to it. The water was blue, shallow and clear and the day was sunny and warm. We spent quite a bit of time there enjoying the beach. There was no one else around save for a small boat in the distance and it was a lot of fun. 
We stumbled on a couple of holes in the rocks surrounding the area which had water inside and what turned out to be a treasured trove of things from the ocean. There was the shell of a sea urchin, a crab, some beautiful shells and the absolute best part- a purple starfish of sorts. We're not entirely sure what it is although I did try to google it and the best I can describe it as is a purple cryptic star. It had 6 points and didn't look like anything I'd ever seen before.
On the last day we drove back to the ferry a few hours early so we ended up hanging out at a park in the town and getting some lunch. There was this outlook you could go walk out on that overlooked rocks where supposedly the penguins spend time. Oh, did I mention there are penguins on Kangaroo Island? Apparently there are, however we didn't have the fortune to see any. However! While we were checking out the ocean, we spotted dolphins.
I'm including the picture and if you look close enough, you'll spot their fins sticking out of the water.The rest of my break was spent not doing work even though I really meant to do that. Then once school started up again it was back to the daily grind. Last weekend, one of my friends and I went to a concert to see this awesome Australian band he had gotten me hooked on a while back.
They were playing right around the corner and he got some kind of ticket that allowed us to hang out with the band for the night and so that was a lot of fun. I'm including the picture of us and the band to actually just show mom what my hair looks like. I dyed my hair again recently in an attempt to lighten it a bit and have been receiving weekly emails since I mentioned it requesting a picture of my hair. So here it is. You can stop asking. Love you :)This all brings us to this weekend!
Not much going on except some of the Americans decided to have a half year Halloween party since its autumn here. We all dressed up in costumes, had candy and enjoyed half Halloween, American style. I dressed up 80's and The Village People made an appearance. It was a blast. Adding a picture so, once again, mom can see my hair. Please ignore the largeness, that's just a side effect of the 80's. On a side note, I made the dress that Diana is wearing. It's a new spin on sheet chic! And don't you just love that epic gold jacket? 7 Dollars from Goodwill. Why anyone would give that thing up, God only knows.Hopefully I will actually update again soon!
Love love love from Australia.
