Orientation/Disorientation

Our first week here we had international orientation where we met a lot of the exchange kids and learned about the school. During week 2 however, our residential area called Trinity had its own orientation for the freshies and exchangers. It was the craziest week ever with odd activities and stuff so I'll just give a rundown of what we did and stuff.
First off, the theme was called fallout and basically they pretended we were the last people remaining on earth and had to survive. redic.

Sun, Feb 15th-
~Ice breaker games which were insane. some examples included...
-musical boys- all girls walk in a circle while guys lay face up on ground, when music stops you must lay on top of a boy. If you dont have a boy, your out. I made it to the final 2 and lost. boo.
- pass the lifesaver- everyone is given a toothpick and your in a circle. you must pass the lifesaver from toothpick to toothpick without using hands or anything. crazy.

~ Speed dating
- everyone was served a glass of wine (on campus) and we had to meet a bunch of people in 2 min. intervals. I guesss the name explains it all.


MON FEB 16th
Quiz night- basic knowledge questions about Australia and the world. I knew nothing but my group was all aussies who did so that was good. After ever few questions they had a challenge. This is where australia became really weird to me. these games were...
1. Waxing- 1 boy from each group sat on a chair and got his legs waxed by a girl from their group. whoever had the most hair missing, won. It was hilarious.
2. Whippet eating contest- Whippets are really try cereal bars similar to saltines in dryness. For this activity, we had to eat to of them without any water or milk and then our partner from our group had to chug a liter a milk. whoever finished first won. I ate the whippets in this contest. Some people def. threw up milk all over the place. Very gross.
There were a ton of other contest but those stick out the most.

Tues FEB 17th-
Earth Rehabilitation- we planted around 2000 trees at this lake to help prevent further growth of other shrubery.

Doomsday party- Most awesome party in which everyone dressed in Neon colors and whites because there were going to be alot of blacklights. This was held at the Tavern which is the bar located on the school campus. It was soooooooo much fun and everyone was crazy.

below: pic from doomsday party

WED FEB 18th-
Fallout girls day- This was one of the strangest things I have ever had to do. All the girls went into the city for a normal tour of Perth...yeah right. We got seperated into groups of four and were tied together by the wrist. Each group had a member who had to wear a white shirt (I had to wear it) and our goal was to get as many guys numbers writen on the shirt as possible. keep in mind we had to wear this shirt too. We also got a list of other things we needed to accomplish. 5 points if you could get a picture with a "hot" guy and he had to take off his shirt. My group didnt win but we did pretty well. Overall, it actually was a lot of fun. We got soooo many wierd looks from people but whatever. After the trip though, we got a picture taken and while we posed for the photo, all the boys bombarded us with tons and tons of water balloons.


Thursday Feb 19th
Beach- we just spent the day at the beach...soooo nice.

Mr. Whippy competition- All contestants were given 2.5 liters of ice cream and had to eat as much as they could in 10 minutes. The winner actually ate all of the ice cream and finished in a record 9.5 minutes. insane.

FRI FEB 20th
Ice skating- pretty self-explanitory. It was around 95 degrees that day so the cold air of the ice rink felt amazing. Its funny that basically every Canadian was an amazing skater. They put the US to shame.

SAT FEB 21st
Adventure world- A day at an amusment like park. It was more ment for little kids but they had a bunch of water slides that were great. Some guy from Mauritous (island next to south africa) went on a turny ride and threw up on the ride, and all over himself. It was so so funny but not for him I guess. They had to close down the ride for over 15 min.

Rubix cube party- This party was hilarious. Everyone wore a bunch of crazy outfits of different colors. The goal was to swap clothes with other people and end up as 1 color. I tried to be yellow but so did a lot of other people. so i failed with some element but it was a good time.


Sun Feb 22
Disorientation- a chill day of bouncy rides and barbeque. Ended up going to the beach to get my tan on. I ended up really burnt but im semi tan now. you all would be impressed.

Surfing and Wildlife Park 14-02-09

Im starting to realize that Australia is prob. the strangest place in the entire world. Everyone is kinda crazy but its hilarious. I can't wait to share some of the stuff we have been doing during the last two weeks for orientation...its insane.

Here I am on the left with a kangaroo, yes!!!! We got to feed them and everything.ahhh. I wanna keep one! the park was amazing. My camera died right before the koalas (of course) so no pics of them : ( boo.

Ok so we went surfing and it was amazing beyond belief. I wanna go again soo bad but its kinda pricy to rent stuff/get lessons. Its wierd because everything is pretty expensive here. Bed sheets and towels are 25 dollars at least and the cheapest hair products or lotions are like $10 each.

I'll put more stuff up later about this crazy week.

p.s. we have a bar on campus?!!? say whattttttt

Aussie tip of the day:
Listen to the song "put your hands up for detroit" by Fedde Le Grand its HUGE at clubs and stuff. Its freakin sweet.

Hilary's Harbour and Fremantle 12-02-09

OK, so this is my first entry, yay!! I am not a big fan of picture taking or writing so I'll do what I can to inform you of my life.

On Thursday we went to this marina called Hilary's Harbour. Its a pretty popular tourist destination just outside of Perth. While we were there we just walked around the little shops there and explored the beach. I got to touch the Indian Ocean which is pretty cool, but the Indian ocean surrounds Perth so I will be touching it a lot more i guess. So at the Harbour we went to the AQUA, which is the aquarium of WA (Western Australia). Ill be putting pictures up soon but my camera and computer are being retarded right now.

After the Harbour we took another trip to Fremantle which is a little city about 20 min. from Perth. Its a really cute little town with gorgeous beaches and little shopping boutiques. On the way there we stopped at Kings Park. It is a gigantic national park here. The scenery from the top of the hill was unreal. You could see all of the city and swan river. My school is located right on the river which is amazing.

g-day. haha the accents and lingo here are kinda hard to understand even though I speak English. I have to ask them to repeat things alot.

Aussie tip of the day:
boxed wine here is very popular and is called GOON. Franzia=Goon and all other wines in boxes=GOON