MY GOODNESS it sure has been a long time since I made an update to this blog. I think part of the reason is that I always feel as though I should include pictures... But I almost never take pictures so then I feel like my words aren't worth posting. So I'm sorry, today you won't have much to look at.
A lot has happened to me in the last few months. In late September I spent a week on the Gold Coast with some close friends. We rented out a little apartment and woke up around noon or 2pm every day and went to the beach and cooked heaps of food (Salime was with us so that meant tacos). And then went to enjoy the Surfer's Paradise night life and go to sleep late and wake up late and do it all over again. It was amazing and I was so tan (sadly I am not anymore... More information on that further into this post). I've only been meaning to post about the Gold Coast for 4 months... Oh well. There's no better way to feel close to the people you love than to travel with them and have crazy stories in common.
For a few weekends after that there were a million fun things to do... The college I live in held a ball and we all dressed up and looked spectacular and went into the city and it was magic, basically. And then it was halloween and even though Australians don't really celebrate halloween I still made sure that all of my friends dressed up and we had a fantastic time. I ended up wearing pieces of about 4 different costumes by the end of the night... Nothing better.
Then came some more school and November was finals month, and I studied very hard and did decently (worse than I ever have in Oregon, but school is different here so what can you do?). And I was becoming increasingly sad because it was the best time of my life and I loved the people around me so much and I'd never felt that strongly about an experience before. So I started the impossible task of reapplying as an exchange student and as an ambassadorial scholarship holder... And I managed to miraculously succeed at both.
And then I went home for six weeks because I already had a plane ticket so why not? My friends back home were as amazing as they ever have been and it was fun and I got to have a cold christmas and meet some truly amazing new people as well. I even saw the beginning of a snow storm before I flew out. Leaving was really tough. Seattle is my city, when it comes down to it.
But two days ago I flew back to Melbourne again and it's hot because it's the middle of summer and there are a few friends living here with me over summer and I can't wait for everyone to come back in a month.
So, what does one do with 5 weeks, agenda-free? I'm about to find out. So far I've been writing and reading and sunbathing a lot (I am so pale after winter in Seattle, I look like a ghost next to my friends who have been here for the last two months). And eating ham and cheese sandwiches and drinking milo. Things are coming together, in that strange sense of coming back to home away from home.
Miss everyone back home heaps xx.
