Just wanted to pop in and say I have exactly one month left before going home. To be honestly, I'm actually excited to go home. I know right, what am I thinking?! But it's just been a long time since I have been home and the holidays are coming, which is one of my favorite times of year. I love Thanksgiving and Christmas. I will not be back for Thanksgiving, but the BU program is holding a celebration for us here--yay food!
Anyway, this past weekend I didn't do too much. Central Park, a new shopping center, finally opened up. I am extremely happy there is a supermarket inside, because it is about 5 blocks closer than the one we have been going to. There's also a burrito place that satisfied my craving for Chipotle and Chatime was having a BOGO sale for opening weekend. I was a very happy camper.
Thursday evening was Halloween and it's not a huge thing here in Australia, so the BU program held a party for us at the Australian Youth Hotel (remember, hotel = bar). It was pretty nice. Open bar (beer/wine) and canapes. The food was pretty good, but I was stuffed from the burrito, so I couldn't eat much anyway. I dressed as Cinderella before the ball because I didn't want to buy anything. Kunchy won the costume contest by dressing as Henry, our vacuum cleaner. Each floor has one, but somehow he is never around when you need him. It is a constant occurrence to see a post on our Facebook group that reads, "Please return __ floor Henry!" To anyone studying abroad in Sydney next semester, you will find out what I mean very soon.
On Saturday I went to the Australian Museum, which was nice, but after going to the Museum of Natural History in New York, it was tiny. It was nice though in that they had many (dead stuffed) animals that are only native to Australia--bugs included. It was also extremely quiet for a Saturday, but I felt that way about the Powerhouse Museum too, so maybe museums here are just not as popular as the ones in NY.
That night, I headed over to The Rocks with Inez and Kunchy to check out the old carnival type festival that was going on. It was closing down around the time we got there, so we didn't see much, though it seemed interesting.
That was about all for the weekend. Fourth week of work started today. I can't believe how fast it is passing by. We have three more weeks after this and then we are done. Crazy to think about. Anyway, thanks for reading along. Until next time...
