We were all happy for a little break and fun after the long first week of classes. On Thursday night we decided to adventure back down town to check out some cool bars that some locals had told us about. A bar named Apple, that we wanted to go to, was obviously popular because it was a two hour wait to get into… so we moved on down the street to a few other places. We eventually ended up down in the red district and could not find the other place where we wanted to go so a few of us left to go home. As 3 of my friends and I we ran across this really neat dance club that was supposed to be a $10 cover but we got in for free, so that was a lot of fun. It was kind of hilarious to watch how all the people danced there and reacted to us as Americans.
On Friday night most of our whole group went out to a smaller bar just right down the street from our apartment for Karaoke Friday! It was a lot of fun to have a big group there and most of us sang songs. The song choices that I knew I could sing were limited, but we had a lot of fun. I sang “Story of a Girl” and “Check Yes or No”. That night was kind of short as everyone was exhausted from the whole week.
Saturday was an ugly day! It had been so nice here, but it was gloomy and rainy the whole day long! Most of us slept in and stayed in the apartments to work on homework most of the day.
Sunday we woke up to the nice surprise of the sun shining again so our adventure plans for the weekend were on again. A group of 6 of us set out on an adventure to Hahndorf, a little German town in the Adelaide Hills. We had to take two buses to get to Hahndorf, which was only supposed to take 45 minutes… but the first bus was late, so that made us miss the second bus by just minutes…and since it was a Sunday we had to wait an hour for the next bus to take us to Hahndorf. We eventually made it there though. It was a fun little town where we got some amazing fudge, had a huge bratwurst dog, and explored the shops. It turned out to be a good weekend day trip.
Monday… Happy 4th of July! We had all planned to do something big and extravagant to celebrate the 4th, but that didn’t happen because there was absolutely nothing going on here. I mean come on… they celebrate Canada Day… why can’t they celebrate the 4th of July? We ended up finding sparklers though, so that summed up our 4th. Since there wasn’t anything going on a few of us went out to dinner. We went to Outback Jacks! This is a really cool restaurant. I decided to be adventurous and tried the kangaroo and alligator skewers. They were both actually really good… they kind of taste like steak. I liked the kangaroo better because the alligator was a little tougher. All in all, very good experience and I will probably get a kangaroo steak somewhere before I leave.
Today (Tuesday) has been an extremely long day, and I feel like I have pretty much been sleep walking all day. I guess I didn’t get a very good night sleep last night. I did my first presentation in my Indigenous Cultures and Histories class which was like a 10 minute speech on how the Aboriginal people were not passive participants in the invasion of their land. Now onto writing an essay plan for Friday for my Politics class. There is so much to do for classes here since it is so short, but everyone is feeling pressured because most of us go to class from 9-5 with like an hour break for lunch, so when we get home at 5 we are exhausted and not ready to do work again!
I already can’t wait for this next weekend! We are going on a Chocolate Factory Tour, to the Migration Museum, and to a Footy Game!
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