1 November 2014
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| Soccer Championship! |
It's been a long time since I’ve updated this blog. Life has been busy with huge assignments and exams on the horizon. Actually, this was the last week of classes. We get a week off to study for finals, and then a two week period in which our exams could be scheduled.
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| Part of the Paluma Group! |
In the order of news though, George Roberts, the dorm I currently stay in, won the championship soccer tournament! (GO GR!) I also spent last weekend up in the Australian rainforest. (Bet you didn’t know Australia had one of those) Perhaps the most exciting event of the weekend was when a group of friends and I encountered a red-bellied snake which is HIGHLY VENOMOUS. (That’s what the book said when we came back to check it. Of course, we didn’t know that at the time.) I have a huge fear of snakes, so when I saw it I took off running and the others followed suit. Imagine my despair when after five minutes of intense sprinting, I realized I had dropped my phone on the way from the snake. My brave friend Sophie went all the way back to save my phone
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| The dreaded snake |
from the reptile and survived to tell the tale. (She's the one who took the picture, not me.) We saw the same kind of snake a little farther down the path, but that experience was a lot less exciting. We ran, and I didn’t forget my phone.
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| The Lookout! |
Besides those encounters, the field trip was quite relaxing. The sound of crickets chirping and the wind blowing through the trees was the perfect way to relax from the stresses of the past few weeks. Now that I’m back though, life has hit full-on. Besides exams, I’m struck with the realization that I’m leaving in approximately a month. (Hence the new countdown on my blog!) THERE’S SO MUCH I STILL WANT TO DO/SEE! I need to climb Castle Hill, see Mt. Stuart, and snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef! I'm also not convinced that everything I've accumulated in the past few months will fit in my suitcase...
In the famous words of Forrest Gump, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're
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| What a Gorgeous View |
gonna get.” It’s still a bit shocking that somehow I survived three months 10,000 miles away and now it’s time to come home. How did it go by so slowly, and yet so quickly all at the same time? Sometimes, I ask myself, if I had the chance to do this all over again, would I make the same decisions? I mean, if I actually knew how hard this would be, or how homesick I would get, or how tough classes would be, would I have had the guts to still come? Then I think of all the people I’ve met because of this, and I realize how much I’ve grown. I have been blessed with the experience of a lifetime. I can’t tell you about the rest of the “chocolates" in my box, but I am truly grateful for this one.
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