Cocktail Hands

Today we had our first class together, called Outdoor Education, so of course we were able to walk to school together. We thought you guys would enjoy a video that showed out 15 minute walk to the university!

After the video we had to head straight to class, or what we thought was the class. Since we didn’t check our email, us and eight other students were stuck waiting unknowing that he had changed the classroom location. Twenty minutes later we were finally heading in the right direction to meet up with the rest of the eighty people taking the class! The professor had started the class with a ‘get to know your neighbors’ type of activity. We were all supposed to walk around and introduce ourselves to other classmates while holding paper clips. Once you got the other person to say no you got one of their paper clips. The one with the most paper clips at the end was the winner. Since we arrived late we never got paper clips but we still managed to meet a couple of cool people, most of them from California. Then the whole class headed into the class where the professor explained more about what the class had to offer. Our main focus was to figure out what field trips we would be going on and how much they would cost. Turns out we’ll be taking another trip to the Blue Mountains, but for a whole weekend this time, and then another field to the Royal National Park for a day trip. Although this may sound like the easy go lucky there is still work involved. In fact we have a group presentation to prepare for the next class on the topic of ‘how to prepare for bushwalking.’ Bushwalking is what they call hiking over here. After class we figured what better way to spend the rest of the day than eating domino’s pizza in the park since there is a good Cheaper on Tuesdays pizza deal. So after we picked up the pizza we brought it back Victoria Park to sit by the fountain. Soon we had unwanted guests…seagulls! But they kept their distance. With it being such a nice day outside and no more classes to go back to we thought it would be a perfect day for a Bondi Beach escape. However, things that we needed to get done around the university area took up more time than we had expected and it was soon too late to venture out to the beach. Like every other day it was time for a stop at Coles to pick up ingredients for dinner with the vision of chicken parmesan for dinner! Needless to say it was delicious, especially with a side of fresh steamed carrots! We have barely made a bent in the huge tub of ice cream! The night ended early since Riley had class in the morning though.