It's Salsa Time!

Once again we found ourselves traveling to the university bright and early to join other international students and get a tour of the campus. However, whenever we arrived at the campus, fifteen minutes late, we stepped into an overly crowded lecture room where they were hosting yet another welcome for international students. While sitting through two hours of presentations of the services offered to international students, which we had already heard on Monday, we were fighting drowsiness. Finally, the campus tours which we had solely come for started at 11:30. The weather was not in our favor once again and we were stuck fighting the wind and rain to get around campus. With a school of 50,000 students you would think that the tour would last more than 45 minutes, but apparently we got the shortened version of this one. With the rain defeating us and since we still have to go to the clubs and societies booths we didn’t mind. Not to mention we had an hour Salsa lesson to attend at 1:00! Once we arrived back at the Quad lawns we broke away from the group and went to explore various clubs like Bushwalking, Photography, Uni Fitness, St. Peters, and grab a ‘couple’ of Coke Zeros. Since it was getting closer to 1:00 we knew it was time to find the other bar on campus called Hermann’s for the Salsa lesson. Turned out to be a real adventure considering we had no idea where it was and it was raining and windy outside. Finally we turned the corner and Hermann’s happened to be right under the student union. We walked in and did not expect to see a bar full of people with nowhere to dance, or even someone to direct us where to go. But in our confusion a lady asked us if we were here for Salsa and we agreed, so she told us it would be a few minutes before they could clear a space for us. A few minutes later there was still no space cleared by the instructor decided to start anyways and we just all fell in place. Within this hour lesson we learned the basic steps and turns of Salsa dancing! We each got to dance with various partners, some good some bad, meeting new people along the way. After the Salsa we went to the computer lab to check our timetables and try and figure out our class schedules for Monday. Finally getting that done was a relief and we then headed to the supermarket to grab stuff for dinner: tuna melt sandwiches! We were also excited to be able to walk back to the hostel in daylight and have dinner at a decent time. In all hustle and bustle of the time Lauren forgot to check her phone which made us miss an opportunity to go to a rugby game for 10 dollars! We’re not going to let that happen again!