Sundays: relax days,
or rather homework days. Today we had a little bit of both. This Sunday started
off with both of us going to the Catholic Church for the first time in
Australia that was right down the street from us. We arrived in just enough
time to catch the opening song and be surrounded by incense. For Lauren, the
church wasn't much different than what she is accustomed to - the alter, pews,
choir, priest were all present. However, she was not used to the choir singing
in an opera resembled chant where the guys followed what the girls said
(basically saying everything twice). Sometimes we didn't even know if they were
speaking English or Latin. Nonetheless it was a nice mass in a beautiful, old
and aged church. After church we headed back to change and get ready for our
study session with another classmate. As a group we had signed up to present a
tutorial on how to prepare for bushwalking to go ahead and get it out of the
way. Lauren had skyped with her brother, Alex earlier in the week (on his
birthday!) to get some tips on what to talk about in the presentation. We are
definitely thankful for his knowledge on hiking and greatly benefited from it
since we flew through the research and preparation of the presentation in less
than three hours. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday I don’t think, especially
when that means we only have two more things to do for that class now! With the
project done, we chatted with the other girl Natalie who is also an exchange
student from the US about our adjustment so far and plans for Spring Break.
Afterwards we went our separate ways, with us heading over to the shopping
center. We ended up in Kmart with shoes for Riley and a scarf and hat for
Lauren somehow in our hands (don’t know how that happened)! But in our defense
it is the first thing that we’ve bought for ourselves since we've been here,
for that we are completely proud of ourselves for. Then it was time to head
back and have leftover unstuffed peppers for dinner, gotta love leftovers! The
rest of the evening was spent with Riley catching up on some textbook reading
for his anthropology class and Lauren catching up on the blog and finally
starting some laundry for the first time in Australia!
P.S. Our walk to the
university video has been uploaded! Check it out!
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