blood, sperm and cutting hearts. all in a day's work.

i can't believe the weekend is over already. it seems to have flown by, which is extremely sad.

thursday i had my first big day with multiple labs. it actually still wasn't as long as it normally would be, as tutorials don't start until next week, so i had from 9:00-9:50 off. yay! my labs were rather intense. i started off dissecting a LIVE toad. ugh. supposedly they can't feel anything, but their muscles still twitch. thankfully we were warned in advance, but that didn't make it any less nauseating when my toad's leg started smacking my hand. i suppose i deserved it, as i was in the process of cutting out its heart. i ended up getting extremely woozy around that point and strongly considered switching to a different major. luckily i didn't have the toad that hadn't been completely put under. it did far more than randomly twitch when its tummy started getting cut open. oh geez. feeling light headed again. next paragraph.

my second lab (another bio lab) involved watching bulls' sperm and sheep blood. man. unfortunately, this class was way harder... i was constantly referring to the book, which slowed me waayy down. i was the last one out of the lab, and i barely made it out in time. quite a discouragement since that was the "intro" lab. if only i remembered wtf an endoplasmic reticulum looked like.

all three of my labs are like an entire other class... complete with their own tests, homework assignments, presentations and research projects. social life: DEFINITELY came to a screeching halt already. next to go: sleep. last step: sanity.

thursday night i had my tennis "grading" session, which basically consisted of me getting my tush whipped by a middle age lady in purple nylon pants and hot pink sweatbands around every possible extremity. needless to say, not my best day yet.

yesterday though, i got to see carolyn, a girl who graduated from edina the year ahead of me. she's living in australia for the year, working and traveling, and will be in brisbane for the next few months. although i'm not homesick yet, it was definitely nice to see a familiar face.

yesterday afternoon, rob (my next-door neighbor from holland), dianne and i went to the "beach." the closest "beach" to us happens to be a short ferry ride away, in the middle of the city. brisbane transported a bunch of sand and palm trees to a random stretch in the city, dumped in some water, and made their own beach! it's pretty cool actually, as there's a wicked river view. we ended up freezing (yup, still winter here) and going to a pub to have a beer. there was a little craft market set up nearby, so we walked around and found some pretty interesting things. such as a giant leather dog that doubled as a purse. dianne and i managed to find some ridiculous feather head pieces for the races on wednesday. i will definitely upload pics. it looked okay in the stall, but when i got home i realized it looks like big bird is trying to eat my face.

today's a day of homework and laundry. i suppose everyday can't be a party. shame. wednesday we don't have class so we can go to the races :) should be fun!

she is fine, most of the time. she takes her days with a smile. breathe, just breathe. let the life that you live be all that you need. --ryan star

i'm learning... (v. oz)

...to walk on the left side of the sidewalk. always. i'm not too bad at checking the correct direction for cars thanks to fiji/tanzania, but i run into about 5 people daily before i remember. the aussies say they can always tell who the americans are by looking to see what side of the sidewalk they're on.

...that guys in teeny shorts are so unappealing. especially when paired with ugg boots. if your shorts are short than mine, bud, we've got a problem.

...that people here go out ridiculously early because everything shuts down early. i miss the land of 24 hour grocery stores and parties that start after we've hit the double digits. 7 pm parties are not unusual. and grocery stores close at 6.

...sodexo's food was really not that bad. i always complained about high school/colorado college food, but it was a dream compared to here. the meat is unidentifiable so i've decided to go vegetarian. unfortunately, "vegetarian" consists of potatoes. and potatoes. and more potatoes. usually in some sort of sauce. dianne and i made a pact to go a whole 24 hours without consuming any sort of potato product. we still haven't succeeded. they sneak them into unexpected places... like eggs. and salads. what?

...that apparently it's cool to carry a mini duffel bag to class instead of a backpack. i refuse to conform to this one.

...not to be surprised when somebody opens their mouth and an accent you've never heard pops out.

...that girls are obsessed with how they look but still manage to throw together some pretty random outfits. and by random, i think i mean to say "ridiculous." you're 200+ pounds and want to wear a 2 inch dress with a hat and leg warmers? that's cool! you want to show up to an 8 am class with curled hair in a dress and 4 inch stilettos? also strongly encouraged.

...it's okay to say "i'm taking the city bus to kmart." you aren't necessarily pegged as homeless and/or white trash here.

...clothing sizes are much, much different here. a 6 is super itty bitty. therefore you will feel unbelievably pudgetastic trying on clothes. save the shopping for the states.

...ferries are the coolest mode of transportation ever. always take a ferry over a bus if you can.

...that people will ask you "are you going out tonight?" on a sunday. and monday. and tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday. and saturday.

...uni students get up at 4:30 am, don dresses, heels, and huge hats, and start drinking at 5 am to watch horses race. true story. and we get a day off of class to partake. sweeet!

...huge schools are a little overwhelming. fun, but a bit crazy.

...people are less into "uni" pride than students are in the states. a girl hanging out in my room was amazed that i had so much "uni" apparel/accessories (i did tell her i had more than the average student). perhaps it's because it's so big, but people seem to be more into their colleges or the city than UQ itself.

...that earplugs are the only way to sleep through the night. blaring techno music (my neighbor's genre of choice) + noisy birds that wake up at 4:30 = not okay.

...not to look quite so appalled when professors take every opportunity they can to bash the US. "we all know how fat america is..." "unlike in america, where they can murder people for murdering people..."

...that aussie change adds up quickly. there's a $2 coin and a $1 coin. i've gotten into the habit at home of chucking all change into a cup since i find it pretty much useless. i started doing that here... just checked my tupperware o' change and it's already got $40 in it!

...sunscreen is a must. you can get burned in the time it takes you to walk from one side of campus to the other. apparently queensland has the highest skin cancer rate of anywhere in the world. i'd believe it.

...the procedures for quarantine. apparently over half the cases of the flu going around are testing positive for swine flu, so they've stopped testing and are just assuming it's swine flu. yippee! if you get it, there's even a special table for you in the back of the caf, away from everyone else... i'm currently listening to a neighbor hacking up her lungs. here's hoping it's a hangover.

...that although oz seems quite small, it's rather difficult to get all the traveling you want to do in. cairns, gold coast, sunshine coast, sydney, melbourne, adelaide, new zealand... man! it's nice that there are so many international students here. since they're only here for a semester, they're super gung-ho about traveling. the aussies don't really care about life outside of brisbane. i'm keeping my fingers crossed for a trip back to fiji for spring break :) ...

i'm sure there are a million other things, but seeing as how i have 9 hours of class tomorrow starting at 8 am (on the agenda: dissecting a toad and analyzing the semen of bulls/observing how sperm swim... should be an interesting day) and tennis try-outs, time to shove in my earplugs and drown out the techno :)

good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite. if they do, grab a shoe and smack 'em 'til they're black and blue --wasn't planning on including a quote, but a boy just ran down my hall singing this. oh australia.

some picaroonies! (pictures)

joey with its mommy... isn't this an insane pic?
me and a koala! it made me miss cuddling with picabo :(
feeding a wallaby
crommie bunker "into the wild" party. trees was a common costume
don't know who this is, but he kept me warm when i was freezing! (keep in mind it's winter here!)
me and the girls getting ready to go out. bird, trees, leopard
my school
brisbane (aka the city) at night

it's a jungle

man, it has been a crazy week! i'm updating my blog simply as a way of staying awake... i can definitely feel my eyes falling down though...

wednesday we had market day and i signed up for scuba club and what i think is like serious IM tennis... whoo! tennis is just once a week usually, but you can also go to a practice and fun day once a week if you like. i have to get graded sometime this upcoming week so i can get put on a team... i started having flashbacks of edina tennis tryouts, so i need to just hurry up and get that over with! SO excited to go diving... i just have to remind myself that brisbane diving might be a little different than private island fiji diving. in other words, i might not see sting rays, sharks, 4 ft long fish, and turtles on every single dive :)

classes this week were exhausting. i'm not even sure how i'm going to cope once i add 3 labs and 3 tutorials next week on top of 10 lectures! my media class seems sweet. we got an email from the prof the other day asking us to please make sure we're on time so we can watch twilight. done, done, done! my science classes on the other hand seem unbelievably hard. most of the other students are coming straight out of a semester of all science or are coming out of high school science, so i have a lot of remembering to do. on top of all my class, labs and tutorials, i also need to have extra tutorials to make up for everything i've forgotten. it will be a long semester. i think my social life may come to a screeching halt come monday. to make things worse, ALL of my friends here have fridays off so they can go travel and party all weekend. dang.

two of my professors seem really cool--very accessible and friendly. the other two specifically told us not to email them or bother them unless we had an absolute emergency. the prof who's teaching 1100 kids this semester told us to email him whenever we need to and that he'd always stay for as long as we needed him after class if we wanted to ask him questions. he encouraged us all to get in touch with him as often as we needed to. plus he gives out candy if we participate in lecture. too bad i still hate chem. all of my science classes are taught by multiple professors--one of them we'll have 6 profs throughout the semester, plus our tutorial leader, plus our lab instructor. makes it kind of confusing to know who you're supposed to ask questions. one of our profs told us to refer to the book if we have questions. he's really helpful.

usually in the states, the material you cover in class and the material you cover in the books go hand in hand. not here. what the profs teach is completely different than what's in the book. you are in charge of teaching yourself the entire book and then they give you some extra random information in lecture that they might later decide to test you on. when can i take coral reefs and the anatomy of marine mammals???

i've met a lot of cool kids this week, including some of the people in my hall. i met a guy from the netherlands and a girl from zimbabwe! living here is sort of like traveling vicariously through others. you get to experience parts of the entire world without leaving your hallway.

last night (friday) there was a huge party at cromwell (another college). the theme was "into the wild," which everyone got super into. it reached halloween epic proportions! dianne and i decided to go as trees, so we spent part of yesterday afternoon on a little nature walk, armed with a pair of scissors. we cut some flowers and leaves and then stuck them to ourselves :) everyone here goes out super early... the party started at SEVEN! we ended up not going until later and by the time we arrived, a huge line had formed to get in. we had to wait around maybe 35+ minutes before we got in. there were cops circling the nearby neighborhoods making sure kids weren't drinking on the streets. they were also super well prepared in case a kid drank too much... right inside the entrance there was an ambulance and a bunch of emt workers sitting there, just in case. intense. there were also cops roaming the party all night... it was crazy, but so much fun.

this morning dianne and i somehow managed to wake up early and took the ferry into the city. from there we took a 40 minute bus ride to a koala sanctuary! they have over 130 koalas, plus kangaroos, wallabies, crocs, birds, dingos, snakes, bats and probably some other animals i'm forgetting. we got to hold a koala and take our pic with it and feed kangaroos.

definitely the best 24 hour period yet!

this week is going to be pretty hectic with everything starting, but i've still got things to look forward to. tomorrow a couple girls and myself are going to the tennis open house to play some games and check out the clubhouse. tuesday we have a union college formal dinner (yikes, still need to find something to wear) and wednesday there's a volunteer expo (because i'm going to have so much spare time!)

i've added more pics to my album, so feel free to check them out!

it's time to take a chance on some place i've never, ever seen 'cause i've got nothing to lose. too much to see it all. there's miles in front of me. street signs, never mind. i'm gunna do just what i please 'cause i've got nothing to prove. i'm gunna be somewhere far away. --little big town

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brain shock

well, i have now had one and a half days of class! yesterday's class was awesome... it's about religion and media and how they relate to each other. yesterday we talked about twitter and facebook and next week's entire lecture is devoted to... TWILIGHT! yes, the edward cullen vampire books/movies :) and only because it was so entertaining, i have to point out that one of the boys in my class came yesterday with purple uggs, a super high ponytail and a ukulele. what?

today's classes so far have been way less awesome. i'm taking 2 bio classes and a chem class. getting used to the structure of australian schools is going to take a bit of getting used to. i'm not sure whether it's australian schools or big schools that are different from what i've experienced in the past, but it's way more self-led learning. my chem class has 1100 students in it... but "only" 450 in my section. it also has 35 lab sections! it's going to be a bit difficult because i was supposed to have taken another chem class during semester one that leads into the one i'm taking now. obviously i wasn't here semester one and i can't wait until next year to take this class, so i'm going to be playing catch up for most of the semester.

my bio class i had this morning is a little smaller... 350 students. i have another bio class this afternoon but have no idea what that's going to be like. the main problem with my bio classes is i was supposed to take one of them last semester and one this semester. instead, i'm taking them both at once. one of them assumes you've taken the other... and i will be in the process of learning things that i'm supposed to know already. ahh!

lectures are a little weird here. first of all, you can buy lecture notes at the bookstore. they cover all the powerpoints for the entire semester. also, instead of assigning you certain chapters to read for each lecture, they basically just tell you to read the entire book sometime before the midterm/final. instead of having lecture MWF from 1-2 or something every week, lectures are held at really weird, inconsistent times. it'll be held like tuesday 9-10 in building A, wednesday 1-2 in building B and friday 10-11 in building C. it's a little confusing. i'm pretty sure i'll have to carry my schedule/where all my classes are with me all semester.

labs should also be interesting. my chem class is so big that we only have labs every other week... whooo! in one of my bio classes, we're required to actually run the lab for our entire section once during the semester. we're graded on how well we teach the concepts/get kids through the lab... even though we'll have never actually done it ourselves. joy. and from looking at info on the website, my other bio labs are half done online.

i already can't wait until next year when i can start taking more specialized classes. this semester is really just full of necessary evils to get me to that point.

i haven't experienced too much culture shock yet, just class shock. everyone is super friendly (plus i lOvE the accent) and there are so many americans that it doesn't really feel much different. the main exception would be the fact that guys wear teeny tiny shorts and uggs. i may never get used to that. there's also the fact that everything here is SO. EXPENSIVE! too bad the exchange rate's not better! we have a formal dinner coming up for our college and all the girls have to wear cocktail dresses... dianne and i went shopping at a nearby mall and did not find a single dress for less than $90. i'm not even exaggerating. plus, dresses here are TINY! we stood in nearly every store and looked at half the "dresses" debating whether they were actually dresses or whether they were tank tops. we actually had to ask a couple times. they were dresses.

the uni is similar to an airline... seems pretty reasonable when you first sign up, but then they charge you for all the little extra things until you're bankrupt. you have to pay for internet based on how much you use it/how much you download... but all of the class information is online and i have to download all of my class readings, so i have to use it a lot. then they charge you to print things (which is reasonable) but it's going to cost me $25+/week just to print off one class's readings! you have to be a member of the bookstore co-op, which is an additional membership fee. you have to pay to take the bus... you get a discount but when you first get your "go-card," you're charged an additional fee because you're a student eventually getting discounts. it's totally ridiculous. sigh. goodbye money to travel the country, hello purchased internet so i can read my class assignments.

the past 24 hours have made me a bit cranky, but i think once i get into more of a schedule, things will be fine.

as for the fun things, i started yesterday morning off with a run along the lakes on campus and then the river. there's a dirt trail that runs alongside the river, so i ran on that and watched the sun rise in the process :) i also ran past the netball courts! haha, totally made me miss africa. hopefully i'll manage to get my butt out of bed with quite a bit of frequency so i can experience that more... and so i can wear previously mentioned tiny dresses! i definitely need to get into the habit of running/walking on the LEFT side of the sidewalks. i run into 3-4 people daily before i remember, "oh yeah. the right side is the wrong side here." yesterday i nearly got trampled by a middle school cross country team as i was running by the river.

tomorrow is market day, where all the clubs and sports teams have little stands and you can sign up for things you're interested in. i'm super excited because it'll be nice to meet even more people. plus, there are parties all week to kick off the first week of classes! haha tonight i believe we're going to the "down under" bar in the city for ladies night. friday night there's a big college party held at cromwell (another college) and apparently the entire college community + heaps of the uni students attend. the theme is "into the jungle" so i better start planning a costume :)

time for lunch and then i have to begin mentally preparing myself for my other bio class!

so have you been to a place like this? to see your breath as it paints against the sky. the fever is near. i wish you were here. i'm thinking ambitious. i've got this feeling things will be alright. --umbrellas

perfection

SUCH a good 24 hours.

before going out last night, i randomly got online to check my class schedule again and realized ONE spot had opened in an earlier lab on thursdays... i snagged it immediately SO I DON'T HAVE 6-9 LAB! so i get to join scuba club! AAAHHHHHHH so exciting!!!!!!!!!!! i still have class that day from 8-5 without a single break (looks like i'll be living off of granola bars on thursdays), but i get to look forward to dive club at the end of those horrendous days!!!!

hit the bars last night downtown with 2 aussie girls, dianne from DU and a guy from new zealand. we took the bus there (super barf) but took the ferry back. picture floating down the river with the stars above you and the city lit up around you.

today i meant to sleep in, but jet lag is still in effect--woke up at 6:30 after going to bed at 2. ahh. dianne and i wandered around campus and found the pool (with a big grassy area to lay out nearby... however, you have to pay to use it! how lame is that?), a couple lakes with fountains that i'm sure will be my new study areas, and the tennis courts (filled with cute aussie guys hitting). then we took the ferry downtown again to explore in the daylight. we got lunch and then wandered the shops. i found a LUSH shop, but sadly they are not hiring, so there goes that job plan :( we found some hysterical and random souvenir shops complete with kangaroo claw bottle openers (literally, they took the claws off kangaroos and attached bottle openers... so gross), koala backpacks, and inappropriate australian calendars. then we took the ferry back to campus.

once i arrived back, i checked my class schedule again and got into chem lab i wanted to as well! and yet again, i snagged the LAST opening. luck is on my side. still means 7 hours of class on tuesdays, but yet again, better times.

man. plus it's been sunny and in the 70's all week (except at night) so i'm totally digging that. so lovely. i'm leaving you with a link to some pics i've taken so far...

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i forget that patience is a virtue. you're teaching me to hold on tight. and i don't know how the story ends, but i'll be alright 'cause you wrote it. and i don't know where the highway bends but i'm doing just fine 'cause you're in control. even when i don't know where my life's gunna go, you're keeping me guessing. so slow me down, show me around. i wanna see the world that i've been without. i am here and now; the future is out of my hands. i'm trusting you and how you move. i won't forget that patience is a virtue. you're teaching me to hold on tight. --francesca battistelli

life down under

g'day! sorry it's taken me so long to update. life has been quite a whirlwind since i left.

the flights over went decently. my flight to LA was uneventful. i met a girl who's living in perth for a year as a nanny for an australian family and we just chatted a little. luckily i didn't miss my flight like the last time i flew through LA, so i no longer hate that airport quite as much :) the flight from LA to sydney was... boring. the entertainment system that plays all the movies was broken, so no entertainment for us! however, i was pretty used to long flights with no movies as the air pacific entertainment system was terrible and i couldn't figure out how to work it on the way to tanzania. the only big problem was my broken reading light! it would have been one thing if it straight up didn't work, but it quickly came to resemble a strobe light. it would flicker on and off for a few minutes at a time then stay on or off for 30 minutes or so and then start over again. i don't know what was wrong with it (nor did the flight attendants) but take my word for it: a strobe light over your seat when people are trying to sleep doesn't win you any friends. luckily i was surrounded by a group of catholic priests in sandals and hooded robes with roped belts who were pretty chill. i got to sydney and made a pretty easy connection to brisbane. it cost me $370 to get my bags on that flight, which was a tad ridic, but i'm learning that australia is just beastly expensive in general.

i arrived at the airport and a cute old man was waiting for me to drive me to UQ. we made it over to union college in about an hour after dropping off 3 other girls throughout the city. a cute aussie guy helped me lug my bags up the stairs (haven't seen him since... he's probably sprawled out in his room with a broken back) and i started unpacking. in typical story-of-my-life fashion, neither my room phone or internet worked. while i realize my last post was about my newfound hatred of technology, i'm going to go ahead and eat my words. it was a little lonely for a while there as i had absolutely no way of communicating with the few people i had made contact with before i got here.

a lot of the past few days has been spent running around the suburbs and trying to get stuff for my room. i even took a city bus to kmart... twice. haha. i also had the distinct displeasure of trying to purchase a cell phone from the world's most bipolar kiosk employee. she kept coming up with all this new paperwork i needed in order to get a phone plan, so it took me 5 trips to the kiosk (ten bus trips back and forth... thank god i brought a hefty supply of dramamine) and 4 trips to the bank to get this random paperwork. i was a tad frustrated. then once she finally decided i had all the paperwork, she spent over an hour talking about how much she loves laguna beach, the city, and the hills (mtv reality tv shows). apparently she even called mtv australia to see if they'd star her in a show called "brisbane river." (there's a big river that runs through brissy). i waited until she had handed the cell phone over to let her know that i'd never been around LA or met lauren conrad.

on one of my countless bus trips, i met another international student from the states. she asked where i was from and when i told her MN, she goes, "oh, are you from anywhere near edina? basically my entire school goes there." she goes to DU. talk about a small world. so dianne and i have been hanging out a lot and slumming it on the city bus together! :)

i think i've attended more orientation sessions this week than i have at my past 4 schools combined. we've got the typical orientation sessions... how to make friends, how to register for classes, etc. on top of that, we've got "safety down under" (where we learned about jellies, cone shells, sharks, snakes, spiders, kangaroos that jump in front of your car, how to swim on beaches properly and avoid riptides, which way to look when you cross the street, who to call to receive antivenom, how to distinguish between different species of poisonous animals), "working while studying" (making sure you're within your visa rules, how to file aussie taxes, how to find minimum wages), "adjusting to life with australians" ("if we make fun of you or give you a hard time, we like you. we also like beer. and parties. and beaches. and sunshine. welcome to australia!") and a lot of other random things like that. oh and i learned a little tidbit at one of the sessions: apparently the US is no longer the fattest country in the world... australia recently took our place. whoo! way to go guys. the aussies are only just beginning to get to school as they've all been on holiday, so i've really mainly met internationals so far.

the diversity here is insane. there are 2000 international students at UQ this semester, representing 160+ countries. the international student population alone here is the same as CC's entire student population. students from egypt, iran, switzerland, the US, UK, canada, spain, tanzania, fiji, brazil, norway, chile, italy, china (424 students from china alone!), japan, denmark, malaysia, france, india, germany, iceland, mexico, samoa, countries i've never even heard of, the list just goes on... it's SO cool. there are at least 5 different countries represented just in my hall.

the campus is gorgeous. huge sandstone buildings with carved columns and tunnels... it's pretty cool. i'll put pics up when i get around to taking them. the food at union sucks, but it's all part of the uni experience i suppose. the weather has been wonderful. warm and sunny during the day and cold at night... a little too cold sometimes though! i wasn't expecting it to be THIS cold. i sleep in a hoodie (with the hood up), long sleeved shirt, tshirt, sweatpants and socks! i haven't been downtown yet (by the way, to get downtown you take the FERRY!), but dianne and 2 aussie girls and myself are going on a little pub crawl this evening. i'm learning that australia is super expensive. dianne and i nearly passed out when we got to the liquor store the other day and learned that a bottle of smirnoff costs $40!! and a 6 pack of corona is $20! the guy working at the store laughed and told us that all americans react like that the first time they buy alcohol down under.

i'm excited for next week. the whole student population will finally be back so i'll be able to find that hot aussie boy of my dreams! (just kidding. kind of.) but union college (my "dorm") is holding all sorts of parties next week and on wednesday there's a big fair called "market day" where all the clubs and sports put up booths so you can see what's offered. unfortunately, i already know i can't join the scuba diving club b/c they meet thursday nights... and i have lab from 6-9. i could not possibly be any sadder about this fact. i have literally been moping all afternoon. i am getting depressed just thinking about it right now, so on to the next paragraph.

i keep forgetting that i also have to start class next week. i'm taking 2 bio classes, a chem class and a religion class. i can't even imagine what life would be like at US colleges if they ran like AUS unis do. the kids who are receiving a bachelor of marine studies (i'm receiving a bachelor of science with a marine science major so it's a little different) will not take a single non-science related class in all four years they are here. they have a few electives they get to take, but they all have to be program-related. where are the classes about counting poop, madonna and reading about va-jayjays?? i was hoping i'd be able to ease back into the school process, but no luck. 3 out of my 4 classes have lectures, tutorials AND labs. meaning they each meet 5 times a week for 1-4 hours. on tuesdays i have 7 hours of class and on thursdays i have 9 hours... starting at 8 am and ending at 9 pm! i also have 8 ams three days a week and a 9 am on friday. ugh ugh UGH!! did i say UGH yet?!?! haha mainly i'm just upset i won't be joining the scuba club. sigh. now i just need to fit in some volunteer work, a job, tennis?, a church group?, a choir group? i think i'll be lucky if i see the light of day outside of lab. every kid i've talked to who's studied abroad down here has said that classes are "SOooOO easy." what! ahh.

anyway, time to go shower then head out. hope everyone is sleeping wonderfully :) ...

maybe it's not my weekend, but it's gunna be my year. i'm so sick of watching while the minutes pass as i go nowhere. and this is my reaction to everything i fear. 'cause i've been goin' crazy, i don't want to waste another minute. --all time low