"Electric Kettle's and Doof Doof Music"

I wouldn't mind spending the rest of my life in this place and with these people. Who is ever happy on the first day of classes? Today I was and the only thing I can attribute it to is being here and being surrounded by so many new things.

I have to admit, I didn't thoroughly enjoy feeling like a freshman again, hoping I wouldn't get lost on my way to my first class at a new, not to mention huge, campus. Luckily I made it to class early and even enjoyed being in a huge lecture hall type setting. That's what I tried to avoid while looking at colleges, only to find out here that being in a huge class like that only serves as an outlet to meet that many more new people. Curtin is probably the most diverse place I've ever been my entire life. I love walking around and feeling like a minority at times. There are people who study here from all over the world which only better enhances the whole experience of being here.

Slowly I have been able to start to meet kinds outside of the Elon group that is here studying. For the first week we were so busy we didn't get much of a chance to get to know anyone other than the Elon kids on the trip, but since we got back from Yanchep it's been much easier. Yesterday we had our "race around Perth" competition and I got to have a little chat with Nathan and Lorissa and we discovered the most amazing little shopping area with hundreds of fun stores and thousands of people just walking around enjoying the weather. We saw a man who was half goat, posed for a picture with a man in a tiger mask, explored a midevil knight store, saw a couple practically having sex on a hill in the middle of a park and won a case of redbull for winning the scavenger hunt. It was quite a day!

The way of life here is so different and I love every aspect of it. "No worries" is the token aussie slogan and it is completely appropriate for their way of life. I feel at home here already and it's only been a week.

Tonight Ben took Mville, Will, Lara and I out to the Como hotel to have drinks. It was such a chill night and we talked for hours laughing over differences between our countries. I have found that one of the most popular questions that Australian's ask us is to try and explain the point of Greek Life. Try explaining it to someone who has no idea... it's not easy and you come off sounding a bit rediculous when you mention that you pay money to belong to an organization that is selective with it's members. We've tried to explain that it's much more than that, but I'm not sure many people fully understand what it's all about.

So I learned 3 new things that stick out today. The first occurred after class today when I was in Sarah's flat chilling with her roommates. Franco (says hi to you Ash!) introduced me to an electric kettle which I was completely astounded by. Basically it's like a tea kettle except all you have to do is put water in this plastic pitcher and plug it in... the water boils in like 40 seconds. It's incredible! Tonight at Como Hotel, Ben was talking about different types of music and when we asked about a particular bar, The Church, he said that they played "doof doof" music. What? Basically we discoverd that "doof doof" is kind of the noise from the base and is a lot like techno music... repetative and with no variety. Hahaha. So the last thing from today made me laugh. I guess the advisors have been fighting over me to see whose team I'd be on for netball. I love it, they're fighting over me because I'm tall, when I've never heard of or played this sport in my life. I could be the most un- athletic person ever, but I'm glad they have faith. From what I can understand, it's slightly like basketball except with no dribbling and very limited running which totally works for me since I was always in the "no dribble club" in HS and am not a fan of running with my stupid breathing. Sounds like the perfect sport for me.

Out for now my faithful blog fans. Happy August my friends :)

Kate