"Oh Baby, That's Hot."

To say it was a slightly bumpy beginning would be an understatement. To start off this wonderful adventure, Sarah and I barely even made our flight to Malaysia... literally running through the airport to make our plane with maybe five minutes to spare and that's probably being generous! As soon as we got settled on the plane we found out that we'd be making a stop in Sweeden. What? No one told us we'd be in Sweeden! The bumpy part starts after Sweeden though and by bumpy I mean literally... being an easily motion sick person the sligtht turbulance sent my stomach into knots for the 11 hour flight to Malaysia. Finally gettin in to Kuala Lumpor at 6 am all I wanted to do was have a drink and fall asleep seeing as how we'd been up for almost 30 hours straight at this point, but alas, I am not an alcoholic and settled for hot chocolate instead. Finally getting to Perth, Australia around 3pm Australian time Sarah and I had the pleasure of realizing that the airlines had lost our luggage! Sarah lost both bags and luckily I received one, oh but wait, of course it couldn't be the one with all my clothes in it! Sarah and I spent the next 4 days in the same clothing and washed what we wore every night in the hotel sink. Hahaha, it was fantastic.

After this bumpy beginning we got to move onto the University Campus where I am finally settling in down under and am already having the time of my life. I'm in love with this country and everything it has to offer. Since we've been here I have had the chance to see Australian rules football, learned to surf, learned to play the didgeridoo, danced aboriginal dances, rode through the outback on the hump of a camel (which hurt like hell by the way) and witnessed an authentic koala brawl (actually pretty scary!)

This weekend was the first time that we had a chance to go out and let me tell you, the night life here is absolutely nothing like Elon's. Northbridge is amazing and is home to about 20 bars and night clubs all within a few blocks. Mville and I had an absolutely incredible night Friday night going out with Brit and Katie. We bar hopped for the first part of the night and then stumbled across a slightly intoxicated Ben who joined up with us for the rest of the night. Can I just say that hanging with him and the girls and dancing the night away (literally danced for 5 hours straight in heels... not a great idea if you like your feet) was one of the most fun nights ever. Ben was great and actually danced like a crazy man, but we could not stop laughing and smiling and it was incredible. Nightlife here doesn't die down until around 5am so Ben, Brit, Mville, Katie, Nathan (who happened to run into us at Mustang Bar) and I ended up eating Hawaiian pizza at a small kebab place until about 4:30 am. We then proceeded to walk a million miles (again, not a good idea if you're in heels and want to be able to walk at all the next day) to Nathan's "car" for a ride home. Well, let me tell you, Nathan's "car" turned out to be what looked like the smalles jeep of all time complete with no trunk and half of the back seat taken up by junk. Oh wait, I forgot the most important addition to Nathan's "car" was the bumpersticker on the back that said "Dip me in honey and feed me to the lesbians!" Oh baby, that's hot. Somehow we managed to squish 6 people in there and make it home safely... you all probably would have payed money to see the sight of us back there though. I really don't think it's humanly possible to do what we did, we must be magical while we're here. Yep, that's it. It was beyond fun though and I think we must have set the fun bar impossibly high. I guess the goal for the rest of the trip will be to beat the first night out.

For now I'm off to bed my friends, classes start tomorrow. And by classes, I mean I have one 1.5 hour class tomorrow that doesn't even start til 4pm! Life here is fantastic. Love and miss you all.