Another week, another weekend. This past Saturday was Race Day. We pay $50 to get free drinks for 5 hours and watch people race horses around a track while dressed in our Sunday best. $50 well spent. So I get up at around 9 o’clock, sit on the balcony, per usual and soak up some rays, then at around 10 o’clock I get dressed. Then people start to arrive at the apartment to start drinking because everyone knows you can’t show up to an event where alcohol is involved sober. Huge no no. So alas we all sit on the balcony, my new favorite spot, for a solid 3 hours drinking and chit chatting while we watch everyone else walk by and judge their outfits. There were some good looking kids. This girl that we watch in her room picked the dress we liked (she was showing her friend them one day and we were watching) and she had a rocking hat. Then at 1:30 we get ready to go, and we show up a fashionable 2 hours late. Let the drinking begin (sorry mom).

Race Day was just one huge sloppy mess. Some highlights include, but are not limited to: girl with toilet paper in her dress, then 2 minutes later it unravels and falls down her back, we spill so many drinks on the table the table cloth is dripping wet, meaghan’s drink falls from her hand and spills all over my leg, free delicious food, especially the rolls, a nice english boy.

After the races we get bused into Surfer’s where we eat Hungry Jack’s, Australia's version of burger king, and we lose Chris. Then we head back to the apartments and I’m passed out spinning in my bed by 10. Successful day.

This week we plan on heading to the beach called Broadbeach and I’m going to look into taking more surf lessons. I’ve decided that I want to buy a surfboard. Yeah mom, it’s happening. This Sunday my roommates and I are going to Brisbane to watch an AFL game, the brisbane lions vs. Adelaide. Apparently Brisbane sucks, but thats ok. We’re also planning on flying to Melbourne at the end of August/beginning of September. For spring break Meaghan and I are going to the Whitsunday Islands. We’re going to island hop for a week while getting as tan as possible.

Yesterday in philosophy when we were leaving we had to give the professor our names so he can start to put faces to names, and he pronounced my last name like they do in Germany, because he’s german. He was like Vagner? So I’m like yep that’s me! So now I feel that he may like me more because he’s german and I’m kinda german, we’re connected. The village has this thing called DC++, which is like a network where only people who live in the village can share movies, tv shows, and music, for free. Needless to say I’ve been a pretty happy girl downloading movies and music and tv. I’m taking full advantage of this. My nutrition tutorial starts this week, now I have 3 hours of class on Tuesday rather than my usual 1.

Other than that not much is going on here. It’s starting to warm up a little bit. Not getting as cold at night as usual. The sun here is very strong, sitting on the balcony for like 10 minutes will get you a tan line. The birds are as loud as ever and the couches are still shedding little black things all over.