This week has been packed with all of the typical orientation sessions. Yesterday was "O-Day" all of the new students to the university gathered in their specific schools to hear their Deans talk as long as sign the commencement books. Then we all gathered in the streets and had a huge parade throughout the streets of Fremantle led by the Fremantle drum band. All of the clubs had tables outside getting students to join my friends and I joined basketball, a servic...

Wednesday was filled with typical orientation information sessions. The Australian academic system is a lot different from the United States, there are not grades like A, B, C . . . but rather marks like high distinction, distinction, credit, pass, and fail unlike in the U.S. where students start with a 100% in the class you start with 0 in Australia and have to work your way up with only about two assignments and a final exam. I received my "timetable" (class ...

We started Tuesday with a mandatory mass in which all students living in the residence halls were required to attend. Afterwards we were given breakfast and had the typical orientation speakers and information sessions. I met one of the TEAN directors for coffee; he now lives in Australia but grew up in South Bend and was one of the extra football players in Rudy (AKA one of my all time FAVORITE movies!!!!!) I met up with my friends afterwards and we just walke...

Today we moved into our dorms. Morgan, one of the TEAN employees came to help us move our bags, her car we too small to fit everything so we put most of the bags in her car and carried the rest . . . haha we definitely looked like tourists carrying our huge bags down the street. Freya our resident director greeted us and gave us our room assignments. The rooms in my dorm, Port Lodge, are all singles (mine is very small). After we moved our bags to our room (I a...

Today was a good travel day in Sydney it was very hot, humid, and rainy. All of the TEAN students split up today and went to their perspective universities. I flew to Perth with three other girls from all over the U.S they are from California, New York, and philadelphia. The Perth men's soccer team was on our flight so my friends and I talked started talking to them and they gave use free tickets for their game on Saturday night, which will give use something ...