I managed to get up in time to attend the 9am session I signed up for. It was on the network system of the Uni. It was pretty helpful, now I know how it works and what it all has to offer. It was really hot and since I couldn't go swimming I hung out in my room for a while and attempted to take a nap, which didn't work very well. I went over to Melinda's apartment to see what she was up to and she took Andy and I to Chancellor Park to go shopping. We went to...

As international students, we had to attend a Living and Studying in Australia session. It was 2 hours long again and not the most exciting thing ever. A police officer came and talked about being safe, the told us about the trips we can take free for being study abroad, about academics, being safe at the beach and culture shock. After that was over Sara, her Swedish mate Keise (sp?) and I headed back to UniCentral to get into the pool. I didn't go swimming t...

Happy Valentines Day! Yes, they have it here too and it is commercialized but it didn't seem quite as bad as in the states. I went to a Note Taking Skills workshop at 10 but it was boring and not much help. I really like how they do orientation here because there are many different things going on but you can pick and chose as to what you would like to attend. I then went to an intro the library session; it was somewhat interesting, now I know what they have ...

It's O (orientation) week! We had an official welcome ceremony at 10am. I was going to get the free breakfast offered by a local radio station before hand but I didn't get out of bed soon enough so I just headed to the ceremony. It was pretty interesting. It is the University's 10th anniversary this year; they have had the fasted growing enrolment of an Australian uni ever. The Vice Chancellor said that the first year they were open they had just over 500 st...

Melinda had to bring Kristy to work today so Beth and I went along and we went shopping at the Sunshine Plaza in Maroochydore. The plaza is really pretty. There is a canal running under part of it (a bridge separates both sides of the plaza) and it looked like you could rent little paddle boats to cruise around in. We went to Target to look for swimmers and I eventually found some. They have Target and K-Mart here. Target seemed pretty much the same all thou...