This past week of class I had three papers, an exam and lab write up to hand in. It was by far the most hectic week so far, but I think I made it through just fine. I had a rough draft paper due for my coral class—it was on hermatypic and ahermatypic corals—corals with and without algal symbionts. I had a fishes paper due—on a fish family, Apogonidae, or cardinalfishes and their function in the ecosystem. I had to review someone else’s coral paper, I had a conservation practical to hand in and a midterm test for that class. Luckily I had no work for my rainforest class, though my teacher spent an entire lecture scaring us about our final exam. We got our exam dates this week—I have four exams spread out over a two week time period and I also have my final test on the final day of exams. Bummer!
The end of the week did come quickly enough and on Friday night my Aussie family was reunited, or most of us (no Miranda). We all went to Flinder’s street to go clubbing!! Morgan and I straightened each other’s hair and got all dolled up. It was a lot of fun. We first went to this club called Bully’s—they had sweet techno music but not much of a crowd which made everyone feel silly so we ended up going to this other place called Consortium. This was a lively place, but they took forever to open their dance floor. We decided to take pictures like crazy while we waited. One of the bartenders came over to us and put these sticker numbers on us. I guess the theme of the night was flirt like mad—basically you text this number if you see someone you like and the club puts the text up on this board for everyone to see. I guess I don’t live the single life very well because I took mine off before we hit the dance floor. It was a really fun night though dancing with all my friends and finally doing so in Townsville! At about 1:30, which is apparently early for a clubbing life we left and hit up McDonald’s. It was quite funny because I had promised my friend Miranda (who left early for lecture recess) that I would bring a blow up doll of her with us to the club. And when we were at McDonald’s this girl walks by with a blow up doll—I took a picture and have put it on facebook—tagging it as her. Haha.
Saturday night we all got together again for a movie night…well it actually started earlier that day when we all decided we wanted to go for a swim. When we got to the pool it was closed though for no apparent reason. After finding out it was closed for lecture recess we (Noor, Rhona, Dylan and I) took a nap under some trees. It was really peaceful—not having to worry about class work or running off somewhere. Then “The Americans” came along and we all decided we really needed icecream. So we all went back to Uni hall—they all loaded into the car to get icecream, but since there wasn’t enough room for all of us I went back to download movies for us to watch! It was awesome when they got back we loaded up on cookie dough and icecream and watched house bunny, a silly movie about an ex-playboy bunny who became a sorority mother. Then for the heck of it we went to dinner, though we were all stuffed from . Afterward we loaded up on more icecream and watched another movie. I love movie nights!!
Sunday morning I had to wake up at 4:30AM to go on my class field trip to Orpheus Island.
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