Canberra Brumbies Rugby

I have officially gone to my first Australian Rugby match! We went the Friday night before Bathurst to see the Canberra Brumbies play a South African team, and they won! It was very exciting, and I hope to go see another one in the future!

Bathurst, NSW

My friend Nikki is from Bathurst, New South Wales, and she has been wanting me to come home with her and meet all her friends and family. So I went last weekend for the night to celebrate her boyfriend Aaron's 18th birthday. Yes, I felt very old. There were two car fulls of us riding down, and halfway through, we stopped at McDonald's, or Mackers they call it to get food. Then all of a sudden, there were 5 people in a small hatchback car. Yes, I got stuck in the back with Nikki and Rachel's boyfriends, smushed. Thankfully, when we got into Bathurst, we spotted a field FULL of kangaroos, and so we stopped since I had been looking for a kangaroo this whole time. It was exciting. Then we went to Mt. Panorama, where there is a famous race every year. The next day, Nikki and Aaron drove me around the town showing me both their schools, and all the various parts of Bathurst. I had my first pie, but the vegetarian kind, and it was good! Unfortunately, I was very sick during the trip, and wasn't my normal self, I had to go to the doctor once I got back to campus.

Finally a New Blog Entry!

So it has really been a long time since I last wrote, and I have done a lot since then. I have been very busy with school and procrastinating on facebook.

I will start with the Hot Air Balloon Festival. Vessy, Chanmi, and I left the dorm an early Sunday morning at 6:00am to go to the site where the festival was. We got there before the sun came out, and went around looking at lots of balloons that were being laid out to be blown up. The biggest was the Kookaburra, an Australian bird. I don't know if I ever saw it get very far off the ground. There were tons of balloons, and it reminded me of my Grandma Miller.
































A week later, was Skyfire, which is a city fireworks display put on by a local radio station. It was very pretty, and one of my photos was used in the B&G newsletter!