take a lesson from down under...

Here's a short list of things that Australia does better than home:
1. The drinking age is 18. Enough said.
2. There are no pennies. Your total gets rounded either down or up to the closest 5 cents.
3. The money is made with plastic so it lasts longer. Their bills are also colorful.
4. All lectures are recorded. You know, in case you want to listen to it again, or something...
5. Tax is included in all prices. The price written on the tag is the price you pay.
6. They use the metric system. It's a little pathetic that we don't yet in the States.
7. TimTams. The greatest cookies in the entire world.
8. Minimum wage is around $16 an hour.
9. Public transportation is much more accessible and easy to understand.
10. AFL. Aussie rules football is much more entertaining than American football.
           10a. The USA has an AFL team... and we beat South Africa last week. Who knew?

Wednesday Already?
The most precious picture of the night award goes to:

Me and Lindsay. Too adorable.

Dunmore Lang College gets Classy... Kind of.

Friday night was the night of the Ball! We left college at around 5:30 to our unknown destination. We took a ferry to get to the venue for dinner. It was beautiful, and it had an open bar. We had a delicious three course dinner and then the most spectacular desert in the entire world.

Our table! Goal of the night: Finish the drinks on the table before they bring you refills. More difficult than you would imagine...

Me and Andrea on the ferry to the Ball. Excuse the red eyes...

There was also a photo booth with the classic strip of printed pictures. There were some excellent ones taken, I'll be sure to get copies of them. 

After the Ball we had our after party at the Cargo Bar in the city. This is where the classy level seemed to drop a bit, but we still had a fun time. In fact, some of us might have had too much fun...

Eric, Saturday afternoon, still in his suit after sleeping in the common room. 

USA Australian Football League Team?

On Sunday Aly, Jessie, Tom, Collin, Jarryd, and I went to a Sydney Swans footy game. The game was at the arena the Olympics were held in. So unbelievably awesome. When we walked in a different game was ending. After about 30 seconds we realized it was USA versus South Africa. USA has an AFL team? apparently, and they're good. well, they beat South Africa. After the game we got to take a picture with one of the players on the US team.

However, we think he might not really be American... Pretty sure he had an Aussie accent.

The Olympic stadium was beautiful. And giant, even though it has been slightly remodeled after the Olympics and many of the seats have been removed. The Swans were behind for the majority of the game, but they pulled through and beat the Saints!

Me Jessie Jarryd Collin Tom and Aly

Adorable.

Academia. 

BBE101- Evolution and Human Behavior.

Three hours of lectures and a two hour practical. But it's interesting. 

ENGL106- Literature and the Screen

We watch movies and then talk about them. Sometimes we read. I like it.

ANTH140- Myth in the Ancient World

According to one myth, Zeus ate his wife to prevent her from having children that may or may not try to overthrow him, but then he felt guilty and gave birth to Athena, the goddess of thought, from his head...

PHIS131- Mind, Meaning, and Metaphysics

A class on thinking. Thrilling. But actually, I like it a lot.