Random Collection of Thoughts

It's been a while since I last wrote anything, so I thought I would just add some random thoughts since I haven't been up to anything really exciting. Today marks one month that I've been in Australia. It's hard to believe how quickly it's going, and it's only going to pick up once the weather finally hits temps suitable for the beach. Thursday was an interesting day. I have never seen a place so capable of such drastic changes in the weather every single day. It makes it impossible to plan on what to wear. I walked to uni in shorts and a long-sleeved tshirt, very comfortable. Around 3pm, though, it began hailing again with the temp dropping so much you could see your breath! It hailed so much that it eventually melted into a pile of white slush that covered the campus. It looked liked it had just snowed. In fact, kids decided to have "snowball" fights with it because it's the closest most of them have ever seen to snow. Friday night I went to my first professional rugby match. This was rugby league (as opposed to union) where you have 5 downs to score otherwise you kick it away like football. The speed of the game is much faster than football, but not as exciting in my opinion. And it was down right frigid! The taxi driver on the way home said this is one of the coldest "winters" they've ever had. Lucky me! At least I won't feel guilty about spending most of my time watching the Olympics over the next two weeks.