Well lets see here ah yes Sunday… it began with us getting up early and heading into town because we were going to work at the Australian doorknock. Essentially what the doorknock boils down to is raising money for the local rescue helicopter service by going around different neighbor hoods around Lennox and knocking on there door and asking for money (thus its named doorknock... creative right). I was not initially excited for this event but in the end it didn’t turn out to be that bad. Rusty and I ended up walking around for about three hours or so (probably more) knocking on doors. I had one or two long conversations with people in our designated neighborhood about why there were a bunch of Americans collecting money for an Australian helicopter service, but besides that nothing really exciting happening. I had one house where I saw a lady in the front door , but she saw me coming and sort of briskly moved around the corner. I still went up to knock anyway and got no response the first knock or the second. At this point I was determined to at least get her to respond because I knew that she was probably 5 feet away from me in the other room. So I pounded the third time on her screen door (her front door was open which would have made it impossible not to hear me which increased the determination), then from around the corner came and I quote “GO AWAY!” from a middle aged woman. Getting what I wanted I briskly walked away from the house. After the doorknock I can’t really remember if anything exciting happened so probably nothing did. Oh ya one thing did happen… I shaved my head. So here is essentially what happened I was hanging out with people playing games and what not. Then Rusty and Carl busted into the room and were both bald. I talked with them for a while and then they left and went off to who knows where. Later I went back to my cabin and Rusty, Jon, and Carl were all in the cabin talking about their new hairstyles. Jon asked me twice if he could shave my head and I agreed with some reluctance the second time. It wasn’t a big deal for me since 75 percent of my life I have shaved my head but it still is always a little sad to see it go. The news spread quickly and started a big commotion around camp. So about twenty people crammed into our living room to watch the event. Well it turns out that the razor ran out of juice before they could finish so I went to bed looking absolutely ridiculous that night… But rest assured that it was fixed the next morning before class started.
Monday we went to Southern Cross University (which is a college about a half an hour away from Lennox head) for our Australia life and Culture Class. This was one of the longest field trip of my life. The entire time we were there, we had an aboriginal tell us about aboriginal history. Don’t get me wrong I have nothing wrong with learning about aboriginal history but the guy was a very dry speaker that really liked to go off on tangents. This made it very difficult to pay attention to the guy for longer than 5 minutes. My mind already has enough trouble focusing and dry speakers make it that much worse. It was a long three hours but nothing can last forever and eventually he drew it to a close. Nothing spectacular happened that Tuesday, but I do think that was the night that I went with Eleanor and Lauren to Subway and we rented Tarzan, which was fun.
Wednesday I had the terrorism class for the first time (since I decided to add it to avoid an online class). This class is probably currently by far my favorite class offered. I find it very intriguing to learn about all of the different terrorist groups and the types of weapons and tactics they could possibly deploy (scary but interesting). If I remember correctly that day all I did was play on the beach and really nothing else extravagant happened. Thursday was a fun day. We got to go and visit a Mangrove and Estuary for Marine Biology. If you don’t know what a mangrove is it is essentially a very salty swamp with very interesting plant and wildlife. Pictures speak a thousand words so once I get pictures up on here you will have a better understanding. We spent most of the day there exploring. We also got to cross a river on a Ferry, which was a new experience. We also played with these sucker tools on the beach that you stick in the sand and pull up animals in the sand, which was super fun. We also walked on a beach that literally thousands of holes from a type of crab called solider crabs. Our prof said that there is a time of days that all of them will come out of their holes and march around the beach (thus the creative name again). Unfortunately we were not there at the right time but we still got to see a couple of them who were still wandering around. After the trip we came back to the camp and shillaxed after a long day.
I typed for about an hour straight so that’s all I am going to do tonight I think. There should be more tomorrow depending on the number of distraction. OHHHH and I realized that I forgot to thank another two very important people for giving this opportunity…. My Loving Parents. I am so thankful that they were willing to fund this trip for me and give me the ability and support to go. I know that it was hard to send their second favorite child (this is totally not true I am definitely the least favorite haha…. But seriously when Hope had a kid it moved me down to number three and Corrie will always be number one by light years) way across the sea since they already have had the favorite gone for two years in Scotland and another about to leave for the missions field in South America in a couple years. I love you parents and I will never be able to repay you for everything that you have done for me and I love you and miss you. And dad hurry up and get to Scotland so we can Skype fool… But seriously love you XOxOxoXo
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