my apologies..

Sorry to those who were waiting for updates on this thing...i've come to realize that i hate writing blogs! This past week has been pretty uneventful--just been getting used to my classes (yes, i do go to classes). By now i've been to all my classes at least once and i like all of them..well, i like micro theory as much as one could like micro theory, but in general it's a pretty good class.

Last Sunday I went on a field trip with my sports class to this place where they play "lawn bowling." Lawn bowling, for those of you who don't know, is essentially bocci ball taken a little bit more seriously. There were 6 teams (i think) and each team plays each other several times until the semi-finals and then the finals. There's a small white ball and 8 or so bigger balls and the object is to stand at one end of the field, roll the big ball and try to get it as close to the white ball as possible. The tricky part is that the bigger balls are weighted on one side so you have to aim to the right or left of the little ball (the heavier side always faces the inside) and hope that it curves enough, isn't thrown too hard and gets closer to the white ball than the team you're playing against. Then the scoring is done basically the same as in bocci ball.

Next Thursday I'm going to see a play (The Removalists) for my film and theatre class. It's set in a 1970's police office, but that's pretty much all I know about it. In class we read the first few pages and then had to draw what we thought the scene looked like--harder than it sounds as it turns out. My police man ended up looking like frosty the snow man...hmm...
Anyway I really like going to plays, and the playhouse is right on the harbour, so I think it'll be really fun.

Other than that, not much has been going on. I can't believe I've been here for over a month already! The time is really flying by which sometimes makes me really sad because I never want to leave here and sometimes I can't wait to be back in Boston. I've made really good friends with 3 girls on the trip who all happen to live in Massachusetts so we keep talking about all the stuff we're going to do when we get back to Boston and over the summer. I'm pretty excited to have more than 2 friends when I get back (shout out to LJ and Kate =])!
In 3 weekends (not including this one) we're going to New Zealand and I absolutely cannot wait! We're thinking of renting a car so we can drive around outside of Auckland and explore a little bit. We're also going sky diving while we're there which completely freaks me out and I'm probably going to cry/pee my pants the whole way up and down (sorry to the guy who will be strapped on my back...and mom, I was going to tell you after I went because I knew you'd be freaking out, but I figure now we can just freak out together! :)

I think that's all the news for now..I'm going to follow this blog with a "things that I miss" blog..which I guess will actually show up before this one, but whatever..