I am having a great time so far at Bond! The school is beautiful! For classes, I am taking Sales Management, Advertising Principles and Practices, Internet Advertising, and Psych: Love, Sex, and Relationships.  In most of my classes there's students from all over the world- U.S., China, Indonesia, Africa, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Canada, New Zealand and Australia! In between classes and studying, I've been going to the pool, gym, beach, and doing fun things with my friends! There's always something going on here on campus like BBQ's, dinner parties, beach vollyball, and we just started Res Wars which is an on going competition between all of the residental buildings! There's dodgeball, trivia, footie, soccer, etc. and my building- Accomodation- is the Red Devils.  Last Wednesday, the first game was dosgeball and my team beat all the other girl's teams!...until the final round which we lost : (

  Tuesday was Australia Day! Everyone was celebrating and the Australians wear green and gold and have barbies on the beach all day and fireworks at night! (just like our 4th of July).
   I've been here for about 3 weeks and Wednesday was the first time it rained since I've been here! It's always sunny and hot! (but don't worry Dad I have been putting on A LOT of sunscreen every day and wearing my Ray Bans!) 8-)

I had a surfing lesson at Burleigh Heads beach with 3 of my friends on Saturday! There were about 12 people in the group lesson and the taught us how to paddle out and ride in with the waves the first part and then how to stand up for the second half of the lesson. I finally stood up and got to ride a wave and it was so much fun!! The waves were about 4 ft, not too high that day but it was good for beginners. Luckily, I didn't get stung by any blue bottle jellyfish.
In the picture are my friends Michelle, Tara, and Bonnie at Burleigh Heads Beach at the Surf Club.

Aussie words:
arvo: afternoon
mate: friend
barbie: barbeque
short/long black: my favorite coffee (expresso and milk). If you ask for an ice coffee in Australia you'll get a large drink filled with ice cream, expresso, mocha, milk, whip cream, and chocolate sauce...very sweet.
goon: boxed wine
Tim Tams: the best chocolate biscuits in the world! The Aussies bite them and then use them as a straw when drinking coffee so the chocolate melts
Vegemite = disgusting
Toilet: Restroom
Lift: elevator

Sushi at Teryaki Mate!