My CanaDad visits Sydney!

G'Day

Hmm i know I haven't updated in a while. Sorry, I've just been busy, you know, having the best time of my life!

So MAME (McGill Association of Mechanical Engineering) has elected a new committee, including me! Woo hoo! I'm so glad. Tanya helped me out a lot so thanks!!! Here's what she reported:

MAME student council 2007-08:
President: Derek
VP Internal: ME!!!
VP External: Eddy
VP Communications: Marco
VP Finance: Tanya
VP Academic: Catherine
U4 rep: Julia
U3 rep: ?
U2 rep: ?

Awesome!!! That means I get to organize Mech wine and cheese and Mech Banquet! Hey, actually friday was Mech Banquet this year! I'm really excited to see pictures. I already saw some pics from Volunteer Banquet, but to be quite honest, it didn't look like THAT much fun. Of course, it's because Cat and I weren't there! haha.

Speaking of photos, I updated lots of my albums on http://karensb.myphotoalbum.com so check it out as soon as you can! Updates include:

new albums:
-Melbourne
-CanaDad visits
-Bondi and the Coastal walk
-Other Contiki people's Contiki Pictures

updates:
- in and around Fiji
-out and about in Sydney
- living in sydney
- what we did when catherine came to sydney

So on thursday, there was the MechEng pub crawl, which is actually like our (mcgill eng-type) bar tours, but with less people than at frosh. its about 5 bars and spend an hour or so at each. I really wanted to go, because I should really make some friends in Mech, but I also had my roomate's, Bo, birthday celebration dinner. She's 25 but she says 15... She's actually very immature sometimes, in a good way. And other times she looks totally innocent, and unexpectedly says something completely opposite to innocent, very wild: Shocking! hehe, yup she's awesome, so I had to attend. We had rice paper rolls (real vietnamese spring rolls) nobody is vietnamese though.

Hey, come to think of it, I never really told you who my roommates were! So there's Bo, 25 y old, doing Law, Korean, studied undergrad at canberra i think???unless that's Li....???, went on exchange to China. Second, there's Nitya: i don't know how old but her bday is next week (24 maybe?) , I think she's doing a postgrad degree in creative writing. She's from India and is vegetarian. Next, we have Li, chinese girl, very cute and sweet. Her bday is in May, I don't know how old she is though, and I don't know what she studies. maybe she's the one from canberra. Li loves meat :) And lastly we have Judy, chinese, has a bf. Bday in July (the 3rd) and i don't know what she studies... I don't really know her because most of the time she's not home, or in her room with the door shut, and kind of reserved too. But all my roomates are really nice. I get along the best with Nitya and Bo. :)

So then after that, Joelle and I joined the Mech pub crawl. Actually I joined up with them at the beginning , around 4h30pm, just so I could get the info and get the main guy's number (very good looking mech eng student, but taken) I had a couple of beers with them before heading to Bo's bday dinner. So when we met up with them later, around 10h30 pm, there were lots of guys. I suppose that's mech for you! well there were some girls but they were not mech. I'm pretty sure I was the only mech girl there. We went to Bar Ace, they have 3$ drinks until 11pm, but quickly went to Scruffy Murphys. The guys were really drunk, and one dropped a glass so they got kicked out. Scruffy Murphy's is an irish pub. It reminded Joelle a lot of Hurley's in Montreal, and it kind of reminded me also, and a bit of McKibbon's too, but so not as awesome as McKibbins lol! It had a band playing on the main level, then downstairs there was a dance floor with radio-type music. Actually a lot of my favorite tunes... I enjoyed the music a lot, but it took me a while to start dancing, because I was shy in front of all those guys, especially since one of them was constantly monitoring my dancing levels... kind of creepy actually. He was weird. Fun night!

Friday was a packed day! Joelle and I went shopping at Bondi Junction, then we went to Bondi ("Bond-eye") beach. We were supposed to meet up with these guys Matt and Luke, but they probably just went surfing on their own, since they didn't call and didn't pick up the phone. Anyways, we left the beach around 5h30 and decided to walk to Coogee ("Could-gee")along the Coastal walk from Bondi to Coogee. It's about a 2 hour walk, but it was lovely. New pictures on myphotoalbum.com

Then I had a Tim Tam party with her, eating Tim Tams, for a while. Then I went to see Jonas' new apartment. Got home pretty late, long day.

Jonas is swedish, also on exchange to UNSW for one semester, and he's teaching me some swedish!! haha i now know more than just "ikea" hahaha

I'm thinking of buying a UNSW hoodie. The one I like is about 55$, dark grey, says "UNSW University of New South Wales". Ideally, I'd like it to say, "UNSW University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia", but none of them say that :/ I think I'll get it.

So on friday night, actually saturday morning, I spoke on msn with a couple of friends for a while, including erik. It was fun talking to him, I kind of miss him! Anyways, we talked until very late (early) then he got Skype and that was a lot of fun!! hehe Skype is definitely a good idea. I already called the Mals via Skype.

I went to bed sooooo lateeeee!!!!! and in consequence I slept until noon, though my dad came to sydney around 8 am. I didn't even realize he messaged me! I finally got up out of bed and met up with him. We went to lunch in the Rocks area, after a nice walk around there. We ate at some german place. It was pretty good. It's weird not to tip in a restaurant. I had a sort of german pizza and a raspberry smoothie, and my dad had a german breakfast and a beer. After that, we wanted to go to the zoo, but it was already pretty late, so instead we went on a harbour cruise, which included coffee and cake. It was very nice. Then we went back to the hotel. He's staying at the Radisson in the city - it's so nice there! It's really central (on Pitt near Martin Place)/. There's a pool and a spa and Joelle and I are going to go take advantage of the situation at some point in time! hahaha We had supper at an italian restaurant called Casa di Nico in Darling Harbour. yummy, but expensive!!

Hej då
that's swedish for bye