Karen is up to this

I've been up to lots of partying especially last week since we had wednesday off because of Anzac Day. Jonas and his house mates (pat, dharma and julian - also fun people) had a house-warming party on that tuesday. And then on wednesday, after getting home eventually (I took a bed for the night at jonas'), my new Mech Eng friend Mack invited me out into the city with Hamish and Will and Lucas (also Mech Eng boys) to a couple pubs. We went to one called Jackson's on George (on George street!) because Mack's brother was actually there with his friends. Apparently on Anzac Day, you start early playing some betting game called Two... something... where there are 2 coins and you either bet both heads or both tails or one head and one tail. So Mack and Hamish and them were out since a long time. Joelle and I only joined them around 7 pm. Joelle and I said we weren't going to drink, but the guys kept buying us schooners so we kept on drinking them. A schooner is the size of one beer usually. Depends on what state you're in. Then we went on to another place called the Paragon, where we played some sort of game where if you put a coin in someone's glass they have to scull (chug) it right away. I got "coined" first so I had to chug. Blah, chugging is annoying. Joelle and I taught them our drinking song and they have one too.

Here's to _______, he's (she's) true blue.
He's (she's) a hasher through and through,
He's (she's) a pisspot so they say.
Tried to get to heaven, But he (she) went the other way.
Drinking down, down, down, down,
Down, down, down, down,
Down, down, down, down,
Down, down, down, down.

Lucas eventually got himself kicked out, he's pretty crazy. He's czech also and was impressed on my counting abilities hehe. Will went outside with Lucas. Mack left to meet up with his bro for a lift home so Hamish, Joelle and I went for pancakes. By then it was still pretty early (about 10 pm) but they had been drinking all day so it's been a long day for them. Pancakes at 10 pm seemed like a good idea at the time (really yummy!!!) but then when I got home, I kept on burping pancakes flavor and didn't enjoy it at all.

On saturday, some of our fellow exchange students had a party at their place. It was really fun. Most of the people there were exchange students so I knew a lot of people.

This week has been very warm. And by very I mean just about 23 degrees at the highest. But during midday and the sun is out, you just lie on the grass in front of the library and the heat feels so good. The reason it's a bit chilly and it's actually autumn nowadays is because of the more or less constant breeze. Yesterday I fell asleep in the grass for a bit and I was probably playing there for 15-25 minutes and then realized I got slightly burnt just being out there, at 11am by the way. I noticed a line on my skin. It wasn't really red and within the next hour, the line faded and the reddish hue became golden hue, so that's good.

Today Joelle and I and her friend Courtney (from Georgia Tech) had a barbeque at Coogee Beach. It was fun, even though it was dark. I figured I needed to buy fish so I got some of the cheapest ones at the supermarket. I don't know how to cook fish. I don't think I've ever even tried to. one of the fish piecces I got was african cod I think ?? Anyways, I wrapped it up in Aluminum foil and didn't really know what to put on it so I just put a bit of everything I had in the fridge : tomato, onion, garlic, oil, salt, pepper, paprika, spinach, lemon and wrapped it up and left it to cook for about 15 minutes and it was actually really good. It cooked nicely and the flavors were really nice. I also made them garlic bread. My stuff turned out delicious :) And I feel like bragging about it to everyone.

After that, we headed to Jonas' place as we promised them about a month ago that we'd come over and make them cookies. They had all the ingredients, well except for the chocolate chips, but everything else. Joelle and I made the cookies.. they helped a bit, but it was a lot of fun because they are a lot of fun and cookies make it so much better hehehe ;) They turned out pretty good. I ate a lot of them, and brought a few home... And I can smell them from a meter away and everytime I get a sniff of chocolate chip cookies I have to stop mysefl from eating them because i'm still so full!

So Tanya's in Swiss for the summer. That's crazy huh?! Yup.