January 18, 2009

Hey all! Sorry for not updating this until now. But I wasn’t able to get internet until today. I arrived in Australia Friday morning at about 2:30am my leaders told me to just sleep in and not go to class. But I only got 3 hours of sleep that night so I decided I was going to go anyway. And I am so glad I did! My first lecture experience was amazing! My speaker had me hooked the entire time! He talked about the character of God. I really enjoyed it a lot. After class my leader and I went out to go play some football. While I was doing that I managed to break my thumb! If you know me well enough that’s no surprise! Haha. After that me and 3 others went to the city just to get some things for school, while we were there, there was a street performer and me and Dan who is from England got chosen to be a volunteer. What we had to do was first copy everything he did. From moving body parts to screaming at the top of our lungs. Then we had to hold a girl who was also a volunteer then we had to kiss her on the cheek! Yes I know! My first day in Australia I kissed an Australian! I had no choice! Lol Next we had to stand facing each other with our arms crossed and Bruce (the performer) ran and jump up onto our arms and stood on us. While he was standing on us he juggled 15 inch knifes. He was good! Yesterday was Saturday and the whole group went to Fremantle. The leaders just wanted to show us how to get there so we could go anytime we want. Once we got there we all split up and went and did our own thing. While we were walking around the city, guess who we saw… the street performer! And JB a guy I was with got chosen to be a volunteer. It was pretty funny and Bruce recognized me and made a few jokes. Later on Josh who is my fellow American from Wisconsin and I bought a boomerang and decided to try it out. The first few throws were ugly! But after a little while I started to get the hang of it! The boomerang went about 60-70 feet. And occasionally came right back to us! It was a lot of fun! that’s about all that has happened here so far. The weather is very hot! Today it is about 125 degrees. This year is a record breaking summer for hot weather. And its not close to being done yet. J thanks for checking out my blog!

Jordan