Updates :)

Hey! so since I wrote that first post school has really gotten started and so have all the normal activities. I signed up for social soccer, which is basically intramural, but here you can sign up as an individual and then they create the teams for you- perfect to meet new people. So I'm on team TNT and last week we dominated, the other team only got it past half field like twice. I'm also doing ultimate frisbee which is every wednesday for about two hours. The first two weeks was just learning how to throw and catch and scrimmaging and then this past week we got split up into teams that we will be on the rest of the semester and each week we will play another team. My captain's team has one the championship every semester for the past four semesters, but no pressure! Also, right now I'm playing Fisher Shield basketball. Fisher Shield is a competition every year between all of the colleges. Last year GR won so we actually have the Fisher Shield this year, but we have to defend the title! The games are next week so we are practicing hard to get ready. Luckily my body seams to be getting used to the hear or there is no way I would be able to handle all these sports!

Last weekend I started my scuba dive certification at Magnetic Island with Reef Safari. We just did theory (yep we have a textbook) and pool skills and so hopefully this upcoming week I will be able to go back and finish the course. I just have to do four ocean dives and I will be certified to dive anywhere in the world to 18m. Our class was very multi-cultural- the two instructors were from Austria and Scotland and there were 3 Norwegian girls, a guy from Denmark, and a guy and a girl from England in addition to the three of us from the US. I was supposed to finish my certification this weekend but I'm not going to be able to because we have a cyclone heading towards us (think Florida during hurricane season) and it's just not a good time to be scuba diving.

So instead I'm about to run to a retreat with the Red Frogs, also on Magnetic Island we are just doing different activities. Red Frogs are like a christian group here in australia that go to all the UniClub parties and college parties and just hang-out and bring water and donuts and red candy frogs (hence the name). SO this weekend they are having a young adults retreat through the church that they are associated with and so I figured I would check it out!