Adrenaline Junkie

Apparently, I am not updating often enough, so here is a long awaited new entry. I have been so delayed because I was gone on the greatest break trip ever for the past 9 days (March 21-30). The trip was called One Fish Two Fish; basically, I did anything anyone would want to do up the east coast of Australia in Queensland, the state above New South Wales. I could write pages and pages about how amazing it was, but instead I'll just provide a brief recap of all the activities: Australia Zoo - Steve Irwin's zoo, 4x4ing on Fraser Island - largest sand island in the world, ocean rafting to Whitehaven beach, hanging out & partying on an island in the Whitsundays, yachting the Whitsundays, white water rafting the Tully River, skydiving, bungy jumping, scuba diving and snorkelling the Great Barrier Reef, and cliff jumping in World Heritage rainforest. It was intense and draining (I caught a major cold), but the best trip I've ever taken.

Best day of my life (skydiving at sunset followed by bungy jumping less than 5 hours later):


Some Highlights:




In other news, classes are pretty much the same as at home. It's really hard to judge them at this stage because we've only had 3 weeks of classes out of 12. My Aboriginal Australia class will probably be my favorite, and I'm also enjoying Psycholinguistics (which, with every class, is making me more and more sure that I want to do research in language acquistion as a profession). I only have one real final in my Learning class, so I'm hoping it ends up being scheduled at the beginning or at the end of the exam period so I can travel to New Zealand, as time and money allow.

After some searching around, I think I've found a rental for the time I'll be in DC this summer. It's not super close to campus and it's not super cheap, but it could be worse and it's the only place that has a start lease date in July.