at the beginning of orientation i signed up for an "aussie lunch" where a family picks you up from campus, takes you to their house and cooks lunch for you. free meal, i'm there. so it was on sunday and the family i went with was actually dutch, soo you guys can tell me what country their from.... but they moved here 5 years ago and live on 15 acres in a town called rock valley which is about 30 minutes away from my school. i went with one other american girl and it was a really cool experience. they drive there was extremely pretty. all green hills and farmland. it actually looks a lot like central california. they live at the top of a hill and we drove up their dirt drive way into what looked like the swiss family robinson house. they had an AMAZING deck that wrapped around their entire house and it opened up out over the cliff with a perfect view of the valley. they had a hammock and dinning table outside and we sat out there for a while and ate our meat pies. i never thought i would like anything called a meat pie but it was delicious. she sent us home with some and they were definitely gone within 10 minutes of me being home.
tuesday night my house went out for family dinner at this place called tommy's. it's sort of like a restaurant/bar/nightclub. actually it was a really nice place but it was student night so everything was only $14 dollars. steak, chips(aka french fries) and salad. bomb. it felt so good to have a legitimate meal that was cooked properly and didn't involve me using the microwave. i have decided i am going there twice a month to get a steak. i'm already excited for the next time i go.
these girls came to our room one night and asked my roommate to play netball with them because they wee one short, she didn't want to go and for some reason i just stood up and said i'll go. good thing i know what netball is and how to play. siiiike. as i walked down with them i had to explain that i had never heard of the game before and had no idea what do. it was sooo much fun! i played center, i don't know what that means, i got the whistle blown at me about 7 times, and we lost. haha it was great. its like basketball except there is no backboard and you cant dribble or move if you have the ball. i still don't get it or any of the rules but i had fun and hope they let me play with them again.... hopefully i wasn't the reason we lost.
i'm also on a beach volleyball team. that was legit. we had our first game today and we got the big W. wooo wooo. we won the first game, lost the second and won the third it was actually pretty close and we were all getting into it and it was super fun. everyone was diving for the ball and super competitive, my kind of team. haha there was sand everywhere when we were done but it was soo fun!
i found a site to watch lost on so my life is officially complete. i was absolutely absorbed in it last night and i cant wait to see next weeks. i'm so angry that everyone, tim, marcus and my mom, are a week ahead of me but it was all i though about today. big loser, i know. but i love it heaps.
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They are dutch and are from Denmark...I'm glad you like meat pies. I will make them :) Dad is very excited that you will be eating steak twice a month (she needs to eat beef!), hahaha.
ReplyDeleteTheir house sound like the house I want to retire too. Maybe not so much Australia....but the house and land around it. But it would have to have a lake. Well we are happy you are having so much fun playing sports you normally do not play.
Love and Miss you. Love, Mom & Dad.
I need to change my answer....Dutch people are from Holland. I answered too quickly. They are the ones that wear the pointy wooden clogs, haha.
ReplyDeleteLove, MOM