And So It Begins

Heres a brief summary of the past couple days before I have to head off to the first day of classes.  Friday night was a bunch of fun as a large group of us took over a bus and headed downtown to a bar called The Mustang which was pretty nice. It had a live band that had a soft spot in their hearts for Michael Jackson, as well as a lot of tvs so we could watch some Aussie rules football if we didn't feel like dancing. After being their a while we then left and headed over to a club called Paramount.  It was a two level establishment with another live band, though not as good as the Mustang's, and bar on the bottom level and the actual club part on the upper level.  This was the first club I had ever been to and it was pretty awesome as far as I could tell.  Plenty of strobe lights, other lights going crazy, techno music, and dancing.  Throughout the night we met up with some other Notre Dame kids from the Fremantle program that decided to come to the city for the night who were pretty cool. Hopefully I will get a chance to see them again while I'm here.  

Saturday was mostly spent back at Cottesloe beach swimming in the frigid winter waters of the Indian Ocean and watching Ocean's 11 that night. Yesterday consisted of going and finding my classroom buildings in the morning, then going into the city again in the afternoon to pick a couple things up that I needed, and the day was capped off by having my mind blown away by the movie Inception.  Most of the other ND kids had already gone to see it earlier in the week, but we managed to scrape together a couple people to enjoy the best movie experience I have had in a while.

Here are some random observations/conclusions so far:

1) Notre Dame "Darting" is NOT that bad 

(For those who don't know darting is our class registration system).  The class registration system here is very complex in trying to figure out and you are not even guaranteed the timeslots you want.  You have to rank preferences of the class times you want for each lecture and tutorial and if you don't get your first choice, schedule clashes will most likely happen. I got lucky and got all my first preferences but a lot of people didn't.

2) Australians love these kind of trucks for some reason. They are all over the place.

3) They call anything that we would call garbage "rubbish".  This is one of my favorite things so far. I can't really explain it except that I seem to have an affinity for the word rubbish and think its a much cooler word than garbage.

4) The totem should fall down at the end since he had already spun it in that level before.

5) The grass never seems to grow here. It is almost like walking on a golfing fairway since it is very short.

Well I am now off to my first day of classes, which is why I am mostly here I guess.  It should be an interesting time hopefully.  I am taking Behavioral Psychology, Vertebrate Zoology, Popular Music and Culture, Human Reproductive Biology, and the one I am most excited for: Psychosocial Aspects of Exercise Science.