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So the first week of classes is almost over with, only two more to go for me, and I am surviving.  Taking classes a month before we normally would is a hard feeling to shake off and get back into the swing of things.  The weirdest feeling though is having to be in school a full month before the college football season starts.  No one should ever have to start their college classes without having a football game to watch within the first couple of weekends.  Which is one reason the majority of Notre Dame kids here bought tickets for the Aussie Rules Football game this weekend between the West Coast Eagles and Frematle Dockers.  This game is a huge rivalry game here, from what we picked up on, and so we got our tickets pretty early.  For those of you that have never seen anything regarding A.R.F. here is a YouTube video with some pretty spectacular plays from the 2008 season.  I am pretty excited to go and see Australia's favorite game live. 

Since not much exciting has gone on since my last post and tyring not to bore you with just the events of our days, I will try and provide some flavor of Australia that I have picked up so far.  One of the biggest differences that I have noticed, since I partake in this action a lot, between the US and Australia is that Australians do not wear hats hardly at all.  At least not baseball style hats.  If anything they wear these overlarge stocking caps that hang off the back of their head not unlike this.  I feel as though the local population can automatically pick me out as an American when I wear my hat.  I will admit, however, that I do not wear a hat as often now that I lost old ASU. 

Despite being here during winter and their "wet season" it hardly rains as much as I expected it too.  Being from a temperate climate were it can deluge for hours at a time (ex. I was informed this morning 7" of rain in 1 hour in Milwaukee yesterday) I thought it would be a bit more here. It did not rain at all during orientation week, during which the weather was beautiful, and now it has rained almost every day but only for about 5 minutes at a time randomly throughout the day. 

My last topic I am going to comment on before I have to run to class in ten minutes is the file sharing network at Thomas More College is awesome. We finally got it set up once all the full time students came back and gave us the correct IP address and everything.  I have downloaded (legally, since I never download illegally) about 30 movies so far and some music.  I am planning on getting a ton more but it is a decent start. If anyone wants some music and can wait til december let me know what you want and I can probably get it for you.  I am currently in the market of trying to find some good Australian bands that haven't made it to America yet.