It is currently 9:34 pm on Sunday night and I am totally burnt out and unable to do anymore school work so I figured I would blog some. I am in this state because I woke up this morning at 3:15 am in order to watch the opening game of the Notre Dame football season against Purdue. Most of our group gathered in the Senior Common Room at Tommy and hooked up a Slingbox to Derek's computer in order to watch the game. A slingbox is this cool device that Alan had configured to his television back home and allow us to stream whatever the tv was on back in Texas over the internet to the computer hooked up to the TV. Needless to say it was awesome. Not even close to as much fun as game days back in The Bend but still entertaining. There were basically two camps of people: one that stayed up all night as well as went out before so they were sufficiently intoxicated throughout the game and those that went to bed at 10 pm and got five hours of sleep before waking up. Bet you can't guess which one I was in at all. Not that is was good sleep with everyone yelling in the halls of the dorm throughout the night but it was still some sleep. I chose just to eat breakfast and start my day after the game instead of going back to bed like most did. Since I have a bunch to do these next two weeks, I am glad of the decision I made. I took the opportunity to do some bio studying in the morning and working on a sports psychology project in the afternoon, as well as go on a walk, mass, dinner, more work, and here I am....eyes closing.
I was able to fall asleep at 10 last night because of the awesome time I had that day however. A group of 17 of us ventured out to John Forrest National Park at 10 am for the day. We hopped on a bus, a train, and then another bus out to the park. All that public transport cost about $2.50 roughly. Saving money, awesome. For the rest of the day we hiked all around the park starting with hiking to the visitor centre. We had to walk through the official entrance where normally cars just normally enter and got charged as two large vehicles. We then proceed to hike to Hovea Falls, which despite its promising name, was not a raging river waterfall but more a dried up, gradual decent of the resulting stream. This provided great rock bed that would normally be covered with water and our spot for lunch. Throughout the day we lost part of our group until we were down to nine. After climbing up the first of many boulders on the day, our group moved on to the Eagle View Trail. We took this trail for several kms, part of the way with the trail winding between bush on both sides. Then up a valley side to a lookout of the whole park with the city of Perth in the distance. Made out way back to the road eventually (after what seemed like hiking uphill the whole time) and took the bus back to the city where I got my first taste of Mexican food since I've been here which was much welcome. All this was made possible by the careful planning of Kelly, the girl I found myself on a date with the previous evening at a Vietnamese restaurant, which was delicious.
Anyway in Australia its Father's Day today to I just wanted to give a shout out to Randy Rehberg for being the best dad a kid could want. Doing so much for all of us Rehbergs all the time, I just wanted to say he deserves a ton of credit for me being who I am today. Don't let the flamingo-filled fruit bowl fool you. (By the way it
was Father's Day when I started this I just didn't post it last night)
It is currently 9:34 pm on Sunday night and I am totally burnt out and unable to do anymore school work so I figured I would blog some. I am in this state because I woke up this morning at 3:15 am in order to watch the opening game of the Notre Dame football season against Purdue. Most of our group gathered in the Senior Common Room at Tommy and hooked up a Slingbox to Derek's computer in order to watch the game. A slingbox is this cool device that Alan had configured to his television back home and allow us to stream whatever the tv was on back in Texas over the internet to the computer hooked up to the TV. Needless to say it was awesome. Not even close to as much fun as game days back in The Bend but still entertaining. There were basically two camps of people: one that stayed up all night as well as went out before so they were sufficiently intoxicated throughout the game and those that went to bed at 10 pm and got five hours of sleep before waking up. Bet you can't guess which one I was in at all. Not that is was good sleep with everyone yelling in the halls of the dorm throughout the night but it was still some sleep. I chose just to eat breakfast and start my day after the game instead of going back to bed like most did. Since I have a bunch to do these next two weeks, I am glad of the decision I made. I took the opportunity to do some bio studying in the morning and working on a sports psychology project in the afternoon, as well as go on a walk, mass, dinner, more work, and here I am....eyes closing.
I was able to fall asleep at 10 last night because of the awesome time I had that day however. A group of 17 of us ventured out to John Forrest National Park at 10 am for the day. We hopped on a bus, a train, and then another bus out to the park. All that public transport cost about $2.50 roughly. Saving money, awesome. For the rest of the day we hiked all around the park starting with hiking to the visitor centre. We had to walk through the official entrance where normally cars just normally enter and got charged as two large vehicles. We then proceed to hike to Hovea Falls, which despite its promising name, was not a raging river waterfall but more a dried up, gradual decent of the resulting stream. This provided great rock bed that would normally be covered with water and our spot for lunch. Throughout the day we lost part of our group until we were down to nine. After climbing up the first of many boulders on the day, our group moved on to the Eagle View Trail. We took this trail for several kms, part of the way with the trail winding between bush on both sides. Then up a valley side to a lookout of the whole park with the city of Perth in the distance. Made out way back to the road eventually (after what seemed like hiking uphill the whole time) and took the bus back to the city where I got my first taste of Mexican food since I've been here which was much welcome. All this was made possible by the careful planning of Kelly, the girl I found myself on a date with the previous evening at a Vietnamese restaurant, which was delicious. 
Anyway in Australia its Father's Day today to I just wanted to give a shout out to Randy Rehberg for being the best dad a kid could want. Doing so much for all of us Rehbergs all the time, I just wanted to say he deserves a ton of credit for me being who I am today. Don't let the flamingo-filled fruit bowl fool you. (By the way it was Father's Day when I started this I just didn't post it last night)
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