longest week yet

This is a beautiful snorkeling area! Just one of the many beaches on rotto!!

This is yet another beach with my bike buddies.

Leah, myself, Alli, and Lacey

Our life seems to be pretty good :)

Those really ugly quokkas. I did not like them.

Yes, it was pretty cloudy that day, but i definitely recieved some great tan lines from my helmet straps and my lovely tank top.

so it is finally friday of possibly the longest week of the trip and not only is it friday but it is just after 4:30 which means it is finally the weekend for me. my roomate megan and my friend heather are napping in my room while the rest of the house seeems to be serenly sleeping, as i sit here typing away my life. since i last updated you all on my life i have had some great adventures. i told you i was going camping at rottnest island in my last post and well we did just that. last friday came and we were all ready for that.

we left on the ferry over to rotto (as the locals call it) just in time for the sunset. we got there with a few girls waiting for us to escort us back to our campsite. there are no cars and really no lights so we used our flashlights and a sense of direction and got back well. along our way we met some nice new animal friends call the quokka, little rat like kangaroo jumping animals that only live on rotto and they just roam around. THEY ARE GROSS. i did not like them AT ALL. they were fearless also which sucked. the camping experience was lets just say not like my usual ones and it was a rough night to say the least. but the good news was it was finally morning for what ended up being a REALLY long night of tossing and turning.

our day started with renting bikes and eating some breakfast that we brought along. bikes are pretty much a necessity on this island and so we were off on our adventure. we decided to ride around the entire island, which took some longer than others depending on if they stopped at the beautiful beaches, but my friend alli and i, once we got started we were more than ready to make our way back. the whole trip ended up being about 15 miles long and man was it hard. the longest bike ride i have ever done...reminding you it was a one speed bike and there were many hills. oo such fun times. but we were done and we were ready to get back home to cleos and shower and sleep well. we took the ferries back and all had a little sleep. cleos was waiting for us just how we left her and it was fabulous to be back

the rest of the week was pretty miserable. we had a ten page paper due for our australian history course that was due thursday. our house looked like a library with the amount of books floating around. i officially started monday finishing pretty late wendesday night, without getting to celebrate st pattys day, but i was alright. thursday morning was full of revisions and footnoting and i finally turned it in feeling so relieved with a bit of a celebreation thursday night though.

i am just glad the week is over, but that means its just getting closer to when all the other papers are due, and i just do not want that time to get AT ALL. tomorrow is a wine, chocolate, and cheese tour and i am so excited!! we all deserve a little bit of a break! sunday though i am sure its back to work. just a couple more weeks till spring break (mid-semester break or even essay preparation week they call it because of all the essays due afterwards) whatever you want to call it, its coming soon i am so happy! but till next week hope everyone is good back home!
i miss you all a lot! come visit! this place is incredible!! love you!