Rebas' Adventure in Ozzieland

Well, it has been a full week. I last weekend I went on the international student tour of Perth. it was fun. We did the chocolate "factory" (it is called a factory, but they don't make chocolate, they make candy out of chocolate) and a winery. Now these two things I had already done with the Rowbottoms, but then we went on to a wildlife preserve where I pet kangaroos and Koalas and had my picture taken with a wombat. I saw Tasmanian devils and touched a stump-tail lizard. Then we went to an aquarium. The aquarium was extra, so as we are leaving the wildlife preserve, the leaders tell everyone on the bus that those who signed up for the aquarium should meet outside the bus when we get there and everybody else should go to the shopping center for lunch. What about us? don't we get lunch? We did eventually, luckily my experience in these matters came in handy as I had packed myself water and granola bars, so I was able to enjoy the sea life without a rumbling stomach. after this full day I did not go home, but went straight to a quiz night being but on by a friend of a friend. Very fun, I helped my team come in 4th (out of 8) by being able to determine the number of US states that start with the letter N (the answer is 8). I was so tired I took it easy on Sunday after church, but a funny thing happened at church... I was on worship team this week and one of the songs we were singing was a hymn (that for the life of me I can't think of name of right now) that took a lot breath to sing each line and there was no natural rest so you just had to take in a big breath and sing it. I had been practicing this because on the 4th verse we were going to sing a cappella. I got all ready to sing and took in a huge breath when I heard what sounded like the whole church taking a huge breath with me. it turned out that the mic was not working and kept going quiet and then going loud all of a sudden and it had decided to go loud just as I took my huge breath. But at the moment I thought that the church had all taken a comically big breath with me, I started to laugh. I was able to keep it in, but I couldn't sing. I just stood up there and laughed into my sleeve until the song was over. Luckily Sue was with me and she lead the singing.__________This week I started my new job. On Wednesday I met up with my prof, Hannah, and she ran the first tutorial (my roommate shortens this to tut, but I just can't do that with a straight face) and then Hannah left and I ran the second two. It was fun, I just had to explain the assignments and they did them. Hannah has set this time for little projects so I won't be teaching so much as guiding. In the last class, there are 4 masters by course work students, this was a little awkward because I met two of them in the lab the next day and we were all students, but on Wednesdays I am the tutor, Awkward!___________this weekend we couldn't get the room we usually have church in at Uni so we met up with the people in our bible studies at different houses and had pot lucks. however they weren't called pot lucks (although people were familiar with the term when I said it). The guy hosting ours called it a "bring and share" and most people seemed to not call it anything just using the phrase, "everyone bring something to share for lunch". Then we went on a bush walk (aka hike) it was fun and as we walked we saw right next to the trail a stump-tail lizard, just like I had seen at the preserve! How cool is that? Until next time, bye! PS, I will try to post my pictures of the wildlife soon.