Rebas' Adventure in Ozzieland

Well, it has been a while since I have written. Nothing blog-worthy has really happened, just school, church, friend, home, etc. School is going well; at this point I am focusing on getting my masters in the next 13 months, and will leave the grandiose dreams of a PhD until after I have achieved that degree. It has been crazy hot and humid here the last few weeks. Everyone keeps telling how unusually it is to have humidity here, like Arizona “it’s a dry heat”. So everyone has been annoyed by the heavy stickiness that is our air. I keep telling everyone that you can’t beat the Northwest US for air, l love the air back home! So sweet! So fresh! Ahhh. I have found that now that I have been here a year (next week it is a year exactly) I am more excited by American stuff and things that remind me of home. I am not really homesick, but I got very happy when I found root beer and made a float. I had not realized that I had gone a whole year without one. They have floats here; known as spiders, made with other soda pops, but no one really drinks root beer. When I shared it with my friends, they told me they had heard of it and that is wash anise flavoured (black liquorice) I had never thought about what flavour root beer was before. They were right! It has other flavours as well, but if you close your eyes, think about liquorice and drink some root beer, you can so taste it!___________ the new term at Uni has started so tons of undergrads have taken over the campus again, I had gotten quite used to the quite of summer, I try and be nice and stop and give confused people help with finding the building they can’t find, trouble is, I only go to my side of campus and am not that good with the rest of it. Our church is seeing some new students come and we are all trying to be very welcoming and all that.__________the new houses and the new housemate are good. The three of us our getting along well and there is no drama. A very big plus with housemates (you here such horror stories!). Yet again, I have two house mates that don’t watch movies or read for fun. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It just means I get rather blank looks when I quote a movie during conversation. Oh well, I have other friends who fill this void. Tim and Leoni are some of those; I usually have dinner at their place once a week, such a fun time. We just relax, have dinner, and maybe watch TV or talk. It is defiantly a place a fell at home it and is a very nice thing to have so far from my family.___________ I was going to end this with something funny and amusing, but nothing is coming to mind...think, think, think...what do call a women who has one leg shorter than the other? Eileen (I lean, get it?). Ok, bye!