Friday morning I was up by 5:30. I had to pack my bags for the weekend and catch a connecting ride into Sydney. We started Friday by having class. This is the first time I have seen any of my classmates since leaving for our host stays. I'm not going to lie-I think I lucked out! It has been such a pleasure to be living with my host family and not everyone's experience seems to be as positive as mine.
Some friends were planning on seeing Randy Newman at the Opera House Friday night. We have been allowed $50 to see a performance or use for some other cultural Australian event. I didn't want to spend Friday night by myself waiting for their performance to be over, so I went to the Opera House to see if there were any seats available for "Belong" which was a dance by an indigenous/aboriginal dance theater. The lady said there were 2 available seats, one in the back and one in the 2nd row center. So, of course, I took the seat up front.
I got to the theater, sat down, and waited. As everyone else filed into the theater every seat seemed to be filling except any around me. As a matter of fact, both of the front rows remained completely empty except for myself. Some friends from my class ended up with seats behind me. The show started and I felt like the dancers were going to pull me up on stage. I was like 4 feet from them. After intermission I made some of my friends move up a row so that I didn't have to sit awkwardly by myself anymore. Why in the world did the lady give me the closest and lonliest seat in the house?
Anyways, Saturday morning I had to be up early again so that I could hop on a bus and take a ride. Saturday was wine tasting day. Now, before this, I thought that I was a fan of red wine. I had some pretty good communion wine in my day. I got to the winery and realized wine is actually pretty disgusting! I should've bought the first wine that I tried. It was at First Creek winery and was called Semillon. It's a white wine and it was pretty good. Everything I tasted after that was terrible. And what is with dessert wines? They are disgusting! And sweet wines? Yuck! Why do people drink that?
It's a good thing I took it easy at the wineries. I only took a sip or two from each tasting and poured the rest out. By lunch time, all of the other wine tasters were tispy, loud, and obnoxious. We ended up eating at a pub for lunch, which didn't really help the situation, but at least the group of drunk Americans didn't stick out too sorely.
On Sunday we strolled down to Nelson's Bay at Port Stephens. I wish we could've spent more time there, I loved it. On our whale cruise we saw a couple humpbacks and even a baby or two. But, they didn't do anything spectacular. We also saw some dolphins and seals. I think I liked the seals best. It's so strange to think that they actually live in water and not just in captivity at the zoos.
Friday of this week I fly away north to Cairns. Oh, warm weather, how I miss you! We will scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef, spend a day in the Daintree Rainforest, sit on a real beach, and (hopefully) go horse back riding into the sunset! I'm sure by the end of all of that I will definitely be ready to come back home. I miss my siblings and friends and Alex and I just want to be back in Michigan where (how ironic) it's actually warm and summer time. And I want to see my brother get married and move out of the house ;) Emily and I have a lot of work to do. Home sweet home soon enough.
I don't think this post really makes a lot of sense. I know it's not a very exciting post. But, I'm at school, waiting on the headmaster to wrap up a meeting and drive me to my home. Oh yeah, I did end up missing my host family this weekend. It was good to see Rosie in the car when I got picked up. I like them here.
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