March 16th- April 5th

Well I’m behind… way behind. However, without the weekend travels, I haven’t had anything too exciting to right about. Not that life in Australia has gotten dull, but overall it has been repetitive; in only the best way. The past few weeks have been filled with coffee mornings, surf sessions, afternoon naps, and late nights. The surf has been consistently big and really fun.

            School work is beginning to come up… and fast! I have some papers that I need to tend to, but due to my new obsession with Six Feet Under, they’ll have to wait. It is not Australian or even current. Six Feet Under was introduced in the States in 2001 and ran until 2005, but for me: 2009. I’ve yet to get too immersed in a new book and I think the show is to blame.

I need to spend some time in the library working on my research papers, but I need to spend more time outside… living. I’m into my final month in Australia now, and I do not like it one bit. School is winding down. I am beginning to have less and less class as the weeks continue.

            The feeling of burning flesh in my lower back along the left side of my spine is beginning to subside, although I cannot tell if that is because I have been eating Advil Liquid Gels like candy. After a fall at the local Beer Garden last weekend, I am finally able to move about, for the most part, freely and without dying. The crowd went wild went the local cover band, Punchline, began jamming the likes of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” I made a quick appearance before being in the wrong place at the wrong time and sequentially lifted up by my comrades. 

The MRI went well the other morning. I was late, but my spot remained open. I was told to drop my “tweeds” and in a mistaken translation process dropped it all. I was told to put my “undies” back on the chuckling middle aged woman who waited on me. In between moments of the horrendous loud sounds bouncing my bones and muscles around to make an image and my aching back twitching out of traditional despair, I actually found the process quite relaxing.

The cyclone has left the past week continuously overcast and the ground saturated. All the time indoors has led to some productive studying and proceedings in Six Feet Under.

I have a couple finals ahead this week, some papers the following, and a couple tests there after. Then el FIN.

As most of my friends here aren’t travelling to quite the extent that I am… Forgetting about my solo escapades of Asia, New Zealand, and Pacific islands…I am growing increasingly more excited to see familiar faces back home. I think I’ll be ready for some green money, common accents, and cheap beer by the time I reach home; for a little while anyway.