Interesting....

Sydney is beautiful. I didn't think that a city could be beautiful but Sydney is. The architecture is old and magnificent in some places and new and striking in others. It doesn't feel like Australia there. The majority of people aren't Australians. In fact, there isn't really a majority. Its just a melting pot of different cultures. I could see my self living there for a bit.

My mom was in the country with me this week. It was nice having her here to show her around Townsville. I think she really liked it here. She kept saying, "I'd SO live here!". We went to the aquarium and natural history museum the day after she got here. And the day before she left we went to the Town Common. Its a reserve around a big marsh area, perfect for birding. We saw a lot of cool stuff including a mom and baby sea eagle, two rainbow bee eaters and huge brolgas (heron like birds with red heads).
It was also nice to be in Sydney with her. She took me to see Swan Lake (a ballet) in the Sydney Opera House. It was spectacular! The ballerinas were beautiful and the orchestra was amazing! It was such an experience to have been able to actually see a production in the Opera house. So cool. We went to the Sydney aquarium which was also very cool. Lots of exhibits with lots of very pretty animals (including a platypus!) And of coarse, we shopped. If there are 2 things my mom and I are good at, its shopping...and eating. There were markets all around the city with really cool art and craft work. And chocolate. Mmm. And we didn't seem to have one less then delicious meal.

And then... this gigantic man-eating squid jumped out of the water and I saved everybody in Sydney by killing it with my laser vision I acquired from the zombie leech that sucked blood from my eye ball.
(hows that for interesting?)

All in all, a good time with Mom.

Now its back to school again... writing more papers. It seems really pointless because no matter how much time and work I put in to these papers I can't get higher then a freaking 7/10.
wtf? I thought I was better than that.

It seems that I have settled in nicely here. I finally have that feel of coming "home" to my trailer after a weekend adventure and its nice. I put pictures up of all of you guys and it makes me feel a little less lonely when I am there.

I am looking at my brother's senior picture that my mom brought me. He looks like such a handsome man! It makes me so sad to know that I am missing his "blossoming", so to speak. He has changed so much in the past 6 months into a different person, and I have witnessed none of it. It's like all of a sudden he's grown up. He's graduating high school (which I will miss) and then he's leaving for college.
Where did all this time go? I thought I just left for NAU yesterday.

new pictures up.
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