July 26

Got up, ate some breakfast and then decided to head to school a few hours early and do a couple things before my class. As I was walking there, Jillian texts me and invites me to Guzman y Gomez with Lina. Too bad I just ate. But I went anyway, because I wanted to catch up with them and wasn’t doing anything better. So, I met them at the McDonalds in Milton and Lina picked me up and we went over to eat. I didn’t order anything but it was nice to talk to them and hear about their lives. It seems so weird that we were once super close and knew everything there was to know. Now, it feels so distant. Very sad. Anyway, then Lina was nice enough to drop me off at campus, and I still had a couple hours to kill before class, so I downloaded some articles.. My class started at 4pm, and it was weird being in a different major. Many people knew each other, I had to explain to every new person I met that I was just taking the class as an elective. I sat between a girl from Iran and a girl from Pakistan. Pretty crazy. The class seems good and I like the teacher. I asked a few questions. I will definitely attend the lectures in addition to reading the material because it is a good review of what is important. The Education classes seem easy, but I shouldn’t judge, I’m not exactly taking the most difficult curriculum either. On the way home, I met a guy from Afghanistan. He has a background in Public Health and is studying Public Policy here at UQ. He hopes to take the information back to his country and make it a better place. Sounds really inspirational! I felt a little guilty saying, hi, I’m from the US. My people bombed your people. Sorry about that! =( Oh well, then I made some dinner and watched the 9 o’clock movie – Prince of Persia. Then, bed. Or at least I tried. But I couldn’t go to sleep until around 5:30am! Ugh. This is really bad.

Same roommates – the Irish Trio. But it felt like I had the room to myself because they didn’t stumble in until 5am!