I'm alive!

It is hard to explain how much I am loving Victoria (the Canadian one hehe) - Just like explaining the view when you haven't seen it for yourself! I have met some unbelievable people and already am finding it hard to say goodbye even though I have 4 months left!!! I am living in res on the "international" floor although we have quiet a few Canadians who are happy to show us around and pick on us Aussies for our sayings (*cough cough* Hayley *cough cough*)! - Especially me, apparently I sound like the most bogan Aussie.. this seems funny when they don't know the term bogan and needed us to teach it to them... but now they are quite happy to use it! Hayley (also known as Hick Hayley... more to come on the line dancing Hayley..) looked up the term and apparently it means "Someone who lacks education and grammer.. otherwise known as WHITE TRASH" THANKS GIRLS!! But yes it is very funny and makes me enjoy my time even more! So we have been teaching them Australian while they have been teaching us Canadian.. "I am like getting quite good now eh!" We already have regular patterns such as me getting up at 7 each day to go for a power walk down by the bay and marina with Karl - A Canadian on my floor. We also have regular meeting times for tea (in their case dinner - they are a bit confused why we drink tea at the same time every night!). We start res soccer soon and our whole floor has a team so were quite the social bunch!!! We also joined the gym and signed up for weekly hip-hop classes so watch out when we hit the dance floor back home guys! We are quite the family! Although its weird been on res with people just outta high school - most are 17 or 18 and of course legal drinking age is 19 here so its like living with a bunch of 16 year olds back home who have just discovered some freedom and alcohol! - Not our floor though, ours is much much better and more mature like! And to be honest - which most of my friends back home will agree with me, most of the first years here are sadly more mature than me! hehe Uni has just gone back and classes seem ok so far.. bit of dramas with Canadian teachers not wanting non-Canadian students in their classes (including myself) so I have come across my first main hurdle - trying to organize a new unit to take which fits in my my degree back home!! Back when I stand back and look at it in the scheme of things things couldn't be better. Its hard trying to write negative things when there is so much more than makes up for it. I could see myself here for a lot longer than what I am and the people have made it like that! Its hard knowing what to write in these posts as there is too much that I want to tell but this is just a post to let everyone know IM STILL ALIVE!! I'm sure more will come but right now the computer lab is closing!!