How bout' that flight in huh? Guess that's why they call it the land down unda

So my plane ride was awesome! there were TVs in the backs of all the chairs with good movies, episodes of tons of TV shows, strange little video games, and even a bunch of good CDs. I watched come random TV shows, Due Date, and an episode of American Dad (it wasn't that good), Then i started getting tired. I made myself a playlist of Mumford and Sons, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Beetles, and a few others. No big deal. I was able to fall asleep so I missed most of my playlist, but it wasn't exactly good sleep. A chair, towl sized blanket, and a pillow the size of a loaf of bread don't exactly lead to a good night's rest. I landed in Sydney at 6am on the 15th of February. This is cool and all, except I left America on the 13th... No Valentine's Day for me. Anyway, it took about two hours to finally get through everything and head out. There were about nine of us in the van headed to Wollongong. There was a guy from Colorado, a girl from California, a guy from Germany (21 hour flight), and another guy from someplace I can't remember... but his flight had some troubles and took over 30 hours!!! Most of the poeple in the van were staying in other housing places, but the guy (Robert) from Germany was living in Weerona with me.
     When we got here we signed in and were given a few packets of information. We were led to our rooms. Mine is C1.01, it's in the C building, on the 1st floor, room 1. I put my stuff in my room and was instantly led to the Dining Hall for a quick bite to eat. From there I was led into the TV room (self-explanitory) for the start of a scavenger hunt. I am on the red team and our leader is Stuart (he's from London) we were given a list of things to search for and get pictures of. So now, I've been in Ausrtalia for a total of 3 hours and am out walking the streets with 5 people I just met, can't remember their names (now I know a couple Justin, Grace, Alex, Riley, and Lizy I think. She's from London), and need to look for stuff I've never heard of. We went to the beach and people were taking of their clothes, we went to Maccas (McDonalds) and borrowed a random person's car, ate a happy meal in in under a minute, ate an entire lemon (peel and all), went to Wullys [Woolworths (grocery store)] and bought a single grape, had to buy beer for some wise men (rugby players) in order to hear a story and learn the moral (wear protection during sex), get a tatoo or piercing, go to a sex shop, thrift store, and mall, Catch Wally (Where is Waldo), sing on a stage, serenade a stranger, find a stick, shine someones shoes, do a good deed, get apiggy back ride from a buisness man, get 30 signitures on a petition we made up, .... you get the point. We went for a few hours and then met in the mall. Everyone split up from there and headed random directions... I wanted to go back to the dorms but had no idea where to go. I started following people in the direction I thought was home, and that's when I met Ashley. Ashley (Wisconson) is one of the other students that's going with ciee to study  here. I've been hanging out with her lately and another girl named Lauren (Australia).
     When we got back to the school I went to my room and unpacked. I hadn't brought any sheets or blankets because I thought that they were going to provide me with them... There weren't any in the room, so I guess it's a good thing that I stole the blanket from the airplane. Everything fit in my closet really nicely, and my bed barely fits my body. It all works out though. The halls are co-ed and so are the bathrooms... a little strange, but I haven't had any awkward encounters yet so whatever. That night we went on a Pub Crawl. This just mean we all went to four different pubs (bars/clubs) together. We all got matching pink shirts and got onto one of two busses. We went to one bar and people started going crazy. The drinking age here is 18 soooooo everyone started getting crazy. I am not real big on the whole drinking thing, so I just went and sat at one of the talbles and startd watching some confusing sport that I thought was rugby. Turns out it's the AFL (Australian Football League). The rules are similar to rugby and soccer, but there are a bunch of other ones that make it a little more confusing. Ashley and Lauren were sitting with me and another friend Joe (Outback Australia). They were able to explain the main idea so I kinda get it. I also learned that the rugby I know of is Union rugby not League rugby. They are slightly diferent but League is the main one played out here. This was all at the first pub. After 2 hours here, we went to the next one. I was beginning to feel the effect of my poor sleep on the plane. It was about 10:00 now and I was crashing. I pushed through my weariness and the random people trying to get me to dance at pub number two. I was talking to Ashley, Lauren, Joe, and Kieren (Australia) while here and just hanging out. While we were here some girl dropped her drink, shattering her glass and cutting her foot. There were shards of glass and blood all over the ground. This was weird cuz, it took the owners like 30 minutes to come clean it up. Eventually they did and we moved on.
    The third pub we went to was more of just a bar. We sat outside and talked to a few more random people and watched everyone else, who was totally wasted, stumble around hitting on each other. I think I got a water at this pub... I was just watching people waiting for something funny to happen. I was disappointed. We left for the fourth pub and I was about to crash. This place was by far the coolest, but no one was in a state at which they could realize this. The music was super loud, the base shook the seats, the lighting effects were cool, and they had a fog machine! It was pretty fun and super loud, but I still almost fell asleep. The bartender came over and kicked my footrest to wake me up. I met a bunch of random leaders during this event cuz I was sitting on the side for most of it. Oh ya, at this last pub there was a guy and a girl making out for at least 30 minutes.... I would check up on them every once in a while and they were still going strong. The only reason they stopped is cuz we were leaving.
     When we got back I brushed my teeth and went right to sleep. On my mattress with no sheets. With the blanket I took from the plane. With no clock. This was all day one and I'm happy to have experienced it. I'll try to keep everyone posted on what's going on, but I'm sure that after this week, there won't be a lot of interesting stuff going on. That I know of...