Finally. O-Week is done and here comes SCHOOL!

The last days of O-week were full of formals and food. I wore my token green dress for the "Boat Cruise" formal which was held at a venue that was not water bound. Apparently, Christ College is forbidden from ever hosting a party on an actual boat. Hm. Go figure.

The boat tour was very fun. I met tons of Old boys and girls and mingled. Some boys were given extra fresher points for parading around the pub stark naked...the traditional nudie run. I was never so surprised in my life. One second, I was dancing to some very bad 80's music, and the next thing I knew, there were 30 naked freshers dancing along with me. Thankfully, the O-week photographer was kind enough to film the whole extravaganza. Translation: this footage will be replayed at the end of the year :)

After the boat cruise, we had a final exam session (the last time the lifers could publicly humiliate the freshers) and then concluded O-week with a bbq hosted and cooked by our lovely torturous lifer leaders. The rest of that Sunday was spent searching for lecture halls and for ice cream. Me and 4 other Americans decided that Maccers (McDonalds) was the closest area for the tasty treat and we each consumed the greatest McFlurries known to man.

The following day, today, was OUR FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!! YAY!! I had two different lectures for Social Psychology. It's funny. It took me almost 3 years and trip to Tasmania to feel like I was actually at a real University. My class is in a huge lecture hall with a Professor at the front of the class and literally just lectures us. There are no participation points and essentially, there is one major exam and two papers. Yea, yea, I'm sure that class will be super hard and whatever, but I have to say, Whitman really kicks your butt with all the seminar style classes. Perhaps I will like this whole stereotypical classroom experience thing.

I finished my lectures and met up with my friends Tess, Bobby, Corey and Maddy. We started researching where the cheapest places during our Easter break to travel are and I think we decided Asia is actually way cheaper than flying to New Zealand. Our final choices are Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. I think Thailand may be a winner because it has elephants...we are an easy bunch to impress.

After our travel search, it started pouring. So naturally, we sought cover in the library but then gave up and started hiking up the mountain. I concluded my day with a DELICIOUS ice cream adventure with Jenn and Mardi. We found a place right by the Art building that is way better than McDonalds. The only problem is that it's super far away. I guess that's better because then we work off everything that we ate but still, it is far.

Tomorrow I have no class so I think Im going to do my social psych reading and take a treck down to the Art Building. It was really nice talking to you all on skype so hopefully we can do that soon. Sorry I had to cut off our convo Ben, I had psych. My professor talks slower than paint dries so I could have probably afforded to be a little bit later to class. Oh well. Until next time!