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Hi everyone! Long time no post! I had gone home on a surprise visit to Ireland just after Christmas, so was radio silent in the lead up to that as I didn’t want to give anything away. I was then radio silent when I was home cause this blog is for everyone at home, so I didn’t make sense for me to write a blog while I was at home with them!
Anyway I am currently back in Perth, just after starting my first week of college. Orientation week was last week, it was good cause I got to skip out on all the long boring meetings and only get to go to all the social events. That was fun! I met some cool people but couldn’t help but compare everybody I met to the people from last semester!
I flew back into Perth Monday night and started orientation week Tuesday morning. Lets just say I hate jet lag! I was awake at all hours, which was good at first cause I didn’t miss the first day. The problem with that is I was ready to pass out by three in the day, slight problem when you are meant to attend a dinner at seven. I had to skip out on dinner due to sheer exhaustion, but got to meet people that morning for breakfast and lunch so it wasn’t too bad!
As I could still go to the social events I was signed up to do the scavenger hunt again. I was brutal last year so I decided why not? Well turns out every team was talking about that girl who did this last semester so that team was going to win and all this stuff. I was famous before I had even shown up! I was put on a team but before it started got swapped into a different team, cause they only had four people while everyone else had six or seven. The team I was put on, I knew one of the people so it wasn’t too bad. The leader of the team was the exact same leader that I had last semester! I was like crap and told him this time round he actually had to help us!(we came dead last, last semester).
So they were meant to have completely changed the scavenger hunt for this semester, but in actual fact they only changed some aspect of it, some of the clues were still the same. Good thing for my team….. if I had been any good last semester! With them told I was useless in charge of a map(which we didn’t get this time round) we set off hoping to place. We were on a roll, with me knowing where most of the places were etc. We had our lunch break and for the second half we just kinda wandered round Perth getting the last few bits done. We thought that we had blazed through things that morning and were obviously in the lead!
On returning to Fremantle we did the few bits there and then headed back to check in. Upon checking in, we were told to make a song, rap or poem. I had been expecting this but we just did a crappy acrostic poem last time so I was out of my element!
Turns out one girl on my team, Maddie, is a culturally genius and she had us singing to A Thousand Miles but changed the words around. We killed it! I swear it was so good and we made everyone laugh(which was intentional, we changed the do do do do do do part to digeri- digeri- doo. GENIUS!) Anyway turns out someone out geniused us, by doing the same thing but to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, so they won the twenty extra points! which we guessed would happen cause they were good!
Turns out we missed placing by like 2 points! We got 186(darn sight better than the measly 98 or something) the people in third got just under 190 or 190, I cant remember. It was good fun and am now in a week of proper college.
This semester I hope will not be as stressed as last, with me being in easy classes, cause why not? Hopefully will update soon but for now just a quick post to tell you all that I am still alive and enjoying being back in Perth(even if it had just been for a week). Oh we have also had to move out of our house due to construction work, this place is located right across from the beach so as you can guess it is going to be a tough ten days!