studying is the worst way to spend my last 3 weeks in australia.

Australia, you've been good to me. Uni, you have ruined the goodness that Australia has provided.

June 2 was the last day of class for me. My first exam is on Thursday, the 17th. What did I do between these two dates? Well you know the Straddie vacation, but other than that it has been spent "studying". Never in the history of college have I ever had this much time devoted to study and preparation for exams. My education has failed in preparing me to be a studious studier for weeks on end. I just can't do it! So that means a lot of study breaks including catching up on some Gilmore Girls a random tim tam run and chatting with friends.



One person I was able to catch up with for the first time since I have been in Australia is the long lost exchange student Rachel! We met years ago when she came from Australia and lived with my neighbors to study at my high school for a semester. We haven't spoken in years for real, but we needed to make a get together happen because how often are you in Australia? I wanted to do something really Australian and I mean SO Australian because I was actually with one. Soo....we went lawn bowling.



Before you get really excited, let me just explain that lawn bowling is a more or less old people's sport that has strong similarities to Bocce ball. Let me just say that it is a great place for older fellas to come out and socialize while drinking a beer but not really a young person's game or hangout. But I had wanted to do this ever since I saw a very Australian film called Crackerjack.




Rachel and I showed up and didn't know what we had gotten ourselves into. She was probably thanking me for dragging her to a ridiculous retirement home game that she wasn't planning on joining for another 60 years. But to both of our amazement, we had a fantastic time with the members of the bowls club who were eager to teach us the game and who were surprisingly non-gray haired. I had the advantage because my team were professionals. They had actually played another club earlier that day and had won. Rach was stuck with two young blokes who were not particularly gifted. Beginners luck was on both of our sides though and we held our own very well.

Nothing like a bunch of people chatting, having a good round of bowls and being on the winning team to break up a long 3 weeks of studying.