Walks Around, Skin Cancer and Quirkies

Guden Tag.

I turned off my alarm this morning and had a nice sleep in (woke up at 8:40!!) and now i feel really refreshed and energised...to start on the reading material for the first week of lectures!!!! (yay to nerdiness).

It's odd not starting the Sunday off in Church because that's what i usually do. I haven't really been to night church before (following Coralie whom i met at Christian Union to her Baptist Church) and so that will be highly interesting. Supposedly, most uni students go to night church.

Yesterday, Jono, Linda, Amy, Manjri, Vince and I did a nice walk around the Strand (doing the awesome, touristy thing) and then went to Stockland to buy some stuff. It was really interesting going on the bus in an even group of first year meds and talking about the most random stuff. Linda and i were talking about Asian stuff whilst Vince was dissing us for being so asianised (and then he dissed me for using that word...i didn't make it up, did i?).

Amy led us down the Strand like a true local whilst Vince and Manjri were complaining about how they were melting (judging from the fact they come from Canada and New Zealand, that is TOTALLY understandable), although Jono LOOKED like he was melting more than Vince and Manjri seemed (which was rather funny...hehe).

We tooked somed touristy photos next to the Strand (which was meant to be the "Cleanest Beach in Australia", according the to sign on it). We also had a million stops after walking, as we are asian, spoilt and can't really stand long exposure to the sun. We talked about stuff like politics and the places where we come from whilst sitting down. Everyone was especially amused with Linda as she tried to French Braid my hair and kept failing (although she WAS highly determined).

We then stopped at Cold (or was it Ice?) Rock to have some ice cream and smoothies (that was the ultimate recharge) and we walked back to the Northern Queensland Museum and had a nice look around.

We then walked back to the busstop and headed to Stocklands where we had lunch at the foodcourt and went crazy with buying folders (all colourful, of course).

What was highly interesting was listening to Vince talk about Canada and how into Human Rights they are. They have legalised Gay Marriages and Marijuana (which i never knew) because of "Human Rights" and will pass about anything if it has anything to do with Legal Rights. For instance, in schools, they have to sing the national anthem. The national anthem has the word "God" in it, though, so some students are exempted from singing it if they are religious. Supposedly, Candaian politics are also much more interesting than Australian Politics. Oh, and buying stuff from Canada is a lot cheaper too.

Following our walkabout, it was evident that some people got sunburnt despite sunscreen. As to-be doctors, everyone started talking about if they'd get skin cancer before we finished our degree (supposedly, new doctors become really paranoid about their health, according to a doctor doing his phD here).

After dinner, we walked over to Vince's room coz i wanted to get some soil for Elliot (aka my loved potplant). Following this, i watched She's the Man with Amanda, a fellow christian who lives in St Marks (and who is really awesome. Plus, she shares the same love of rom coms with me and has like...EVERYTHING!!!!).

Showering involved another encounter with a frog. This is the second time that i've found a small frog in my showe cubicle (and this is a different frog to the last one). This frog was on the shower curtain when i was showering. As i didn't want it to burn to death as i shower in really hot water, despite the hot temperatures of Townsville, i gently pushed it out of the shower cubicle and it disappeared.

Amazing what happens up here in the tropics. A million mosquito bites, cane toads everywhere, wallabies on your front lawn and frogs in the shower cubicle. =P

As you can see, i have more free time on my hands than i thought AND i am really bored, thus the continued blogging. haha.

I forgot to bring my camera yesterday =( but i'll scab some photos from Linda and put them up here. =)