August 3
This morning I got up for my 8:30am Intro to Exercise Science class, despite my body telling me not to. It turns out a lot of other peoples' bodies told them not to also, as I only saw one out of four other Americans that are in that class. :) After class I took a few pictures of a white-faced heron that was walking around in the grass beside the sidewalk again.
This afternoon I went shopping at the mall. I wanted to see if K-mart had any cheap bikes, but it turned out that K-mart doesn't have any bikes. I guess they must not have them like Wal-mart does. I bought enough food to stock up on my essentials for quite a while, and a few nonessentials for about a week.
Later this afternoon (around 4:00) I decided to go for a run. It's only a little over a week before I do the 14k City to Surf race in Sydney, so I decided I better do a long run that was at least as long as the race course before then! I've been such a slacker with running here. I ended up running around the lake and adding on about 30 more minutes by going out this one bike trail. In all I ran for 63 minutes and a distance of probably 9ish miles. My foot hurt a little bit at one point, but not bad. I stretched it out and it felt better after that.
After supper I went with Amanda to the FOCUS meeting up in International House. There was a trivia night going on, with Italian food and then a speech by John Dickson about the historical support for Christianity. I ended up eating some doritos, a little bit of candy, some garlic bread, dominos pizza, and then a cookie for dessert, during the night. John's message was really good, and he got some good questions from athiest-type people that wanted more evidence about what he was talking about. My table ended up finishing 4th out of 8 teams for the night of trivia. Overall, not too bad. It was a fun night and I got to meet some new people.
After I came back from FOCUS, I went with a few people from my floor down to another floor where there was a party going on for someone's birthday. I met a couple more people. After a while some of us went up to the unibar and I socialized for about an hour and a half. I met an Ethiopian named Ben who was raised in Australia (moved here when he was a couple years old), and I learned that Samir, a kid that I thought was American, is actually African, but since his dad was a diplomat he was raised in the U.S. It was fun and interesting talking to Samir and Ben about Africa, racism, America, and other such topics.
This afternoon I went shopping at the mall. I wanted to see if K-mart had any cheap bikes, but it turned out that K-mart doesn't have any bikes. I guess they must not have them like Wal-mart does. I bought enough food to stock up on my essentials for quite a while, and a few nonessentials for about a week.
Later this afternoon (around 4:00) I decided to go for a run. It's only a little over a week before I do the 14k City to Surf race in Sydney, so I decided I better do a long run that was at least as long as the race course before then! I've been such a slacker with running here. I ended up running around the lake and adding on about 30 more minutes by going out this one bike trail. In all I ran for 63 minutes and a distance of probably 9ish miles. My foot hurt a little bit at one point, but not bad. I stretched it out and it felt better after that.
After supper I went with Amanda to the FOCUS meeting up in International House. There was a trivia night going on, with Italian food and then a speech by John Dickson about the historical support for Christianity. I ended up eating some doritos, a little bit of candy, some garlic bread, dominos pizza, and then a cookie for dessert, during the night. John's message was really good, and he got some good questions from athiest-type people that wanted more evidence about what he was talking about. My table ended up finishing 4th out of 8 teams for the night of trivia. Overall, not too bad. It was a fun night and I got to meet some new people.
After I came back from FOCUS, I went with a few people from my floor down to another floor where there was a party going on for someone's birthday. I met a couple more people. After a while some of us went up to the unibar and I socialized for about an hour and a half. I met an Ethiopian named Ben who was raised in Australia (moved here when he was a couple years old), and I learned that Samir, a kid that I thought was American, is actually African, but since his dad was a diplomat he was raised in the U.S. It was fun and interesting talking to Samir and Ben about Africa, racism, America, and other such topics.
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