November 2, 2006

Today was cloudy and rainy, which seems to be quite unusual here in Australia; even more unusual was some of the rain came in the form of thunderstorms! It seemed kind of weird to hear thunder here since I never have before. I guess it's getting close to summer though, and thunderstorms need heat to brew. The thunderstorms were pretty wimpy though. I only really heard two or three claps of thunder, none of which were terribly loud, I never saw any lightning, and the rain was only moderate. It was really windy though. :)

This afternoon I went for a run around Lake Ginninderra. When I was about 10 minutes away from returning, it started to sprinkle and by the time I got back I was almost completely wet. It actually felt pretty good getting rained on in a run (It was in the upper 60s). It's so dry here that I had forgotten that running in the rain (or waiting for the rain to pass before I run) is a common occurrence back home.

This evening I went to the mall to get a few more grocery items (such as some fresh veggies), and ran into Sam, Hannah, and Amy at Subway on the way there. I talked to Hannah and we agreed that she's going to end up taking one of my suitcases to Sydney with her this weekend when she goes home, and then I'll go to her house to get it when I fly back into Sydney the day before I fly home. Tonight I decided to start packing up my room, at least what I'm going to send to Sydney. I got that suitcase filled up and then decided to call it a night. I think tomorrow I'll pack up the rest of my room, just to see if it all fits into two suitcases (because that's all I have!), and also because I need to see how room it will take to fit in all the stuff I'm taking to New Zealand.