Ok, so I don’t have internet right now, thus I cannot remember which day I left off on in my blog. I am also unsure of when I will have internet next; but I will post this as soon as I can!
Wednesday- Present.
Classes ALL day long.. GROSS. I am pretty sure I already talked about my all nighter. Well I definitely did not pull a second one. I went to bed late because I was finishing up a project but got to actually sleep for a handful of hours. I almost fell asleep in class though, during humanities. It wasn’t that it was boring, but only having a total of 7 hours of sleep or LESS between the past two nights.. I was just exhausted. I mailed out TWO postcards!! Guess you will just have to wait a couple of weeks or so and see if your one of the lucky ones :) I also bought a coffee for five bucks.. Wish I would have known the REAL price before I ordered it. The sign said 3.80! Oh well. Since I ended up not going whale watching/to the island I had a good hundred (150?) dollars left, so I decided a tiny splurge wouldn’t hurt me too much. After classes were finitO it was back to the apartment to start cleaning, and packing for…. NEW ZEALAND! It was somewhat bitter sweet. I wasn’t quite ready to leave.. And you could definitely tell that by walking into my room.. Clothes EVERYWHERE! But FIRST it was time to put our Jerseys on before the sun went down to take pictures on the beach since most of us ahdn’t yet. It was a lot of fun, having a little club photo shoot. After that we went back to the apartment, cooked our last supper (French toast & syrup) then it was time for our last Devo on the Australian beach. It went well, then back to the apartment.. Finished a paper I had, cleaned the apartment some, attempted to try and pack…. BUT then it was Glee time!! So everything else had to wait. We headed to meet with the boys and we watched Glee, It was a really good episode, although a complete turnaround from the previous week’s Brittany Spears dedicated episode; last nights was about spirituality and beliefs, etc. It was actually really good, and politically correct: It gave a viewpoint and opinion from all sides. Anywho, after Glee it was almost midnight and It was time to finish packing.. ugh. I didn’t exactly do that.. I put it off for the most part. Actually, for all of the part. Ha.. I would pack and then do something else, and then try and pack a little more. (Oh and please keep in mind I still had clothes in the dryer and this was the first day I had attempted to pack.. should have started five days before!) I packed on and off through the night, until sometime around 4? I was FINALLY finished with completely EVERYTHING, and I hit the hay for about an hour and twenty minutes. We were to be completely packed, outside, and getting into the bus at 530AM. I am just glad I got to sleep for the (approx.) two hour bus ride to the airport.. I knocked out! We arrived at the airport this morning around 730, and then basically sat around for two hours, then FINALLY were able to check in.. with 15minutes left until our plane started boarding! We hadn’t even gone through security or customs yet.. JOY! But we made it in time, and now I am sitting on the plane with a full belly, over halfway to New Zealand.
Ok, now for side notes.. I had to break away from packing for about an hour around One AM, to complete a challenge. It was soo much fun! And it felt so freeing! Hahaha.. Its tradition with most overseas programs. You will know what I am talking about if your from Harding.. There are a few campus challenges at Harding as well. I will proudly admit that I have completed one of them! And now I have completed One out of THREE of the challenges we will master on this trip. Why three you ask? One for each country we go to! Granted we are counting Southeast Asia as a whole. Maybe we should say one challenge for each leg of our trip.
Other side note. I was an AMAZING packer last night.. after it took me upmh-teen hours to finish it. I packed my suitcase WELL though.. It was even underweight! Until I decided to move a few things from my carry-ons to my suitcase.. then it was overweight. But one way I was able to amazingly succeed at staying within the weight limits.. I layered. Layered what, you ask? Clothes! Lets see I had on:
Two bras – 1 regular, 1 sports
Two ribbed tanks
Two tshirts
Two longsleeved/hooded shirts (one was like a tshirt the other like a sweatshirt)
Two Jackets (one more of a cardigan, the other was my main jacket)
One pair of underwear
One pair of footed leggings
THREE pairs of shorts
One pair of tennis shoes
I believe that was it! Oh and I had a shirt or two stuck in the pockets of my Jacket.. haha. I felt fine for a while at first, but later was BURNING UP! It was like I had died and gone to heaven when I finally reached customs, after the security and was able to strip down! Although I had to finish on the plane.. taking off a bra, leggings, and two pairs of shorts in public would not have been the best idea.. I am just glad that I had literally nothing packed in my orange bag this time around, because ALL of my clothes except for maybe five of those items went into that bag :) Gotta do whatcha gotta do!
Well since I have only had about a total of ten hours of sleep this whole week I think I am going to attempt to rest for a little while. I hope to hear from everyone soon!! If you have skype PLEASE go ahead and add me! My user name is La_Russell.. or La_Russell09 haha, I don’t remember. Try both! :)
PEACE & BLESSINGS! (next time I talk/write to you I will be in New Zealand!!)
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