From Iowa to Oz: basketball

The sunsets in Warrnambool have been unreal lately. I don't know if there's some Godly artist, decorating the sky with wide brush strokes, or if it's just good old Warnie saying good-bye.

I get bored on the way to the store...

YER A WIZARD JERRY. (My lecturer's name is Jerry).

Will the real #BenWatson please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?

<--Sarah-Pillow

For our last Marine Biodiversity practical, we took a quiz on arthropoda (boring) then got to study echinoderms! I got to dissect a sea urchin. The spineys were really brittle and broke off when I picked it up. Then I had to pierce the exoskeleton, which was pretty damn hard, so I took the dissecting scissors and stabbed into the side of the urchin like a serial killer...and that makes me sound like a psychopath...

We also watched a super badass video in class, where they had placed a mini camera inside of a limpet and we got to see a starfish protrude its stomach into the limpet's shell, liquify its insides, and suck it all back in. SO EFFING COOL.

The innards of the urchin smelled horrendous. Like someone had a room full of sour milk and dead animals. But it was so freaking cool. The yellow and black things are eggs and the whitish cylindrical piece is where the food enters the body. They have a water vascular system, so that's why there you'll see no blood.

My friends are better than your friends.

Went to see Bad Neighbors with #BenWatson, Aiden, Yarran, and Daniel. One of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. The casting was an arsenal of comedy perfection.

My housemates and I have also been religiously viewing The Voice weekly. Although I love Ricky, Joel, and Will equally, Ricky's team is BOMB.

There was some random, artsy-fartsy, sea thing going on in town this past Saturday when Sarah and I were on our weekly outing. Most of the decorations were made out of trash (which I'm assuming was found on or near the beach). It was a genius idea to enlighten the community about littering on the beach.

Also, Circus Royale, if you want to get people to come to your circus, get rid of that murderous clown on your flyer.

It was Rachel's 18th birthday the other night, so naturally...we had to get wasted. The beautiful Kittens is finally legal and now we can rage any time any place.

Also, for those of you who don't know, this is the Seanchai Irish Pub (aka the Shan). Drunk Alix thought it would be a wonderful idea to take photos of it for my blog. Thank you Drunk Alix.

These two randoms saw me taking photos and wanted me to take one of them. I told them I'd put it on my blog and they'd be famous...yea, I lied.

Sarah and I scored Jacinta's basketball game the other night again. They pulled out their inner Lisa Leslie and killed it.

Last but not least...what even are Australian cartoons?

What are this?

Da fug?

Here are just a couple glimpses into what's been going on here in Warrnambool for the last week since I've returned from Perth. Some pretty gosh darn exciting stuff if I do say so myself. Gosh, I'm such a party animal. That's me; the outroverted socialite...

Lunar eclipse!!! I got some pretty shit photos, but you get the gist. (No, I wasn't able to see the solar eclipse, it was stormy that day).

Sarah and Jacinta sometimes think that they are artists and I would have to agree with them on that. Anyone who can turn me into butterfly, Princess Jasmine, AND a mermaid must be an artistic genius.

Just before heading off to Perth, we had a Res Dodgeball tournament. Dodgeball was my specialty back in the day. When I walked into the gym and the balls were set up on the line, I knew that it was going to be a good day. It was every house for themselves...and only Jacinta and I had shown up for our house. We recruited Rhoe, so it would at least be 3 on 6. We proved that we don't need more than 3 people on our team and beat 3 (?) teams on our own. I even ended one game triumphantly with a (all luck) double play by catching Jake's ball and hitting Evan on the back. At least dodgeball can be the one thing that I'm good at...

Also before Perth, we had a themed "party" night called "Tradies and Ladies." Here in Aus, they call construction workers, plumbers, gardeners, etc. tradies (tradesmen). You were supposed to dress as either a tradie or a lady...and I chose a tradie because I'm probably the least lady-like lady that you'll ever meet. Some guys decided to go the lady route, like Aiden in his beautiful black dress and Grub, who went all out with pigtails and wearing Georgia's jellies.

Sarah and I had another "town/date day," and got chips and thickshakes at Figsellers (effing delicious), and spent longer than intended in the bookstore.

So many words.

So many pages.

Books > Shoes

Also, coming into my room and getting in my bed must be a roommate thing (TARA)? Because, Jacinta and Sarah seem to do that often. Not that I mind...as long as Jacinta doesn't make that creepy smiling face anymore...

They also love their gifts that my mom sent them :D

Who knew that the DUSA bookstore sold the Clap? If you don't have it yet, rush to the bookstore and you can now buy your VERY OWN clap microbe.

Siri, being the thoughtful lady she is, wished me good luck on my Aquatic Ecology test the other day. How did I ever get so lucky?

Hopkins Falls is not far from res and Sarah and I had never been there, so her friend, Ash, took us there between rain storms. The falls were very picturesque with the cows roaming in the background, not giving any ffffss. I was even delightfully surprised by a rainbow appearing in the background of some of the photos.

Pictured below: Kettle and a Kettle. Which one is which? The world may never know... (God, I'm such a freak).

"That was just a burp..."

Movie night! Charli, Sarah, Paige, Ash, and I all went to see The Other Woman last week and it was actually hilarious. I have always loved Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton was not as bad as I thought she might be. Definitely 10/10 would recommend.

We also had a humorous run in with the police on the way home. They were doing standard breathalyser tests on the way home because of the May Races, so we had to pull over so Paige could get breathalysed. So she blows in the apparatus, and the cop says, "Hmmm...you're going to have to do it again because either you didn't blow hard enough or you sucked." After that, none of us could keep it in and the whole car was cracking up, while the cop was trying his hardest not to laugh. After we drove away, we could see him and all the other cops giggling about what had happened. It took everything in our power not to make any crude jokes while the cop was still there.

The next night was May Races night/#BenWatson's birthday/Gabby's birthday so I had to go all out right?

**Birthday Princess Gabby**

Saturday, Jacinta played netball at the new courts on res, so Sarah and I decided to go support her...too bad there was a torrential downpour happening at the same time as their game. We bundle up and braved the walk to the courts, where Cinta had parked her car so we could watch in the dryness.

We saw a mushroom fairy ring on the way home=good luck!!

The weather here has been pretty shit lately. Unexpected rain showers and storms, and in the case of the other night, some pretty nasty hail.

I broke out my henna a couple nights ago and doodled all over myself, Jacinta, and Sarah. So that was fun.

This is what happens when studying gets the best of you, you give up:

Disregard the absolutely disgusting, close-up picture of me and focus on the fact that a spider/bug of some sort decided that my eyebrow would be a great place to have a snack.

Saw this ugly thing in the gas station last night. What? You shouldn't be here.

"Put that thing back where it came from, so help me, so help me, and CUT!" -sang in the voice of Mike Wasowski.

Watched some basketball last night. Felt like I was in high school again. It's so much more interesting when you know who's playing. All that NBA and NCAA crap is boring.