Let Me Just Stab the Can, It'll Work I Promise

I would say that this past week has been a pretty good one! It was relaxing during the week. Last week I made my roommates dinner two times which was a pretty big deal considering I usually stick to just setting the table for dinner. One of the nights was Taco night, just bringing a little of my Mexican ethnicity into Room 2204 since our two Asian roommates make rice every night. The other night I made dinner all I needed was a can opener but of course that is the one thing that they forgot to equip our apartment with. Yes we need a knife sharpener, but not a can opener. So I went next door, thinking our neighbors would be able to help me out and I could borrow one. No, not that easy. Out of our entire floor, no one answered their doors. I was forced to go up to the next level just to retrieve a can opener before Matt completely destroyed the can by hitting it with anything he could get his hands on. But the rest of the week was nice, where we just hung out and watched the Olympics. We went to the beach a lot this weekend which was fun! One of the days Matt was trying to teach me how to paddle on the surf board and while I was bobbing along in the waves Jen got a little over her head (literally) in the waves and like almost drowned before Matt calmed her down and brought her to shore. It was a pretty funny matter once we realized she was okay. Saturday the Brisbane boys came down to hang out again which was fun and when we went to the beach on Sunday we walked down to the huge surf competition that was on our beach. We only made it there for the finals but it was still fun to watch. Those surfers are amazing! Also on Saturday when we were just sitting there hanging out watching the Olympics, all of a sudden our electricity went out. We all had the same fear, we didn't pay our electricity bill so they cut it off. Of course it was 4:41 pm and the reception office closed at 4:30. So we needed to call the person on duty and figure out what the deal was with our electricity. Turns out, the reason behind the shortage was that Jen put one of the comforters in the drier and it couldn't handle it being that full so it blew the whole outlet. Yeah that was embarrassing...

Sunday night the band Shwayzee was playing in Surfer's Paradise and we of course had to go because they are Matt and Nanae's absolute favorite band. So we all headed down there and watched them perform. It was so much fun! We were right up next to the stage and Nanae got to knuckles it with Shwayzee and Matt got a high five. It was so much fun singing along to Shwayzee, with my 3 roommates in Australia. Yesterday was a fun day, Matt Jen and I all went to the beach (Nanae had class). Jen was my little surfing paddling instructor and was teaching me how to paddle out in the waves. She was a hilarious teacher considering she was still a little scared of going far out in the water because of her rough experience from a few days earlier in the ocean. So she just stood ankle deep and yelled instructions at me. Than Matt, our little own pro surfer came and took me directly out to the big waves and would push me into the waves. He only pushed me into a few but I was able to at least get on my knees on the board! That was exciting. After my attempt at surfing and swallowing half the ocean, we went in to cook dinner and read for politics. Now I'm sitting at school in the middle of my 4 hour break between classes, chomping on trail mix. Ahh trail mix, a reminder of Colorado :)

Sorry if this was a lame post, I felt like I had a lot to say but I can't remember any of it now! Until next time!