Rain, Rain. Come Again another day.

Well this weekend was rather unexciting because I spent the entire time studying for my Social Psychology midterm that was on Saturday. Pretty much from Wednesday night to Saturday afternoon I studied, ate, watched movies, got a little sleep and studied some more. I studied everywhere. On Thursday I went on the beach after it rained and it was nice and gloomy so I sat out there for a couple of hours studying. I studied on the couch, at the kitchen table, on our porch, on my bed. Everywhere! Thursday night, Nanae and I took a break from studying and went and opened up an account at the movie rental place down the street. On Friday Jen, Nanae and I studied hard but with tons of breaks in between. Jen decided she couldn't study any more so she went out Friday night with Matt while Nanae and I rented another movie to take a break from another all night of studying while it rained cats and dogs outside! Saturday we all woke up early to get some studying done before the test and I tried my first McDonald's pancakes in Australia. Nothing too great. Small portion and expensive. Like everything else here! After our brains were way too full of useful information about Social Psychology, we headed off in the pouring rain to Uni to get hit hard by the midterm. The midterm was alright, I felt like I had just gotten ran over by a bus after it but hey that's pretty much how I feel after everything to do with school here, so I'm getting used to it! That evening all of us were just so exhausted from studying that we watched a movie and went to bed early. Sunday it was still raining and we were informed that there was a tsunami coming right towards us due to the earthquake! They said anyone in the southern part of Queensland needs to be cautious and stay off the beaches. Well turns out, our little shack is located about as south as you can be and still be in Queensland, and right across the beach! So we were slightly worried but I was just planning on booking it up to the roof if I saw a huge wave coming, it couldn't be 11 stories high right? Well no one really seemed to listen to that warning because when I went running Sunday morning everyone was on the beach like it was the safest place to be. When I was running I came across a random national park and went for a little hike up to the top of the hill where it overlooked the ocean and I could see for miles on the left and right sides of me. I wish I had brought my camera but that's not something I usually equip myself when I'm going jogging. Right when I started jogging back the mile and half back home, Mother Nature thought it would be nice to began a torrential downpour of rain. That's when everyone thought it would be a good idea to finally get off the beach and I was just trying to sprint through the rain before my ipod broke. That night I thought I would check out the beach myself because I saw the moon shining off the ocean from my balcony and it was just calling out to me to go appreciate it. The only catch was that I had to sit way far up on the sand because the tide was up so high that it covered about 4/5 of the sand that is usually considered the beach part. It was kinda eery how far the water would come up but mesmerizing at the same time. But then because the waters were coming up so high they brought with them all kinds of nasty critters like crabs and random bugs so I got grossed out and the mesmerizing ended quickly so I went inside and called it a night. This week has been the usual boringness of school and raining everyday. I'm for sure ready for the raindrops to stop falling on my head and the sunshine to come back . Love you all!