this week

so it has gone by immensely fast. monday was a blur. i spent all day cleaning the flat. i scrub (literally) the bathrooms and the kitchen. my flatmates thought i was crazy. but now our house is clean. tuesday mariko, steph, and i went shopping for sloppy joe ingredients. i ended up getting a pair of 12 dollar shoes as my other two shoes have holes in them. (i'm walking a lot) and we had a fantastic lunch outing.

i tried to get ingredients to make biscuits but i couldn't find crisco shortening. after a conference with two ladies that thought i was insane (biscuits are cookies here and they would never put gravy on them, gross) i found the shortening in the butter section.

we hurried home to scrub mariko's kitchen. it was her chore and we had walk throughs that night. i've never seen a grosser kitchen. it took top mop heads and two times through to get the floor decent. ( i still wouldn't have eaten off it or walked barefoot) then we baked aussie biscuits and american ones together! it was a smash. i made sloppy joes for zane, mariko, and cameron. the aussies had a very american elementary school dinner, sloppy joes, canned corn, and kool-aid. steph and i enjoyed watching them struggle with the super hot sloppy joes. it was hilarious. i bought new white board markers as ours died so the whole time people were drawing notes and sticking post-its to eachother. quite fun and childish like the meal.

cameron stayed to watch big brother with us ladies. after he left steph and mariko thought it highly amusing to tease me about liking him (which I don't). of course we had a good laugh and then respectively headed home.

yesterday i woke up at 6am! i baked some more biscuits from scratch and made up some gravy. i put on some coffee and toasted bagels. only zane and mariko showed up for brekky but i enjoyed the biscuits and gravy. so tasty. later that afternoon the girls and i headed down to fremantle to hit the salvation army/ good will type shops. the tavern's theme tonight is mismatched clothes. we all found some ridiculous stuff so it should be good.

we got back and steph and i BBQed sausages and pumpkin. i mixed up some potatoes as well. zane and mariko joined us and we ate like total college kids, over the sink or the bin. it was great. zane made us all bowls of ice cream for desert. steph had work to do but mariko and i watched movies, prime and domino. not bad at all.

today i locked myself in my room (literally) and spent the entire morning/afternoon reading. then i watched the new charlie and the chocolate factory, which i liked but not as much as the gene wilder one. so now i am at the library listening to one of my new favorite songs :

Amerikan Folk Song - Gary Dunne

he is an irish folk singer. very nice i think so. this weekend is looking promising. tomorrow is a chill day, a couple classes and some work i imagine. then making jello with steph. sat. is the footie and both sam and ben's birthdays. they are planning to start the party at noon and go until at least sunday night.

the paper i've been working on has been extended a week. life is grand. i miss everyone at home like crazy. i hope you are all having fun celebrating graduations and turning 21 and such. hope to hear from everyone soon!