Waves and Cricket

                Today, it was very sunny and very hot.  I was planning on going to the zoo with some other house people, but by the time we got everyone together, it was already midday and the zoo closed at 5.  So, we decided to go to the beach instead to enjoy the weather!  This was my third time at Coogee in the past week, which I am definitely not complaining about.

                The waves today were incredible!  Apparently beach conditions were downright dangerous all across the coast.  And at Coogee—known as one of the calmest beaches—waves still reached over 2 meters high!  I don’t think I’ve ever seen waves that big in my life.  I wasn’t able to capture any good pictures, but this video kind of gives you an idea. Long story short, they were big ass waves and I was way too scared to go swim in them.

                Yesterday was a more interesting day, though!  We went on a house picnic in Centennial Park, which is huge and beautiful.  

I got to try some other Australian foods like fairy bread and weirdly flavored potato chips.  (Apparently “honey roasted chicken” is a really popular chip flavor???)  We also kicked a soccer ball around and hit around a volleyball, until the whole group got together to play cricket.

                Again, the only thing I know about cricket (from Downton Abbey) is that the pitches look funny and you have to wear white, but that’s it.  Truth is, it’s actually a really fun game!  It involves minimal sprinting and a lot of throwing a ball around, so I was all about that.  We probably played for 2 hours under the sun until we got too tired and sweaty to continue.

                Not much else has happened recently!  Classes start in two days, which will be odd, since it feels like I’m on vacation or at summer camp here.  But I’m excited to actually have a schedule!  There really is such a thing as too much free time. 

                And with that, I’m off to bed.  Goodnight!