Still not in class yet...

Well, the amount of things i have to do before classes start is dwindling, and while it's nice to have free time, I'm ready for some point to my life. The last few days have been nice, I'm officially moved into my new sweet-ass apartment, and I have a roommate! His name is Damon, he's Asian-Australian... and the first time we met I was in a towel. Great first impression... but it's not my fault he came in while I was just about to get in the shower.

I took some pictures of my flat so I'll be posting those after I finish this up. I finally set up my own computer, where skype works flawlessly... so if anyone wants to video chat with me when I'm around go ahead and try. It's "O" week at the residential college where Tyson lives, and since he is part of the administration he has to be around all the time to make sure nothing goes wrong (i.e. someone dies). You guys WOULD NOT BELIEVE the shit they give the first years. For those of you who know about hell week... this is hell week x2 (I would say x5 but i don't think it's that bad). The issue is that they're not in class yet so there is nothing to stop the committee (of upper classmen) from harassing them all day long. AND for those of you who have gone through any kind of initiation... the goal is for them all to throw up. They make them drink these crazy ass- for lack of a better word- milkshakes and then run around and this is after they've had them out all night drinking. and this goes on for like 8 days in a row. It's bizarre... and cherished. Like, at least with frats and sororities the activities have to be somewhat secretive... but here the dean of the college got a lap dance from one of the fresher boys. I don't know whether to love it or be completely appalled.

So, basically there's non-stop screaming over loudspeaker at tyson's apartment... in which case I don't think I'm going to sleep there tonight. Plus, my flat is air-conditioned.

Hmm... not much else has happened really. I've been getting to know tyson's friends a little bit better which has been nice... for some reason he has really awesome friends. Mystery. Also I got to meet Tyson's sister... she's fucking sweet. She just finished biking around the south island of new zealand for a month. She's 20 and hasn't been in school for a year, and isn't going back until next year. She's moving up to northern queensland (which I had assumed was still under water) to work on a sheep farm as a general helper. That's what she did last year as well. Poor Tyson just wants her to go back to school, but I think it's really cool that she's doing things on her own now. It's more than I can say for sure.

Well, that's all for now. I'm going to head off and have coffee with Tyson's flatmate from last year (Stuart). He's an... interesting person.

More later,
Katherine