FPA: Days 24-30 and Stuff In Between ... LOTS of Stuff

OK I'm going to try and make a post now before I have to get to work.

So over the past week and a half, we've been in a rush to finish our paper.  I managed to write my part and so did Potts.  Kemal finished our appendices and John put the paper together.  While I was writing my part, Kemal, John and Potts entered all our data into the database that I set up.  Now I'm currently trying to work on making it look presentable.  Then we need to get our presentation made for Thursday.

We had an informal presentation on Friday and the people who went thought our project was very interesting.  We spent most of Sunday getting the paper editted and completed and our draft was due yesterday.  Now we need to make a few edits to finish it up for next week.

OK, now fun and interesting stuff:

So last week was fairly boring.  I think we only went out one night and it was to get gelato.  Most of the time, we just hung out in the hotel.  Then Friday night happened.  I'm not going to write about it now because it was pretty ridiculous and I don't want people mad at me.  Plus I can try and explain it better in person.  All I can say is that we went to some club that Chris's work told him about and a bunch of people went and Rachel and I left early so we didn't see what happened. but we heard stories.

Anyways, Saturday was ANZAC day (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, their equivalent to our Memorial Day) and we went to the footy game at night.  It was North Melbounre (my team) vs. Richmond (everyone elses team pretty much).  North Melbourne lost by 40 points but it was still a lot of fun.

Sunday was kind of a lazy day.  John, Potts and I went to the market in the morning and I picked up some souveniers.  Then us and Kemal spent most of the rest of the day in the library working on our paper.  Around 6, we left to head back and Chris, Potts, Maura, Renda and I went to get Indian food.  It was really good and I don;t think I've ever been so full in my life after eating that.  I thought I was going to explode.

Last night, Kemal, Chris, Rachel and I went rock climbing at some place next door to where we are staying.  I had to go through a training lesson first since it was my first time and it took me a little while to get it but I felt better about it later.  I managed to get to the top of two of the five walls I tried.  Out of the other three, one had a broke hand grip so I couldn't go much farther up, one I just physically couldn't do (Kemal barely did it and he's half my size) and the last one I tried to do, my fingers just couldn't grip, I was so exhausted.  Otherwise, it was a lot of fun.

OK, that's it for now.  I have to go do work.

-Tim