February = Watermelon Fest!!

So, I finally have internet!! I never expected it to take this long, but now that i have it I can start updating my blog again. The following post is a post I created back in March but couldn't upload it because of the internet problem. I'll catch up on what's happened since March soon!

I know it's already March, but you'll just have to forgive me as i go back and dedicate a post for February. Life is starting to settle down again and so I'm able to start planning some fun activities for myself. A few weeks ago my friends and I went to a Watermelon Fest!!! Let me just explain some of the things that happen at a Watermelon Fest.

• Watermelon Skiing: The act of placing one's feet into two watermelons and holding onto a rope while being pulled down a soapy tarp covered with smashed watermelons. sounds fun huh!
• Watermelon Bungee: An activity involving 4 people who are all attached to a circular rubber band. These four people are situated on top of a square tarp with a watermelon in each corner. All four people are trying to reach and grab their assigned watermelon while at the same time trying to stop the others from reaching their watermelon (so they're all reaching for one of the corners of the tarp). Does that make sense?
• Watermelon seed spitting competition: the name says it all
• Unlimited fresh watermelon: they were passing out whole watermelons for free!! and they tasted Amazing!

It was a pretty exciting adventure. We arrived in the morning after waking up really early and driving for 4 hours to the town of Chinchilla (love it!), set up camp and then participated in the crazy watermelon activities. At dinner time we went back to camp and cooked ourselves some true Aussie burgers and then got ready for the country concert. The concert was loads of fun! The night was beautiful with clear skies and a full moon. Slept soooo good!

In the morning we packed up and then drove back to town. We were very blessed because as we drove home we were millimeters away from a deadly car accident. A truck was moving into our lane and didn't see us in their blind spot and we had a massive semi truck coming towards us in the lane on the other side of us. All four of us girls in the car screamed as we realized that we were dead meat. I don't know how we didn't end up crashing but I think the truck next to us realized that we were there just in time. SCARY!

What an adventure!

Last week I began my third (Junior) year of university. I really like my classes this semester. I'm taking Intergroup Relations and Group Processes, Psychopathology, and Research Methods. I was supposed to be taking another class as well, but I just got a job! Yay! I'm going to be working about 10 hours a week as a receptionist for a chiropractor's office. I've realized that I've spent sooo much of my life living an unbalanced life - usually so focused on School - that my health is starting to take a toll. So, I'm trying to balance my life more - hence taking only three classes and working a bit and I'll be taking some exercise classes. I'm thinking about Zumba. It seems to be the new craze.