O Week Ends, Semester Begins

O week has officially ended, with many stories and eventful happenings: we've had toga parties, pub crawls, city crawls, many ghosting stories, visits to the beach and markets at South Bank, the college talent show, and tons of other things.

The city crawl was basically us running around and being obnoxious while trying to finish a list of tasks that we were supposed to do (things like get a piggy back ride from a rando, take pics with the metal kangaroos, etc) that would lead up to the beginning of the pub crawl. The pub crawl basically involved us visiting three different pubs for a limited amount of time (about a half hour or so), also with tasks that we were supposed to do before we left.

Ghosting is something we did during the city crawl, and it is one of the most entertaining things I've tried before. Essentially, you have to be really quiet and sneaky and walk behind someone, mirroring their movements for as long as you can without them noticing, and if you have more than one person, one has to get in line behind the other, so eventually you have a long trail after the person you're ghosting.

South Bank is beautiful. It's Brisbane's man-made beach, with a beautiful walkway called via arbour, with artistic metal designs with vines and flowers growing all over them. I've been there a couple times already, once with some of the other seppos, and again most of the day yesterday with my wing, Hendo, and some of the exec members.

I think one of the things I love most so far about Brisbane is that it's so easy to get anywhere. The bus system is fantastic, in addition to the City Cat, the ferry that runs up and down the Brisbane River, starting at the uni and ending in the city. The Queens St mall is huge, and we've been to Indooropilly once so far to get fabric for the toga party, but everything seems easily accessible.

Classes are starting on Monday, but for the first week it's only lectures so students can come to uni and see how they like a class, giving them the opportunity to drop the class if they don't like it. Uni also has 'come and try week,' which allows students to come to all the sports and fitness classes in the first week for free to see what they want to do and choose what they'd rather not.

Aussie Confusion: Thongs are flip flops, not the underwear.