Beach Party and a Down Under Birthday!

Yesterday was Beach Party at the University, which is supposedly the biggest university party of the year.

They cart in 400 tonnes of sand and fill a parking lot and then there are three stages set up, and bands play all afternoon and evening. It was really a great time!

The pre mixed drink cans seemed a little expensive...there was a $1 deposit on each can in order to encourage you to recycle the can after you consumed the contained beverage. Return the can, get $1. Well, for whatever reason, there were cans...everywhere. After the last band was done playing, I wandered around for 40 minutes and grabbed some cans and made almost $100. I'm pretty sure there were people that did that the entire day and came out with well over $1000!

Today's my birthday. Well, technically it is the 30th of November, but if you think about it, I will not have been alive for 23 years until the 30th of November back home. I have decided to celebrate twice! Today I've done nothing but lay on the beach and go for a swim. Shame the surf was so choppy, hopefully it will improve by tomorrow before I have to sell my board! :(

We've all moved out of the apartment now. Of my six roommates, three of them are in America, or on their way. The remaining three have shacked up with different friends for the week (me), 8 days (Nate), or three weeks until their parents show up (Krysti).