Swine flu?

Sooooo I think I have swine flu.. NOT kidding. I blow my nose every 20 seconds (my room mates probably hate me) and it is always blocked, I cant breathe out of it. My face hurts. My body hurts, My head hurts. my throat feels like sandpaper, I can hardly stay awake. I cough like a loud fool. It is SOO brutal. I am going to the doctors tomorrow after my FOUR HOUR lab.. thats IF i survive the lab. I managed to go on a field trip today to Yankee hat (an aboriginal ground) I dont know how I managed but I did. I walked for like 3 hours to and from a rock with some aboriginal drawings that are like 800 years old. but i walked for 3 hours over all. the way there it was sooooo long and went on a massive detour so we decided, hey lets just cut across the plain and walk the 'easy way' turn out half of it was bog land and I got to the bus home and my shoes and feel were SOAKING WET. now I know why there is a path. So if I didnt have swine flu when I got there. I probably have it now. Brutallll.

urghhh

Melbourne

I had a trip to melbs a few weeks ago. I went to a birthday party for my friend who lives there. Jer and I flew with tiger airlines to melbourne and arrived at our friend Patrick's house around dinner. We got unreal curry for dinner and then the party began. At around 430 am I left with Jeremy to go to stay at his friend Ben's house who had an empty bed. It was a hell of a better choice than sleeping on the floor with like 20 other people lol. We stopped at 'hungry jacks' (australian burger king) on the way to Ben's, and i got into bed around 5am. Crazy. the next day everyone was pretty tired so we just went out for lunch and chilled out. Jeremy and Alex Wilson and I watched the cricket.. (well Wilson and Jer did.. I more so slept and waited for the break..) when the break rolled around (10:00pm) Jeremy and I headed down the street to the shisha cafe a couple blocks away from Pattys house, there we had a peach shisha and followed it with a double apple and watched australia win the cricket on a big flat screen Tv. overall a good chilled out night. the next day we went back to the shisha cafe in the monring, this time joined by Wilson, then had a quick lunch of japanese food and hopped on the plane home. So in a nutshel i didnt havemuch time to actually SEE Melbourne but what i did see made me want to go back and stay for longer! I'm excited to hit up the Melbs once more in the future! G'day mates!

-Em xoxo

Surf camp

SURRRRRF CAMP! On July 31st Team North America (which consists of my new friends Amanda, Ayla, Bridget, Erin, Melissa and me) hit up surf camp in a little surf town just outside of Wollongong on seven mile beach. We paid 235 bucks each, this included the ride up there (on an unreal hippy surf camp bus), food, accommodation, three surf lessons and a Tshirt. the photo cd was 50 bucks extra and you get a surfer dvd too. anyways. it was honestly one of the best weekends I have ever had. i know people say that as an expression "best Ive ever had" but i am not exaggerating it was literally one of the best weekend of my life. I set foot in the pacific ocean for the first time, and I SURFED on australian soil... (well.. sand) the food was delicious and I COULD NOT believe how much I ate. it was redic. Surfing is honestly the most intense workout ever. I want to do it everyday. I'd be a straight up smokeshow. anyways. surf camp= UNREAL.

Gday my mateys

Love,

Em xo