13 days left...!

Seriously, where is time going? This is ridiculous! AHH!! We still have half our papers to write, but apparently they are due a week from now, oh boy. Should be fine, hopefully we will get our results back today. Unfortunately the Quest has been a bit dull for the past couple weeks. All the other groups came back from their trips and everyone’s pretty much just writing now.

Last night was a blast though. We had a joint birthday party for 3 of the staff members and a few of the students. SO many people were here, well for the Quest it was a lot of people and of course I was on kitchen crew and had to clean all the dishes. But the food was SO GOOD! One of the cooks husband made a rotisserie from a keg, so unbelievably cool, not gonna lie. Anyways, there was so much food. Hors d’oeuvres, pasta salad, pulled pork, potatoes, salad, curry rice salad thing, sausages, lentil patties, couscous, etc. YUM! Then for desert, a giant cake with awesome frosting, homemade chocolate éclairs and these maple coffee square things. But besides the food it was really fun to have everyone there having a good time. It felt like the earlier days at the quest where we would all just hang out, play frisbee and grill. It’s been awhile since that’s happened.

After hanging out here we all went down to the pub for Maree’s (field leader) boyfriend playing music. SO GOOD. He’s Irish and has an awesome voice and can play so many instruments. He was the one that played the drum and flute/recorder thing in the cave at Poor Knights. They played a bunch of music and had a good variety. I actually liked their rendition of some American songs more than I like the original song. It was really fun to jump around and fail at doing an Irish jig, haha. Even the staff was dancing. Bottom line, it was a very good night. :)

Not too much else to report on. I’m getting things ready for Australia seeing that I am going to be there sooner than I realize. AH! Should be good though, it will definitely be another adventure.

Fun Facts:
Jandals = flip flops
Courgette = zucchini
Ratbag = child
Bumbag = fanny pack
Dairy = corner store
Entrée = Hors d’oeuvres
Lolly = candy
Wellies = gumboots
Tramping = hiking
Rubbish = trash
Banger = sausage

Common Phrases: No worries, Bugger, Sweet As, Cheers