Sydney opera house

ah, i have left this too long again! so heres a wrap up of the past week:

saturday - as i left you, went downtown with Dukie program friends Helen and Nina where we wandered the area of Sydney market and visited the Rocks weekend markets for a couple of hrs. Finished up in the downtown area window shopping and hopped a bus back just as it started to pour. a quiet night for most of us that didnt want to get absolutely drenched. what sort of drought is this????
sunday - a massive plan for today was created the night before with Emily, Tam, Dan, and Mark. unfortunately rain usually does throw off the out of doors type plans. we did go to bondi in the morning and walked around the markets there for a while in the drizzle. again foiled from walking the entire cliff walk back to coogee so we took the bus. i'm pretty sure the rest of the day was spent doing nothing vital. thank goodness theres a big tv room and plenty of engineers to spend time fixing the numerous broken speaker wires and whatnot.
monday-tuesday - went to class, etc, etc. made it to the library to do some work even thought the dang place closses at 5pm!!! good lord. rough just because these were our first days of nice weather! monday had a history excursion to the hyde park barracks, st marys cathedral, hyde park, war memorial. walking around for about 3 hrs. of course at the end it started sprinkling. ack! walked down about 20 min to the opera house to see it all lit up and then headed back to uni
wed - class, whatever. finished paper #1 for environmental history. actually paper #2 if you count the short one for that class. grading is a joke and i shouldnt try even as hard as i do. habits are hard to break though! thought i'd allow myself to go out and celebrate and headed to The Palace down on Coogee with a hoard of studyabroaders. Danced for a few hrs till the place shut down at 1am. Then for some reason decided along with others that it would be a really good idea to go down to the beach (this place was right next to it) and jump in the ocean... haha. absolutely hilarious. defiitely a bit bracing as well!
thursday - class, gym, getting dressed up. luckily helen brought 2 of everything - actual nice clothes of the type that i dont generally wear or own. so got the little black dress and heels on and we both headed out. met up with jenn fisher in her office near circular quay (say it like 'key') then went with her and her boss for a quick bite before we headed up to the opera house. about 50 of our group there - in the back 2 rows of the ground floor. the opera was 'the mikado' definitely a good beginners opera as it is in english and funny as well! after that, wandering in heels - not so pleasant. randomly turned out that about everyone in the program ended up at the 'Three Wise Monkeys' bar downtown to listen to the cover band and chill for a few hrs. home relatively early and I still slept in! tons of sleep, most excellent. now i'm just supposed to get working on my 10 pg paper for history.... maybe later ;) i've got wandering to do through the thriftshop area of town. then a rugby match tonight! nothing like a good sporting event to get the bloodlust going. hopefully get some surfing in this weekend and maybe a trip to the blue mtns.