First Week Of Break

Monday was the start of the two week break! I slept in which was most wonderful! Then I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art. There was some really cool exhibits in here, unfortunately we weren't allowed to take pictures, so I went to Google and found some pictures from there so I can show you what some of the exhibits look like. The artist is a women named Yayoi Kusama. One of her exhibits was a room that was furnished like a living room, so sofa, table, tv, etc. and everything (walls, ceiling, floor and furniture) were all black. The only source of light was black lights and there were little round stickers that were all different colors (red, blue, yellow, green) and they glowed under the black lights. It was so cool looking, I really wish I could have taken a picture. Here's another link to what yet another of the rooms looked like, this room had the walls, ceiling and back of door as solid mirrors and there were strands of colored lights hanging down. After that I walked around the outside of the Opera House a bit.

Tuesday was Featherdale day. Featherdale is a wildlife park where I was able to pet Kangaroos and Koalas! It was super fun and I saw so many awesome animals! And of course it was fun to get so close to roos and Koalas. They both have really soft fur. After Featherdale, me and my American friends Jess, Chantel, and Keri and my Aussie friend Emma went to the Opera House because the Star Trek movie world premeir was happening that evening. We got there early because we expected a crowd, but there was nobody, so we got a spot right up along the red carpet! It was awesome! However, because we were near the top, after the press, by the time the actors got to us they were running late, so only a few stopped for autographs. I got Eric Bana's, who was in movies such as The Hulk, The Other Boleyn Girl and The Castle and I got Karl Urban's, who was in movies such as Lord of the Rings, the Bourne Supremacy and Doom. I did not get Zachary Quinto's autograph, but I was about 4 feet away from him and on his way by, he waved and said "sorry, I've got a movie to get to". It was very exciting! The other celebrities there that passed by included, Chris Pine, John Cho and the producer and director of the Star Trek movie J.J. Abrams. Thursday night, my fellow ASCer, Jason, came over for dinner. We had stuffed peppers, well, my host mom called them something else, some Greek name, but basically it was peppers with a rice/meat mixture inside of them. They're pretty good! Then we watched the movie Dodgeball and played some Phase 10. Friday was Good Friday. I was originally going to meet up with a few other ASCers at Wesley to work on a group project we have to do, but when we got there we discovered the school was closed due to Good Friday. So, I went over to one of their houses (Keri's) and we worked on the project there for a while. Then we headed off into the city for the Wesley choir/drama/dance Good Friday production. It was an amazing production! It started out in Martin Place and they acted out the betrayal and the trial and then Jesus picked up the cross and walked through town to the Wesley Mission with all of us crowd following behind. Once at the Wesley Mission there was more service. It was really good! Afterwards, I was meeting up with Emma to work on my photography project. We went out to dinner at Macca's and then got some coffee at Starbucks. Then we headed to Darling Harbour to try and take some good pictures of a place called Luna Park, it's a sort of amusement park. However, the pictures weren't quite working so we were going to try another place. We decided we'd take a ferry there, however, we must have gotten on the wrong ferry, because it never went to where we wanted to go. The ferry arrived at it's last stop and we had to get off. We then went to catch a bus to the nearest train station and the lady driving the bus was in a BAD mood. She was super grumpy and kind of rude, not to mention a bad driver. Finally we arrived at the train station and we parted ways and made our way home. It was a very interesting experience, but a fun one nonetheless. It is so fun to listen to the differences in accents between American and Australian on certain words. It provides endless entertainment!