Fisher Shield

Fisher shield events have been going on for the past couple of weeks and have kept our GR spirits really high! Fisher shield is the competion between colleges thats goes on here at Uni, there are a series of events over the week and weekends where we dress in yellow and black and scream G-R who are we!?... G-R, lose and then go home :) we were doing really well in water polo until the finals :( and so far in net ball (basketball) we have been hanging in there, our biggest and loudest rivals are Uni Hall.
Since the big Cyclone Ului upset, we have had nothing but pouring rain for 3 or 4 hours a day, losing the tan rapidly :( The other night it rained so much during the day the volleyball court outside of my block(dorm) was flooded and so naturally all of college, at around 8:00, decided to play a very wet and sandy game of volley ball :) Until the thrill of running around getting a ball thrown at you and not being able to see it in the rain subsided we moved on to the more common backyard sport of boogey boarding and skimboarding in the lake that had formed in the quad! It was a great night and brought our college so much more close togetherI I have made some amazing Australian and American friends here! The only way, that they will get me back on the plane at the end of these 6 months is probably by drugging me or handing me a free ticket to return!
This week has flown by already and it's scary how fast time is slipping by, all the weeks have been thrown together in a crazy blurr. This coming weekend at 4:30 AM on friday I will be embarking on an adventure to Orpheus Island, off the coast up north, for my Coral Reef Geomorphology class with my professor Scott Smithers (hes written books and published many papers!), for a weekend of snorkling, surveying and sun, oh yeah and 2 lectures. Apparently you can only take 2 minute showers on the island, so I will be that person who after the water shuts off will be covered in soap and shampoo with only one leg shaved! I will be sure to take many many pictures and provide an update as soon as I get back! The weeekend after this I will be back at Orpheus for my life history and evolution of coral reefs class, so by this time hopefully I will have the two minute shower thing down!
The weekend after that i'm going up to Carins to stay with my friends family at their home and check out the Carins behind the scenes!!!!! :)
cheers!