Land Down Under
So, got back from two weeks in Australia today! Well, technically yesterday, I suppose. It was absolutely amazing. I can’t even attempt to go into details here, there’s just too much to say. I did keep a pretty detailed journal, though, so I think I’m good with not forgetting anything. I was one of forty-two students on this trip, 31 of which were from Texas. Another 7 from Florida. Only 4 of us, including me, from up in the the midwest. So, needless to say, I have a few interesting stories. For example, this awesome kid who wants to be a doctor, and gave little lectures on evolution at the wildlife sanctuary, who is also an ultra believer that’s going to get a barbed wire cross tattooed on his neck. Nice contrast, huh? Or the Republican Buddhist Asian supremacist, who yelled very loudly on the first day, “Abortion is murder! It is not a right!” And he has this annoying habit of blanking out whenever anyone disagrees with anything he says. You’ll start to speak, and after you’re done he’ll say something like “I’m sorry, what did you say? I kind of blanked out there.” It’s willful blocking of any opposing viewpoints. Oh, yeah. That was just heaps of fun. But at least I was told I was going to hell only 3 times that trip! Thought it would be a lot more. Yeah, I was aiming on making friends and having fun, so I pretty much tried to dodge every bullet I could. There were a few other things. Huge, blatant racism. A poor understanding of basic politics (from a kid whose dream is to be a senator – eek!) But on the most part, I met a lot of cool people, made a lot of good friends. I enjoyed it.
Oh, and Happy July 4th! I’m going to a party sometime this evening, firecrackers and all that.
