adventures in oz

soooo its been a while since my last post but i'm finally in townsville, where i'll be for the next 4 months of my study abroad adventure. the wifi has been super spotty but i think i'll finally have some solid internet (but probably not all time time on my phone for you viber peeps). for some reason they only have ethernet in the dorms and wifi in public areas on campus like common rooms, library etc. so i'll only be able to answer viber texts when i'm not in my suite/room. my suites pretty...sweet? haha. i share it with 6 other people, guys and girls mixed but right now i think theres only 2 other people. they havent been too social but i think they have summer school finals soon so i dont blame them for studying up right now. the aussie peeps arent supposed to show up for another week or so, so i'll be cruisin with the other international peeps until then. the campus is kinda cool, some parts are kinda ghetto but its still pretty nice. its cool cuz theres all sorts of animals running around, theres wallabies all over campus, as well as kookaburras. apparently theres a ton of toads here, which i am less than stoked about, but i havent run into any yet (no bachi please...). our last day of arcadia orientation in melbourne was pretty chill, we got the day free so we went to the aquarium. they had some cool stuff in the tanks, but the layout of it was kinda confusing, and i had kinda expected more from it, since melbourne is one of the biggest cities in australia, as well as being right on the water. either way, they had some super sick tanks, including one with a tunnel through it, holding a 7-8ft shark (i think it was a sand tiger, but i'm not 100%) as well as a bunch of other sharks in the 6 ft range, two giant stingrays, a napolean wrasse, some huge groupers and a ton of paopao and omilu and snappers. we're now in the middle of james cook university orientation, but its not too strict/organized so we can kinda do whatever we want. we're mostly tryin to settle into the dorms and get used to cooking for ourselves all the time. we've been having a bunch of potluck dinners, so we're figuring out the kitchens slowly. anyways, here's all the pics from the last couple days or so, i'll keep taking pics of our townsville shenanigans

KANGA STEAKS AT THE MARKET!!!

some melbourne street art

melboure aquarium

giant underwater tunnel zones

penguinssss

meankine kagami papios, hands down the nicest looking fish in the aquarium

glass catfish! if you look close you can see that they're totally transparent except their bones and guts

barramundi!! native australian freshwater fish, apparently real good eating

sawtooth shark!! the pointy black nose is actually like a saw, it had a ton of teeth sticking out sideways from it

huge spider crab

napolean wrasse!! this thing was close to 70 or 80 lbs, 3-4 ft long

some kinda snapper zones, looked kinda like a mu or a tai. either way, looks good eating

same unknown snapper

big shark in the tank, with the paopao cruisin underneath pickin up the scraps from the feeding

paopao! that look like a weird yellowspot papio

this is apparently how thick the acylic was on the shark tank. shaka length!!

night out in melbourne, me and my statue buddy

view from the second highest building in melbourne! there was a super classy bar here, the people next to me gave me some meankine stink eye when i took this pic cuz the flash reflected off the window into their eyes i think hahaha