Hello from the future! Sorry if this sounds rushed, but Weebly just deleted my wonderful blog, so I have to rewrite it and I have to go to class soon.
So far I have opened 2 or my little blue envelopes. The one entitled "Open in the presence of Tim-Tams" said to enjoy my snack (which I did) and to try a new candy bar.So the next time I went to Pak n' Save (one of their versions of Wal-Mart, along with New World and Countdown), I bought myself a Moro gold. I'm not sure if they have these in the States, but because I've never tried one, I figured it counted. Plus the tag line at the bottom says, "That's how you do it in smooth pants!"--and yes, I miss you guys, too!
The next envelope I opened was the one that said "Open the day before classes start." This one may take a little while to accomplish because I don't want to spend $6 on a jar of Vegemite.
Talking about classes, my schedule is REALLY weird. I have 2 8am classes, on Tuesdays and Thursdays and 2 night labs, also on Tuesday and Thursday (6-9pm).  After that, it gets tricky.
Mondays: Bio of Animals, 9am
Tuesday: Physics, 8am
                    History of Witchcraft and Magic. 11am-1pm
                    Bio Lab, 6-9pm
Wednesday: NO CLASS!
Thurday: Physics, 8am
                    Practical Ethics, 11am-1pm
                    Bio of Animals, 1-2pm (they put 10 minutes travel time within, so this class actually lets out at 1:50, etc,)
                    Physics Lab, 6-9pm
Friday: Bio of Animals, 11am-12pm
                Physics, 1-2pm

In the past couple of weeks I have also...
-Gone to a motorbike show, it was free in The Square
-Gotten lost twice on the first day of class
-Eaten pancakes, the Centre (kind of like the BCM) provides us with free pancakes every Wednesday
-Had a potluck with my residence hall, though it doesn't feel like a hall, more like a mini-apartment complex
-Did various team-building activities during the Let's Get Going Program (like our Master Plan), in the rain. Activities like tug-of-war, a bouncy obstacle course, tire flipping, and tag rugby. 
-Drank my first beer...Betsy and Tom just stared at me for a while when I told them.
-Made plans to go road- tripping during our Semester break (2 weeks!) all around the South Island

Hello from...bleh. I'm kind of feeling awful today, but I still have three days of school...Spring break cannot come soon enough. So, until about yesterday, when my throat started feeling sore and the general misery began, the past week was going pretty well. Jill and Shelby have already mentioned our surprise trip to Asbury over the weekend. It was great seeing Shelby, and hanging out with some of her Asbury friends. We played this awesome game called Quelf, and I really want it now… So, on to Question Tuesday! Only a couple questions this week, but here they are:

3 Places/Times I’d want to visit with the 10th Doctor in the TARDIS:

1.      Raxacoricophallapatorius- really, I just want to go here because of the name. I don’t have much desire to meet any of the Raxacoricophallapatorians, especially after the Slitheen, but how much fun would it be to say “Yeah, just got back from a trip to Raxacoricophallapatorius.” Seriously, say it. It’s a fun name (Unlike its sister planet, Clom. Though they do have their own Disneyland…).

2.      Gallifrey- even though it’s the one place I couldn’t visit :(

3.      Venice- but not present Venice. The past Venice, from before the canals got all polluted and smelly. Since I figured I should put at least one place on Earth, and Venice is at the top of that list :)

If Davy Jones stabbed his own heart:

Then the post of carrying lost souls across the sea would be vacant until some poor sucker decided to volunteer for the job. Since this requires a painful and permanent cardiectomy, not to mention the horrible pay, I’d say it would take awhile to fill that position.

*Apparently cardiectomy actually refers to the removal of a portion of the stomach, but I couldn’t think of another medical-sounding way to say heart removal. So let me know if you find the actual word for it!

Hello from creeping on Jill as she watches weird you-tube videos.  Thank you everyone for all the nice things on the blog and on my Facebook wall. I want to say that I miss you very much my dear mother, Anna Beth, and my daughter, Rachael. Thank you for the Youtube videos, Rachael and Sarah. They made me smile =^0^=. I love all of you and hope to celebrate the happiness in the coming year with everyone.  Here is some neat things i can do with my computer.

Amy, I forgot you don't go on Facebook, like, ever. So here's what I posted to Facebook on your actual birthday. lol. <3 Wo ai ni!

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj2MvBZsKUc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHHAIpqtBs 

      Hello from Asbury!!! Yes, this Friday’s edition of the blog comes to you from the wonderful world of Shelby. Sara, Amy, and I drove up to surprise her for her birthday, and we succeeded. =] I’m currently listening to them talk about David Tennant and Catherine Tate (Shelby’s procrastinating on her homework, but I can’t really blame her. I keep being distracted from this as well. We just watched the Doctor’s last lines. David Tennant’s a really good actor).
      Anyway, back to writing. I had training for my Fargo trip last Sunday, as well as a free meal. Gotta love Free College Lunch Sundays.
       Amy and I, along with the rest of our Ecology class, drove up to the Bio-Preserve for our last practice-observation/logistics discussion before we start our actual data collection. Unfortunately it was incredibly windy and we didn’t see any chickadees, which is not something that makes us feel very good about our experiment. Hopefully that was just a fluke day and we’ll actually be able to observe the birds later on. Really the only animals we did see were four deer and SO MANY BABY COWS!!! I’m serious. The drive to and from the preserve is surrounded by cattle pastures in some parts, and apparently it’s calving season. One of them could not have been older than a day. It was also kinda weird how interested some of the older cows were with us. We stopped the van on the road to try a little practice bird watching, and all the cows just lined up by the fence:

Aren’t they so cute?
      Also, this is the last Friday I get sleep in. =[
     The observation time slot I’ve been assigned has to start between 6-9 in the morning. And considering it takes an hour to get to the preserve…*sigh* I’ll miss waking up at 11 on Fridays…
       FYI, Sara just came out of the closet. No, literally, she came out of the closet. She was changing into her pjs. Amy wanted me to include it in the blog. Now Amy's about to come out of the closet, well, she’s having a little trouble coming out of the closet. I think she’s stuck.  =]
       I guess I’ll end the blog around now so I can hang out with everyone. The Awesome this week, besides getting to see Shelby,  is something that looks like an incredible amount of fun and comes from someone I just found (and started watching all the videos of) on YouTube. (If you guys get sick of how much I link to Youtube, just tell me)

     -World's Largest Rope Swing-
    
   Have an adventure-tastic weekend everybody!
   - Jill

P.S. Shelby's singing "Colossions 1: The Musical" to us. I think it's gonna be a hit =]

Sorry it's kinda short...I have to buy internet here and uploading videos takes a lot of GBs