I decided to be adventurous today and take a tour around campus. It is less than a 5-minute walk and it is very pretty. Campus is on or is surrounded by a wildlife reserve. My walk is kind of marshy-like but there are flowers and different bushes to look at along the way. I walked on a few trails and took many pictures along the way. The buildings are very unique and there are many grassy areas for kangaroo watching. It took me a while to see any but I fina...

I woke up at 7:30 for some unknown reason today. I was going to go back to bed but figured I better not get used to sleeping long hours at night. It was a day of firsts. I finally left UniCentral to get some food. They had a free shuttle bus running from 1-5 to Woolworths grocery store and back. I met a girl that goes to Concordia Moorhead so now there are officially a whole lot of people from the NDSU/MSUM/Concordia area. I also met 2 guys, one from Washin...

I woke up around 9:30 and felt pretty good. I didn't get much done but oh well. My roommates and I played cards tonight. The boys were hilarious. We each taught everybody else a different card game, I chose P & A of course. After that, they took the bus to the Tavern. I'm assuming it does this every Thursday but I didn't know about it until I was here, otherwise it would have been fun to go with.

I'm here! I'm finally here! The trip went really well. Instead of taking off from MSP at 5:14pm on Monday, it was about 5:40. I took about a 45-minute nap during the flight and talked to the nice woman that was sitting next to me. We got into LA around 7pm their time. I ended up going out past security and wondering down by the baggage claim trying to figure out how to get to my next gate. I saw a guy looking just as lost as me and we happened to both be l...