Christmas Music and Australian Trivia

1) never leave Jess, Debbie, and I in the apartment to all write papers when Jess starts playing Christmas music on her laptop.
2) never send Brett, John, Katie, Bree, and myself to pick out a movie. Even between the 5 of us, we can't find a single video in Blockbuster to rent.
3) never place me in an Australian trivia competition. I would lose.

To start with the first bullet...just a reminder of how lucky I am to have the roommates I do. :) Jess, who has been listening to Christmas music for the past month, decided to play us her favorite Christmas song: White Christmas. I'm usually not one to listen to Christmas music until December, but this of course is a special occasion that I could not pass up because Debbie started "harmonizing" aka making up her own backup vocals to Bing Crosby followed by standing up in her underwear in the middle of the living room doing motions to the words. Soon, the three of us were singing and dancing to Rockin Around the Christmas Tree and laughing so hard I had stitches. Remember, that we have floor to ceiling windows in our apartment...if there was anyone in the park across the river or on a boat, they must've thought that we were either crazy or just a really funny side show to their evening. Potentially both. Times like that really make me enjoy staying in at night; laughing that hard has to be good for you.

bullet number two...last night, Bree pulled up in front of my building with the other three inside to head over to Jonathan Potts' (Pottsy) house for some food and games. We stopped to order pizza, and while it was baking, we ran over to Blockbuster to rent a movie. We spent an hour trying to pick out a movie. What did we finally end up with? Pods, popcorn, and our pizza. No movie. It's kind of impressive actually, that 5 people can spend that much time in a movie store and not find a single film to rent. Pottsy was a little confused and slightly annoyed we showed up an hour late to his place with luke warm pizza and no movie. haha. No movie needed! What could provide many more hours of entertainment and much more thinking than a movie?? None other than a 10 year old Australian edition of Trivial Pursuit!

bullet number three...three and a half hours, 200 roll agains, and a bag of pods later, my team won the last pie piece and triumphantly took the title of Trivial Pursuit masters for the night. Being a religion major and an American, I could tell you information about Israel and Colin Powell, but when that silly game asked questions about what state held the highest percentage of the people in the 1992 strike, I slowly turned my dumb expression to John, my Ozzie team member, and just let him "far out" and "bugger" his way into his answer. Those phrases were uttered many a time by John, especially in the circumstances where 1990's Australian Politics was the category.

So the past two night have been great, and although I have been sitting here (attempting) to finish this silly religion paper all evening, there have been some great chats and hilarious jokes passed between Debbie and me. I have loved the past few months here, and I know it's going to be a very sad departing come November 18th. but not to dwell on that now! I have 4 more weeks in this grand country, and they are not going to be spent sulking about my departure! So look forward to my next few posts of my last weeks in Australia and my adventure in New Zealand to follow!