Jetlag? What Jetlag? Oh. That Jetlag.

Well, it's official. I am in Australia. Apparently I'm picking up an accent already, and on top of it, everything seems to be broken. Oops.

The problems started for me before I even left Chicago. I went to check into my flight and the woman at the desk told me that she was not allowed to give me a ticket because I did not have a Visa. She talked down to me a bit about how I should have known to get one, but then was forced to eat her words when I showed her my confirmation email that said I had gotten one. She then checked three more times and still could not find it so she said she would talk to her boss, but she was still not allowed to give me my ticket. First of all, that's illegal. I purchased the ticket, so they either had to give it to me, or they had to give me a refund. Second, it is none of their business really if I got a visa or not. It's my problem if I get stuck outside of customs. Third, none of that mattered because I HAD GOTTEN A VISA!

She came back about fifteen minutes later to say that there was a computer glitch and she found my visa so she could give me my ticket anyways. Thanks a lot. You would have given it to me no matter what.

The first couple of flights went fairly well. The in flight movie from Chicago to LA was Michael Jackson: This Is It. So I suppose that could have been better. It seemed like a really weird movie to show on an airplane. That flight lasted about four and a half hours. I slept part of the way because I wanted to be able to stay up for as much of the second flight as possible.

The second flight was the fifteen hour long one. We each had our own video screen in the seat in front of us, and we were able to pick whatever movies television shows or games that we wanted. I stayed up through all of Dorian Gray and then ate dinner. I started to watch Where the Wild Things Are but fell asleep with about thirty minutes left of it. I slept a good 6-8 hours, then watched the rest of the movie, and finally watched Zombieland.

Because of a storm on the equator, the flight took a good hour longer than it was supposed to, and Becca and I were hard pressed to figure out how to get to our gate in time for our next flight. In one hour, we had to go through immigration, collect our luggage, go through customs, and then we had to recheck our luggage and get to our gate. We did it with about ten minutes to spare, and both changed our clothes and freshened up.

The movie on the four and a half hour flight from Melbourne to Perth was Amelia Earhart. Can you please explain to me why they thought it was a good idea to show a movie about a plane crash on a plane? It's a mystery to me.

We got to the university, got a tour and met our roommates. We don't live together, which is good because that means we get to meet more people. Then we were invited to go to a club that night with a group of people. We were feeling great so we accepted.

I went to turn on my computer, and that is where the major problems started. A lot of the pixels on my computer have decided to turn bright red instead of the color they are supposed to be. Nothing I have done has been able to help. I'm currently trying to figure out a store I can take it to to get repaired, and hope that it will not cost much money. I'm going to give Adam a chance to try and fix it if we ever get online at the same time again.

Then I bought internet, which, by the way, is ridiculously expensive. I went to purchase skype minutes, and found out that my credit card had a hold placed on it because I forgot to tell them I went overseas. Because I am a genius. I had to borrow someone one's cell phone and call the bank collect. That was fun.

By then it was around 7 at night, and I was quickly crashing. We let the people know that we weren't going to the club, and stayed in to play cards with my roommates instead. We both made it to about 9 before completely crashing.

I woke up at 6 in the morning, and had a productive day. I got a cell phone for use down here, and went grocery shopping. I spent several hours at a pool, and then watched some television with my roomies.

All in all it's been quite lovely down here. I'll keep you posted!