Surf's up!

I completed part of my initiation into Australian society today. I just got back from a day of surfing.

Well, attempting to anyways.

Slide onto the board, paddle really fast, and when the waves catch you, put your right foot up a third of the way to the front of the board, and then your left foot to the middle of the board. It sounds easy.

Well, you know what they say. Practice makes perfect. Well the thing they don't tell you is practice also makes you tired. So while I did get better, by the end I was so exhausted, I was doing as poorly as I did to begin with.

Oh and I also got sunburned again, even though I did my best to not become so.

Some of it I can't tell if it is sunburned, or if it is irritated by sand, because we also sand boarded. If you don't know what that is, you take what is essentially a snow board without foot straps, and you sled down a massive sand dune. Bigger than sleeping bear dunes massive sand dune. It was entirely high and entirely frightening, but I did it twice. I sat down because we discovered that sitting was both safer than standing, and you went faster. The scariest part was that on the other side of the dune we were boarding down, it was pretty much a straight drop to the bottom.

Sorry for not updating more often. I've been entirely busy with orientation things, and going to the beach and the botanical gardens. All in all it is quite lovely here, and you all should visit me at some point. Or at least send me mail.

Kate Scheuber
ECU Student Village- Unit 27 Room 3
2 Bradford Street
Mount Lawley
Western Australia 6050