3 Months in 3 Paragraphs

I've been a lazy blogger. But to be honest, there wasn't much to blog about. With school and schoolwork taking up the majority of my time, I'd have bored you all to tears if I'd really told you what I did every week or so. So let's just do a quick summary and then get on to the fun stuff. :D

MARCH
This was the first month of classes, and probably the worst, because I had to attend my Wellbeing and Prevention class 3 times in that month. And three 7-hour lecture sessions on consecutive Mondays is not exactly what happiness is made of. So that was dumb. But it's over now. It was also a good month of transitioning back into the life of a student, which I can't say I'm a fan of after working full time, as a teacher no less, for three years, but knowing that each day was one day closer to never having to do a degree again kept me going.
March brought St Patrick's Day...and homework. That's pretty much it.

Canadian friend Lesley and me out for St Patrick's Day

APRIL
April was a bit more fun. Still had papers to write and such, but also had a visit from my friend Rebeccah (whom I knew in Bangkok), and Easter - which brought a seafood feast with my friend Mandy's family on Good Friday, baptisms the following day at the pier (where we were blessed to see several people dunked in the freezing water, including Pastor Guy's own father), and Anzac Day (which I hear is great, but I didn't attend because I had papers to write).

Me and Rebeccah

Spotted outside a farm on a random get-out-of-dodge-for-a-few-hours Saturday

Helping Mandy make the seafood feast - in our church dresses and pearls, no less hahaha

Lilah, the sweet dog. And her feed-me hole lol

Part of the feast

Mandy's nephew with cupcake....everywhere lol

Baptism!

Pastor Guy's Dad and brother

Group prayer

Me, Pastor Guy, Mandy, Paul, Mike

Easter Sunday!

MAY

May brought the petering out of classes (hooray!), a field trip for one of my classes with a stop at the Eureka Tower, my first meeting with Restore (outreach ministry team at my church that reaches out to sex workers in the city), a free cut and color as a model for my hairdresser friend Jess who was interviewing at a salon, my first live AFL game, the Melbourne International Coffee Expo, and a visit from my cousin Cristi!

Sketch of early aboriginal land. Look at the kangaroos! :D

Our field trip group

Beaver skin cloak

View of Melbourne CBD from the Eureka Tower

Me and Abbey

Haha me and Abbey making Dia de los Muertos masks at the Immigration Museum

Cut and color part 1 - trimmed and curl diffuser dried

Cut and color part 2 - blow wave

Cut and color part 3 - color added, but darker than expected and roots still visible

Cut and color part 4 - shampoo bleach to lift the darker color and even out the overall tone

Cut and color part 5 - finished product! Lighter red added, evened, and beautifully blow waved. Thank you Jess and Zedi Salon!

First AFL game - Essendon vs Western Bulldogs - Essendon won!

Just a ridiculously yummy breakfast of poached eggs before the Melbourne Coffee Expo with Tasha

The booth next to ours was the Procol Milk booth, and this guy was also a masseuse...so we sorta took advantage

Studying for my Epidemiology exam

First dinner out with Cristi!

View from the Shrine of Remembrance

Greek food for lunch at Stalactites!