This was the first week since I’ve been here that I haven’t traveled on the weekend outside of Perth.  It was nice to relax and write postcards and just lounge around.   I found out that Oprah was Australia earlier in the year.  To the Aussies this was a really big deal, now there’s going to be a lot of American Tourists. 

On Saturday I ran through a part of King’s Park, around sunset, which was really calm and peaceful.  Saturday night I ate at McDonalds (they call it Maccas) for the 1^st time.  Sadly there’s no dollar menu here, a Big Mac was $4.85.  Also Subway’s foot-longs are $7 instead of $5.   It’s so weird that everything here closes so early.  On Friday’s almost all the shops downtown close at 5 and public transportation stops running at midnight.  They don’t have any Wal-Mart’s so the only thing open 24/7 are the gas stations. 

Its coming up on 2 months since I’ve been here, hard to believe.  The weather is finally starting to cool off a little, its been in the high 80’s in the day and around 70 at night.  The upcoming weeks are going to be busy, I have 2 exams and 2 papers due before Easter break starts on April 22^nd.  

Location: Perth