Two weeks of classes down and this marks my being in Australia for one month! I'm encroaching on my fear of time slipping by too quickly and me not appreciating all there is to do out here. That's not to say I haven't been doing a fair amount of appreciating! I really ought to slow down a bit in fact. But I haven't thought about travel yet, and the window of opportunity is closing quickly. Note to self, travel is expensive!
My initial panic over classes has faded. I was able to easily adjust to a different style of learning, and given that I have so little class time, I really think I end up spending less time on classwork but getting more out of it. It's tough to get my various groups in the entrepreneurial class motivated though, especially becuase I'm not particularly motivated either!
True Australian experience number 1 this week: We went out to Bonbeach on Friday, someone came over and told us to get out of the water and pointed to a helicopter hovering close to the water a ways down the beach. This meant shark! Eventually it made it's way toward us and stayed in very shallow water so we were able to get about 6 feet from it while standing on land. Not a particlarly big fellow, but still it's amazing how something so simple as a shark can exact such a response from the very humans who so easily control all aspects of land. Will remarked that we are not creatures of the water, so that was the sharks domain. I squashed the urge to rush into the water and harass it, but only because the lifeguards we watching. Would have been a better story at least.
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