She's My Cherry Pie

Guess what I did last night! Go ahead, guess. You're never going to get it. Alright, I'll just tell you:

I went pole-dancing!

Yup, you heard me. The UQ athletic center was having free sampler classes, and one of them was for pole-dancing, which I've always wanted to at least try, so I went. As might be expected, the class was packed with girls. There were a couple guys, too, but their reasons for being there were dubious at best. I met a couple of pretty cool girls, both American: Lauren, from Chicago, and Emily, from California. They were there for the same reason as me: to see if pole dancing is really as hard as everybody says it is.

The answer is yes. Yes it is. It is very hard, and it will make you painfully aware of muscles that you previous never knew existed. Namely, the ones in your wrists.

But it is also incredibly fun! Because there were so many people trying it out, we only got to learn four moves, and we each only got one turn on the pole for each move. Consequently, we didn't actually get to learn very much, but what we did do was such a blast. The whole technique just goes against your natural instincts: leaning, spinning, falling over. It's a lot harder than ballet, that's for sure. I could only manage one of the moves correctly.

I'm considering signing up for the actual class, but I haven't made up my mind yet. It's one of the more expensive activities. We'll see.

Afterward, Emily and Lauren wanted me to go to this Beauty and the Geek party hosted by UQ Union at the Red Room, but all I had was my athletic clothes, making it a little hard to dress to theme. I gave them my phone number and said I'd try to make it back, but when I got home my roommates were having a lively discussion regarding chickens, and I just sort of got sucked in. Ended up spending the evening helping Eike try to convince Troy that America is, in fact, a lovely country, and that he can't base his whole opinion of it on the one week he spent in LA. He also wouldn't believe us that America has normal bars, just like everyone else; he was insistent that all bars in America were like the gay club he'd accidentally visited and had a bad experience at.

As for the rest of my life, I turned in my first Australian homework assignment this morning. Yay! It was just a really simple research assignment for Marine Bio, just to prove that we knew how to access and cite journal articles, but it's still a landmark. It also forced me to figure out how to use the UQ printer system, so that was an adventure as well.

Tonight, Emil is coming over so we can make pizza and watch Akira (an anime movie known for its amazing art; Emil was complaining that he couldn't find anything with better art than Death Note, so I made a little suggestion). Tomorrow, QUEST is having a party at Hotel LA in the CBD that's suppose to be fun, with cheap drinks and a door raffle, so I'll probably go to that. Monday was Eike's birthday, so on Saturday I'm going to West End with her and her friends to celebrate, and then on Sunday there's a going-away party for the basement-dweller that I may or may not attend, depending on what the guest list looks like. So far it's only Joe's Chinese friends, which is a little strange, but they're all nice enough. We'll see. I might just go explore South Bank or something instead.

Oh! Also, I finally have a new battery for my computer! It is beautiful and it works great, and now I don't have to worry about my laptop totally dying if the charge cord gets knocked out. Thanks, mom & dad! :)

Much love,
Morgan