Hiking and Day One of Uni!

Once again I did not update my blog yesterday so I'll do it today!

Day started pretty rough. I got to sleep in late but I then confirmed the fact that I had a schedule conflict between two of my classes, so I had to get approval for another class which was not on my list before. I headed up to the uni early in the day to go buy some notebooks, pens, folders and get my class situation sorted out at the international office. I managed to make it work so I still don't have class on Mondays and I am now (hopefully) in Agroecology. My other classes I'm taking are Conservation Biology, Conserving Tropical Rainforests, and Effective Speaking. After I figured out my schedule and left the uni I met up with friends at lunch and we decided to go on a hike. It was drizzling a little, but it felt good instead of the sun. We have rain at some point pretty much everyday here. The trail was right behind the uni, in some sort of conservation land, about a mile and half long one way. It was nice, a wide path right in the forest, with some serious uphill parts, so I was definitely sweating by the time we got to the top. At the top was an abandoned house that never got finished because apparently the owner went bankrupt. It was an amazing view over Cairns out to the water, pictures below. We hung out for a while, before going back down a different way, down where their driveway would have been, ended up at the road, then had to hike through tall grass and cane back to the lodge. After that we hopped in the pool and I hung out for the rest of the day until dinner, Brady Bunch was on TV! Along with Happy Days. Very weird. Oh and it was $2 Tim Tam Tuesdays!!! So I got a box of those, and ate 8 of them..... After dinner we got Monopoly from the office and had an intense game. There were 10 of us playing so we divided into teams of two. My teammate and I crushed the competition!!! We won with hotels on the orange and red corner. It was the English version so I don't know the street names they used.  That was pretty much it. I will update you on today tomorrow! love you lots