Indian Culture

Now, I'm no expert on Indian culture... but the student village is made up almost entirely of students from India, so I think I have learned some things. I will share these with you.

Today is our roommate, Dev's, Birthday. He is in his final year here at USQ and has been living in Toowoomba and "the village" for almost 3 years now. On our first day he asked us how were liking Toowoomba, we said it was nice... he replied: "Give it a month." haha. Now last night at midnight (the start of Dev's Birthday) almost 20 of Dev's friends came with two cakes. Now this excited us greatly, because we all wanted some cake. But little did we know that all of this cake would be cut into nice pieces and then each would take one of these nice pieces, and "feed" them to Dev. I say feed loosely because they basically crammed them into his face, his hair, and unavoidably onto the floor! A very fun tradition, I think!

The other thing I've noticed is that Indians like to share things! Including houses. haha. I've said to Lauren that when we go back to the US it's going to be weird to not have a random Indian guy walk through my living room. Sometimes they come in to go see Dev in his room, other times they come grab a pot or a pan, sometimes they just walk through to go from their townhouses behind ours, to the townhouses on the other side. So needless to say, they keep it interesting.

I haven't noticed too many other fun Indian facts... but if I find any more, I'll let you know.

Other than that, things are good. We may try to go to Brisbane for a night or two this weekend... we need to get out of Toowoomba for a while. haha.
I have a quiz today in my Psych class, so I'm heading to the library to study for that!

Hope all is well at home!
Miss you all!

Lazy Day

Today ended up being a very lazy day. We woke up late, had some breakfast on the porch, then proceeded to play cards for the better portion of the day. I introduced everyone to a Luttrell favorite - multiple person solitaire. It was an instant hit. We must have played close to 50 games today.

We paused the card playing to have a "family" dinner. Everyone brought something to contribute and we all had a really tasty dinner together. There was pasta with meat sauce, a roasted chicken, bean salad, and some nice appetizers. After dinner the solitaire continued, until all of the power in the student village went out for no apparent reason. We decided it was much more fun outside, so we pulled the couches out into the driveway and sat and watched the stars and the moon rise. After an hour or so we decided we should do a drive-in movie... so I brought my laptop out and we started a movie. Only for the power to come on 10 minutes later. But we kept the movie going anyway.

All in all, it was a good day.
Tomorrow I am going to the library to get my work done for this week. I am telling you this because the more I say it, the more likely this is to actually happen.
Hope all is well!
Miss you all!