Nightlife, nightlife, nightlife.....school!

Kina and I at Bond Music Festival

Well since I have already been here a month, I guess I have a lot to catch you up on and a lot to tell. As you can tell from the title, since I haven't been doing a lot of traveling I have been spending my time experiencing the great nightlife in the Gold Coast, along with doing a lot of * cough* studying *cough.* During the first week that I was here, Bond set up a huge week of events, called BONDSTOCK for all of the new students to participate in and get to know each other. Most of them involving alcohol and parties, hah. The first event that I went to was called Tight N' Bright. I wish that I would have known that there were all these events, so that I could have brought the proper attire, but I guess a tied died shirt did the trick!! After getting ready, Kina and I decided to go down to "animal house", because it was extremely noisy and we wanted to join the fun! That was the first night that we met all the awesome aussie guys and started to become friends with them all!! After that night had finished and I had slept in pretty much all day, like the lazy person I am, I was ready to go again!! This night everyone from Bond was going to this house/mansion which was turned into a bar in a place called, Sufers Paradise. This event was called "Illegally Bond," and it was quite cool and very fun! The house had many different rooms and it felt like the whole of Bond University had attended that party since it was so crowded. I then proceeded to leave and go back to my lovely room!!
Another event that Bond had set up was called The Secret Location Party! For these events, you have to buy you ticket ahead of time and then there are drinks provided the whole night and since it was a secret location, nobody knew where we were going. I am so excited to go to all of these events, because it is very unusual for many Americans to attend these events, but since I had made so many new aussie friends, I felt like I was a part of the gang, hah! Upon arrival, I realized that this was at Jupiter's Casino, which is right down the road from Bond, and it was a pool party!! (I knew there was going to be some kind of swimming involved, because they told us to bring our "bathers.") Isn't that funny??? They call them bathers!! This place was amazing, there were about 5 different types of pools and 2 different spas. They had people walking around with nibbles (appetizers) and they also provided towels!! This was one of the best parties that I have been to and the venue was amazing! A couple days later and another BONDSTOCK event to go, there was a music festival in the Bond gym and then there was Students Ball!!! I was so excited about this, because it felt like I was going to my high school prom again....minus the HOT DATE, hah! I had my mum send me a wonderful dress for this event, thank you mom, and I got all "dolled" up for it. I was so excited, because I was one of the few Americans that were going to this Ball. I was lucky enough to be asked to sit at a table with all aussies and I was so exited to get the night started!! The event was held at the same Casino that the Secret Location Party was held, but inside in one of the banquet halls!! When arriving at the Casino and standing in line, we were handed wine and champaign and it felt to elegant!! We then went inside, ate dinner and danced like crazy!!! Bondstock week was amazing and it allowed me to meet so many new people and I feel like I have actually attended this school since the beginning, since I know so many people, also due to the fact that there are 5,000 people total (undergrad and postgrad) that attend this school, hah!!

Me and girls before Students Ball

In addition to all these school sponsored events, the nightlife outside of it is really fun as well! We pretty much go to the same areas each weekend and they are mostly nightclubs. Australians just love to dance I guess, hah!
On another note, school has been going well and since I am a senior I am taking a little more difficult classes than other study abroad students. My classes are pretty difficult and the teachers could care less whether you are a study abroad student or not, sot that makes traveling quite hard to do!! This is definitely not like London, where I didn't have school on Fridays or Mondays until 6:00 p.m., ahhhh, I miss those days!!!  I study all the time during the week and just had my first assessment (quiz) in my Marketing class, which was quite difficult, since they do things differently over here!!
Well the time has come and I am going to leave now, but I'll write again soon!! I will be heading to Byron Bay in two weeks time and then Sydney for Halloween weekend, which I need costume ideas for if you  have any!! Then I will be heading to this place called the Whit Sunday Islands the second weekend in November and after that FIJI, so look forward to many more stories to come!!!