This week has been so incredibly stressful and I'm so glad it's done! It started wonderfully enough with a visit from Michelle and her friends. I really wish I could've hung out with her more and shown her the city, but of course I had to work all Sunday and then she went with her friends on the Great Ocean Road tour on Monday, but I still was able to take her out to meet most of my friends Monday night! They had to leave on Tuesday at 3 in the morning, so they wanted to just stay up all night, so I took them to Blue Moon and 7/11 to get free slushies (since it was 7/11, seeing as they're weird here and do the day first) and Brian bought us all pizza and chocolate cake afterwards (but it's okay, because he bought it, it had no calories)! And afterwards we went to Turf and danced it all of anyway! Then I took them on a 1 in the morning tour of uni campus since I hadn't had time to show them during the day, and we ran into some VERY drunk guys who we skillfully ran away from. But it was so much fun seeing Michelle and meeting her friends and taking a break from all the studying!
The rest of the week was literally spent being a hermit and studying all the time because my exams were on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. By Tuesday I had totally had enough studying and just wanted to get them all over with, but I guess it's always good to feel more prepared than not prepared enough. And as a result, all my exams went really well! It was so intimidating though! We don't have our exams in our normal lecture halls like we do in the states, we have them in the Royal Exhibition Building, aka this:

It was all set up with these giant rows of chairs with desks, the exam booklets and everything all pre-laid out, and we get assigned seats. I was number 2577 for my genetics exam, which shows you how freaking big this hall was. It was also so distracting with how beautiful the ceilings were!! I just wanted to look around the room for the whole exam, but that may have also been aided by the fact that I would've done anything not to actually have to take those exams.
My last exam was today, Animal Physiology, and by last night I was completely brain dead. I guess that's what waking up early and studying all day, taking exams, and then immediately studying some more with no study breaks will do to you. So when my friend Randy called me and asked if I wanted to meet him and the other guys at the backpackers bar again for trivia night, it was impossible to say no. I brought my notes along with me so just incase I wanted to read my notes in the dim lighting while answering trivia questions I could, but of course I ended up just taking a break. Trivia night was EPIC. We knew so many of the answers (or, well, the others did. My contribution came when they played Young, Wild, and Free and asked who the artists were. Thank you minimal hip hop knowledge!) and so we were set to win. Then came a challenge: A Just Dance 2 Challenge.
Now most people reading this will know of my just dance 2 skills. I pride myself in my ability to move a wii stick in the same motions as the little electronic person on the screen, but when I went to go represent my group I was so nervous! I hadn't played in 6 months and didn't know if I'd be completely terrible after completely talking up my Just dance 2 skills. To make things worse, when I met one of my competitors he asked me "So, are you good at this? I am. I've won the last 5 weeks in a row." So I just shrugged my shoulders and gripped my bright pink controller. And guess what? I KICKED HIS ASS! I then went up for round 2, and beat the other finalists by a good 3000 points. It was definitely a proud moment in my life!!And despite the giant study break on Thursday night, I actually totally owned my exam today as well! Totalllyy worth it!

Now I'm finally done with exams and I was so excited to go sell back my textbooks because there is no way I'll have room in my suitcase for 2 giant science textbooks, and of course, being a school bookstore, they're not taking them back. I. Hate. University. Bookstores. And I can't even sell them online here because 1, I don't know how, and 2, I don't have enough time to ship them out to people before I go home! My next move is to try local bookstores to see if I can get any kind of money for them because it would be better than just having to throw them out or trying to fit them in my suitcase.

But regardless, I'm all kinds of happy now that I will never have to do another assignment in Australia again! I can now just focus on having fun and enjoying my last couple of weeks with my friends. Perfect :)