Homesiiiiiick :(

Feeling just a tad homesick today. It's Australia Day and it was a lot of fun at uni with everyone running around in green and gold. A couple of the boys in another class went a bit crazy with the green and gold. It looked kinda funny because they were wearing thermals underneath. They sort of looked like athletes? I dunno :P Stevie made a pavlova from ingredients that may or may not have been the usual ingredients she uses. I think she got a bit frustrated with the grocery stores because no one could understand what she wanted and all the information on the packets was in German. She also brought some Australian flag tattoos with her from home, so we all got one of those :P

I've realised that the rain and general drearyness here is really getting me down. After class I went home and looked on Facebook, where everyone was talking about what they were doing back home in the summer, and there were even already some photos up. Everyone in the photos looked so warm and there was sun everywhere, and I just had to turn my head to the left to look out my window at the drizzle and greyness. It was just a bit depressing.

It seems that while I'm in this mood of missing stuff, I decided that what I really miss most of all is my old dance studio. It's been ages since I've really thought about it, and really wished that I still had those classes with that group of people. I haven't done a real proper cardio jazz class since I left Sydney, and I miss that. I miss the loud music and just throwing your body into the steps. I love ballet, but it's a very precise, inner strength based kind of class. I want both back. I miss getting ready for concert. I miss that feeling you get when you're waiting on stage behind the curtain and the house lights go down and the announcement happens. Then there's that moment of hush when the audience is quiet and the music hasn't started yet. That moment seems to last a lifetime and then bam! The music starts and everything is go. Dance concerts for me were just that pure thrill of dancing on a stage, my mind would just go blank and I would just dance.

Musicals are a completely different kind of feeling. There's more involved, more to remember, more to focus on and somehow more at stake. I also love that feeling of actively telling a story, the hard work and focus that goes into every scene, and somehow nothing exists outside of what is happening on stage. It's less of a self indulgence than just dancing at a dance concert, but still just as thrilling.

I've been pondering this as I walked home from the train station tonight, and I guess I wanted to get it out of my head before I forgot it. I missed the bus by one minute, and there was a half hour wait until the next one, so I decided it would be quicker and warmer to walk. It was a good idea I think.

About thirty of us from the course went out for dinner to celebrate Australia Day, at a Swabian restaurant above the one Australian pub :P. Stevie had checked out the pub earlier and other than being really tiny, the owners didn't even know that today was Australia Day. It was a pretty pathetic, empty place that we all passed as we went upstairs. the restaurant we went to was really nice and relatively cheap. I have no idea how much I had to drink. I know I struggled through a glass of Pilsener, then we started getting jugs of beer mixed with lemonade because we're girls and can't handle real beer :P The beer here is at least double the strength of the beer back home, so it was probbaly a good idea to water it down a bit. There were lots of drunken shenanigans, and one girl who had one single can of rum and coke became even more obnoxious than a drunken Aimee after a bottle of Bella :P I'll have photos up on facebook tomorrow :)

I really enjoyed today and my evening out, so don't imagine that I'm sitting here in a corner moping and not having any fun. I really miss home, and some days are worse than others, but I'm not letting that stop me from going out and seeing and doing stuff, and enjoying myself.

~*This random rambly late night drunken post was brought to you by German beer :P*~