Monday is the new Sunday!

I had class at 9:30 this morning, and it was Contemporary Indigenous Issues. After class, I stopped by the Residential Administration building to get some $1 coins to do laundry. $12 later, I have clean clothes! At 12:30, I went to the Catholic mass that they have at the worship centre that is apparently every week. There was about 14 people there, not including myself but including the Priest (Fr. Joe). One of the people there had their mother and grandma there, so it's usually less, I guess. Apart from one lecturer, I was the only white person, and most seemed to be of Indian or Asian decent. This surprised me because I've never met an Indian Catholic before. Even though catholic means universal, there were some differences, but they may also have just been because it is a small group: We all gathered around the altar before communion; some of the things that we sing in the USA are only said; after the homily, other people shared their views on the scripture and what he said; and Fr. Joe didn't hand out communion, but we went to the altar and got it ourselves. There was pizza afterward, and I've decided that it must be all Australians that like a bunch of toppings, because there wasn't any plain pizza there, either. (and I have yet to see any pizza with less than 3 toppings!)

After mass, I came back and did some reading until my tute at 3:00. We talked about the readings and watched a documentary (they call them 'doco' since they shorten everything!) about the Reconciliation. (The Reconciliation was an attempt for the government to reconcile between the settlers and aboriginals.) The tute is 1 1/2 hours, and when I came back I did more reading for my classes tomorrow, then went online until 7:15, when I went to Murdoch Village Christians. It is a bible study for Murdoch Christians United students in the village. (Hence the title for this post, I had a lot of Religion today!) We first went over any announcements, then we sang, we went over Colossians 1: 1-14, then we broke into small groups and prayed. We then talked about random things, and I was there until 9:30ish. I came back and am checking my email, etc and writing this post. I plan on reading some more of my biology before I go to bed and to class tomorrow. It'll be a long day since I have a field trip with my lab until 8ish!

Oh, and my nose is getting runny and I'm sneezing a lot, so I'm getting a new sickness. I guess I'm just lucky that way! *rolls eyes*