'Talk talk, I'm talking'- Jae

At breakfast we switched modes of transportation again and we were in cars. Katie and I were together and then the driver changed and the person in the passenger's seat changed with them. I found out when getting off the bus at breakfast that one of my flip flops, aka thongs for the Aussies, was missing. (Whenever we got on and off the bus we had to put our shoes in a bin in the front of the bus to stop some of the spread of dirt.) Luckily, I had packed my shower shoes in my bag for the bus as well. I was especially glad that I had another pair when we got to lunch because it was rainy.

We stopped at another park for lunch. While they were prepping the sandwiches, a few of us went on a walk around the park. It was gross and wet. When we got back we somehow to got talking about the size of Australia compared to America and the northern/southern/eastern/western-most parts. I used some of my trivia to tell them that Alaska is both the westernmost and easternmost state. Lunch was, again, sandwiches, but I ate some with just chicken and mayo.

They changed drivers when we stopped for gas, and Jae was driving. We followed the other car, which ended up going the wrong way to Canberra, but we got there. They had police set up doing random breathalyser tests on drivers. Jae got pulled over and it was a kind of breathalyser that we had never seen before. Instead of blowing into it, you talk into it. He didn't know what to say, so he just kept talking about talking, hence the title.

We got to Canberra late that night and we ate dinner at the Edwards' house. They were the main host family where a lot of people stayed. The rest of us were in billets, aka host families, of the church that they go to. We had pasta for dinner. After dinner we were supposed to get in groups of four to be placed into billet's homes. Katie and I formed a group and then added Nathalie who brought in Monica. We ended up being at the Tinney's house and they had four girls and four guys that were staying with them. The four guys were Ben, Chris, Eddie, and Nathan.

All of the people staying at billets took Henry to get dropped off. The family was nice but we didn't really get to talk to them a lot. When we got there we talked while rotating showers. We found out that Eddie and Nathan are tea connoisseurs and it was hilarious and entertained us every night. The shower ran out of hot water halfway through, that's what happens when 8 people are showering, but it was still really nice to get clean after being on a bus for about 3 days.