Eunice's Tea

The flight back from Brisbane was unremarkable. I almost missed my shuttle to the airport, but another bus driver called it back.

Once I got out of the airport I took a taxi to Eunice's house. It was significantly longer and more expensive than I was expecting, but I got there. Eunice had quite a spread, with lots of sweets and finger food, the kind of stuff that I tend to constant graze on. I was the first person there, but others came later on. Not everybody did come, which was a shame, but it was nice to see some of my fellow IESers, some of them probably for the last time. We chatted about what we'd been doing--a group of them had gone over to Sydney, so I was not the only person who had Australian stories. We ate food, and played around with this toy that Eunice and her family had brought back from the Philippines--a wooden elephant that walked down a slope. A lot of people apparently have finals early this week, so apparently I'm lucky that my first final is at the end of this week. I still do wish I could be done with my finals earlier though. As it got later those of us who still hung around played this game called "Yaneev," an Isreali card game where the object was to get the lowest value hand possible. After it got dark, the rest of us went for a walk out in the nearby park with Eunice and her dog. After that we ate more, talked about the next crew of IESers for the next semester (they show up a week after we leave), and then Eunice drove us home. It was here that I discovered that my duffel's handle is jammed up and cannot be lowered. I'm going to probably have to buy a new suitcase, which makes me sad.

Tonight I went to the farewell for Ellen, an IESer who's leaving early (tomorrow) to be a counselor at a summer camp. It was alright, we had pizza, watched TV and played Yaneev. It made me wish I had interacted more meaningfully with my fellow IESers, but I did try.

Tomorrow I'll try to write a review of a book I read whilst in Australia.