Back at the beach today, I jumped off one of the jetties (piers) into the water.  It was pretty scary.  I almost didnt do it cause it was so high.  I'm really bad at judging heights so I wont try to guess, but it was high.  Aarika and I met 2 guys from Toronto at our study abroad/exchange thing this morning and we all decided to blow off all the things we planned on getting done today and go to the beach instead.  Being a Monday afternoon, there was nobody there, so we played frisbee with a cheap plastic frisbee the boys found in some shop.  As entertaining as it was to play frisbee in the wind down there, apparently it was dangerous because the frisbee cut up Aarika and Dan.   

It is awesome to go down to the beach because it is so inexpensive and quick.  We didnt bother to wait for our student IDs today, so the tram was $2.60 for both ways.  If we had our IDs it would only be $1.20!!!   It does get more expensive on the weekends, but still!  It only takes 20 minutes to get there AND the McDonalds sells soft serve cones for 70 cents!!  I suppose cheap ice cream makes up  for really expensive drinks... :(

I  think I'm starting to get used to the driving on the wrong side of the road thing.  I mean I still look the wrong way to start with, but it doesnt freak me out as much as it did at first.  When I first got here, I would get scared that the cars would crash or something cause it looked really weird.  Now, I dont even pay attention anymore.  I think that is part of how time right now is really warped.  I have a sense of short term time lengths, like half hour vs an hour, but the days seem to last forever and it seems like I have been here for much longer than 4 days.  I already know my way around the city pretty well.  However I dont have very good sense of timing as far as distance.  I keep telling everyone that everything is a 5-10 minute walk.  It isnt true at all.  We did discover though that every map we have seen so far of this city is scaled horribly.  There are streets that look the same length on the map, but one is a 5 minute walk and the other is a 20 minute walk!  My goal for tomorrow is to learn how to use the bus that comes right outside my college.

I got locked out of my room for the first time today.  Everywhere around here, they seem to have keycards instead of actual keys.  I left mine in my room and I need mine to get into St. Marks College, then to get into my building/apartment thing and then to get into my room.  I somehow found an open door to the college, but then had to knock on my roommates patio door to wake him up to let me in, where I had to find my other roommate to get the number to call the guy that has the master key.  It was a huge process, so I think I will try to not do that anymore.