USA 2025: (most of) The rest of IC

I’m currently on my flight to LA (yes that is strange, you’ll have to keep reading to learn more about that later). I’ve just finished the two previous posts and I have 1 hour 20 mins til we land so I figure I’ll try and bust out one more entry now. Saturday morning I woke up feeling relatively refreshed and a lot better health wise. I showered and went down for breakfast (the one and only time, but I think that’s once more than last year!) I did have food in my room so I had been eating other food. I procrastinated a bit but by 9 am decided I had to start on my last packet. I think it was 7 booklets? I thought I could bust them out pretty fast and as they were MAGICs I was getting through them at around 25mins a booklet which is a pretty good pace.

As I was getting close to the end Suz, Simon and I started messaging to see if we could organise catching up for lunch. They were both free and I had almost finished so we decided that I would pick up Suz and drive downtown where Simon was and have lunch there. That worked well and we found a place to eat. After that Simon and I went off together to explore more of the markets. I hadn’t planned on buying gifts but upon seeing a sauce shop I couldn’t pass it buy. I brought three bottles of bum scorcher (the hottest variety of hot sauce) for two of my friends and a bottle of bum warmer (mid range) sauce for me. We also stopped in at a sweat shop and samples sum very yummy albeit expensive chocolates.

Back to campus and then got a lift to the Community Projects (former CmPS) showcase. We didn’t have long before it shut, but we did manage to get around to all the Australian Teams, get a photo and hear a bit about their projects. The Suz when off to her special person dinner and Simon and I walked round to the dining hall to get dinner and I only got slightly wet from the rain. Walking back to the accommodation after dinner was a different story – we got very wet! We decided we didn’t have time for the rain to stop so just went through it and then changed when we got back.

A quick shower and change and then we headed off the variety show. As always it was very enjoyable although I don’t think there were any stand out acts. There were a couple of performances by Australians. I think there was more dancing than singing this year. I usually prefer the latter, but that’s ok. After that it was off to the dance. The glowsticks were a big hit but I think the music choice wasn’t as good this year and the DJ didn’t want to take request and didn’t really look at the list Paige and I added requests to.

It was back to housing and final night party time. There was a good group of us and we have fun, drinks and good discussion. I put a load of washing on and was in bed by about 2.30am. Well that’s Saturday night and almost the end of IC – always sad. I’ll finish this post here as we may as well do all of Sunday all together. As I said’s it’s a shorter trip so with two flights to go I might even finish the blog account before I land in Perth.

Still no pictures, but there are some coming in future posts I promise.