8/4 My birthday

Yesterday morning, as usual, we had another football game. It was here at Monash at 9:20 am against Parkdale. The game was pretty close for the first half, I think we were only losing 41 to 33 at half time. I even managed to score a goal in the second quarter, which was my first goal. I scored the goal when the ball came from the corner to the front of the goals. The guy that was defending ran to try to stop the guy with the ball, who kicked it to me. I was about 10 meters from, and directly in front of, the goal and I kicked it through easily. The second half did not go as well. I think they scored six goals in the third quarter, and we only scored one, and they ended up winning 15.14(104) to 7.5(47).

Me in my Monash Blues uniform after the game.

In the afternoon I went into the city, first stopping at Subway where I got a free sandwich because it was my birthday and I had signed up for their Eat Fresh Club. I got to the city a little after 4, and I planned to go the AFL game at 7:40. I walked around Federation Square for most of that extra time I had. There was a children's choir from Africa that was singing outside, so I watched for a while.

Watoto Children's Choir

I also spent over an hour in a museum which had a free exhibit about the history of television, movies, and video games. It was really cool, and they had a lot of interactive exhibits, including dozens of different video games you could play. After stopping at Maccas for dinner (what Australians call McDonald's), I went to the MCG. It was pretty full, and my seat (general admission) was one of the top rows. The game was Collingwood vs St. Kilda (Collingwood the team I cheer for). Collingwood had a big lead early, then blew the lead, and then ended up winning by one goal 91-85 with a very intense ending.

I got back to my hall around 11 pm, and I ate some of the cake I had bought to celebrate my birthday.