Last Blog post: Thank goodness!

It is not the assignment that makes me say that I am glad to say goodbye to blogging. I think the assignment, for my communications class, is a great one. It is the idea of blogging regularly that I would not be able to stand. I am writing a paper on my blogging experience so all I am going to say is that I am sticking to my Facebook page.

Randolph college just had a Thanksgiving holiday break. It was short, but I enjoyed not having college food. The food here is terrible so I sometimes avoid going down to the dining hall to eat and try to find other ways to get food. Over this short break I was finally able to watch a movie that I had been dying to see. I am sure by know you can tell that I love movies. I am adding on to my previous blog post just because this movie I saw excited me. I am talking about the movie Australia. It is not just the movie, but the discussion of the movie on Thanksgiving day. I had been watching the movie, but in increments. I have DVR at my house and my family had been nice enough to leave the movie still recorded after they had watched it long before me. So I had just seen the beginning of the film and what I saw was so wonderful that it bothered me that I had not seen it all the way through. So the moment I got off of school for the break, I raced home and watched the movie. I cried afterwards it was so moving. It also made me remember how much I love Nicole Kidman. It also emphasizes why Huge Jackman was People's magazine's choice for Sexiest Man Alive. The song Somewhere Over the Rainbow is in the film and is hauntingly played on a harmonica. I never knew there was more than one way to hear that song and still think it was the greatest song in the world. I had only heard it in The Wizard of Oz. It's a historical piece so I do not know how much of it is actual Australian life. I assume the landscape is the same and I hope so because it made me want to go there so much. On Thanksgiving day I sat down with friends and family and at one point the movie was mentioned. We were raving about how great it was and then somehow the conversation turned to kangaroos. There were not kangaroos in the movie, but it was brought to my attention that kangaroos are very dangerous creatures. I was informed about a man and his dog's encounter with one and how the kangaroo carried off the dog and tried to drown him in a river. I included this because I want to go to Australia, but at the same time I have to be extremely careful when it comes to contact with its wildlife. What I love equally as much as movies is traveling. I have only been to Italy, but I hope to one day travel to all sorts of places in the world.