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I'm here in Perth! It is seriously like southern California out here.  The weather is just like Vegas winter.  It's cold but not too bitter most days.  Right now I'm outside in the shade and it's pretty nice!

My flights were amazing. The 8 hour layover in New Zealand was killer though! there is nothing to do in that air port worth wild and there is no free wifi which stinks.  But I got here on Saturday night and got moved into my room.  The July DTS girls are all staying in one house.  Most of the other students here are staying in what we call 228.  It's a huge building with two big rooms.  In the rooms are just piles of bunk beds.  There isn't much privacy and apparently it echos pretty bad so it's not always quiet. 

However July DTS girls are in a house called Gladstone.  It's a building that it more SoCal looking.  I'll post pictures later so you get a better idea.  there are four girls to a room and our showers and toilets are outside the house but in a closed area.  again i'll post pictures later to give a better idea of what i'm living in.  Base is a three minute walk from where I'm staying.

On sunday which was my first day the girls and i went to church here in town.  It's called Metro church.  It was pretty legit.  It took place it what looks like an old theater.  i really liked the service.  After church we went to the grocery store and then had lunch at the base.  we then ventured into town.  its like california shopping areas.  There are big office buildings and then shopping on the street level.  It's kind of like what Fremont street would be if it wasn't so run down and had shops that didn't just sell vegas stuff.  it was really fun.

Sunday night after dinner we had our first meeting as a class.  We have 11 girls and two guys right now.  We are maybe awaiting for another girl and we have a boy from Mexico coming to join us! We have a few different nationalities on the team.  3 Canadians, 6 Americans, 1 from Mexico, 1 from Holland, 1 from Sweden, 2 from Australia, 1 from South Korea, 1 from Germany, and i'm blanking if there is more.  This includes our staff which is 4 females and 1 male.  I'll talk about my team later.

Monday was orientation day and then my team went to King's Park which is like Central Park.  It's huge and beautiful and has an amazing view of the Perth skyline. 

I'm not going to lie i have a lot to say but am kind of tired.  Just wanted to let everyone know I'm here, I'm alive, I'm loving it, I miss home but it feels like i'm just in California so it's not bad at all, it's beautiful and I'm loving it.  Classes will start for me tomorrow. 

I'll write more later! Love you all!

Oh about the title.  We have a couple of bakery's that donate their bread to us at the end of the day so we have more bread than we need.  Toast is what we usually have for breakfast.  It's fun!