Today was Festival Day at Murdoch, where basically every club on campus set up a table and tried to recruit new members. This semester is actually the beginning of their school year, since they are just coming off of summer. I didn’t join any clubs (there were no dance or TV related things), but I did get a bunch of flyers for cool travel packages. The highlight though was clearly the free bungy flip thing (see above) which was quite sweet.
Then a few of us headed to Cottesloe, where the waves were MUCH higher than Sunday. I’d estimate that a few of them were six feet. It was pretty crazy, and a few of them definitely knocked the wind out of me. I also took some pictures (above), but they really don’t do it justice.
Then, we went to see “Orpheus and the Underworld,” a free opera in the park put on by the Western Australia Opera and the West Australia Symphony Orchestra as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. It was pretty awesome. There were thousands of people there, so we weren’t very close to the stage, but there were giant screens close to us so we could see what was going on. Basically the opera was a modern adaptation of the Roman mythology story involving Pluto kidnapping a mortal and fighting over her with Jupiter. It was modern because the lyrics were changed to reflect pop culture, and also because they broke into the can-can at the end (= fantastic). The music was very good, so it was a good time. Yay for free, cool arts things!
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