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Senior Russell Woods and sophomore Michael Williams take a swim on Sept. 6 in Te Anau, New Zealand. Despite the cold weather and freezingwater, a few students thought it would be fun to cool off in a large lake near their hotel. Courtesy of Kylie Akinsretaliating against them.Woods and Cohen hurried back to their room,only to find that the stolen pillows were no longerthere. Only 15 minutes had elapsed and their grandplan had unraveled.With no other option, the two headed back tothe girls’ room to see if they had taken their pillowsback. Still unaware that any of their belongings weremissing, the girls sensed that Woods and Cohenwere up to no good and barricaded their own door.But Cohen knew he could get through.“I had an idea that was so ingenious; it couldnever fail,” he said.Cohen lunged through the girls’ barricadebut discovered that the pillows were not there.Now stuck in the room, Cohen attempted ahasty escape.“Jeremy took off running around the apartmentand ran directly into the door frame at full speedthen face planted on the floor,” Woods said.At first, no one was aware of the harm thathad been done from the fall. After Cohen rolledover, he noticed his big toe was facing a differentdirection than it should.“When I flipped over to check my toe, I noticedthat it was crooked,” he said. “When I askedeveryone if they thought my toe was crooked,they all said, ‘yes, it’s crooked.’ Then I was limpingaround repeating ‘I broke my toe.’ After that, I gotlightheaded and lay down on the floor.”One screw and two pins later, he was unableto say whether or not the adventure was worthtoe surgery.“I wasn’t yet sure how much it was going tokeep me from doing all of the things that I wantedto do while I was there,” Cohen said.Woods, on the other hand, had no doubt itwas worth it.“I would do it again if I had the chance,” he said.“Their reaction was everything that we expected— whining, crying, begging, etc. And then I wasinformed to watch my back.”Although the pain lasted longer than theactual prank, the two realized the brevity of thesituation.“All of that started after stealing just a fewpillows,” Woods said.Hannah WareFeeding a kangaroo, sophomore RebeccaJones tries to keep the animal under controlSept. 13, while spending time in the CurrumbinWildlife Sanctuary. The sanctuarywas home to a large outdoor area forkangaroos, allowing visitors an up-closeencounter with the wildlife.Courtesy of Katie McKeeverSophomores Tyler Nivens and KylieAkins listen to their surf instructor Sept. 21in Gold Coast on Main Beach. A group ofstudents had the opportunity to learn howto surf for the first time while in Australia.Courtesy of Kylie AkinsHUA 45