My only class today was at 4:00 so I could sleep in until around 11:00. When I got up, I had an email saying that one of my tutorials was just going to be added to the end of the class’s lecture. That means that my earliest class tomorrow is gone, and I’ll have economics from 2:00-5:00 on Wednesday instead of 2:00-4:00. I don’t mind the later start, but I was hoping to have all my tutorials on one day, as those are the classes you really need to go to. It’s not really a big deal though. Next, I finished up some things from last night, such as working on the weekend’s blog and tagging facebook pictures. I went with Harry for lunch at the Campus Centre, and on the way we saw a bunch of people we knew around Halls, and Emily joined us. She was on her way to eat before her class at 2:00 anyway, and Harry didn’t have anything all day. It seems like almost no one here has Friday classes, and it is pretty common to have an additional day off, as well. After lunch, I came back and took care of some more things around my room. At around 3:30, I left for my first class since the week after Thanksgiving, almost three months ago. Pretty sweet Winter Break. My class today was Contemporary Australia, basically a class for international students to take that teaches them about all things Australian. I got there and saw a lot of people I had already met, since the class consisted of nearly all exchange students, most of whom were from America. The class itself had pretty much the same setup as those I have taken at Miami. The teacher is in the front, with a powerpoint projected on a screen, and the desks are stadium style, with the little tables that pull up from the side of the chair. The only difference I noticed was that this professor swore a few times. Other than that, pretty similar. I think this class will be alright, especially considering some of the assignments include going on field trips. Also, for someone who is going to school here, I don’t really know much about Australia, and I would like to know more. I think this class will help me in that. Last week, Harry, Adam, and I stocked up on meats to freeze so that we could make group dinners this week rather than all cooking independently, and tonight was hamburger night. Eric was also grilling, so we got the key to the grills outside Howitt and cooked our food there. We had the temperatures on around 250° until we realized that it was in Celsius, not Fahrenheit, and then turned it down. It took us a few minutes to figure that out. After dinner, I came up and hung around for a bit, organizing my stuff. At 9:00, we decided to have a meeting in the basement of Howitt for anyone interested in planning a trip during Spring Break. About 20 or so people showed up, and we split into groups of those who wanted to go outside the country (Thailand) and those who wanted to stay in the country (Cairns, Gold Coast.) I had been planning on Thailand for a while, so I went with that group. Roundtrip tickets to Bangkok are pretty expensive, but apparently once you get there, you spend very little money on hotels and food because everything is so damn cheap. We will probably end up spending about the same, if not less, there than if we were going to a popular holiday destination. The tickets to Cairns are expensive to begin with, and then you spend a lot of money while you are there, especially during a popular tourist week. My group decided to check out flights and regroup tomorrow in an effort to book the tickets by Wednesday. I came back up to my room and finally got my DC++ working, so now I can download songs and movies and TV shows at lightning speeds. I spent a lot of time looking through what people have on the program. My first class tomorrow is at 11:00 am, and then I have two tutorials after that. I’m not expecting anything too intense, as it is still the first week.
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