Next week starting on Friday the second I have my second study break. I'm pretty excited it's a total of 9! days. I decided I would try to get as much done as possible and get ahead in my studies. This means finish my paper for Pollutants that is due the second Monday we get back from break, catch up on my reading and possible read ahead in the text books from the library, write out some review questions I'm going to have to do soon anyway, complete some labs online to catch up, and compile first half study guides for two of my classes (I've already done one for Micro essentially because of the midterm this week). After this week, we're essentially have way through the semester. As of tomorrow, Wednesday, I'll be home in 11 weeks. But basically in a nutshell, I have a bunch of work I've been trying to get done so I can have a more open break, so I canplayWorldofWarcraftwithmybrotherathomebecauseI'mnotanerdoranything. In my glorious defense, I haven't played WoW since I left home because I don't want to make time for it around my studies because that wouldn't be cool.
I don't think it's quite possible to do a breakdown of my last few days because I've lost track a bit. I know on Thursday, my easy day, I went shopping with Jesse at Coles before running off to a meeting with my American environmental studies friends, during which we talked about doing things during the rest of the semester. I'm a little annoyed because I was in a GREAT mood at that point so I said I'd do a lot of things, which I no longer have any interest in because I'm too busy. Oh well. It then took me a while before I got any work done.
Friday wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be because I didn't have my morning 2 hour lecture, and, well, the lab I hate so much ended up being really lame because they didn't have everything prepared when we got there. After messing around with the microscopes for about 2 hours I left. I'll make it up online because I wasn't passing in this lab. I was actually sort of annoyed the lab samples were not prepared by the time we got there. A lot of people left early so I did too, well, sorta. Friday night a bunch of us got pizza from Dominoes and we ate too much of it while watching Spongebob. It was a decent night but I was really out of it, so I went back to my room early and decided to look through my classes for the fall. This is when I found out I could apply for a research fellowship for this summer. The research fellowship is flipping sweet, but I won't go into too much detail yet because I'm still in the process of applying for it. Wish me luck!
In the fall I'm looking at taking French because I have to, two biology seminars (one 2.5 or 3 hour lecture a week) and a directed lab study (like I did last semester). This means because I don't have any specific times I need to be in the lab for my directed study, I'll have a very wide open schedule. I might even be able to pull it off such that I don't have to go into lab on Friday to get work done which would be great because I have Fridays off otherwise (and I hear a lot of really awesome people might have Friday off too). Next semester should be a lot of fun and I can't wait for it!
I woke up at a good hour on Saturday (notice how I'm breaking down each day even though I said I wouldn't) and worked all morning and early afternoon on my paper synopsis and research fellowship proposal. This proved difficult as someone named Alicia kept me away from my work on Skype and AIM. I was actually pretty happy with the amount of work I got done. After going for a run, shower/having dinner, and doing a little more work, Jesse and I shut off all our power in our rooms and sat out on my porch coming up with ideas for movie skits we'd like to do. We'll have to see if we even get to filming after break.
Jesse and I then went down to Connor's flat to see what he was up to. He and Greg were skyping with Clark girls, all of whom I knew. One of them screamed only a little bit when I walked infront of the webcam. It was cute. That skyping turned into getting my laptop to join Greg and Connor on their laptops to go onto the website Chatroulette. If you don't know, Chatroulette is a website where you have random video chats with people around the world. It is known for being an exhibitionist playground. Essentially guys love to expose themselves on there. It's sickening. Nonetheless, the night was filled with a lot of laughing and general nonsense as we messed around with people. Not to worry, I stayed fully clothed.
Sunday morning I woke up at a decent hour to do even more homework. Yay! I wanted to get as much done as possible before I had to go to the Australian Rules Football match with the CIEE bunch. Jesse and I left at 3 and took a bus into Freo and a train from there to an neighborhood called Subiaco. Subiaco Oval is home to the Fremantle Dockers, a purple-clad AFL (Australian Football League) team. Apparently, the Dockers are usually pretty bad. Visiting were the Adelaide Crows. However! This was the season/home opener! Additionally, we had pretty good seats!
The pitch, which is a giant, long oval, has two sets of goal posts, one on each end. The object is to kick (punt) the oblong ball through the posts, the middle set being worth six points and the outside posts being only worth one point. Eighteen players a side play, so it's sometimes quite crowded! I won't go into the semantics of the game, but the Dockers kicked ass! The final score was 118-62--a large margin of victory. The Crows did come back a bit in the third quarter, but the fourth quarter was almost all Dockers which was great because that was our end. All in all it was a fun game and I'd consider going to another game!
The train ride back actually wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. I was expecting something similar to trying to ride the T after a Sox game. I mean, it was crowded sure. We decided to go into Perth and take the train back that way which was a much better idea than going back the way we came, because the trains back into Freo were JAM PACKED. I was actually surprised at that. The train ride back was good times. There were a handful of us CIEE kids going home together so it was reaaaal nice but we were all reaaaal tired. I went to bed soon after I got home.
Monday morning I went shopping at Coles and got a few things. The damn bus back home was 5+ minutes late (which is extreme for my bus line, so I started walking home only for it to pass me on my way back. I was pissed. I did however beat back the next bus that would have come on that bus line, so it wasn't terrible. Oh well. My lecture wasn't too too bad and my discussion which got moved to Mondays is in a much nicer room and a few more people turned up to that one. Unfortunately I over prepared for my paper which we were going over (the synopsis) and I felt silly for preparing so much. I was a little annoyed. After a run, I made pasties filled with a lot of goodness and did a bit of studying before going to bed around 11:30 (which is early for me!).
Today, Tuesday morning, I slept in until 10 which was great. My one class at 11:30--Microbiology--ended up not happening because the lecturer couldn't make it. However, I didn't end up leaving lecture until about 12:00 anyway because one of our lecturers came in to tell us the first lecturer couldn't make it and he tried to see if he had any lecture put together that would have been appropriate (but he didn't). However, my friend Tim (who I previously mentioned) came back to my flat to study for our midterm for a bit, not that we got much studying done. Basically we ended up laughing the whole time and talking about inappropriate things which is almost a fun, fun time. I studied a bit after that and I plan on going on a run today in a little bit once the sun's down a bit more. I hope to start on some homework I have planned for my study break, and I'll review for my Microbiology midterm a bit more in the morning perhaps before lecture. I should have at least 90 minutes in the afternoon tomorrow to review for it. The exam, which is only 15% of my grade, is at 3:30 (and I usually have the Micro lab at 1:30). After my class gets out at 12:30 tomorrow, I hope to meet this kid I met randomly on WoW. The story goes something like this: I was playing in a dungeon with a group of random people, all from different servers from me (meaning I wouldn't see them anywhere besides a dungeon). We wanted to do another dungeon because we were a really good team, but one of them had to go to bed and I figured out he was (at the time) 13 hours of me. I asked if he was from Australia and he said yes. Turns out he was due to be a first year at Murdoch. What are the odds of that!? It was absolutely ridiculous. After several failed attempts I hope to meet this kid in person just to say hi. I hope to then have time to have a nice leisurely lunch before taking my exam at 3:30. I'm not too worried about the exam. We'll see though! I hope to get a lot more studying done Wednesday night. Thursday I just have the one lecture before a meeting at 2. Then I'm completely done before break! No horrible Friday!! Yayy!!! I hope to get a lot of gaming in on Thursday and Friday and the weekend to reward my studies for the past two weeks. During the week of break I expect to get some good studying done though, so not to worry. :-p
Thursday: 7.5
Friday: 7
Saturday: 8
Sunday: 8
Monday: 7.5
Tuesday: 7.5
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