I have this week plus three more weeks of lectures left before a one week study break. After the study break, we have two weeks worth of exams. My four exams (three theory exams and one lab practicum) are spread evenly over nine days; my last exam is on the 10th. While this isn't ideal as I wanted to try to come home early, I'm okay with it. I'll have heaps of time to study for my finals and be relaxed for them. Until exams, I have a project to complete in Microbiology which I designed with my three lab mates (Tim, Mitch - the funny Australians - and Allie - the SC girl from my CIEE group) over the next few weeks which should be fun and only a bit time consuming, a few more labs in Plant Diversity, and a bit of reading here and there for my Pollutants class. All in all, I hope to have plenty of time before study break to study for finals.
Here's a quick run down of last week!
On Tuesday after class, I worked on some Microbiology with Tim. Good times were had. I didn't get much more work done than that.
On Wednesday, I spent too much time in Micro lab planning out our project and it was a bit frustrating. It should be okay now though! I think this was the night I went over to Connor's for a few drinks but all of last week has blended together (not because I got drunk or anything - that was them, not me!).
On Thursday I didn't have any class which was awesome! I probably failed at getting any work done, but I went back to footy practice for the first time. It doesn't look like I missed much. Only a few of us made it which was disappointing, but I'm determined to keep going from now on.
On Friday... my least favorite day of classes... I walked into Plant Diversity lab prepped for lab. I was ready. Then I forgot to take the lab quiz online before I got in. ..then... I walk into lab... and... the professor... was handing out a new lab. THE LAB TO BE DONE FOR THAT WEEK. Are you serious? I was... so mad. Essentially I prepped this coming week's lab, not last week's. I guess if I paid VERY CLOSE attention I might have guessed I was supposed to wait for this lab, but the lab I prepped was the next lab in the handbook. Thankfully the lab on Friday wasn't graded or on the final, so everything ended up okay. But I almost killed someone. I hate this lab.
In the evening, the four of us boys (Connor, Jesse, Greg and I) hung out at Connor's flat and good times were had. Solid, solid evening.
On Saturday Jesse came over to make dinner. We made the best food I've cooked for myself all semester! We made pastries filled with potatoes, onions, vegetables, garlic, bbq sauce, rice and cheese. Absolutely fantastic! I'm now going to make variations of this from now on. I made a pasta bake version of this a week or so ago and that was quite good too, but this meal took the cake. I was really glad to have shared it with Jesse too. I hope to share more meals in general from now on!
That night Connor, Jesse and I went to our friend/neighbor's birthday party. The theme was outrageous attire. ...let's just say I wore a tie around my head, a button down shirt, and a speedo. The button down shirt hid my speedo really well. Haha.
On Sunday I woke up pretty late because I couldn't for the life of me fall asleep and stay asleep--I kept having those dreams where you're trying to do something, like do complicated math or science or working your old summer job before you can go to bed. It's the most annoying thing EVER. I had plans to go to the beach with two of my friends from the Northwest trip, so I texted back one of them. She didn't respond. Finally, she texted me back again telling me she and our friend were leaving. I caught up with them in time and found out she wasn't getting my texts because Australian track phones are the crappiest things in the world. I guess my credit wasn't rolling over month to month or something. I'm so mad. This prevented me from going to a rave a few nights earlier too as it turns out. UGH.
We went to Scarborough Beach, which is north of Perth. I've never been there. Why? Because it took us nearly two hours to get from campus to the sand: walk down to the bus stop, wait for a bus, get to the train station, wait for the train, go about 10 stops on the train, wait for another bus which took even longer to get there to finally get to the beach. I mean, I wasn't really worried about it but I was having fun, but still. AND I won't go there again anyway, so it was nice to go there. It was too cold to go into the water, but the three of us had fun talking on the beach and sitting in the sun anyway.
We didn't have class on Monday because of a public holiday (ANZAC - the WWII memorial holiday for AUS and NZ) which meant my third busiest day of the week could now be spent to leisurely studying. However, I didn't get too much studying done because I did my laundry, tidied my room and flat (as it was inspected today) and looked up my exams. I was able to get the past five years of exams for my three classes (but not the practicum for my hated class) and it looks like they're all strikingly similar to each other and comprised almost completely with essay questions (which I greatly prefer). Things are looking up! I hope to answer all the questions in the past exams before study break comes and be able to study them and relax over study break. Shortly after getting this squared away, Jesse (and later Connor) came over to figure out what we wanted to do in our last 6-7 weeks in Australia. Here's what we came up with:
On Thursday this week, the three of us are going to King's Park to have a picnic lunch. I'm very excited.
On Friday, we're going to a few bars before going to an arcade with Greg included. They're all very excited (this has been planned for a few weeks).
On Saturday we might go into Freo for dinner and watch the sunset up upon a hill. Sounds AWESOME.
Next Friday we're going to have a pizza night and watch Avatar again. I'm REALLY excited for this!
The Friday after that we're going to another professional footy game. I'll have to book it out of lab, but it should work okay. After we hope to go into Perth city and explore or something like that. This probably means going to bars.
One of the next two weekends in the future we hope to get out of the metro area and go to this really nice national park and do a 15k walk/hike through some really pretty areas.
Jesse and I will be sure to do a few afternoon trips over study break since we're both here over study break (Greg and Connor are going to Bali, but Connor may cancel and study here instead!). I'm excited for this too!
We all hope to do more than the few things here. I hope the next few weeks are as fun as the first few weeks here. Since the Northwest trip I haven't been having as much fun as I was before, but plenty of fun to keep me happy. I'm just hoping to finish off my stay with a bang and leave with a lot of good memories. Let's get to it!!
Monday evening Connor, Jesse and I went to the oval where we play footy (footy fields are called ovals) and kicked a soccer ball around. It was a kind of fail trip to the field, but it was fun nonetheless. The three of us then made a repeat dinner of the pastries Jesse and I made on Saturday night and then watched an episode of Scrubs. Good times! We then went to the rec room so I could watch Connor and Jesse hit a combined 15 scratches or so on the pool table. It was fun watching them, honest. Jesse then kicked my butt in table tennis. I just want to learn how to play better haha!
Today, Tuesday, has been a long day. I woke up early to get my computer gaming in before class and make a good breakfast. I only had the one lecture today, and it was sort of a waste of time because it was an introduction to things I already knew. Oh well. After lecture I skipped lunch because my breakfast was late and filling and went to Coles with Jesse and Greg. I love food shopping at Coles. I love spending time wit Jesse and Greg. Naturally, shopping with Jesse and Greg is always good times. Word.
After I got back from Coles, I got a few things together and went for a short run. My run was kinda lame and I'm still trying to get back into shape and running 5 days a week. Oh well. I had about 40 minutes after my run to stretch and rest before going back out to play Footy again. A lot more people showed up this time (12 or so) and I generally had a fun time. It's frustrating playing a new sport and not doing so well and having 8 year olds a little ways away do everything extremely well. :-\
After Footy I was absolutely starving, so I booked it home with Jesse. I had almost twice the amount of pasta I usually do with alfredo sauce (which I've been treating myself to recently and absolutely loving it) and I'm still hungry an hour or so later. I'll have to have another dinner after I finish this.
I hope to keep up with my blogs from here on out so I can document my last few weeks really well. I'm hoping they will be heaps of fun like my first six weeks were!
Tuesday: 7
Wednesday: 6.5
Thursday: 7
Friday: 8
Saturday: 7
Sunday: 6
Monday: 7.5
Tuesday: 7.5
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