First Day of School

Today was our first day of classes! It's been a nice super long break, but it's nice to finally be starting since it's been a big unknown for a long time. I was really anxious to see what my classes were like and start meeting some people in my classes.

My first class of Intro to Indigenous Australia, which everyone except Katie was taking also. It's an early class - at 8:30am, so we were all tired as we trouped out to the bus stop and found our way to the class together. It's in a big lecture hall with tag-team style lecturers, which wasn't all that different from my big bio classes at Earlham, but the professor we had this morning we rather dry. He had a powerpoint which he pretty much exactly matched up with the essay that he seemed to be reading off to us. Thankfully the info itself still seems like it will be really interesting, and hopefully the other professors are a little more lively.

Right after that I have my practical, or lab, for Food Chemistry. It's sort of across campus, and I was already practically running late, so I hurried to the massively confusing science building that I think I mentioned before. Of course, after asking 3 people for directions, I was finally told that we didn't have prac today. I killed the 3 hours by finding everyone else who had some time off and ate my lunch that I had packed.

At 12:30 I had the lecture for Food Chem, where I met a couple aussie girls. It's an upper-level course, so I don't think there are that many other international students in there. I'm really looking forward to meeting more people in my classes and tutorials. I think it's going to be a good class, and it seems like it won't be all that work-intensive actually, which is awesome. We only actually have practicals about every other week. And actually, from that indigenous course I got the impression that we actually have TWO weeks off for spring break, which would be kickass.

I promptly took the best nap ever when I got home. While I was asleep Matt, our go-to Study Australia guy, had brought by Jason's closet and little hanging shelves for the rest of us which we have been waiting for ever since we got here. So finally I'm totally unpacked out of my suitcases and feel a little more settled.

We had some of our leftovers for dinner that our neighbors has given us last night (they gave us 3 giant platters full of leftovers). And what day is today again? Desperate Mondays! So in a bit, we are planning on heading out to Hotel Illawarra to watch Desperate Housewives. It's been pouring and really windy all day, so hopefully it's nicer out when we go.