I've recently realized that I'm now into the penultimate week of classes here at UOW, and for some classes the last lectures are this week, with only quizzes left next week (which shouldn't really be called that since they are cumulative over the whole course...). Where has all the time gone??
This past Saturday Katie and I went to go check out the festival at Crown St for Buddha's birthday. We had noticed paper lanterns go up earlier in the week, and discovered there was a few activities going on that day.
When we walked up, everyone was standing around, waving these paper flags, singing a song. The lyrics were something along the lines of "we are Australia" and very warm and fuzzy. On the stage were a variety of different people- from cops to monks from the temple we went to a few weeks ago. When they finished, we wandered around a little exploring the stands that were set up, and decided to go into the mall for sushi. I have a hard time explaining to people that I really like sushi, but I really hate fish. I got an avocado California roll (which I believe actually had a little bit of crab in it, but shhh). Definitely very yummy and appropriate for the occasion, we thought.
There is this campaign here, I think it's to bring in tourists and a general positive public view of Wollongong. Its slogan is "We <3 the Gong" and there have been people around town wearing shirts with that on it, along with bumper stickers and balloons. These are highly coveted by me. Problem is, you can't buy any of these things anywhere, no can you really reliably find a stand anywhere. So when we showed up to that Buddha festival and saw a bunch of people walking around with those balloons and stickers, I was pretty determined to find where they were coming from. Our preliminary wander before lunch hadn't yielded any love for the gong apparel, so I went so far as to ask a lady with a balloon attached to a stroller where it had come from haha. Unfortunately, I think it had come from a special van/booth, which must have left by the time we got there, because we continued to search to no avail. On our way out we caught a tiger dance show though - it was really cool. It was like those pictures you always see of Chinese new year's dragons in parades.
Sunday was a late morning for all of us, but just after lunch we went and bought hill tickets for the last home game for the Dragons. We hung out while most people got lunch at Chicko's, a chicken place near there, and then went in to claim a spot. This game was against the Cronulla Raiders. The first half was actually really close - I believe it was only 8 to 6. The end of the game saw the Dragons get pounded by the Raiders though, so it was kind of disappointing. It was fun to go to another game nevertheless though. Got a good laugh when the announcer was reading an ad and said "breast-taking.... breath-taking views" haha. They are about to do some big construction on the stadium and put in a big addition, so it was good we got to go.
That night I went to grab some pizza since I hadn't been grocery shopping in like 2 weeks, and ran into Amy, Jason, Ashley, and Desiree briefly, who we had lost after the footy game. As I walked into the elevator in my apartment building holding my delicious Hawaiian pizza box, another lady walked in with me, holding a pack of cigarettes and two ice cream bars. There was a moment where we both just looked at each other in that "you're having a fat sunday too, huh?" look. Me and Katie also discovered later that night in search of hot chocolate that maccas (mickey d's for anyone speaking american haha) has cheesecake. I wasn't lying about that fat Sunday bit lol.
I got up early this morning and actually went to my Indigenous Australia class for once, which turned out to be utterly pointless since it was my art class professor basically repeating my first lecture from that class. My real plan had been that going to class would force me to work in the library for 3 hours on my various assignments, but that grand scheme was thwarted once I proudly settled into my little library cubical only to realize I had left my work at home... and of course once back home, I just ended up taking a nap until my next class, so so much for that. I did finally recharge my phone on the way back from that second class though, and then soon after finally go to wooly's or some food. I had 3 huge bags of food, and a bigger bill than normal, and of course my credit card wouldn't work. It's supposed to expire this month, so I don't know if it has something to do with that, but it wasn't so much fun to have to run to Crown St, grab some cash, and come back to pay and apologise to the cashier. Now equipped with supplies, I did make a really good dinner though if I do say so myself. I finally found some normal sausage and made a rendition of a dish Alisa actually showed me last semester with pearl couscous, sausage, spinach, mushrooms, garlic and herbs. yummmm. Actually, I'm kind of amazed that I've done so well cooking almost all of my meals for myself, I'm proud haha.
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