Friday, August 1, 2008

Classes and Life in Aussie-land

My first week of classes are over, well lectures we haven't had any of our tutorials yet. The tutorials are where you get the majority of your work and assignments. As of right now I only have 2 finals and for my other 2 classes I have to write some essays of about 2000 words max for my final grades. Right now we are trying to plan our trips throughout Australia, but are having difficulties with figuring out the small details like where are we going to sleep when we get to where we're going. The plan as of yesterday was to take a bus into the city and attempt to find hostels for a few nights, and if hostels are not available well then the park bench it will have to be. Speaking of outdoors I went on a run today around campus. From campus to the housing we must cross a bridge that spans a small creek at the bottom of a valley. There are trails all along the hills that are open for walking, biking, and whatever else you can do on a path. The paths are very scenic and you can easily forget that you are running on a school's campus and think that you are in a forest far from anyone until you see a house on top of the hills. Tomorrow we are going to go to a chocolate factory where we are told that the chocolate sells for about $100 for 1kg that's about $50 per pound. Looks like I would be buying much there, maybe just enjoying there free samples. I'll try taking some pictures of the surroundings when I go on my next run. As for now goodbye mate.

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