Pre-Uni Adventures

Hey how ya goin??

It's been just shy of a week, and I still have not adjusted to the cold... BUT I have figured out a way to escape it! Sit on the couch in front of the fire with your boyfriend :) it gets so cozy with a fuzzy blankie and sometimes you can even get Daisy the corgi to sit on your lap :)

The best adventures thus far have been on the motorbike and quad out in the paddocks. Some are full of trees and rocks, like obstacle courses, and others are just massive fields of grass and we can go through them at hyperspeed! Sometimes we can even find some sheep and herd them about and look at all the adorable newborn lambs :) AWW.

I'm starting to get settled. I have my bank account open now so I can spend all the money my parents gave me (just kidding Mom and Dad) and the only thing left is to get my phone set up to use here. Once I get that taken care of, I'll be fully settled in.

I've also got exciting news! Remember how, when asked, I told people that I'd be doing a Bachelor of Arts with psychology for a semester since Education didn't take mid-year students? Well, when I went into the BA office to ask which classes I should take, they told me that Education is taking mid-year students!! So I went into the international admissions office and asked for a course change application and BAM. If I get in I'll become a double major in Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education. Now I'm just waiting to hear from admissions to see if I got in :) yay for saving a semester of tuition!!

For now, my classes are pretty cool: American pop culture, Australian history, creative writing, and psychology. I have Fridays off (Andrew does too) and have no classes before noon on any days :) I really am excited for classes to start. I decided that if I get into the education department (at which point I'll have to drop two of my current classes so that I can add two education classes) I'm going to drop psych and pop culture. I was looking at the list of important topics for primary (elementary) education and surprisingly psych is not on it. And I think it's important that I learn some history of Australia along with taking an English class.

I also decided (along with a suggestion from Andrew) that I end each blog from now on with one or a few slang terms or things that have different names that I've picked up on while I'm here.

Today's word is "timetable." A timetable is a schedule (usually for classes and such). For example, you wouldn't ask somebody what their class schedule is, but rather what their timetable is. Oh, and here, schedule isn't pronounced "SKEDULE" but rather "SHEDULE." The people here talk funny...

Ta-ta for now!

Cheers,
Shannon