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I didn’t get a chance to post yesterday, but it was a pretty good day. Tuesday night I drank wine and played cranium with some of the boys in my hall…and my partner and I won mostly because I can spell words backwards really well…I had no idea I could do that. Anyway, I had my second chemistry lecture in the morning which is with a different professor than the Monday lecture. She was a young woman and was much cooler and more interesting than the 2 old men of Monday (aka the stereotypical chemists!). She does the Wednesday and Friday lecture so I will have more of her than the other professors. Nice. Then I had to run completely to the other side of campus to make it to my cognitive psychology lecture. It is HUGE. There are 800 people (!!!!) in the class but there are three lectures given during the week and anyone can go to whichever lecture they want each week. We were in a huge engineering lecture hall and it was filled. There must have been about 400 there. But the professors are very good and engaging. So there are 2 professors for the class. The first hour is a professor lecturing on methods and topics like memory, consciousness, and decision making while the second lecturer focuses more on neuroanatomy and topics regarding the nervous system and later in the semester endocrine system. It should be super easy and fun to learn. That lecture, which is really 2 lectures, ended at noon so I went to lunch back at the college. Normally at 1:00 I would have my tutorial for psychology but we don’t have tutorials this week.

At 2:00 I had my aboriginal anthropology lecture. They had changed the room (I think just a few hours before) but there were around 10 of us in the wrong room and we waited for about 15 minutes before checking at the office where we found out that we were across the campus from where we needed to be! So we all walked into the lecture 25 minutes late together—so happy I was not by myself. That class should be fun because we watch a lot of films and I’m sure the readings will be very interesting. That finished a little early/around 3:45 and normally I would have my tutorial from 4-5 but, again, no tutorials this week. So instead I went to the bookshop—I swear I go there everyday—and got myself some binders because all of my class material for every class will be notes/presentations that I print and then take notes on.

I came home and relaxed for an hour before my cycling class. The class was so challenging, probably even more so than on Monday because I was still tired from Monday’s class! I got home at 7:30 and I had signed up for late dinner so I went and ate the meager dinner that I found you get when you sign up for late dinner! You basically get what leftovers of what no one wanted thrown all onto one plate. Mine was half white rice and I don’t even like white rice. Oh well, I, along with the few others eating with me, had a good time joking about the skimpy dinner. When I got back up to my hall many were getting ready to go out because it was student night at the Regatta Hotel. Somehow in about 2 minutes they convinced me that I had to come, so I jumped in the shower asap. Near the end of my shower someone pulled the fire alarm! I was not about to evacuate in a towel so I threw on a shirt and shorts before leaving. This is the third or fourth time the alarm has been pulled—it reminds me of freshman year at Lehigh in Dravo! Well I got ready in time anyway and we all took the bus to Toowong where the hotel is. We had to wait in line for over 45 minutes before we got in and it wasn’t all that great. Very cool place but I think we were all just fed up from waiting in line for so long. So even though we left late I didn’t get back too late.

This morning I woke up early as I am incapable of sleeping in here. I went to the pool because I had a free pass (much like the free spin classes). I swam laps for 40 minutes straight and it felt really good. I knew that there was no way I’d be able to run today because my legs currently feel like bricks. Actually more like sore bricks if that’s possible. I only had one class, marine science from 12-1. It was a very interesting lecture mostly about jellyfish. They are basically going to take over the world or at least the ocean for now, and are well on their way. OH and my professor had a graph on oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay!!! I nearly let out a squeal of excitement but managed to contain myself. All he said about the location was “Chesapeake Bay, that’s in the US.” I wanted to say “It’s THE Chesapeake Bay.” It’s just doesn’t sound right without the “the.” Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed the lecture. After that I got some lunch and thought I was going to be eating by myself but some people I knew showed up within a few minutes which was nice. Now I’m relaxing and doing some laundry. I absolutely do not have any sort of homework or reading. Classes here are so chill. Alright I’ll stop now because this is very long—typical!