It was a busy Monday and I’m exhausted. Got up at 7, went to brekkie, then chem. lecture from 8-8:50. Now that UQ sport’s week of everything being free is over, I went to the gym to sign up for membership. I got a value pass so that I can use everything in the gym whenever but also have full access to the pool and can take any of the fitness classes whenever I want. I’m happy that I can do any of the cycling classes whenever I feel like it—they have them every day of the week but some times are better than others—and that I can go to the pool in my free time to swim laps or just relax. Then I had to go buy a calculator because, oops, I left that in the US! I found a cheap basic one which is all I need. Then I headed to the library to print 2 articles that (I think) I have to read for my aboriginal anthropology tutorial on Wednesday afternoon. I came home and felt surprisingly energized, probably because the weather was once again impeccable. 75 degrees, sunny, perfect breeze! I went for a run that ended up being my longest yet in this country so I was happy about that. I walked around the lakes for a while and got back home just in time for a quick shower before lunch. After lunch I tried to read my anth. Articles but the first one was hopelessly dry and I nearly fell asleep. When I got to my chem. practical at 2 I thought for sure I’d be out of there in 20-30 minutes because it was a simple titration and a few easy calculations. Despite the lab itself, as well as all of the glassware and other apparatus, being the best, most clean and organized I’d ever used, I had forgotten how long a titration takes when you are the first to actually start and you have no idea what the amount is supposed to be. I went slowly and carefully and ended up never overshooting and having three perfect titrations. When I finished my calculations, the tutors (that’s what they call TA’s here) alerted me that I was extremely close to the actual value—I was only off by 0.002M! It ended up that one other person was as close as I was but we had the best data in the class. I was quite proud of that…basically I’m a huge dork.
Anyway I got home at 5 and decided that I might as well go to the cycling class at 5:30, so I did. I really love that class, but the part of the class where we’re supposed to be going up a huge mountain nearly made me pass out…okay exaggerating...but running and then cycling class was a bit crazy of me-- my whole body is sore. Okay I’m going to read and prepare myself for tomorrow—marine science field trip to some Creek where we will look at mangroves and different sea grasses all afternoon! I'm just quite happy to be going somewhere!
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