Blog Number 1 (Georgie)

So, how to start? My name’s Georgina, don’t call me Georgia and we’ll get along just fine. I’ve just finished my second week of arts at Melbourne and forgive me if I’m a little bit more excited than Michael about uni. I walk around uni in a constant state of disbelief and euphoria that yay! I’m actually here. No more teachers lecturing classes about ‘When you get into the real world…’ (I’m sorry, where am I know?), no more chemistry ever! no more maths, no more being checked up on every 5 seconds or having to ask someone if I can go to the toilet. I can now choose how my life is going to work and at the moment it’s going pretty darn swimmingly.

Picking subjects was a bit hard but now I’ve got it all worked out and an awesome timetable to boot (my earliest start is 11 and I have fridays off).
I’m studying: spanish (as a diploma along with my degree),
USA Today (awesome so far),
Australia Now (Really great too, the lecturer’s enthusiastic, knows his stuff and is a kind of interesting, different guy. I do find it a little strange that I’m the only aussie in my tute that’s filled with Americans and Canadians, including the tutor, but everyone’s really great)
and Modern Lit.
I freaked out in my first modern lit lecture and anyone else reading this that take the subject will understand why. It was all about modernity and modernism and stuff that I thought didn’t even relate to literature. So I changed into Shakespeare’s Theatre, went to one lecture and then changed back into modern lit. Now that we’ve started the books it’s much better and I can now understand what’s going on.

So, a little about me. I just turned 18 on Wednesday and went out with a bunch of friends last night for the first time, so forgive me if my writing’s not up to scratch – I’m still a bit tired. Now you know how when you look forward to something and think it’s going to be great and then it happens and it’s a big let down, or you go to a movie that everyone says is the best ever and you think it’s only mediocre? Well, that’s what normally happens with my birthdays but this year was different. I had an awesome day! My first lecture didn’t start untill 2, but I went in earlier and went to the gym, I had this really hard workout and my legs are still killing me, so I came out all tired in a good way. Then I had my first legal drink with a bunch of friends at the uni bar. My lecture and tute were great and then I got home, had thai take-away with mum and then a few relos around for cake (ice cream, in my opinion the best cake ever, though I did have some toblerone cake last night and then for breakfast this morning that would run a close second). Went out to Room last night for another friends birthday, but I still managed to get most of my drinks from other people. So yay! It was awesome, I love birthdays.

What else? I’ve joined the gym at melbourne uni (it’s great, I love it), the cycling club, the labor club and the political interest society, which is so so so good, but makes me feel really stupid as everyone else there seems to know everything there is to know about politics and can whip out facts and figures from before I was even born. My favourite place on uni so far is South Lawn and the Rowden White Library both of which I can be found at between classes reading a book.

I love reading! The last good book I read was ‘On The Jellicoe Road’ by Melina Marchetta. I love anything by Matthew Reilly, Janet Evanovich, Paullina Simons and Harry Potter and Hamlet and Wuthering Heights and a million more. I hate hate hate Great Expectations and have now sworn off Charles Dickens, depressing books (ie. ‘A Fine Balance’ or ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’) and am now trying to avoid them which is not working out so well as I’m currently halfway through ‘The Book Theif’, a novel set in Nazi Germany and narrrated by Death.
The last good movie I saw was Blood Diamond and I love Coach Carter, Remember The Titans, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, A Night At The Roxbury and anything Monty Python.

I have one older brother, my parents are divorced and I live at home with my mum (T’s moved out of home and is in a share house near melbourne uni). My room’s beyond messy and I’m starting to feel guilty about it because all last year I used year 12 as an excuse to live in a dump, but after 3 months of holidays I don’t think I can justify it any longer.

Umm, I think that’s about it! I have blonde hair (at the moment) and am thinking of dyeing it brown. What do you think? Congrats if you made it all the way through, I promise I won’t be this long and boring next time!

Oh! the bookstore I work at is closing down and so I have to get another job so any ideas? I have my RSA and a Certificate II in Retail Operations, and I hate working with food. And also, I can’t find a good bag to use at uni, my temporary one isn’t big or strong enough – so suggestions welcome!

Adios for now (see how handy my spanish is already?!?)