Labor Day chaos (Kripa)
OMG, How do I start? Well, let’s start by saying this is Unfair that labor day’s a public holiday EXCEPT FOR UNI. Was that well highlighted? Yep. We have to get up early in the morning as usual whereas the rest just get to relax. Why is that? I don’t get it!!
Anyway, my day started off with a shock. I was walking up to the bus stop to go to the station and my dad rings me up and goes – ‘Oh, the buses don’t work on labor day, u have to walk all the way to the station.’ What the…? No choice but to walk. Fortunately, I reached there on time to catch the train. U might think it ended there, but, hey, more things always happen for poor Kripa. NO TRAMS. And I had like 30 mins left!! So, there I was, walking all the way from Flinders (not Melb Central; I followed the weekday timetable, didn’t know that public hols have weekend timetable..) to uni. There were trams working halfway, but they were so packed, I couldn’t be bothered getting on them. My chem lec starts at 10:05 am, and I can’t still believe that I made it to the theatre at 10:03 am!! How close was that??
Next, I had a doubt if trams were going to Burnley campus, I was hoping I could get the day off, but no luck today…they were working. My friends and I went to the usual tram stop and we glanced at the screen and next to our tram there’s a ‘-‘. WHAT!! It said to go to some other street..and we didn’t know where that street was, so we took the train to burnley and then took the tram to our campus. (heavy sigh) And the same for coming back – tram halfway and walk halfway. I actually took the long way back home, coz I was used to taking the bus everyday, that I forgot the shorter route!! (Had a nice laugh from my bro for that..)
The good things from all this that I could find were (i) good exercise and (ii) no rush of commuters on the train, I could finally sit!! So, some good stuff did happen along with that..
Um, just wanna say THANKS to Zoe and David and Q (wonder who that is) for making me feel better…A message to Zoe, I will talk abt my course and Dubai in my later blogs. This one has become quite long, so let’s end it here…
What a day!
I’m on your side regarding the universities’ policy on Labour Day: shops are closed, people are off work, and yet we have to carry our bags to the campus.
However, if we think about it, one day off means one day behind in the schedule, and the uni people just can’t afford that. But hey, all the lecturers will be compensated a day some time in December. Where is ours?
Lam, we do have a lot of holidays. 😛 I was feeling jealous of my brother for having the day off and then I remembered that he has to be at school 40 weeks of the year. 😀
Kripa, who I am? That remains to be seen. Think of me as the unwise, not-so-sagely third-year professional spam artist.