Grrr. Its starting to frustrate me haha, ever since i found out my host group ID I've been trying to find some other people in my host group on FaceBook, but too no success haha :D. Oh well its not like I was hoping for much success maybe just someone to chat about excitement to :).
So anyway moving day is creeping slowly upon me, i have a pile of junk in the corner of my room to be poped in the car tomorrow so we can drive it down at night then move into my room on Saturday. I can barely control my excitment for this up and coming day at whitley, mingling with all my friends for the year XD. I'm already having visions of lying on the oval across the road from the college (near a cemetary :? creepy) for the day then having a few drinks (Missure Vodka i am not doing well being deprived of you :() and then binging on Nandos late at night then stumbling home haha. But in all truth i did a little jig of excitement for saturday haha I really really really cant wait!!!!
Im also looking forward to encountering the souls in my host group and seeing what they are up too for they year and maybe making more friends, golly gosh uni is going to create one massive social network, and one heck of a mobile bill :D haha. I may have to think of getting a job :( nooo i died a little on the inside haha :D. All though i really hope that i befriend a person like knives out of scott pillgrim vs the world, shes so funny haha recomend watching that movie, or Ramona both very cool :D that my littley rant for now :D probably update you on saturday. I really hope to get good photos of O Week for you all to look at :D
Bye for now :D
Orientation is only a week away. (Full stop to let this truth sink in.) I was having a Gossip Girl marathon after sleeping in until 12pm, when my mother came home from TAFE with my Week-O information pack on her hands, which she had just retrieved from our mailbox. I ignored the somewhat thick package until I was done with a whole DVD worth of episodes and only then bothered to open it. Even though I'm thrilled for life - uni, that is - to start, I am also terrified of everything it'll encompass. Wait, did I just admit that?
Having moved to Australia just over two years ago, I would've thought I'd grown out of my fear of new, different and challenging situations. I left Brazil at 16, and moved to the other side of the world, with only my parents and my younger brother as my safety blanket. Mind you, the furthest I had been from my city was a roadtrip of four hours. Two years, a new language, two schools, three houses and a million homesick fits later, I got accepted into Arts - my dream course ever since I arrived in Melbourne and set foot on the Parkville campus. Every single dream of mine just came true after years of hard work in which I proved myself capable- and yet here I find myself, scared all over again.
If you're reading this, maybe you know how I feel. I'm 18, still living with my parents, working part-time in retail, and I wasn't part of the cool crowd in high school. (It took me a while to get a hang on English, and by the time I did I was too focused on doing well in my VCE exams to bother with my social teenage life.) Obsessed with all kinds of storytelling, I am a believer in fairytales who thrives on everything that enhances my intellectual pseudo-nerd self. Oh yeah, and I forgot the most important part: I want to change the world, a book (that I'll write) at a time. Hoping to double major in Creative Writing and English, being an university student is everything I've wished for during the last few years. And yet, for just a split second, I had to be honest with myself and (mentally) scream: I'm scared!
I know I've got the academic part down. I've already gone through a major life change and still managed to cope with my workload and grow as a learner. For the assignments, lectures and tutes, I can barely sit still with excitment. What I am afraid of is meeting new people. Week-O is devoted to all the fun, community aspects of our university experience, and that package overwhelmed my anti-social self. That's going to be my toughest challenge this year - develop real friendships with people in my course. But since I've both survived VCE and got into Melbourne Uni, I'm thinking I'll be okay.
So here it goes, a challenge for myself: talk to as many people as I possibly can and join clubs next week... even though I know I will not be feeling like it. And if you're scared like me, maybe you should do the same. Who knows? Maybe you'll be standing in a cue and gather the courage to say hi to that girl next to you... who so happens to have that Brazilian accent and is just as freaked out as you are. And then we'll become friends.
Here's hoping for a not so socially overwhelming Week-O.
Brenda
Okay so to start off today (being 12 am) i was up wondering if the link to the hosts for our groups would open right on 12am. Of course me being the inquisitive type waited watching the seconds tick by on my computer until 11:59:59. Then hit the refresh button on the host group page and Tadah the link was there.
So after that I logged on and found out that my host was a Karen Cu, and i will be meeting her on the 22nd at the entrace to a building (cant remember the name) on the round about juxtaposing the chemistry building. So i was lucky because i actually know where the chemistry building is haha so i shall be able to find it easily. I also read that she would be holding a bunch of yellow happy face ballons making finding her even easier haha. Anyone else get some special landmark to find their host :? or even get mine :D
Anyway i havent been sleeping well because of all the excitement of moving day and o week being so close (moving in a week!!!! cant wait!). So i stayed up listening to Tegan & Sara - Call It Off and playing some stupid online game until 2:50 in the morning. Gah i hate not sleeping well. Anyway as you can probably tell from the title I started packing today which is kind of freaky because I have no idea if i keep missing important things. So scary haha. But the pile of stuff to be moved keeps growing and that is kind of creepy because it has to all fit in the back of our station wagon, but a bar fridge and desk chair also have to fit. ARGHHH what if it doesnt fit :( i cant bare to be without some of my stuff like my 4 rubicks cubes :(.
So anyway im taking a break to write this hoping to god it goes well haha. Well i guess i should get back to work :D
Bye for now!!! OWEEEK !!!!
When I think of starting university, I have a certain image in my head. My friends and I on the South Lawn, splayed out like dead eagles in the warm sunshine and laughing like the idiots we are. However, the possibility of that happening is close to zilch. Just look at our recent weather. Why, forty degrees one day and flash floods the next few days! The way things are going, my friends and I will either be slumped in relief in an air-conditioned library or standing up on chairs and tables shrieking as the water rises.
A slight exaggeration, of course. Most of the water around the flooded areas have long drained. But you get the gist of it. My dreams are ruined by Melbourne weather. But the strange thing is, the ever-changing weather is one of the many reasons why I love Melbourne. Hot and humid one second and bucketing down and thundering the next. Our weather is special.
But still, I’d like some respite from the constant sun, then rain, then wind, then sun again. This summer, I want a summer. I want to hang out with my friends in good weather. Is that too much to ask? Mother Nature answers, “Yes.”
This is a little something I wrote a few weeks ago, and it’s my ideal summer. I haven’t experienced something like that yet, but I sure hope to. Who knows? Maybe Mother Nature will take pity on me one day and grant me my wish. I can already see it. Uni, lawn, friends, books, icy-poles...
Endless skies of blue,
A gentle, cooling breeze.
Soft bird songs in the air,
To put me at ease.
Humid air and frozen treats,
Cicadas buzzing in the old, oak tree.
Children running with the fireflies,
Waving and screaming happily.
Unplowed fields stretch on forever,
Tawny wheat bends and sways.
Farmer in his rocking chair,
Sleeping away the summer days.
~Ouroboros... or rather now, Silvia :P
So as today has been pretty boring, yet again, I've been craving a chilli hot chocolate. But good luck getting one where I live haha. So I've been setting little quests for myself at uni, like little things that I want to do throughout the year. Anyway seing as i like chilli hot chocolates soooo much that I'd like to pretty much have an infinite jug of them coursing into my body via an IV tube, my first finalized quest is to find the best chilli hot chocolate around/on campus.
So I've also been pondering what i want to get out of uni. First and formost is to find the best chilli hot chocolate around right, thats certainly the most important :), why dont they have a class for that sort of stuff at uni haha. But i also want to do well thats certainly important, seing as i want to do a masters, well i sort of want to. Going to leave that till i know what i want to do. But i'm still in development of these little tasks (side missions) so not really much else to report.
So does anyone else know what they want to get out of uni or anything they really want to do :? maybe become a conisure of popcorn, oh speaking of which I cant wait to see the 5th final destination movie, the fourth one was such a let down, but seing as this one is being made by warner brothers and being writen by decent script writers it should be soo good haha :D.
So tomorow the host groups come out!!! I'm getting excited, it would be soo great if i was with another fellow blogger haha, so wishing it would be tommorow already.
Anyone know what they want to do this year on the side of study, perhaps find the best capuchino or something!!! then we could form a coffee fighting team :D
By for now!!!
Waiting.
It seems that all I am doing at the moment is waiting.
1. Waiting for Uni to start
2. Waiting for Orientation Day
3. Waiting for my bus to come
4. Waiting for a good song to come on the radio.
5. Waiting for the storm to stop.
I think, I THINK, that I am slightly bored right now. *sighs*
At the moment the most exciting thing in my life is Greys Anatomy coming back on television.
Or getting my paycheck on Wednesdays.
Seriously I am going loopy with this free time now.
Complaint of the day: Public Transport Fares.
$84.50 per month for a zone 1 and 2 ticket.
THAT’S INSANE.
RAGE.
Good thing [can’t be bothered coming up with an interesting adjective] of the day: Going rollerblading tonight! :D
Anyway I really have nothing significant to write about, just stating the obvious of BOREDOM
So long,
Nae ;)
Okay it has become extreamly apparent that time is slowing down. The wait for the 19th (moving day to Whitley) is starting to take its toll on my mind. I woke up this morning with the idea of doing as much as possible to fill in time. I decided hey I'll vaccum the house, do the dishes, mop the floor, clean my room and mow the lawn. Of course that was at 9 in the morning. It is now a quater to one, I cant believe it but i have done all those tasks. That is just wrong, impossible.
I feel that I am growing insane from this wait, I've even started flipping through my chemistry texts for something to do. I have even started staring at my clock waiting for the next minute to flip down. I have one of those clocks where the pannels flip down with every hour and minute. This is the saddest experience of my life, this wait for university to start. I really hope that the experience is worth all the excitment that i have undergone. I just cant believe how slow time seems to go!!! Its so sad that it has come to staring at a clock to waste time.
Although it has allowed me time to ponder on the topic of rez. It's actually starting to frighten me a little haha. I'm starting to think what if my first impression is terrible, what if everyone there doesn't like me because I can get to be very annoying. I'm actually afraid of that day where I'll walk into that donut and everyone will turn at me and sunt me off. What to do, I really do doubt that that will happen, I'm hoping that no-one will know each other and form instant little clicks of people. Of which none I belong. It really is starting to trouble me that I will be staying with total strangers for a year. Although on the other hand I'm excited to get to know these people, see what they like and make friends. I just don't want to be that freak haha.
Im also starting to really get excited for chemistry, as sad as it sounds haha. I love that subject so intriguing, learning how everything is as it is and how it acts. Im really looking forward to the pracs, I just hope my clutz of a nature doesn't affect me too much, like i hope i dont walk into the lab and bump a table and then watch in horror as time slows down, seeing all those burrets and beakers and conical flasks topple off the bench and shatter into carbon atoms all over the floor. That is my biggest nightmare :l. I wish that i had like a super power to control time and as those glass objects topple just stop time and save them all. That would be so cool and then get a chilli hot chocolate to celebrate haha. Yes i love spice, yummy tingly taste buds.
Well thats my daily worrys and dreams laid out on the internet, ive decided to make my blog entrys like a diary. So I have somewhere to lay out my experiences and hopes and sorrows about universities so you may get a whole lot of posts by me :] Hope you like them and theyre not to dry, I'm going to add some of my daft ideas, like the superhero one above as relief sort of my JD moment off scrubs. Tada for now
Okay so now I've ranted on about my personal life and have survived my dogs recent fart that makes you gag from the pit of your stomach I believe its time to talk about the climb up to uni. Am I the only person that is actually wishing my life away (only 2 weeks) so I can go to whitley college.
Well anyway I'm going to recap to where I am now. So here goes my personal history lesson :]
In December I nervously waited at around 6 in the morning to get my ATAR, I was fairly positive I was going to get the score I needed especially with my mid year results (I got an A for physics and an A+ for chemistry and an A+ for studio art) anyway I dont know how i made that hour disapear and eventually I logged on and found out i got 92.o5 so I was so happy with that, I think anything high 80's and any 90 is outstanding effort. So I litterally jumped for joy haha.
Anyway so now I jump ahead to January where I waited and waited and waited for those offers to come out gah it was so boring. I cant express how much I've disliked these holidays. It was all about waiting for three months to go by, I've been so impatient grrr. I cant believe that i can actually say I hate holidays, but i belive thats because I've just wanted uni to start so bad!!! It's just so much different to school, so much more choice and experience to have fun with. Now back to where I was, I waited for the paper and looked up that science course code under my name, and shock horror it was there. Haha i never doubted it wouldn't be, especially with that score :] so anyway now the next step was to wait to do all that administrative stuff.
So now im going to skip blabering about accepting my offer, that was pretty boring, but i did find out that I am not an Australian resident, I had to ring up 13MELB to ask about that but it turns out that only international people can be australian residents, i was a citizen so that confused me. So anyway dont worry if you get told your not an Australian resident :]. So now was the day of the accademic advice day. That was pretty interesting i quite liked it. So anyway i was staying at my grandmas house in newport so i got up and caught the train to melbourne central, I love that place, its so beautiful. Anyway then i made the most folish mistake of my life, i caught the wrong tram to get to the uni. So stupid of me (ive always known your sopposed to get the 19 north coburg), I've never ever done that before but anyway when we turned off at the vic market i got off and i saw that there were other Melbourne uni students that had made the same mistake because they had the little booklet planers. So i made my way to the spot lecture theater where every single one of the lectures i wanted to go to were. But really is that place overdone or what, a marble staircase, really! A light show of cubes everywhere on the roof of the theater. I put that down to the fact that its a commerce and buisness building haha. If you go look at the engineering buildings where my brother has lectures, they look like theyre made of duct tape and planks of wood haha.
So anyway the Alcoholics anomynous day sorry academic advice day was really good. Learnt a bit for my course and also my subjects so it was good. So i made my way over to the asia centre to get my ID card and diary, I'd already enrolled in a couple of subjects so I knew I could get my ID card. Anyway then I came to thinking after i got my card, how come whenever any sort of photo is taken, It looks terrible, seriously if you looked at my school photo and drivers license, they look terrible gah. Why cant I just look like I normaly look on a card haha. But anyway I got it so that was that done.
Anyway then on the 31st of January i made my timetable. That was an experience haha I went through and chose all my lectures, pracs and tutes for chemistry, maths and biology with no quams what so ever, but then it came to crimonology. That stuffed everything. Why did they make only one lecture available for each lecture. And they were where my pracs for chemistry and biology were. So then I had to make three hour gaps which became extreamly difficult seeing as there were stream lectures for chemistry and maths. So I fiddled with that timetable for a good hour trying to move biology out of the way to make room for these ruddy stream line lectures (oh if you don't know, a stream line lecture are pre set sets if the three lectures so choosing say steam 1 would give you lectures from 9 to 10 on moday wedensday and friday). But eventually i got it all sorted out but i had made it so that i had only one prac on tuesday and thats it so once a fortnight i get tuesday off. YAY haha.
So anyway that means that ive got pretty much everything sorted out haha. But anyway i went and got a couple of things for my room at college in bendigo yesterday like a printer and a new desk chair. My new chair rocks its sooooooooo nice, and red my favourite colour haha. But anyway im getting my sisters small little fridge for all those drinks that need to be chilled, like water and softdrink and redbull and vodka cough cough haha my most favourite drink straight.
Anyway now i sit around again waiting for the 19th to come already!!!! I dont think i can take much more american dad (as you can proberbly tell i like from my name) skins (speaking of which i love the new 5th series so far, i love franky and grace and alo!!!! and mini) and scrubs and doctor who and dexter. Although i did get the I.T crowd the other day hoping that'd fill in a bit of time. I guess i could also try to to win Mass Effect 2 on the hardest setting to get that new achievement. Oh yeah I'm a rpg, shooter (to a lesser extent) and adventure pc gamer. A wee bit nerdy haha but i do have a life. Just not at the moment.
Anyway so now i wait to see who my host group is and i will keep you up dated :] hope you like reading.
Greetings, my name is Will. I am one of the first year bloggers of 2011. So anyway first of all I'm going to tell you a little about myself. I come from a small town called Charlton, you may know where it is these days because it became like 82% submerged by the 2011 floods in earlyish January. We personally were not affected by it because we live on a farm way out of the way. We don't actually do any farming as such like cows and sheep etc. we mostly moved out her because my sister has horses. Its a bit of a drag really living on a farm because I like hanging out with my friends but being 10km out of the way stuffed it up a little.
So Ive been longing to get to melbourne for the last year and a half so I can make some new friends who I can actually hang out with. I'm staying at whitley college as a rez so I'm really having the most major transition from a farm 300km away from melbourne to being completely in the big smoke. Dont get me wrong I love Melbourne, I'm not afraid or what not about being there, personally I try to attempt to be there as much as possible haha. I love roming streets and thinking to explore and get completely lost and then try to find my way back.
I'm doing science this year at Melbourne uni and doing like chemistry 1, calculus 1, biology and criminology. I like movies, as long as they're good. Which is a bit hypocritical seing as i love horror movies which are generally terrible haha. i guess I like to see the ocasional bad movie, don't we all. I love hoyts at melbourne central, its just the best cinema ever I think. Mostly because they have ripper jumbo popcorn and coke. As you can probably tell I never shut up so get used to reading lengthy posts most of the time.
I cant help but wish away days until the 19th till I move into whitley. I dont think you could call me normal as in I'm an average person. Like i look like an average person. But i find myself awkward and strange to most people, but thats normally just a first impression, once you get to know me I'm very nice haha but a bit of a clutz, somehow i broke our fridge, i dont know how. So don't be put off by some inappropriate things I may blurt out. I rarley ever mean anything I say if its offensive :] I like to take photos as well like I own a good SLR nokia camera so i may post up lots of photos of my experiences and i cant wait to hear from you :]
Okay so here I am on hold to Centrelink who are just my favourite people in the world (Hint of sarcasm there?) I know I know people in 3rd World countries would love to have our system, and I do appreciate it.
BUT, I am currently on hold to them because they just sent me a letter telling me that because I am no longer a student and I do not have a job I need to come in for an interview about full time work.
WHAT? I AM A FULL TIME STUDENT. I TOLD THEM I WAS GOING TO UNIVERSITY. AND I HAVE A PART-TIME JOB, THE SAME ONE I HAVE HAD FOR ALMOST 3 YEARS. RAGEEEEEEE.
Phone is on loudspeaker and all I can think about is the static-y violin music, desperately clinging to the hope that the phone will start ringing to an operator, who will take advantage of my 18 year old naivety and mock me severely.
Mean person on phone: What University are you planning to attend this year?
Me: Melbourne University
Mean Person: Which University in Melbourne?
Me: The University of Melbourne
Mean Person: Yes okay you are going to University in Melbourne but what is the University's name?
Me: THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.
This pattern continued for longer than my sanity could deal with ...
Outcome: I have a love/hate relationship with Centrelink, if they pay me the right amount like they are supposed to tomorrow, I will love them. If they still claim I am no longer a student and give me the wrong payment and somehow blame that on me, I will hate them.
I am off to go to my part-time job that according to Centrelink does not exist ... :|
End rant.
P.S: Ron if you're reading how do you categorise posts with QuickPress?
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