Let's see what happened on Mondayyy. OH! I finally got my TTCC card in the mail which meant that I could finally buy a concession gocard so I could travel on public transportation at student price (yay no more paying full price for buses!!)
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| finally got my ttcc and health coverage card in the mail!! |
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Of course, because I am incapable of visiting a foreign country and not testing out their medical facilities (#tbt almost dying in Israel of tonsilitis and getting strep in France...casual), I decided to pop over to the UQ doctor to see if I could get something for my awful cough. They were super nice, well except for when I coughed at one point and the nurse who I was with responded by saying, "that's really gross.. no offense." HAHA.
WHAT.
... you know you've hit a low when the person taking your blood pressure is judging you....
Anyway, I got a script (thats what they call a prescription, just tryna use the local lingo) and went on my merry way.
Wednesday, August 6th:
Nothing exciting....sorry
Thursday, August 7th:
Wow today was a long day. Woke up at 6:30 am to stand in line for tickets to QUEST's Byron Bay Trip and then after successfully scoring them (*fist pump in the air*), I ran to my 9 am Lit class. Then, I had a marathon of classes from 12-4 and after that I finally got to chill. School's good tho. My english tute was super cool. We had to read some australian poetry for hw but of course I was kinda like "uhh" when reading it at home, but then when we were discussing it as a class, it turned out to be about aboriginals and how they've been around for like the longest time ever and created their own culture from the land (as opposed to white settlers who inherited their culture from elsewhere) but then the colonizers kinda just threw 'em to the side and dropped the aboriginals like a hot potato, even though the poem talks about how they had been around longer than the classical methology people and ya, sad stuff. I am super pumped to be taking this class though because it'll be sorta historical, but through a literature lens and most of the kids are eager first year lit students so everyone's super vocal and excited to be in the class and it should be fun stuff. Neuro tute was really awesome too. We pretty much did an icebreaker game. 'Twas chill.
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| 7 am waiting in line for byron bay ticket. so. happy. |
Sorry that this has been the lamest week ever. It picks up, don't worry. I was saving my energy all week for this weekend. First of all today, I did a bunch of things! First, my friend and I went shopping for a dress for me for ball. After we successfully did that, we went back to her house, ate food, and then went into the city with some other people to visit the Queensland Museum Sciencentre, which pretty much was a natural history museum with some chill exhibits of marine animals and dinosaurs.
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pretty display of marine life
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woo all aboard the CityCat!
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| LIKE WHO KNEW THIS WAS A REAL THING!?!?! |
Saturday, August 9th:
WOOO FINALLY IT WAS THE ST. JOHN'S BALLLL!!! aka what we'd call a formal in the US. They go ALL OUT here though. Unlike formals at Princeton, everyone wears long dresses and it was pretty much prom round 3. Except no prawma, thank goodness. I got some mediocre pictures, but the actual event was really fun! It was held somewhere in the city on a hill (that's a crucial fact to note, because walking up it in heels was quite a struggle) and there was food and drinks and music and good times all around. The band was made up of st. john's people so it was awesome to see how talented some of the students are!! I was very impressed.
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| Some Sepos and Freshers before Ball |
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| The sepo girls who live in Edale |
The party continued bright (literally cuz everyone was wearing neon) and early in the morning with REcovery! We all got up and got dressed in crazy clothes and then went to party at the RE with music and food and drinks. Some people were wearing neon, some wore animal costumes, and others worked the hawaiian shirt. It was absolutely ridiculous but so much fun. Because the theme of the entire weekend was "wrecking ball" like the miley cyrus song, many people wore their hair in two buns, which miley has been known to wear on occasion.
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This was the ticket for the st john's ball. So miley.
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