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Well, no, but it should suffice, actually. I've delayed updating this blog, I'm sorry, but at least now I've got a bunch to talk about, as I've been here for a whole week now. It's been a very, very exiting week and my trip in Australia has barely even just begun.
Friday: I arrived at 11PM. It was cold. My very first encounter with Australian weather crushed my expectations and I was silently in my head thanking my lovely mother for telling me to travel with long pants, and not shorts, as I had intended to, because it was only 13 degrees celcius and I had to wait for 5-10 minutes for the security guard as he escorted the two other Norwegian studnets to their units. (Speaking of those two, we had been on the same flights from Copenhagen to Singapore to Brisbane, but didn't meet until the shuttle picked us up at the airport. Duh). Eventually, it was my turn to be excorted to my unit, and I had to thank myself dearly for ordering the linen packet (at the price of 250 AUD -.-). Regardless, the first night was really cold. Freezing, in fact. The walls are thin, my room positioned in the shade in the day, as well, so I had some cold few first nights.
Saturday: My teeth clappering as I exited the shower, still freezing to death after a healthy night of sleep, after 32 hours of traveling. Despite the cold, I stayed focus and began my task - locate the office and check in to receive my keys and pay ridiculous amounts of money (not even kidding, I could have been so rich if I stayed in Norway). There I met Karen and Marius, the two other Norwegians. Karen and I decided to go grocery shopping after the check in, Marius had already gone, since he was unable to sleep in the cold (no linen packet!). Not knowing where we could shop, we began adventuring. The first bulk of shops were easy to find (exit, walk down the street for 10 minutes and take your first right). The shops were, however, a little expensive, but at this point we did not care. We just wanted breakfast, shampoo, toothpaste and fruit. After our journey, we went back home to settle in a little more, but later on, I decided I wanted to find a larger place to shop (I was alone, and bored). The trip to Chancellor Park, which is where the better shops were, took a while longer. Roughly, half an hour of walking. When I came down I met Karen again, now with an entourage of 5-6 American girls. We were apperantly all looking for adapters, so we went over to Jayce Mayne, the electronic store. We were at first unable to find any adapters, and I was starving, so I left and went to Subway. Ah, they have Subway. Mmm....
Long day, second paragraph! After I had clumsily paid with the Australian denomination and devoured my food, I went to a place we now refer to as Wooly's. I think it's actually called Woolworths, it just doesn't roll of my tounge at all. It being something in the line of a K-Mart, Wal-Mart and/or Kroeger, I bought some food and a pack of 12 bottles of water. After that I went to the liqour store and picked up a six-pack of Bacardi Rum & Coke (premixed, how awesome!?). Needless to say, perhaps, the long walk with the water, food and drinks home was a warm and tiring one. I made it, though, and returned at round 2-3PM. At which point I sat out on the balcony and was contemplating the situation I was in, until I got interrupted by a holla from two american girls and an Australian guy. Erin, Sarah and Nathan. "What's up?", they asked, whereas I replied "Nothing" (I know, my first day came to a very boring hault after my trips). They invited me up to their unit (73) for Power-Hour (at which point I exploited their hospitality and borrowed a computer to check my Facebook and e-mail :D). Basically, Power-Hour is designed to make you drunk. Really, drunk. Every minute iTunes changes a song and you need to do a shot of beer or any other 5% liquid (it's all 5% here, like it is 4,7 in Norway and so on) for 60 minutes. If the song playing is from YOUR country, double shots. Olav, the Norwegian guy who also lived there had a lot of American songs on his playlist, so Sarah and Erin passed out drunk at about 6PM. At which point I left and found other people. In retrospect, I can't really remember all too much about the rest of the evening. Only that I met the people that were to be the majority of the group of which I hang in now. Maik, Karen, Marius, Nathan, Ashley, Kelly (I met Stef the next day), Matt and probably a few more (there are SO many people here!).
Sunday: I'm a little bored from writing such long summaries, so: I went back down to Jayce Mayne to buy an adapter, Karen helped me find it because they appearantly found them after I left the store the day before.
Monday: Registration at school, walking around on campus with Maik and Matt and participating in the international welcome (we've such a cool faculty and staff working here).
Tuesday-Friday: At school, same stuff. Workshops, introductions, etc. Many new faces, many things to take care of and so on.
Tuesday-Friday: Outside of school, nothing much happened. I got sick on wednesday and stayed in bed from 2PM to 6PM and got really bored. Thursday we had our first barbie (barbeque) as a joint group down by the grills. Met some new people and got ready for the student's night out. We hung around at the pavilion, playing beer pong, smoking, drinking, having fun until 10PM, when the free shuttle took us to a club called 240. Free entry and HALF PRICE on drinks for students. I brought 20 AUD (100 kroner) and got quite a few drinks, and a kebab. We danced, we drank, we had a blast. Got home at about 2AM and had a very quiet after-party at Maike's unit, Karen, Niels, Maik and I. I went to my unit close to 4AM to go to sleep.
Now it is noon on friday and we've plans to go downtown to do some shopping and taking some pictures. Should be great.
PS: The picture up there is the view from my balcony during the sunrise. I got some nice shots of it, I think.
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