Sunny's birthday at Bondi Beach
The original plan for today was to go on a Bushwalker Society walking trip, but apparently I hadn't set an alarm yesterday, so that was a miss. But it did mean I had time to bake a cake for Sunny's…
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14, 15 Aug: Uni, herbarium and Ivy's
Yesterday I went to the pharma tutorial, and thankfully the group has now grown to four people! One of them feels too good to provide input on the questions, as he's already been through all this and is doing it...
August 9-13: uni, movie nights, baking
August 9: Called home, did a bit of university work, and made some really ugly chocolate chip cookies (but they were delicious, so good enough). Someone came by today to fix the leak. Yeeey, now there's a literal hole in the...
Uni and hot pot
After my lecture, I had a job interview at Calico Café. I'm not entirely convinced they'll hire me, as I don't have much availability. I have a trial shift tomorrow. In my pharma tutorial, we had to form groups based on a card...
Lab, SUMS and Manning Party
After two lectures with Tania, a Norwegian I met during the introductory week, we had lunch together and caught up – it was great! We had our first lab session, mostly preparing and getting acquainted with this lab, which looks a bit different than in Nijmegen…
Welcome Fest, movie night and trivia
More Welcome Fest, I went to some stalls to check out some interesting clubs. I had two lectures from my other two courses. Now I've had a lecture from each course, and they seem interesting, yay! A lecturer was a nice addition...
Taronga Zoo
Went to another zoo, but this time it was organized by the USU (university student union) and more of a "general" zoo with a less specifically Australian focus than the Featherdale wildlife park. I joined a few random people...
Featherdale Wildlife Park
Went to Blacktown with the same group (Cynthia, Cailene, Sunny, Angela), a neighborhood further west in Sydney. The house and street style felt a bit American. We had a cheese toastie there and watched the police arrest that was happening next door...
Faculty of Science Welcome Day
Today was the Faculty of Science Welcome Day. I met some nice people, almost everyone was a first-year. So far, I haven't met anyone who's taking the same courses as me. In the evening, the plan was to play trivia with Cailene, Cynthia, and Sunny…
Sunrise and campus race
I did it! I woke up at 4:00 AM! Way too early. Luckily, there were already buses going to Town Hall station, where we'd arranged to catch the bus to Macquarie Lighthouse together. Even though it was early, we still had a nice chat…