Today I participated in the Wastefighters Society's coastal cleanup walk. We (a group of about 20-25 people) gathered at Circular Quay (not pronounced "kweej" but like the English "key"), where I saw an Aboriginal musician playing music. Again…
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…
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: 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...
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...
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…
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...
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...
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...
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…
