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In 10 Tagen geht es los und ich habe immer noch nicht dieses Programm gemeistert. Neue Technologien machen mir immer noch ein bisschen Angst, aber es wird schon werden. Es hat mich einiges an Zeit gekostet alles in ein Format zu bringen. Das Programm ist immer noch in der englischen Sprache, habe noch nicht herausbekommen wie ich das aendern kann. Es ist ein bisschen bloede mit den Umlauten. Vielleicht kann mir jemand helfen, der diese Seite besucht.<br ...

... and doing last minute bits and bobs, including heading out to meet up with a guy we had met in Ko Tao during the SCUBA diving course, who had copied the course DVD for us, where if you look closely you can spot us. That night we went on the river cruise that took us around the city letting us enjoy the Opera House and Harbour Bridge in the night and helping us add to the colossal photo album already dedicated to the landmarks. After we hopped off the boat we had a couple of ...

... of bush fires caused by the dry weather. while in the region, we also visited the most obscure natural gallery called 'swarbrick', complete with fibre glass gold rings and feathers hanging from the tree branches and the longest mirrored wall inscribed with messages about the need to conserve the local area and natural world, in general. we took a walk to 'the giant tingle' tree, which was basically the hugest of trees that you could walk through as the base had been cut ...

... oh and their old replica footy strips). Watched Elbow perform (superb, beautiful) and then stocked up on bevvy (again, poor festival understanding - huge drinks queues at all times!) and changed stages to watch Razorlight. Randomly, bumped into an old Dounreay 'graduate' (Martin) who had moved out to Sydney the year previous - Emma was also happy as he is a Scot. Razorlight were rubbish and I think Johnny Borrell cut their set short due to general ...

... went over the bridge every morning which was a great view too when it wasn't raining. We also got free food at least twice a week. Simon was very jealous when I came home with stories of gourmet sandwiches and mini quiches! I was there for the Melbourne Cup which is like the Grand National and the whole country stands still for this one race. Of course we had lost of free food and wine and beer as much as you wanted - not a bad place to work!! Now that we had found work ...

... that day was to make it to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains National Park, but the sun beat me. I may too many stops along the way, I guess, as I took some pretty unused roads to get there. I ended up in a city, which looked pretty nice, called Windsor. When I started asking blokes at servos where I could find a caravan park, they were all snooty and didn't know anything about caravan parks. I was surprised. I thought I had left Australia for a moment. Though ...

It's been rough trying to find a free computer to use today, since now that classes have started the uni is even crazier than during O-Week! I'm not used to going to school with this many people! After Wesleyan, a university of over 35,000 students is scary! But since I'm a postgrad student, all my classes are either 4-6 or 6-8 pm, so hopefully the campus won't be quite as crowded then. I had an awesome weekend because the rain finally stopped and we got ...

Wednesday night was an epic kind of night. I'm going to try to recount what I remember, though some details are kinda fuzzy... It all started with Kristin and me heading to a pub in the city called Scruffy Murphy's, a favorite of the Butler days. We chose to go there because Funkstar was playing, a band I used to go see the last time I lived in Sydney. Three years later and they're still playing in the same pub on the same night. Go Funkstar! So ...

I think the O in O-Week should stand for Overwhelming, because that's how I feel when I walk across campus being bombarded with flyers and harassed by zealots wanting me to join their Christian groups. Representatives from the hundreds of clubs and societies (I don't know what the difference is, but apparently there is one here) try to lure you to their stall on the main walkway and make you sign up for some weird group. I heard ...

Here I am at the Arts Faculty computer lab, which I snuck into this morning. At first I was the only person here, but then (an hour or so later) other students discovered it was unlocked too. It's O-Week at the University of New South Wales, which is like a big crazy orientation program for new students. There are people in yellow shirts stationed all over campus ready to accost anyone who looks slightly lost and hand them numerous flyers about dance parties, faculty ...