Alright, I haven't blogged in awhile been super busy getting read for midterms and call. Now that I am done I will catch you all up on my life so far. So, I had a midterm on Monday in Public Economics 60 minutes 5 essay questions; I think it went pretty good. I guess I'll find out soon enough; the questions weren't hard or anything the difficulty was getting everything I knew down on the paper in 60 minutes. I just got done with my International Finance midterm and overall I think it went well some things were a little tricky, but I'm hoping for a HD (A).
Tonight virtually our whole floor and probably all of the college are going out tonight for some celebration. I think tomorrow a couple of us are going to explore the city a little more since I haven't really been able to do that. I want to see some museums, the botanical garden, and of course ride the City Cat at night. On a side note our netball team is unstoppable. We haven't lost yet and we don't plan on it.
Next week I have another quiz in my Money, Banking and Finance class. It shouldn't be to hard the first one was rather easy and I've gone over most of this stuff in former classes.
My new small netbook is working pretty good and my normal laptop has completely crashed now, which resulted in a little panic. I had to get Microsoft Office installed on this so I can do my assignments that are coming up.
Only a week left until we get to go to Fiji! Dan get keen!!!
Friday, April 15, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Melbourne
This past weekend I had to joy of going to Melbourne with some friends to visit out Canadian friend who is going to school there. She was kind enough to let us stay at her place, so we didn't have to pay for accommodation. We left Thursday night and were supposed to arrive just before midnight, well that didn't happen. I can safely say I won't ever fly Jetstar again, initially I thought it wasn't going to be pretty good. Our first flight was delayed for a hour. I could of lived with that, but when it was time for us to leave our plane was once again delayed for about a hour and a half for technical reasons.
We got into Melbourne around 1 am and got a shuttle bus to some random place, then a cab to another random road and finally Cassandra met us by McDonald's. Thursday we didn't do anything since it was so late, we sat around talking until about 5 am. Thet next day, Friday, we took a train into the city to explore it. The city is AMAZING, but I think I say that about every city I've been to. We walked around the whole day and saw a bunch of interesting things. My favorite is probably the graffiti walls all over the city. I have picture of them on my Facebook and it's possibly the coolest thing ever!
Friday night we went to a AFL game (Australian Rules Football) and we had no idea how it was played or who the teams were. Canada (Cassandra) knew the most and tried to explain it to us. We decided to flip coins to see what team we were going to cheer for. I happened to get St. Kilda Saints along with Canada and Mara; Dan and Jenny got the Richmond Tigers. In the first period it looked like it was going to be a lopsided victory for the Saints, little did we know it would be a really good game. The second period the tides turned and the Tigers were up by like 10 or something. They held the lead throughout the third period and heading into the fourth we were only down 6, I think. The fourth period was by far the best and most exciting. The Saints started to look sloppy and were trailing pretty good, but we turned it around and tied it up and took the lead in injury time. It didn't last long though, the Tigers ended up scoring and taking it back and we were down 95-93. In the closing minutes we got two quick scores and tied the game and with second left it looked like we could squeeze out a win, but unfortunately they blocked the last attempt and it ended in a draw. Oh, and I was able to buy an authentic AFL jersey for the Saints for only $30!
Friday night we decided to take it easy and didn't go out and stayed in, it was a mellow night, but was much needed. The following day some of us went out to the country and the rest of us went back to the city. We visited the stadiums of the city, their new cricket/soccer stadium, the AFL one that was watched the game at and finally the Australian Open tennis stadium. Once we were done there we walked across the river to the CBD (central business district) and tried to find a place to get kangaroo. After searching and having no luck we were about to give up until the last restaurant on the road had it. We ended up getting it; the meal it self was alright the sauce they put on the kangaroo wasn't that good. It did cost us $25 and we hardly got any food for that too, but it was all about the experience.
Saturday night was the last night in Melbourne so we hit the city. We planned on not sleeping at all and just heading to the airport once we got tired of going to bars and stuff. A group of us went out and went to a couple bars; most of their bars you had to pay a cover fee. I wasn't to fond of that, but I couldn't do much about that. After about three or four different bars we decided to hit up the casino. Once we got there the security guy said we couldn't go in if we've been drinking, but decided to let us in anyway since we weren't drunk or anything, nice guy. Dan and I hit up the roulette table and started with $10 and hit a hot streak right away. Red was the hot color and we kept winning, at one point we were both up $120, but then a bizarre twist of fate and we ended up losing all of it plus some, that gambling. One of the guys we were with though borrowed $5 from Dan and put it on a random spot and actually won, so he got $175 and paid for our cab ride home. We stopped at McDonald's on the way home to get ice cream, Dave (the $175 winner) bought 10 Big Mac snack wraps and decided to share the wealth. We all got fat on Big Mac snack wraps.
After that we went to the airport at 4:45 am and literally sat/slept until our flight at 7:35 am, but out flight was delayed and we didn't leave till about 9:45 am, the time we were supposed to land. We landed at about 11 am and Jenny left us at the train station. So, Dan and I caught the next drain 30 mins later, because we had to put money on out go cards since I was at $-12.47. After we caught the train and got to the train station we got McDonald's again. Then we caught a bus back to campus and we finally arrived at 1:30 pm or something like that. It's been a long day and we haven't slept much, but it was awesome!
We got into Melbourne around 1 am and got a shuttle bus to some random place, then a cab to another random road and finally Cassandra met us by McDonald's. Thursday we didn't do anything since it was so late, we sat around talking until about 5 am. Thet next day, Friday, we took a train into the city to explore it. The city is AMAZING, but I think I say that about every city I've been to. We walked around the whole day and saw a bunch of interesting things. My favorite is probably the graffiti walls all over the city. I have picture of them on my Facebook and it's possibly the coolest thing ever!
Friday night we went to a AFL game (Australian Rules Football) and we had no idea how it was played or who the teams were. Canada (Cassandra) knew the most and tried to explain it to us. We decided to flip coins to see what team we were going to cheer for. I happened to get St. Kilda Saints along with Canada and Mara; Dan and Jenny got the Richmond Tigers. In the first period it looked like it was going to be a lopsided victory for the Saints, little did we know it would be a really good game. The second period the tides turned and the Tigers were up by like 10 or something. They held the lead throughout the third period and heading into the fourth we were only down 6, I think. The fourth period was by far the best and most exciting. The Saints started to look sloppy and were trailing pretty good, but we turned it around and tied it up and took the lead in injury time. It didn't last long though, the Tigers ended up scoring and taking it back and we were down 95-93. In the closing minutes we got two quick scores and tied the game and with second left it looked like we could squeeze out a win, but unfortunately they blocked the last attempt and it ended in a draw. Oh, and I was able to buy an authentic AFL jersey for the Saints for only $30!
Friday night we decided to take it easy and didn't go out and stayed in, it was a mellow night, but was much needed. The following day some of us went out to the country and the rest of us went back to the city. We visited the stadiums of the city, their new cricket/soccer stadium, the AFL one that was watched the game at and finally the Australian Open tennis stadium. Once we were done there we walked across the river to the CBD (central business district) and tried to find a place to get kangaroo. After searching and having no luck we were about to give up until the last restaurant on the road had it. We ended up getting it; the meal it self was alright the sauce they put on the kangaroo wasn't that good. It did cost us $25 and we hardly got any food for that too, but it was all about the experience.
Saturday night was the last night in Melbourne so we hit the city. We planned on not sleeping at all and just heading to the airport once we got tired of going to bars and stuff. A group of us went out and went to a couple bars; most of their bars you had to pay a cover fee. I wasn't to fond of that, but I couldn't do much about that. After about three or four different bars we decided to hit up the casino. Once we got there the security guy said we couldn't go in if we've been drinking, but decided to let us in anyway since we weren't drunk or anything, nice guy. Dan and I hit up the roulette table and started with $10 and hit a hot streak right away. Red was the hot color and we kept winning, at one point we were both up $120, but then a bizarre twist of fate and we ended up losing all of it plus some, that gambling. One of the guys we were with though borrowed $5 from Dan and put it on a random spot and actually won, so he got $175 and paid for our cab ride home. We stopped at McDonald's on the way home to get ice cream, Dave (the $175 winner) bought 10 Big Mac snack wraps and decided to share the wealth. We all got fat on Big Mac snack wraps.
After that we went to the airport at 4:45 am and literally sat/slept until our flight at 7:35 am, but out flight was delayed and we didn't leave till about 9:45 am, the time we were supposed to land. We landed at about 11 am and Jenny left us at the train station. So, Dan and I caught the next drain 30 mins later, because we had to put money on out go cards since I was at $-12.47. After we caught the train and got to the train station we got McDonald's again. Then we caught a bus back to campus and we finally arrived at 1:30 pm or something like that. It's been a long day and we haven't slept much, but it was awesome!
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