Kangaroos Koalas Ed: Class Week 2 8/4-8/7

8/4

I had the Marine Environment for the first time! Out of all of my classes, it was the most interesting one. And we get to go on three "mandatory" field trips that are 50% of our grade. And we learn all about marine life and animals and plants, and I found out that Emily is in my class, which is a huge relief. And I also met her friend Ally from UNC.

8/5

Tuesdays are my busy day. Marketing is so boring, and it's so hard to concentrate for two hours with my professor's thick Indian accent. I kept nodding off.
Management is also boring. We learned about personality and how it relates to work behavior (behaviour).
And then I had my first tutorial (!!!) for management. My tutor is Graeme Taylor hahahaha he's a character.

8/6

I had two tutorials. Marketing tutorial, my tutor is Tony Lu (here and here). It's kind of funny at first because he has this weird British-Asian mixed accent. After a bit, it's just difficult to understand at times.

For my late lunch, I got pho from the Vietnamese place in my building.

Not only was this more expensive than in NYC, THEY CALL THIS BEEF PHO AND GIVE ME THE SMALLEST SCRAPS OF BEEF. THIS WAS AN OUTRAGE. THE BEEF COULD'VE BEEN THE TOOTHPICK PICKINGS FROM SOMEONE'S TEETH. AND THE BOWL WAS TINY.

Finance tutorial, my tutor is Mike Han Lin. We got placed in groups, and I met this guy named Oliver who is from Sichuan! And after class, we talked in Sichuanese for a bit. He was impressed, and said I speak with a very ~authentic~ accent.

After class, I made steak and mashed potatoes. They were quite delicious.

And after dinner, Chloe messaged me, and we spontaneously decided to go see Lucy, which she LOVED. It was alright to be honest.

8/7 Foundation Day!!!

There were a lot of tents and free stuff and people all over!

Carly (from Colorado) did this money thing where the fan blows the money and if you can catch $100 you can win a prize. I don't even know what the prize was. I'm pretty sure this is impossible.

Then, Franky went. I don't think he knew that you were supposed to catch money. I think he thought Carly was just dancing inside. So, he just kind of danced a little and then just kept posing for pictures and caught $0 LOL

THEN I rode a mechanical bull.

I think I lasted like 3 seconds.

Then Sofia decided to have a go at it.

AND LITERALLY, IF I BLINKED I WOULD'VE MISSED THIS. .5 seconds is generous.

There was also sumo wrestling LOL!!!!! I did not partake in this activity though.

Then, Sofia, Jennifer, and I went looking for this moon bounce. Actually, we knew where it was, but only UNSW residential building residents are allowed in. And my building is actually considered on-campus apartments (not dorms). How lame. So we couldn't get in. So we just went to the library lawn and chilled out for a bit. Sofia told us about a great deal at IGA (the supermarket downstairs of my building): TIMTAMS 2 FOR $5!!!

Australian birds are so funny looking.

Then I had finance, and my professor is a complete idiot. He told us that he doesn't know how to use Excel and does not know Excel formulas. But he's a finance professor.