February 18-20, 2007

Well, I'm doing better since my last entry, which was not so happy. I still definitely have my downs, but I also have my ups. Overall, I'm on the up. So that's good. But anyway, it's time to get back to chronicling my life.

So the 18th was last Sunday and it was hot, so we decided to go somewhere where someone else would pay for our AC. So we went to the Southlands Shopping Centre. And we stopped by Myers and Pippi said I needed to buy another bathing suit so I would have one to keep at her house. So I did. After shopping a bit, we went by my Aunt Susan's house in Frankston. Mark, James, Stacey, and Phillip showed up, so it was a party. Though Phillip wasn't there for very long. But that's okay.

Here I am in my new suit in Sue's pool:

While there, we talked about how McDonald's is gross. Here, they have this new healthy happy meal for kids that's this Animal Zoo Pasta, and it's pretty much the worst thing ever. Or at least it looks like it would be.

So anyway, on the way home, we went to McDonald's! It was like 9pm and I hadn't had anything and I was hungry. So then I attempted to take some pictures to show how here, you go through the drive through the other way around! Since you drive on the left and all. But they were really bad pictures, so use your imagination.

And that was that day. Yes.

The 19th was my last day before O Week activities at uni. So we did exciting things like filing my Working With Children Card application, which I needed so I could do my student teaching at uni.

We also went to Coles. Now, for the week previous I had been on the search for coat hangers. We'd ended up buying about 50 in total, all in various locations, because there were just hard to track down. And I brought a lot of clothes and I like to hang most things, so I needed quite a few! But it was this day, after we had finally tracked down all that we needed, that we were greeted by this site:

Coat hangers as far as the eye can see! It was a bit sad.

Tuesday the 20th was my first day of uni orientation! It was also my first day of work at the local primary school. I left the house at about 7:15am and walked to the primary school (it's about a ten minute walk) to do before school care from 7:30am-9:00am. I ended up just playing Uno with a bunch of kids for almost the entire time. So that worked for me.

I then walked back home and met up with Eloise. She was going to take me to uni, since I had no idea how to get there on the train/tram. To go to uni, we have to walk ten minutes to the Balaclava train station, ride the train to Richmond, change trains and get on the city loop train, get off that train at Melbourne Central, and then catch a tram to uni. I feel like such a big city girl doing this now, hehe.

When we got there, I went to a general sort of "Intro to Your Degree, It's So Cool You Want to be a Teacher, Teachers Rule" sort of thing. After that, we split up into host groups, so I was with about ten girls who are doing my degree, and we were led by a second year girl, and she just basically showed us around campus and gave us tips and stuff like that. I ended up talking a bit to one girl. She told what her name was but said I would probably forget it. I did. Oh well.

Afterwards I met up with Eloise again and we went to lunch at some Italian place that her mom and dad went to a lot when they were in uni. After that, Eloise explained what I needed to do to get home (catch a tram to Flinder's Street and then the train to Balaclava) and I did it all by myself!

Later my mom came over for dinner at the Porters. Pippi joined us too after Rotary. And that sums it up.