February 23-25

All right, well. I shall try to recount the last month and a half of uni to the best of my ability, but it's quite likely that events will blur together in my memory and detail will be less than spectacular. For the most part, the only way I remember what I did on any given day is from pictures I might have taken. If I didn't take any pictures, then who knows what I did! Not me. And nor will you.

But anyway, we are up to 23 February. That was a Friday, and the last day of orientation at uni. So I got on a train and rode into the city! Here is a picture I took from outside Flinders Street Station, where I was waiting for my tram.

Then it was on to uni for Clubs and Societies Day! I thought I ought to go and join some of those. I signed up for the Amnesty International club (and got a free tote bag), the Save Darfur Coalition (and got some buttons and stickers), and put my name on the theatre mailing list (but got nothing). Though truth be told, I have not been particularly active as of yet. I get weekly emails from Amnesty and Darfur telling me about all the neato stuff they're doing, but they both meet in the middle of the day when I have class. As for theatre, I almost got involved in Fireraisers, but then I did not. It's at night, After that, I decided I should probably walk around campus and figure out where all my lectures and tutes and workshops were, so I did that. And took more pictures, of course:as theatre often is, and I wasn't sure I wanted to go home and then go back to uni at night and then go back home later at night...going home by myself in the big city could be scary, at least for a newcomer like me! So yeah. Oh well. Anyway! I did at least take pictures! So here they are:

Join the art club! Come and paint our random mural.

Lots of club and society booths set up!

After that, I decided I should probably walk around campus and figure out where all my lectures and tutes and workshops were, so I did that. And took more pictures, of course:

This is the closest thing UM (or most Aussie unis) have to a dorm. UM has a few of these. Not very many people live here. Mostly people from overseas, other states, or rural Victoria.

Look, it's the name of my school.

I passed this on the way to one of my classes. It's kind of a weird thing. A lot of rocks in a cage. Or something.

Then it started to rain on me, so I went home.

That weekend, I don't remember too much of what I did. I know I went to see a play Saturday night with Pippi and some of her friends. It was called Caravan. It was about people stuck in a Caravan on a camping trip in NSW. It was quite enjoyable.

And then came Monday and...my first day of uni!! So that should be another entry. So this one can end now.