Hi all. sorry for the long lag in writting this 2nd post. But I have a good exuse, the south easten part of queensland has been getting battered by crazy sideways wind and rain for the good part of a week!
The rain started last tuesday i think, and the rain hasn't really stopped since. It rained heavy for a sold 3!! yes 3 days, and then since friday it has been raining hard in continual shifts. regardless of the weather we have still been going to school. There was one morning when i prayed that there would be a message on my uni email saying "We have cancelled class due to the terrible weather, please stay warm and dry at home". But alas... that message never showed up in my inbox. The wind ruined my unbrella, and basically tore apart every one in robina's umbrella as well. The little metal spokes that held my unbrella together were all mangled, and my unbrella spokes looked like the legs of a daddy long legs (after it had been stepped on).
Shiv managed to save the fabric part of his umbrella for a momento of the crazy Queensland storm 09!
School is going really well. The 1st day i went to lecture, it ended up being cancelled and moved to the following day. After walking in the sideways rain for 10 minutes to get to class, i was not impressed to have to take that walk right back in the opposite direction so soon after arriving at campus. Shiv is really on to his 2nd week of school, because his "Bond week (orientation week) really thre him right into Law school mode. My 1st week has proven to be really overwhelming because there is so much work/readings thrown at me right from the get go.
Because bond has 3 semesters a year. Every thing comes at you very fast, and you pretty much hit the ground running ( or reading, in my case) But I think it will be good for us. This weekend, spent friday at school, saturday at school and sunday at school. Wich may make us look like big nerds, but what ever. We did splice some fun into the mix by getting all dressed up and going to CBD ( a swanky lounge/ bar/ casino?) sort of near our house. We heard they were having a live band, and we decided to stop by. And boy were we glad we did. It was a great night, and there was a really good cover band playing awesome tracks the whole night. The magic of the evening was supplied by 2 random dancers who had had way to much to drink and were the sole entertainment on the dancefloor for the entire evening. The man-dancer could closely be compared to an autistic will ferrel type character, who liked to do the side step, but was trying to be restrained from starting a fight.
His moves were of the hook. At the end of the night we got caught in a little bit of a rain storm, but made it safely home, and to the library the next morning!
Here is our top 10 for this week
1) there are resse's peices in this country
2) If we eat like aussies, we save money
3) MEATPIES, people have told us they are a working mans meal ( sort of lower class grub, if you will, but We dont care. we are ADDICTED to meat pies, and we have found a great brand at our local IGA.
4) Finding used bikes has proven to be alot more difficult than we 1st imagined
5) we got "burners" tabs and ed will know what we're talking about
6) Bond has an awesome selection of DVDs for rent/loan
7) theres is a free BBQ at school, every wenesday of the school year
7a) we are still on the search for the infamous punjab sweethouse on the GC (gold coast)
8) The manager at this resturant tepanyakki ( a japanese restaurant) had mentioned to us that she may start an all you can eat sushi night every monday, Shiv has vowed to call the resturant using different voices/profiles to convince the manager that there is a real demand for all you can eat sushi in our hood.
9)its pretty chilly at nights, they dont tell you that on the gold coast website. i wish i bought more hoodies
10) we saw wild canaries in a little patch of trees near our house. WILD canaries! like come on! i thought canaries grew in pert stores. You cant make this stuff up!
xoxoxo jan
