Down in the Dale

I think I enjoy this whole blogging in the morning thing, it gives me a chance to sit down and concerntrate on one thing and not get distracted. Most of you wouldn't know that my attention span is fairly lacking and I often get distracted and find it hard to concerntrate a lot of the time. This is one of the reasons why I am terrible at and don't do well in exams. It's also one of the reasons I started blogging. I needed a medium where I would have to sit down and write something coherent so it could be published. It's sort of worked. I think.

But enough of that. My original plan for this blog post is to talk about my trip down south (douth) last weekend. Let's start off with a pretty picture:

This is the view from the house that we stayed in plus some chairs we put out on the large verandah. Arty huh? The property was a generous 200 acres, it belongs to one of my friend's family who built the house just recently. It's a pretty awesome place. The thing I love most about going to the country is being able to see all the stars at night. I live so close to the city that you can't see that many of them and I always forget how many stars they're actually are and how pretty they are.

I went down with my sister and four of our friends. I've never really been on a roadtrip with only people my own age before, it was definitely more fun than any of the family roadtrips I've been on in the past years (as you would expect). When we arrived there we didn't do a hell of a lot really, just consumed some (and by some I mean a lot) intoxicating beverages, went on bush walks, played numerous games of cards with some scrabble and PS 3 thrown in, we even managed to have a weird, late night experience with SBS.

I'm really glad I ended up going on this trip. I haven't had a proper holiday away from home in almost a year, so it was definitely a nice break.

Anyway, I think I'll stop there before I start rambling. Next blog post I'm going to (hopefully) post my semi-review on You Shall Know Our Velocity.

See you guys then!

Zwei

This is fairly good, two blogs for two days. Some people would say I'm on a roll, some would just say "that's not particularly impressive, Catherine". And they may be right, but when you consider my previous blog count of recent days I think it's worth the accolades.

But enough of that indulgence, I figure I'll start off BMFA with a little summary/update on what is going on in my life. Mid-semester break has just started so we now have a "study-break" for a week in which we try and cram as much fun-stuff as possible while trying to catch-up on all the work we're behind on from the first 6-ish weeks of uni. I know there's a lot off stuff I have to catch up on especially in German, which I was kinda neglecting a bit because I had so many other assignments. The bad news about neglecting a subject that has weekly tests is that the neglect shows up fairly quickly, luckily the tests are only worth 4% and they ignore your worst one when averaging your semester mark, sooo I have a little breathing space to make it better.

In other uni news I am now only doing 3 units this semester because I withdrew from my Calculus unit because it just didn't really fit in with all my other units. I wasn't really prepared to do enough work on it to even justify doing the unit. It just means I'll have to enrol in a fourth unit next semester instead of doing just 3. I already have credit for one unit from my study last year and I could probably get more credit, but I don't really want to because it'll limit the type of 2nd year units I can do next year.

In non-uni news before Easter I went down south with a few friends for three days. It was awesome. It was just so nice to get away and not worry about uni-work, normal-work and not seeing a computer screen for three days was also fantastic. I'll write more about this trip in a later blog (and possibly include pictures!).

I also finally finished reading a book that I have been trying to finish for ages (thanks again to the trip for that too). I think I'll write another blog about that book too, it was really awesome it many ways I really like the author's style of writing. He comes up with some amazing observations and ideas. The book's called You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers. Dave Eggers is a fairly well-reknowned author especially famous for his short stories which are nothing short of amazing, if I do say so myself.

I think that's enough for today.
See you all soon! (well not really)