A lazy long, yet not long weekend.


Strange title perhaps but it makes sense to me. for most of melbourne this weekend is a long weekend, i.e. monday is Labour Day, only problem is universities forgot to take note of that fact, so we still have to go to class. :-( But luckily for me, i have friday off, every week, so yay! i can have my own long weekend - every weekend!

i was a good girl on friday and wrote up my assignment for Chinese Calligraphy class,which is due on tuesday. see! i'm really ahead of schedule. the other little bits and pieces of study i should be doing are kind of being delayed though. i should do some hiragana writing practise for japanese, and i did a little bit of chinese reading last night, which i should go over again.


i haven't got much interesting news today, but seeing as i'm on the topic of uni i may as well introduce my subjects to everyone. first things first, i'm first-year student at Melb. uni, after spending the previous year at Liao Ning uni in China.

i'm doing the very highly demanding Bachelor of Arts course, (lol!) doing a major in Asian Studies. that's right, i just sit in class and stare at all the asian people i can see out the window. no! i'm doing 'Film and Literature in Contemporary China' which is really awesome, we watch bits of really good movies so far, 'Chinese Calligraphy' which is such a bludge subject, but actually if you take it seriously then it's actually really difficult to be good at (i spent my first lesson just writing horizontal lines repetitively...for an hour and a half!! and they still looked shit!) and i'm a beginner in 'Japanese' now too.

so yes, those are my subjects for the first half of the year. sounds easy? yeah, it's not too bad. it's pretty cool. but somehow 'japanese' manages to be a huge subject! we have 8 class hours per week just for that one subject...everything else only has about 3!

hmm, as always i need some new photos on the blog, so we'll try and do a little update. Haha, i've just been chatting to Lou about how great the 'self-timer' function is on cameras. and gotta love those really odd angles you get when you take 'self-photos'. i love it! so fun! her bf just bought her a digital camera! woo, jealous! lucky girl!!


one last thing i need to say today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VICKI!!!!! i'm looking forward to catching up with you again soon!