Living on Campus.

After all these years, I'm finally living on campus, with four housemates, all of which are Chinese.  There's two girls, both named Lin, and two males, Gordon, and Ray.

I get a long with C. Lin and Gordon the best, and Ray and X. Lin seem to get along the best of my Chinese house mates.

The apartment is self catered, meaning you have to cook for yourself, etc, and costs $205/wk, and there are on-site laundries, which cost $1.20 for washing and another $1.20 for drying (but I've noticed my housemates just bring the clothes in and hang them on a dryer, rather than paying to have them dried).

Mostly I don't see the other housemates, as I'm more often out of the house than in it, and use it only for meal times, if that, and somewhere to sleep - mostly I'm in the Main Library, because here I can get free internet.  If I want internet in my room, it costs me $2/GB and that's a complete rip off!

Anyway, break week this week, so should probably get started on my essay for Education, then we come back next week (second week of September) for Week 8 (and I have a presentation in Week 10).

Anyway, I guess that's all I've got to say for now.

See you later.  ^_^

Finally, an update! (My subjects and what might happen).

Let's face it; I've been pretty slack with updates on this blog, the last one, I think, being about linguistics.

Anyway, it's Saturday, September 1, and UNSW's "Open Day", so there are lots of people around, and plenty of things to do here right now, but come Monday, (or perhaps even tomorrow) it'll be as if it never was.  (It was pretty cool seeing a magnetic levitation train set, though).

Getting back to linguistics, I'm now doing the follow up course The Use of Language (the previous one being The Structure of Language) and am also doing Life of Words (i.e. Creative Writing) and am still doing education, this semester's course being called Social Perspectives in Education.

I'm not sure that I'll pass Linguistics, am fairly certain I can scrap by Education, and am pretty sure I'll pass Creative Writing with flying colours.

My problem is that right now, because of having failed so many courses so badly in the past I'm on what's known as Academic Probation.  In other words, if I don't pass at least two courses this semester, having already been suspended last year, they boot me out for good (and am unable to re-apply for two years).

I hope I do pass, because I'm actually really enjoying Creative Writing more than I've enjoyed any other course at this uni, so, assuming I pass, next year I'm going to change my degree to Creative Writing, which can apparently only be done as a minor, but I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

End.