New enrollments for 2012.

My enrollments to return to UNSW next year open, for me, on Nov. 30, and while this is late, most likely because I am an under achieving student, I hope that I am able to secure places in the subjects I choose, which are:

• EDST1101 Educational Psychology 1 (6 UOC)
• EDST1104 Social Perspectives in Educ. (6 UOC)
  Creative Writing - ENGLW23403
  Linguistics - LINGA24054

I've got this funny feeling about Linguistics, I don't know why, but I do ~

As for the other three, I'm actually looking quite forward to them.

"I have immunity to certain house rules" - certain house mates' attitude's PART II

This blog will deal with the house rule listed as "1)" in my previous post:

1) "Residents are responsible for keeping the common areas clean and hygienic, with chores assigned according to an agreement made mutually made by all the current residents of the house.  This is particularly important in the kitchen, bathrooms and garbage area."


Living in a share house, particularly with other students, it seems that they all seem to think that that "cleaning up after yourself" is some else's responsibility.


Since I've been here I've purposely avoided using all common areas so as not to have to get caught up in the "Who's responsible for what" debate/war, mostly because I'm only here while I find somewhere else more permanent to live.


Today, the land lady came over and gave certain students the third degree about keeping the place tidy and cleaning up after themselves, as the place has slowly become quite disgusting.


Not to mention, she also gave them quite a stern talking to about abusing internet downloads and having no respect for other students using the same internet, as because of those two downloading more than their fair share of things, the internet had capped - perhaps they were unaware that internet plans in Australia are all capped.


I believe she told them that if there excessive downloading were to continue that they were to look at getting their own internet at their own expense.


I'll keep you posted!


- Ian (the guy in the Mario hat).

Who clogged the toilet?

Can you believe that after only having been here one day, I was accused of clogging the toilet? (Because none of the other house-mates owned up to it)

Here's how it happened:

It was about four or five in the afternoon, and I decided to go to the local shopping centre and buy a waste-paper basket, a bath towel and a laundry hamper, as they weren't provide as standard in my room (Remind me that if I ever rent out a house to students, to have coat hangers, wast-paper baskets, and laundry hampers as standard with the room - as for the bath towel, I just simply didn't have room to pack one).

I got to Go-Lo and thought about whether it would be worth buying one or not given my impending move in about two weeks - because my landlady was unable to sign the Rent Assistance Certificate as owner ship of the house was currently being transferred from her husband to her mother-in-law.

I ultimately decided against it, and went and had a small cheeseburger McValue meal with a Sprite at the McDonalds in the shopping centre.

After I was finished, I casually walked home, came in, sat down and started using my computer as usual i.e Chatting on MSN, watching YouTube videos, etc.

After about fifteen minutes of coming home the was a knock on the kitchen-side door of my room (my room has two doors - one that goes to the front of the house and the outside world, and one that goes to the hallway which leads to the kitchen ... which in turn leads to the back yard) so I got up to answer it and saw my Ugandan house mate standing there, who then began a conversation that went something like this:

"Are you a student?" - at this point I thought he wanted nothing more than a little socialisation to get to know the "new guy" a little better.

"Yeah, I study over at UNSW."

He then went on to tell me that "...in this house, we clean up after ourselves..." - I was somewhat puzzled at this point, wondering why he would want to tell me something so seemingly random.  "You might not know, but on this toilet you really need to hold down the flush."

"Oh yeah," I started thinking to myself "that's just like the one we have back home" (referring to the toilet back in parents house in my home town)

Continuing, he told me that he comes and goes from the house during the day, just like all the other house-mates, and that when he got back at 5:30pm, he had to use the toilet quite badly, and when he got to the toilet, it was clogged, his exact words being " ... and it was nasty!"

At this point he accused me of clogging the toilet (Believe me, I'll be the first person to admit that I've clogged a toilet) under the assumption that "None of the other house-mates owned up to it, so therefore it must have been you."

Note that he had ample opportunity to come to me at any time before seeing any of the other house-mates, and yet still chose to come to me last.  Suspicious, no?

Thinking back, I also found it odd that the big middle eastern guy from Room #1, just as I'd answered the knock from the Ugandan guy popped his head out his room for no apparent reason and said "Oh, hi Ian!"

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You'll remember in an earlier post how great I thought it was going to be to live so close to the university, right?  Well, given the events written above, these days I just take my netbook to the library between classes and do whatever needs to be done while I wait for my next class to begin.

Now I generally only use the toilet here before going to bed at night, and when & if I need to go in the middle of the night.

My Four Subjects.

Okay, just to clarify, these are the subjects that I am definitely studying this year:

Korean A
Concepts of Asia
Psychology
Linguistics

At this point I'm very glad that I enrolled in Korean A - I think I was "supposed to" (that is, in the grand scheme of things).  Why do I think that?  I think that because of the Korean lecturer mentioning linguistics.  Therefore, if not for having enrolled in Korean, and having instead enrolled in something else, I would perhaps still be without a fourth subject.

So thank you to that man whose name I currently forget ... sorry!

Thank you.  ^_^

Moving tomorrow ...

This time tomorrow I'll be in my new house, with my fellow students.

I'm living in a house that, at the most, is a twenty minute walk to/from the uni, which is much better than last years forty-five minute walk.  What this basically means is that now, in cases where I have large gaps between the end of one class and the beginning of the next, I can go home and either study or have a rest.

I don't understand paragraphs.

Looks like I'll be getting employment, too ... maybe.

Given that university is starting this Monday, I'll hopefully have more posts, more frequently for you starting very soon.

- Ian.