UNI thats short for... Uh, No Idea!

Uh, Now I know my post title is quite lame - but deal with it - cuz I had fun coming up with it.  It took a good 5 minutes to think of - which is exactly the amount of time I needed to waste.  Now I've got to go hand out fliers to random ppl that don't want to take the scrap of paper but feel bad cuz I smile, say hi and shove it in their face.  I'll continue this entry in an hour or two.
Ok a lied.  An hour or two turned into a few days but watevs (they do that down under - randomly shorten words).
Anyway
Orientation was about 3 weeks ago.  But the day before orientation I went into the city to make sure I wouldnt get lost the day of.  I made it there - no problem.  Took some photos of a butterfly:

and discovered that the health insurance card I printed out from Rutgers wasnt recognized here.  On the way back I got on the 6 tram instead of the 16 (I knew it said 6 - but I thought the numbers were similar enough - they arent) it took a few hours to find my way back... not so bad.
At orientation I met a few German kids - they were all really nice - but I havent spoken to them since.  (I sat next to this one guy and then I was on the same tram as him so we traded names - his name is Jan Van Den Broeck:

We're not facebook friends tho.  Seriously type his name into the friend searcher thingy and you'll see why.  There are hundreds of him - and yeah right if I remembered what he looked like once a said goodbye.  (now if youre wondering why he didnt friend me - cuz you just read that we traded names - I like to tell myself its cuz my name was blocked on facebook search unless we have a friend in common (that was true at the time) - but it may also have to do with a. being smelly (unlikely cuz I showered just for orientation) b. my extreme awkwardness (a real possibility) c. he forgot about me or d. all of the above.  hmmm, now I'm considering blocking my name again so that the next time someone doesnt wanna friend me I can still rely on my excuse rather than admit they don't wanna.  moving on from how pathetic I am - I also got my ID card (I look ugly but not fat which is an improvement), I signed up for three classes - was told I need 4 or I'll get deported - was told 3 is fine - was told 4 -3 - 4 -3 until finally I introduced the arguing parties to each other and they decided 3 is fine (There were some more issues with my classes but I'll hopefully write about them soon - cliffhanger!!! - tangent: last night i was texting with this kid - he says st I ask a question and he doesnt respond literally 25 minutes later (Im not exagerating cuz I checked) I text him again saying yo (nope I didnt say yo but I should have) i texted 10 minutes ago (i hadnt checked the time and didnt realize it had actually been longer) and I hate cliffhangers.  I dont know what he thinks of me - but it worked - he responded - yay for being desperate!) continuing with what I was saying  -, I found out I might be eligable for a concession card - which makes the trams half price - story with that too, I received a chocalate koala -

 I dont think its kosher tho.

And I met a few jewish girls from the tri-state area that I now spend most of my free time with - altho they live in the city and Im an hour away.

Now for the stories I left you curious about:

Class: one class I was put on a waiting list for and I had a clash (2 classes at the same time) on fridays.  So I write to the profs to see what can be done.  They write back - prof (pertaining to waiting list) I dont know why youre on a waiting list the class isnt full.  Prof (pertaining to clash) theres no lecture on fridays.  So Im like go figure - but no it gets better - I write back to clash prof - thats good to know but kind of odd since my schedule says otherwise - prof responds - my bad there is class on fridays - yea, we'll have to figure st out - now its go figure!

Concession card:

So I was told repeatedly - I'm not eligable for a concession card - aussies like to milk forigners for their cash.  You have to be an exchange student.  But when I got my ID i find out i was exchange so I asked about concession - cuz Im jewish and i dont understand word pertaining to no.  The ID guy doesnt know what im talking about.  I leave and see a gray-haired lady - I look at her and she notices that I look confused so I ask her about concession.  she looks up my name and it says exchange (yay!) so she takes me to some other person behind a desk and tells them I should get concession - they print out some form saying im eligable and give it to me to bring to the train station to get a card.  I go to the train station - the guy looks at the form and says no you need a seperate letter from your uni and the form - but on the form my uni wrote a letter and stamped it - he doesnt care.  So I go back to the uni - they say the form is all I need - no seperate letter needed - I go back to the station - they dont care.  I go back to the uni - no letter needed - go to a different train staion and try that - I go to a different train station - finally its my turn - look at form - oh you only get a card for half the year - yeah, thats fine - we ran out of those go to _ station (names the station I went to twice and was rejected form - uh, no. they turn me away every time I go there - oh, um go wait on another line downstairs - I do - and some how get a concession card.  btw this whole ordeal took days.  But now my tram rides are cheaper - so worth it!

And happy birthday shuie. (Yaffa dont get jealous - we skyped!)