Background information: I have yet to work out the best route from the nanny home to uni. I have tried taking the 3/16 to the balaclava station getting off flinders and then catching tram from there to uni. I have tried taking the 3 the whole way. I have tried taking the 3 to caulfield station getting off at melbourne central and taking a tram from there to uni. And I have tried taking the 16 to caulfield station getting off at melbourne central and taking a tram to uni.
No matter what something goes wrong tho and i end up late.
For example yesterday I got on a 16 got off at balaclava station and was told no trains were running - the 16 has a longer route than the 3 to uni - but a 3 wasnt coming for 10 minute - result: i was late.
Another time: I got on the 3 going for caulfield station - it turns - i ask about the station - driver says oh you need the 16 - oops - i finally catch a 16 - i get to the train station - the trains are very delayed - result: im late
I figure you get the pattern
Today: I have an exam for my 9am class - im ready to leave at 5 to 8. Dion (nanny dad) isnt awake - he usually drives me to caulfield station on my 9am days - and then im usually early - today i need to take the tram/train. but i have time - its not even 8! so i leave - i decide to go with caulfield station. I know from past experience not to take the 3 but the 16. I get to the stop - just then a 3 going toward balaclava goes by. I check the time table - a 16 isnt coming for 15 minutes - i should have taken the 3 toward balaclava - but its ok cuz im early. I 3 comes going in the direction i need - i dont get on - learned my lesson - take a 16. finally a 16 comes - i get on . it goes - and it turns. So i ask someone - why is it turning - i want caulfield station - they say - the 3 goes there! what the heck - the trams are switching on me - cuz im sure i took the 3 last time! so i ask where the 16 is going - the lady says melvern station - its on the same track as caulfield anyway. so i get on that instead. but it doesnt matter cuz in the end: I'm late!
the test was really short tho - ten questions - i got one wrong for sure - but it wasnt a good question cuz it said reptile phylogeny - and birds arent reptiles but the answer was birds - hopefully i didnt get anything else wrong.
btw this is what happens when i finally catch my blog up with my life - a ton of random insignificant stories.
Suckers!
Enjoy!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
facebook: what I do when I dont wanna do my hw
(Blog post: another thing I do when I dont wanna do my hw.)
so i was just on fb. and I commented on a million ppls things that came up on my screen - which i never do.
I also got back to ppl - finally. But the reason I feel compelled to write about fb on my blog is...
because that kid, who i told you about, from uni orientation - the one who wrote his name on the tram sheet - but there were a million of him - well he friended me. which i find so random and unexpected.
now that I m actually writing a post I might as well give ya'll a few more details of my life. (just a warning - the friend request has been the most exciting event recently)
Its raining like mad here - and i didnt bring a raincoat or rainboots - i wore my most waterproof shoes today - and within 5 minutes my feet were soaking.
I have an exam i really need to study for - but the information is so tedious - i really dont want to.
Im sure I had something better to say but i cant remember what
i might have a cavity - is that how you spell cavity? - it looks funny
man - im sure i had one interesting thing to say - what the heck was it?
ive been snacking on rice cakes with chumus - its yummy
my room is a wreck - and i really need to do a laundry
whenever words are spelled aith an au - like laundry (not australia tho - cuz that word starts with the au) - i always type in ua, realize it looks funny and then erase it and type in au - every time.
if youre wondering the answer is yes - im stalling as i try to remember what the interesting tidbit is that i want to share.
ratites are birds that can't fly - like the emu in australia.
today im wearing a lot of black and about five different shades of blue - in other words - i dont match.
ok, i give up - i cant remember what i wanted to say - it probably wouldnt have been so awesome - it probably would have been like the stories i tell - a fail.
well this is it
and ppl please comment - reading isnt enough
so i was just on fb. and I commented on a million ppls things that came up on my screen - which i never do.
I also got back to ppl - finally. But the reason I feel compelled to write about fb on my blog is...
because that kid, who i told you about, from uni orientation - the one who wrote his name on the tram sheet - but there were a million of him - well he friended me. which i find so random and unexpected.
now that I m actually writing a post I might as well give ya'll a few more details of my life. (just a warning - the friend request has been the most exciting event recently)
Its raining like mad here - and i didnt bring a raincoat or rainboots - i wore my most waterproof shoes today - and within 5 minutes my feet were soaking.
I have an exam i really need to study for - but the information is so tedious - i really dont want to.
Im sure I had something better to say but i cant remember what
i might have a cavity - is that how you spell cavity? - it looks funny
man - im sure i had one interesting thing to say - what the heck was it?
ive been snacking on rice cakes with chumus - its yummy
my room is a wreck - and i really need to do a laundry
whenever words are spelled aith an au - like laundry (not australia tho - cuz that word starts with the au) - i always type in ua, realize it looks funny and then erase it and type in au - every time.
if youre wondering the answer is yes - im stalling as i try to remember what the interesting tidbit is that i want to share.
ratites are birds that can't fly - like the emu in australia.
today im wearing a lot of black and about five different shades of blue - in other words - i dont match.
ok, i give up - i cant remember what i wanted to say - it probably wouldnt have been so awesome - it probably would have been like the stories i tell - a fail.
well this is it
and ppl please comment - reading isnt enough
Monday, April 4, 2011
School and Other Stuff
Sorry its been so long. I'm sure you all really missed reading my blogs: poring over the poor grammar and spelling trying to decipher what Im saying.
Im gonna try to catch you up on everything so that my blogs can finally be up to date. Maybe then I'll write entries more often.
Uni has been busy. I switched my urban ecology class to a Darwinism class. It's really interesting. I just submitted my first paper on the subject - it was really poorly done - but I tried. I also handed it in 2 days late - but the teacher gave me an extension since I missed the first 2 weeks of school. (I think my GPA is gonna be hurt by this semester - I keep telling myself I don't care - but I kinda do. Too bad!)
I also have a paper coming up for my aussie now class - Im gonna write about 2 childrens songs that are on the CD I bought my niece. Hopefully itll be good - but than again - Im writing this blog instead of the paper.
In my Aus Wildlife class I have an exam and paper to do - but Im really uninterested in both. Go figure the one class relating to my major and nature and animals is the one I care the least about.
Thats school - now work (remember I would hand out fliers? well I did) Then some lady told me it was against school rules. So I stopped - there went my money! (But I made a few bucks.)
Next I guess is Purim: I was sick - I think the only mitzahs I did was hearing meggilah and giving 1 shaluch manot. I didnt give to the poor or eat a meal - oops. I did dress up like a Beth Rivka High School student - in other words I wore the most hidious and unflattering outfit. I look fat! Poor girls who have to wear it for 4 years of their lives.
I also went to Tasmania (the real reason I handed in my paper late). The misadventure began the sat. night; the night before our flight. My friend and I went to the market, bought food, and then walked up to the train station together. The problem is we were both following each other so unwittingly we got on a train going the wrong way. By the time I realized and switched sides there were no more trains going into the city. Thank God some men were in the same situation. We all got a taxi together - we had to bribe the taxi driver to take all 5 of us cuz they can only take 4 passengers at a time. Thank God the guys didnt rip us off - they paid for the first half of the trip and we paid for the second. Then my friend and I discovered that the tram we needed to get to the bus that would take us to the airport dont start running until after we needed it. We had to order another taxi! Anway tasmania was amazing! I drove on the left side of the road. My friend and I went to Cradle Mountain - a beautiful national park. We did hikes and saw a few padimelons (like a small wallaby which is like a small kangaroo), skinks, a wombat, and a echinda (similar to a hedgehog) in the evening (cuz the animals are nocturnal). Then (cuz I wanted) we stayed at the park and did I nighttime tour - then we saw a lot more wildlife - we saw more padimelons, a bunch of wombats (and one mom and baby), we saw many wallibies, we saw a bushy tailed pussam too. And (again cuz I really wanted to) we went to a sanctuary for Tasmanian devils to see the night feed. I got to pet a tasmanian devil. Then I saw them eat. I also got to see to species of qualls - a cute little endangered mammal. By then it was 10pm and my friend and I still had 2 hours to drive to our hotel on the west coast of the island. Since my friend was scared of nighttime driving - on the wrond side of the road, with no lights, wildlife running all over the road, and insane curves - I drove. I got really good at honking at potential roadkill - the first time I was a bit timid so the pussum didnt know if it shoud run off the road or wander further onto it. I am proud to say I caused no premature deaths of any cute (or not so cute) wildlife. We made it to Strahan - pronounced Strawn - after midnight and the hotel was really nice. The next day we did a pretty hike to a waterfall in the towns park and hung out by the bay watching so geese take a very long bath. We then got in the car to head back toward the town with the airport for the next morning. On the way we stopped by Lake St Claire (it was different routes - the way there and back - cuz the way there we drove toward the north of the island and the way back we drove toward the middle). We did some stunning hikes around the lake and then got in the car to head to the hostel. On the way we stopped by some conservation place we had google mapped - it was non-exisitant. Then we stopped by another waterfallwe found in this map of tasmania we rented from the car rental place for 2 bucks - money well spent cuz google maps failed us right away on day 1. As it got dark I took over driving. The driving was really insane this night - for about 50km I drove on unpaved gravel road - there were potholes everywhere. And at some points the curves in the road were so intense they were practically u-turns. You couldnt see where the road went cuz the brights only point forward! Somehow I didnt hit any wildlife again - but when I finally made it to civilization and actual highway - I think a bird flew into my side window - not my fault though! We slept at the hostel (altho we were nearly locked out cuz we arrived 10 minutes after it closed - we sunk in was some guy who knew the door code and dound a note for us with our room key). The next morning we went to a nearby gorge (i think?) it had recently rained so it had overflowed and some of the trails were underwater. Then we flew back to melb - I made it just in time for Darwinism tutorial (they are mandatory).
After Tasmania I moved my belongings back from the rosensweigs back to the epsteins. It was really awkward leaving and the worst part is I forgot to empty out a drawer so I still need to go back to get my stuff.
Hope this makes a bit of sense. Now you are caught up with my life. yay.
Im gonna try to catch you up on everything so that my blogs can finally be up to date. Maybe then I'll write entries more often.
Uni has been busy. I switched my urban ecology class to a Darwinism class. It's really interesting. I just submitted my first paper on the subject - it was really poorly done - but I tried. I also handed it in 2 days late - but the teacher gave me an extension since I missed the first 2 weeks of school. (I think my GPA is gonna be hurt by this semester - I keep telling myself I don't care - but I kinda do. Too bad!)
I also have a paper coming up for my aussie now class - Im gonna write about 2 childrens songs that are on the CD I bought my niece. Hopefully itll be good - but than again - Im writing this blog instead of the paper.
In my Aus Wildlife class I have an exam and paper to do - but Im really uninterested in both. Go figure the one class relating to my major and nature and animals is the one I care the least about.
Thats school - now work (remember I would hand out fliers? well I did) Then some lady told me it was against school rules. So I stopped - there went my money! (But I made a few bucks.)
Next I guess is Purim: I was sick - I think the only mitzahs I did was hearing meggilah and giving 1 shaluch manot. I didnt give to the poor or eat a meal - oops. I did dress up like a Beth Rivka High School student - in other words I wore the most hidious and unflattering outfit. I look fat! Poor girls who have to wear it for 4 years of their lives.
I also went to Tasmania (the real reason I handed in my paper late). The misadventure began the sat. night; the night before our flight. My friend and I went to the market, bought food, and then walked up to the train station together. The problem is we were both following each other so unwittingly we got on a train going the wrong way. By the time I realized and switched sides there were no more trains going into the city. Thank God some men were in the same situation. We all got a taxi together - we had to bribe the taxi driver to take all 5 of us cuz they can only take 4 passengers at a time. Thank God the guys didnt rip us off - they paid for the first half of the trip and we paid for the second. Then my friend and I discovered that the tram we needed to get to the bus that would take us to the airport dont start running until after we needed it. We had to order another taxi! Anway tasmania was amazing! I drove on the left side of the road. My friend and I went to Cradle Mountain - a beautiful national park. We did hikes and saw a few padimelons (like a small wallaby which is like a small kangaroo), skinks, a wombat, and a echinda (similar to a hedgehog) in the evening (cuz the animals are nocturnal). Then (cuz I wanted) we stayed at the park and did I nighttime tour - then we saw a lot more wildlife - we saw more padimelons, a bunch of wombats (and one mom and baby), we saw many wallibies, we saw a bushy tailed pussam too. And (again cuz I really wanted to) we went to a sanctuary for Tasmanian devils to see the night feed. I got to pet a tasmanian devil. Then I saw them eat. I also got to see to species of qualls - a cute little endangered mammal. By then it was 10pm and my friend and I still had 2 hours to drive to our hotel on the west coast of the island. Since my friend was scared of nighttime driving - on the wrond side of the road, with no lights, wildlife running all over the road, and insane curves - I drove. I got really good at honking at potential roadkill - the first time I was a bit timid so the pussum didnt know if it shoud run off the road or wander further onto it. I am proud to say I caused no premature deaths of any cute (or not so cute) wildlife. We made it to Strahan - pronounced Strawn - after midnight and the hotel was really nice. The next day we did a pretty hike to a waterfall in the towns park and hung out by the bay watching so geese take a very long bath. We then got in the car to head back toward the town with the airport for the next morning. On the way we stopped by Lake St Claire (it was different routes - the way there and back - cuz the way there we drove toward the north of the island and the way back we drove toward the middle). We did some stunning hikes around the lake and then got in the car to head to the hostel. On the way we stopped by some conservation place we had google mapped - it was non-exisitant. Then we stopped by another waterfallwe found in this map of tasmania we rented from the car rental place for 2 bucks - money well spent cuz google maps failed us right away on day 1. As it got dark I took over driving. The driving was really insane this night - for about 50km I drove on unpaved gravel road - there were potholes everywhere. And at some points the curves in the road were so intense they were practically u-turns. You couldnt see where the road went cuz the brights only point forward! Somehow I didnt hit any wildlife again - but when I finally made it to civilization and actual highway - I think a bird flew into my side window - not my fault though! We slept at the hostel (altho we were nearly locked out cuz we arrived 10 minutes after it closed - we sunk in was some guy who knew the door code and dound a note for us with our room key). The next morning we went to a nearby gorge (i think?) it had recently rained so it had overflowed and some of the trails were underwater. Then we flew back to melb - I made it just in time for Darwinism tutorial (they are mandatory).
After Tasmania I moved my belongings back from the rosensweigs back to the epsteins. It was really awkward leaving and the worst part is I forgot to empty out a drawer so I still need to go back to get my stuff.
Hope this makes a bit of sense. Now you are caught up with my life. yay.
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