I <3 the library!

I may be a big nerd, but when I have nothing else to do, I love to read. I had only brought one book with me (the third book in the Well World series), and finished it mostly while on the planes, so I definitely needed to acquire something else to read. I was very happy to learn that a Brisbane library was within walking distance to my house.

And today I ventured there. I thought there might be so trouble in getting a library card, since I neither have a student ID yet, nor something that says my address, but the woman was very nice, and gave me one anyways, while asking me to bring in a paper next time or a piece of mail that says where I live.

This library may be even smaller and less well stacked than the North Miami Beach library, but they do have some books, and they will check them out to me, so I can't complain too much. The disappointing thing was that they tended to have one book from the middle of a series, one book from the end of a different series, and a whole mishmash of things you can't read because you don't have all the books. (I was looking specifically for the books by Terry Goodkind, R.A. Salvatore, maybe Terry Brooks, etc)

I was able to find a good amount of the Acorna series by Anne McCaffrey so that made me very happy!




Eventually, I came home and started getting ready to go to my first Rotary meeting! I was super excited about finally getting to meet my sponsor, after all the communication problems we had been having.

The meeting was at 6pm, so I took a shower, got dressed up all nice, grabbed my new book, and at 5:20pm, I went outside, where I sat and waited by the front gate. 5:30 comes and goes, my landlord shows up at 5:36 telling me how nice I look.... I continue waiting, until 6pm, when I figure out that he is not going to show up, and I went back inside.

=(

I have not had very much luck so far. I guess I need to get a phone soon.