Week 9 (starting 5th May)

On Monday, classes were canceled due to the public holiday (Labour Day). But my lecturers are tricky, so instead they rescheduled my Monday class for Thursday night (since we didn't have a class then). Bah!

Monday wasn't too exciting, mostly because I spent the day working on a paper that was due later that week. But I got the 1000 words written on parasitology, so I guess it was a well-spent day.

Tuesday and Thursday I worked! The job is pretty much what I expected: laid-back and easy, and Corinne is nice to work with. I am basically learning the ropes - where the copier machine is located, how to fill out the various forms, what to do when problems arise. The experiments don't always go smoothly because the servers like to crash every once in a while (and sometimes more often that that!), but overall it seems pretty good. I am working on learning the names of everyone who participate in the experiments, which is kinda difficult because that is a good amount of students. Corinne showed me on Thursday how to fill out the timesheets to get paid (because they were due), but told me it could be up to a month before I saw any money because the system is slowwww.

Last night and tonight were both for swing dancing, even though this was probably a bad idea, since I have an exam tomorrow. =O I am such a slacker! But I had a really good time (like always!) and danced with a bunch of different people. I will just have to get up early tomorrow morning (oy!) and get my studying done!

Haha, I forgot! On Thursday, somehow Mel and I got to talking about Krispy Kreme donuts. Well, they just opened a store here in Brisbane a couple of weeks ago, and I was telling her how good they are back home. So while I was in the city earlier today, I decided I would pick up some donuts for Mel, Jackie, and myself. I showed up at the store about noon to find the line was out the door and to the next store down! Crazy!

I decided to come back later in the day, after I finished my class. About 6pm, I show up, and the line is even longer! Now it is several stores down!



But I didn't have much else to do while I waited for swing to start, so I waited in this line:


Can you believe I waited for close to 25 minutes for 3 donuts?! But they were good!

I also wandered the brightly lit city for a while before I caught the bus. For Andrea, this is the Australian version of Burger King: