Week 5 - exam and a little bit of everything =)

Yeah, sunday was spent studying from morning to night - and I think it payed off =)

Still waiting for the results but I'm 99,9% sure that I passed !!!

Okey - a piece of advice to everyone studying in a foreign country;
Start studying for an exam in good time - that's basic knowledge really, and something you should apply for all studies no matter where you are - but, here's the thing;

Your first exam in a new country, new city, new subject and new teacher - it's always going to be a bit nerve wrecking since you have no idea how this exam is going to be - it takes some getting used to, some time to realise how this particular teacher likes his/hers exams and if everyone that's told you "Oh relax, it's easy!" is correct or not - 'cause let's face it, what's easy over here might be the same as extremly hard back at home... How do I know until I've gone through that first exam? well, I don't...

And that's why it's sooo much easier if you've started studying on time - 'cause then all you have to worry about is how the exam's going to be, and not if you know your stuff or not - 'cause it really takes it out on ya, if you have to think about both at the same time... Believe me!

So I would've felt better if I'd had two more days to revise, but now I didn't, so I just had to suck it up and try to make it work - and it did =)

I won't say the exam was easy - all the revision I did was necessary, and some more wouldn't have been a bad idea - but out of 50 questions I only took a shot at three, so I either actually knew something, or I thought I did =) we'll all see when the results come

This week the weather has been bad - and I mean really bad...
Lisa actually sent me a message wondering if everything was alright, since she's read about the floodings going on - and yeah, even if we didn't have any floodings, we sure did have loads of rain... And when it rains here, it's not fun... It's sticky, massive and overwhelming... I guess this is the price you pay when you're in the tropics...

So tried to stay indoors monday-wednesday, until it cleared at last on thursday

and that was just in time for the poster sale!! yippie!! finally I can my room to look like MY room =)























Other stuff that happened;

- went to BodyAttack on monday, step on thursday and the gym on saturday
- worked my five hours at BotH on wednesday
- went to Kotara (massive shopping centre over there) and bought a bodyboard!
- booked a flight to Tasmania for five days in may - yohooo!!!
- went to Sydney on friday for a day of shopping (see pics)
and went to a Knights rugby game on sunday =) (see more pics)

Sydney pics:

On the morning train to Sydney - Hayley's taking a nap while Katie and I enjoy the view =) There's some amazing scenery along the rail, but I can't really capture it that well with my camera....











Lunch! hehe, I know, I'm degrading and going so far down hill that you can't barely see me anymore... Wedges with sour cream and sweet chilli sause + a mixed berry smoothie with an extra spoon of passion fruit (my idea - turned out to be a mistake... some things just don't match..)

And some funny animal that I sure do not want to eat - the throat's a bit too long...














Paddy's Market and China town!





























Sydney Library and some more nice buildings































Here Mamy - look - a hairdresser!
It's like a victorian mansion in there - if you only could place all your wooden sticks, rocks and stones, this place would be lovely!

















Before heading back, we headed into Three Wise Monkeys for a glass of beer/wine and some girl talk =)




















And before you knew it, we were back in front of our old place (WakeUp!) right by the Central Station, and it was time to go back home!



















Rugby pics;
















They had some really awesome cheerleaders!!! Grandma you would have so made their team! =) they were sooo cute =D
























After some time the little younger cheerleaders came out to play























Our mascot - The Knight!

And yeah, we rock - the Knights won 26-12 - haha, in your face Manly!!
















'Though I'm happy I'm not one of the cleaning people...



















And now it's Sunday evening - and I've once again arrived at TODAY - so right now I'm completely up to date with all you guys =)

and I can actually get more stuff done tonight - 'cause now we're changing into wintertime down here, so it'll be 8hours ahead of Sweden, just so you know

Tjoho! I got one extra hour! =)

turned out I kinda forgot about it, I thought it was changing the night between sunday-monday, 'cause everyone kept going on about sunday night... So when I went up this morning it wasn't 9.30 - it was 8.30 - sweet!

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What's even more sweet is that the results for the exam came yesterday - I got 45 out of 50 points, that's 90% baby! High Distinction (their version of MVG)! Yihaa!

sweet aaaaazzzz!

Week 4 - Study Abroad Fair, Rubix Cube & sweet 23rd!

Already a month has passed in uni down here - wow, time fly!

So that means that I've already spent one and a half month here at Callaghan!

shit...

soon time to go home...

I do think about Sweden at least three times a day - but it doesn't mean that I want to go back straight away, I really like it here =) and let's face it - who wouldn't?

Although this week was really stressful, and for a while I thought I was going to get the muscle cramps I had last semester again - and that would not be nice, kinda hard to get any work done what so ever when you can't even lift a pen... So I tried to steer clear of the natural reaction my body was giving me when it comes to stress and psycological overloading - and it worked! =)

I was studying as hell to try and have at least a chance of passing my first exam - in Clinical Exercise Physiology.

It did and didn't help much that there was a lot of distractions during the week;

such as the Study Abroad Fair on Monday;
here all the exchange students came together to organize a fair in promotion of their respective home universities - everything to raise awareness of their own countries and why everyone should come to THEIR town =)

It was kind of fun - mostly because I'd actually put a lot of effort into the representation of Gothenburg;
- I had a swedish flag
- I had a big bowl of fruit
- I had all the info Gothenburg sent down
- almost most important - I had a bowl of candy
- and most important, there was me! Dressed in blue and yellow as a true viking =)
























I got a fair amount of names put down for information about Gothenburg Uni, but it wasn't as easy as I thought - people were really interested in our table (according to me, thanks to the candy and the flag) - but since I was sitting next to this girl from Lund, I had a hard time getting people interested in Gothenburg... Everyone had already heard about Lund (the *student city of all* in Sweden), or Karolinska in Stockholm - and some had never heard about Götet... So after a while of fighting to get most names, the Lund-chick and I worked out a nice system - we asked everyone to put their names down for both universities! That way, people interested in a certain program in Lund could discover that Gothenburg offers the same, or people wanting to come to Sweden could compare the two towns and make a more informed decision - we hope =)

'Right, the rest of Monday and Tuesday was spent trying to get as much information into my brain as possible regarding muscle soreness, bone mass, different types of muscle fibres etc..

There was still some time for dessert meeting with the Health Faculty on campus on tuesday night, and wednesday I didn't go to class - I tried to study a fair bit instead before my five hour shift at BotH -

oh my, that was the longest five hours in the history of time!

I really hate it... it's not fun at all...

I guess it's because I don't work enough - if I worked more I would get into it and learn everything faster, and cope better with all the questions from the customers... right now I think the thing I say most is "I don't know..." and that doesn't really make me feel good...

So all day long, all I could think was "I quit! I quit! I QUIT!!!"

but as usual, the last hour I always get to thinking - "ah, it's not too bad - and it's some extra cash every week" - 75dollars/450SEK to be more exact, and I can't really turn money down at the mo.. =) so many fun things to do/buy etc, so every cent/öre is more than welcome =)

Thursday - Total Body Workout at the Forum - gosh it good to move!! Soon I'm about to fuse together with my chair if I don't get my thumb out of my ass and get going to the gym more frequently..!

How did I let myself go like this??!?
It used to be four-five times a week, now I'm happy if it's one or two..

Well, it's never too late to get a grip!
(so that's why I've been putting it off I guess...)

Friday - today I started to see a small light bulb above my head, shining all so faintly about clinical exercise ph., so there's still hope for this exam! =)

Later friday - here's when the pics start coming again, 'cause now it's weekend =)

Rubix Cube Party!

The basic idea is for everyone to be dressed in all the six colours of a Rubix Cube - red, white, blue, yellow, orange and green - and the goal is to come home dressed in only one colour =)

So exchange students doesn't only get to change country, they also get to exchange clothes =)

This was me in the beginning of the evening, and some more people;




























I've got an organge hair scarf, yellow earrings, red top, white shirt, green belt and a blue top that I'm using as a skirt (yeah, I'm pulling the sleeves out above)


So now all I had to do was to decide which colour to go for =)

I was choosing between red and white, 'cause I really like my top and my shirt =)

Pru had gotten me all the clothes at the op-shops in Wallsend - so the total outfit was for me to give away, unless I wanted to hold on to something in particular =)

























































































People ended up with the most amazing outfits - and it was a real colour fest!
Soooo nice to get rid of all that black that everyone always wear when they go out - and I know, I'll probably wear black next weekend, but ... yeah, whatever - it's nice with some change from time to time =)

At midnight I got celebrated real good - 'cause now it was the 28th =D

They bought me another drink (I've now discovered 'Vodka lemon lime bitter', and it's not bad at all!) and sang, not happy birthday, but a nice little drinking song:

Here's to Emma, she's true blue,
She's a pissbutt through and through,
She's a bastard so they say -
she tried to go to heaven but she went the other way -
Drink it DOWN DOWN DOWN!!!

(and during that DOWN DOWN DOWN you're supposed to empty your drink...)

My apologies if I spelled something wrong, but normally I'm not really on top of things when that song's up.. =)

After some more dancing, we walked over to Mackers (McDo) - well at least some of us walked...



and had some nighty night-food









and discovered that Blaven's pants were inside out

he was just as surprised about the pants as we were to see him dressed as a crocodile








So I made it home dressed in one colour!

And the best part is that I'm getting some stuff back tomorrow - so I don't have to part with my red top =)

It's three in the morning, and there's a special dinner planned for tomorrow night =) so I'll better get tucked in and get some sleep,

the pics are up for my Birthday post as well - just so you know =)