It’s been a little while since I last updated this thing and I figured I should keep all my millions of readers informed on what I’ve been getting myself into since I came to Australia.
Last week should have been my first full week of classes, however, unbeknownst to me, the majority of the classes start this coming week. I don’t quite understand why most classes don’t start during the first week of classes, but hey, these Australians seem to do things in a very laid back kind of way.
Anyway, so on Monday I woke up a little extra early to go to campus to take care of some things. I didn’t have class until 1, but I figured I’d go around 10:30 to figure out where things were. I also had to get my student ID and my passwords for my email and other online stuff. As I’m leaving the house and starting to walk towards the bus stop, one of the girls I live with is leaving too and asks me if I want to walk to school with her instead. I was planning on taking the bus on the first day to figure it all out, but it was a great day out, so I figured what the heck, I’ll walk.
The walk is actually much shorter than I thought it was, only takes about 20 minutes and it’s on the same road I live on. (One direction is the beach, the other is school. Not a bad place to live). Once we get to campus we split up and she heads to class and I head to the study abroad office to figure what I need to do.
From there I get sent to the library where I can get my ID and passwords. While waiting in line for my ID, I realize I didn’t bring my passport with me. I get to the front of the line and say I don’t have it and ask if I can use some other form of ID, I literally have like ten different things with my name and picture on it, but alas, I cannot use any of those.
So since I don’t have my ID, it means I can’t get my password, and without my password, I can’t get on the WIFI, which means the laptop I have in my backpack is useless during my two hour wait for class. Luckily for me, I had my trusty Kindle, so I found a seat in the library quad and started reading to kill time. After about fifteen minutes of reading I notice a few of my housemates sitting on the lawn so I go over to hang out with them.
After killing some more time, we decide that we’ll go walk to another building on campus to get our student activity membership. I had already purchased mine, but you have to go to the office to get the sticker and some free stuff. On our way there we ran into a few other people we knew and we all decided to walk together. Of course, when I got there, I found out you need your student ID to get your membership, which at this time I didn’t have. I didn’t have much hope for the rest of the day.
Whatever, I couldn’t get those things done, but at least I know where a few things on campus are. So now it’s time for class, right? Wrong. I find the building where my class is, beautiful building by the way, and then find the room I’m supposed to be in. Hmm, the door is locked. Weird. Maybe I’m too early?
I look at my watch, five minutes to the hour, so no, I’m not too early. I pull out my schedule to double check that I’m in the right building and at the right room. I am. Then I see it. This class starts in week two. Alright, well that’s fine, I’ll just go grab something to eat.
As I’m walking to the on campus bar, yes, they have an on campus bar here, I decide to check my schedule to see if my next class meets today or not. Alas, it does not. So this day turned out to be a big giant waste. I came to campus early to get things done, and couldn’t get any of them done, then it turns out I didn’t even class.
It turns out that I only had one class last week. The rest of the classes start tomorrow, so we’ll see how they go. I’m actually really excited to start classes.
Cool little fact: On my walking adventure of UNSW I found a building on the edge of campus that said NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts). It’s a pretty cool looking building that is part of the UNSW campus. It turns out that it’s an incredible drama school that’s turned out numerous famous actors. Hugh Jackman, Mel Gibson, Geoffery Rush, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe and a few others.
No comments:
Post a Comment