Long overdue update
Clearly my comittment to update this blog site weekly has all but failed - so for those who expend the effort to check this more often than I do, I apologise.
Frequent skiing, regular partying, crappy wages and living with pot-heads aside, life is somewhat more normal than it was when I first arrived. I have managed to fill most days with fairly significant amounts of productive activity... Mondays consist of class, 2 hours of work, class, a winetasting course in the evening, and an hour of (free!) French tuition from a friend... Tuesdays class, the traditional bi-weekly lunch with some of the other exchange students, more class, then Salsa in the evening.... Wednesdays class, work, class then often out in the evening (Au Bar - $2 high balls!), Thursdays and Fridays much of the same... then the weekend, skiing, partying, and a bit of work here and there.
I seem to get a lot more stuff for free here than I do at home. $20 per month for unlimited transit use. The gym and pool are both free (at certain times of day - $2 per visit at other times). Completely free, high speed, wireless internet all over campus, absolutely no download restrictions (apparently Canada is the only place where MP3 downloading has been deemed officially legal). Free food - apparently the residents association at Gage believes it necessary to spend their annual budget on pancakes, ice cream, pizza and whatever else they can justify under the them of promoting interaction between residents.
Travel plans - well, I suddenly realised the other day that despite my frequent trips to Whistler, I haven't really seen much of Canada yet. So here is the plan:
Easter: trip to Vancouver Island, including the BC Capital Victoria, and the picturesque town of Tofino.
After finals: Seattle, San Francisco and possible LA/Vegas
Then back in Vancouver to see U2 and Maroon 5. Then to NY, as a base for a trip to Boston, Toronto, Niagra Falls (from the Canadian side, of course), Montreal, Quebec City, and possible down to Chicago.
Possible side trip to Mexico from NY - although not sure about this yet.
Then June off to London, Paris, Lyon, Spain, Switzerland and to Hamburg for Winter school in July. And back home in August!
Apologies to those who don't really care, but I havent told my parents all this yet!! So if anyone else has any suggestions on things not to miss, please feel free to comment.
OK and lastly, thanks to everyone who emails me. I am equally as bad with replying to emails as I am with updating this site (my oldest emailing desperately deserving a reply is from 26th January), but stick with me, I will get to it!!
Enjoy 4th year ppl, don't work too hard or stress too much, steer clear of Macquarie fields and write me a comment or email!
Later,
-Nick
Frequent skiing, regular partying, crappy wages and living with pot-heads aside, life is somewhat more normal than it was when I first arrived. I have managed to fill most days with fairly significant amounts of productive activity... Mondays consist of class, 2 hours of work, class, a winetasting course in the evening, and an hour of (free!) French tuition from a friend... Tuesdays class, the traditional bi-weekly lunch with some of the other exchange students, more class, then Salsa in the evening.... Wednesdays class, work, class then often out in the evening (Au Bar - $2 high balls!), Thursdays and Fridays much of the same... then the weekend, skiing, partying, and a bit of work here and there.
I seem to get a lot more stuff for free here than I do at home. $20 per month for unlimited transit use. The gym and pool are both free (at certain times of day - $2 per visit at other times). Completely free, high speed, wireless internet all over campus, absolutely no download restrictions (apparently Canada is the only place where MP3 downloading has been deemed officially legal). Free food - apparently the residents association at Gage believes it necessary to spend their annual budget on pancakes, ice cream, pizza and whatever else they can justify under the them of promoting interaction between residents.
Travel plans - well, I suddenly realised the other day that despite my frequent trips to Whistler, I haven't really seen much of Canada yet. So here is the plan:
Easter: trip to Vancouver Island, including the BC Capital Victoria, and the picturesque town of Tofino.
After finals: Seattle, San Francisco and possible LA/Vegas
Then back in Vancouver to see U2 and Maroon 5. Then to NY, as a base for a trip to Boston, Toronto, Niagra Falls (from the Canadian side, of course), Montreal, Quebec City, and possible down to Chicago.
Possible side trip to Mexico from NY - although not sure about this yet.
Then June off to London, Paris, Lyon, Spain, Switzerland and to Hamburg for Winter school in July. And back home in August!
Apologies to those who don't really care, but I havent told my parents all this yet!! So if anyone else has any suggestions on things not to miss, please feel free to comment.
OK and lastly, thanks to everyone who emails me. I am equally as bad with replying to emails as I am with updating this site (my oldest emailing desperately deserving a reply is from 26th January), but stick with me, I will get to it!!
Enjoy 4th year ppl, don't work too hard or stress too much, steer clear of Macquarie fields and write me a comment or email!
Later,
-Nick
posted by Unknown | 10:24 am
7 Comments:
Hey Nick - inaugral poster of comment for this blog. I feel heaps special. How the heck are you going to go through all those travel plans ??? OMG you're crazy - in a good way of course. And what winter course are you going to be doing in Hamburg??
Ciao!
hi nick,
thats a fairly full travel plan dude!
are you going to see miss kimberley in espanol?
yeah meet up with me!!
from now til june i would have probably more or less conquered much of spain, but i am looking for a travel buddy for madrid if you are interested.
ps andy my name is kimberly, get it right
hi nick!!!!!!
well i'm back in sunny sydney again (grr grr grr) so wishing i could back in the US just bummming around and etc etc...
i've posted up a few of my holiday snaps and photos from my 21st also! wish you could have been there!!
anyway, your time over there sounds so exciting! make the most of it, and keep us updated :)
heheh nick u sound very busy..as usual! still effecient and productive nick haha :D
ure travel itinerary looks awesome!so jealous..trying to write my bj 4000 word essay n of course trying to exhuast all procrastination methods..ie visiting blogs hehe..neways hit mine up with a comment! where is the love nick?! no body likes a lurker :P hehehe
newayzzz have fun bye! :D
Hey Nick,
Good to hear from you again. That travel plan sounds highly ... busy. :) Glad to hear your having a good time.
Oh, and it's legal to download MP3s in France too, so you'd better include a long stay there!
Law has begun here for me, 4th year, down in the Phillip Street basement. I would rather be in Macquarie Fields actually, would have half a chance of staying awake!
Hello everyone else round here too.
Catch you soon(ish),
Duncan
fucking faggots should not be alowed to travel outside outside of their city/town!
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