Hey everyone! Sorry I haven’t posted all week long; it’s been a pretty hectic week, and I’ve been sick all week. To make up for it though, this one is extra long. Nothing too thrilling happened on Monday. I basically just went to my classes, did some homework, and hung out with my friends. I did go to Toowong, our local shopping village, to buy a printer because our house was in desperate need of one. Tuesdays are my day off so obviously I went to the city beach to do some work. That night I went and played beach volleyball, which was fun. The only down side was that it was “cold” out that night (60s). Although if you know anything about playing beach volleyball, then you know that when its cooler outside, the sand is even colder, making your feet freeze, which is no fun. Wednesday I had class in the morning, and my circuits lab in the later afternoon. I was quite excited when I found out that they don’t do lab reports here! They just have labs to teach you how to make the circuits and how to use the equipment. Then at the end of the semester you have to build and test a circuit by yourself. As always, on Wednesday night we all went out to the Regatta for some $4 drinks. Thursday I had a lecture in the morning and then tutorials all day. Tutorials here are the equivalence of our discussion classes and that’s when your homework is due. Since all of mine are on the same day I was stressing all week about getting my work done. As it turns out, the work is due at the end of your tutorial (if at all) and they give you the entire class time to do the work and to ask the instructor questions on it. That would have been nice to know ahead of time, but oh well. Since I had done it ahead of time all I had to do was go to class and hand the work in and then leave, which was nice. After classes I went into the city with my roommate Zach because we both needed to go to the pharmacy, or as they call it here, the chemist. We both needed some cough syrup and I needed to get some hand soap for my bathroom. Never in my life have I had more trouble trying to find hand soap. When I asked the lady at the chemist for hand soap she looked at me like I had two heads. At that point I realized they call it something different, but how do you explain what hand soap is, it’s pretty self-explanatory. I tried to explain it as soap you use to wash your hands when you get out of the bathroom, but then I remembered they don’t call them bathrooms here. So then I had to try to remember what they call bathrooms, so I’m rambling off things like restroom and washroom and clean my hands and soap for my hands. At one point I said the words hand sanitizer, which registered for her so she took me to their hand sanitizers, which turns out to be the same thing as our hand sanitizers, and not what I wanted. When she showed me the hand sanitizer, she described it as a way to wash my hands without having to rinse them off because it doesn’t make bubbles or foam. So I then go back to trying to describe what hand soap is using some of her words, saying things like soap that makes bubbles and you have to rinse with water after going to the washroom. It is honestly one of the most difficult tasks to try to describe things that have names that are self-explanatory. Thankfully at that point I saw hand soap on the shelf and just told the lady I found it. Later I found out what hand soap is actually called, you ready for this…soap. The lady honestly must have been on something because who can’t deduce that when I’m asking for hand soap I mean soap. Anyway, once my 15-minute ordeal to find soap was over, Zach and I headed to the grocery store to get some much needed food for our house. When we got back from our trip into the city I went to play beach volleyball with my friends, which was a lot of fun. Some of the kids that actually know how to play were playing doubles, so I got to join them and finally get to legitimately play. When we got back from playing beach, I decided to make brownies. I can honestly say these were the most ghetto made brownies I have ever made. We don’t have a mixing bowl so I had to mix it in a saucepan. We don’t have measuring spoons so I had to guesstimate with our spoons. If we don’t have clean cups, we drink out of our measuring cups and the one I needed was being used so I had to use our measure cup whose marking start at ½ cup and I needed ¼ cup, so I had to guesstimate that too. To top it all off, we don’t have a brownie pan so I had to use a loaf pan. Let me just say, there is a reason they are not normally made in loaf pans. The one thing I was truly thankful for about the brownie box though was that it did convert the temperature required to cook the brownies to Celsius for me, because in Australia they use the metric system for everything, including ovens. Even though I knew what temperature to cook the brownies at, I was so uncertain of how long to cook them for since I wasn’t using a normal brownie pan. Because of this I had to keep checking them, but it was a huge balance on when to take them out so that the edges didn’t burn, but the inside wasn’t still liquid. When I finally took them out I didn’t want the edges to keep cooking from the pan so Dani and I thought it’d be a brilliant idea to just take the brownies out of the pan right away. To do that we decided it’d also be a good idea to just flip the pan over. Needless to say, things did not go as we planned. It broke completely in half, and we ended up having to get the other half of the brownies out with a spatula. Once we did this we just tried to more or less put them back together to try to give them a good appearance. To top it all off, we put frosting on top of them and made the most disgusting looking brownies ever (pictures are on facebook). Even though they were the vilest looking brownies ever, they were some of the most delicious double fudge chocolate chunk brownies with chocolate frosting ever! After the brownie making adventure, a bunch of us decided to watch Gangs of New York. Since we only have 2 couches and there were about 10 of us watching it, we moved a bed into the living room for extra seating. We then all sat crammed into our living room watching it on my computer. I can only imagine what we would have looked like if anyone saw us. This brings me to Friday. I had what most would consider the ultimate stereotypical girls day. Dani, Katie, Julia, Carrie and I all went to South Bank (the city beach), then went shopping at the outdoor mall, got some dinner, and ended the night watching a movie. That’s about it for now. I promise to try to get better about posting. I’ll talk to you soon!
Britt
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