It's Almost May?

April 22 4:05pm

It has been a little while since I have posted on here I know, so I will take the time to jot down a few thoughts while I have the time. I am currently sitting in my political science class, about to watch a 50 min long interview my professor conducted with someone from some organisation down here in OZ Land. What fun. The last few days have been relatively uneventful, mainly people have been studying for mid-terms and other things that they have going on and as I don’t have any mid-terms or whatnot, I have not been studying. I do have a psych quiz on Friday that I started studying for last night so I do have that but it’s nothing major compared to some other people’s things. I’m not sure if I mentioned this or not, but we checked out Chinatown on Sunday after playing footie with the church guys. That was definitely an experience. Chinatown is in Fortitude Valley, or the Valley, and is marked by a huge archway with two lions that were donated to the Brisbane City Council by the People’s Republic of China (at least that’s what the plaque said) so that was pretty cool. We got a cheap dinner at a hole-in-the-wall Chinese place that was pretty decent. I got sweet and sour pork with rice and put some chilli sauce on it. It was quite hot, very hot actually, but really gave the pork a nice flavour. One of these nights, I’m not really sure which one, I made a killer pasta dish. I boiled some fusilli noodles and made a meat sauce with some hamburger I had picked up on sale at Cole's. I fried the hamburger with some salt, pepper, garlic, and onion, then added the sauce right to the skillet, adding oregano, basil, and a touch of garlic salt. Once the sauce was hot and the pasta was soft, the pasta went right on top of the sauce and I mixed it all together into a delicious meal that I did not know I had the ability to make. All that was missing was a loaf of garlic bread and a salad. Tonight, it’s going to be fish, which has become one of my favourite meals to make.

The rest of the week has been devoted to planning my Melbourne trip. I had been planning on hiring a car and driving the Great Ocean Road for about three days, but after further research I found out that, while they would let me put in my card number and all that, they don’t hire cars to people under twenty-one years of age. This was a big bummer cause it cancelled every plan I had made already and the itinerary I had roughly planned out. So I got down to researching Great Ocean Road tours departing from Melbourne and found a day long one that looks like it will be pretty decent. There is a lot on the itinerary, which is good, I just wish I could be doing it myself at my own pace in my own car, stopping where I want to stop and going where I want to go. There are still twenty minutes to go of this interview. Half the class didn’t even show up today. There is no final for this class so I’m not even sure why I’m here but I’m here. I will not be taking my computer to Melbourne with me, so I will have to catch up on this after I get back to Brisi. I think I may play solitaire or Hearts now until this blasted thing is over and I can go home and make dinner.