The Beginning of May Already?

May 3 3:05pm

Is that date right? Is it really May already? I don’t think my calendar has the ability to lie to me so I guess it really is May. Not to mention the third. That means that I turn 21 on Wednesday. Where is time going? Do I feel 21? Not in the least bit. It almost seems surreal. As my birthday approaches, along with the fast approaching end of the semester, I find myself recollecting on what I have done here, how I have changed, and what I still want to do in the short time I have left. The one thing that I want to do, and so far it has worked out, is fly back to Melbourne with Brett and actually drive the Great Ocean Road. When Brett is here, I will be 21, which means I can rent a car finally. The only problem is, in Ohio, your license expires on your 21^st birthday so I will need to figure out some way to renew it while I’m here. We already have the flight booked down so hopefully that will work out because otherwise I’m just going to be hanging out in the city again for four days.

As I said previously, time is getting short, but that also means that my essays are due by the end of the month. These shouldn’t be a problem for me, as pretty much all my assessments back home are papers of some sort, I will just need to apply myself and maybe make the long trek to the library. One is for my Developmental Psychology class and why I think violent video game should be banned in Australia. I did not pick this topic, it is a general topic given to us in our course outlines. And the other one is for my Aboriginal Anthropology class, which is a complete waste of time but necessary nonetheless. I also have two more short essays to do for my poli sci classes, and two more group projects. So all in all, these next four to five weeks will be really busy before Brett gets here so I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to travel until then. Then when Brett gets here, I will not have anything to do that first week, no classes or finals, but the second week he is here is the first week of finals. I’m still not sure when my only final is, so it could be this week or it could be the next week. This is the waiting game I do not like. If I knew when my final was, I could plan out those last few weeks and also determine if I could head home any earlier or not. Alas, I just checked online and the exam schedule comes out this Friday so I’ll know by this weekend when that will be.

Well that pretty much sums up what the plan is for the next month or so till Brett gets here. The last few days have been life as usual here in Brisi. Class Thursday and Friday, and not a whole lot going on otherwise. We were lucky down here and Iron Man 2 came out a week before it did back home, so y’all who are waiting to see it could get the inside scoop if you wanted too.