well its been several days since my last post so i thought i'd make another. not much has really gone on since the last one. just relaxed for the rest of the break and studied some. need to work on a presentation i have to give next friday. shouldn't be too hard once i get going, but starting is always the hardest part. i do kinda already have a rough idea of what/how i'm going to put the presentation together though.

i forget if i said in my last post or not, but i put the pics of whitsunday in my photo album http://photos.yahoo.com/sdbrak18

not much else to type, laters

sailing trip

hm....where do i start with the sailing trip? i guess i'll start with that i almost missed it 'cause i thought my flight left the day it actually did. luckily i looked at my tickets to check for sure when i left, and it all turned out fine.

after getting up to airlie beach and checked into the hostel i was staying at, i went for a walk to see all of what was there. i walked around the entire town or whatnot and it didn't even take 1/2 an hour. in about the middle near the coast there were a couple of pools which in spots also had a "beach". forgot to take a picture of it, but speaking of pictures i updated my albums. the day before the sailing trip actually begun i layed around the pool area and got sunburned. i put sunscreen on, but on my back there was a nice little strip going across it where i was unable to reach. oh well.

the sailing was awesome. woulda been better if it hadn't rained everyday (all except for the last day as we were heading back to airlie beach). the rain itself really didn't last all that long either, it just seemed to be that about the time we were getting dry from the previous little rain, another downpour would start. they did have rain jackets for us though. if they didn't i'm pretty sure almost all of us woulda been staying in the cabin part of the boat. there was 30 of us if you count the 4 crew members. there was a lot of different countries that people came from that were on the boat; usa, canada, switzerland, germany, and a couple others that i can't think of right now.

oh yeah and on the boat i think i ate better that i had for several weeks, maybe even months. one night we had roasted chicken, and another night we had steak (although i'm not too much of a steak fan it was really good).

can't think too much of what else to type about the trip. never mind i just thought of something. do you know how weird it is to look straight across the deck of the boat and see the ocean almost coming over the side of the boat? this happened everytime we actually used the sails on the boat (although i think the captain was just having fun with all of us non-sailors). when we used the sails, the boat would be a about a 45 degree angle with the water. it was fun seeing at the end of the trip that when we were tilting everyone was relaxed (some even sleeping) unlike the beginning of the trip when we were all holding on for our lives.

well its about noon here now, so i'm gonna go find something to eat.

back in canberra

just letting everyone know that i am back in canberra now. don't really feel like typing too much today, but i do have lots that i want to type about the trip. it'll have to wait until a later date.

didn't do too much last night for the big 21, but will be going out tomorrow night (since its another person's 21st). i may and may not write what exactly goes on, that's assuming i remember it :)

anyways, just letting everyone know that i made it back from sailing and all just fine (peeling from getting burned, but hopefully it will become a nice tan). laters

whitsunday

well i'm at whitsunday right now, so there probably won't be very many posts in the following week. probably just as many posts as i can type before the time on the internet card i bought runs out (45min left now). so hope everyone is doing good. and talk to you later

uneventful weekend

from the comment on my last post i guess the new issue of raver (the tech paper) came out and my article was in it. to those that read it, were there any photos? 'cause when i submitted it, i also sent a couple pics with it, since they said pics would be a plus. just wondering how well the photo actually turned out in black and white (if there was a photo).

not much else is going on. i can't believe that the semester's about 1/2 over here. luckly i only have one test this week, which is on thursday. although i do have another midterm test the week after getting back from the 2 week break. speaking of break, i'm getting really anxious for the break to get here so i can go sailing. hopefully i'll be able to get some really good pics of the ocean, fish, etc. i hope i see a sea turtle, 'cause i'm trying to get pictures of the different fish in finding nemo. so far i have a pic of clown fish, a jelly fish, and a star fish (although the pic i have is of a blue one, not a pink one). actually i would just really like to see a sea turtle.

the only other thing i can really thing of going on this week is that it's the volleyball championship game (for the preseason tourney). i think my team has a good chance of winning, as long as we don't fall into a rut and make a lot of simple mistakes.

Fire Drills

this is going to be a little bit of a complaining entry (at least for the first part) and from the title i bet you can guess what i'm gonna complain about. thats right, fire drills. don't get me wrong, they're good things to do, but not at 7am when the vast majority of people are still sleeping (since the 1st classes don't start until 8:30 and thursday nights are one of the nights to go out). although i suppose the fire drill my block had was better than the other ressies yesterday (their drill was at 6:15am or so). after the drill i tried to go back and sleep, but nope couldn't fall back asleep. i laid in bed for about 1 1/2 hrs before giving up on trying to sleep some more and just got out of bed and so here i am at a computer.

don't really have all that much time to type much more now anyways. got class in about 1/2 an hour, which will last for 3 hrs (1 hr of tutorial, lecture, and then workshop). after classes i have about another 1/2 hr break before the international student get together thingy (which i mentioned in my previous entry, didn't i?). i'm trying to figure out what "award" i might be getting, but i can't think of anything, unless my award will have something to do with sharing a room w/ several girls on the thredbo trip.

well thats it for now, might make another entry this weekend but don't count on it all that much.