UTS Day

Today was my class at UTS. I got up, walked to the train station, caught a train to downtown, walked to the UTS campus, waited, caught a shuttle bus to the Kuring-gai campus where my class is, took advantage again of the fast internet computer lab and ate my orange before class. Class was done by a guest lecturer that used to live in Kipping, (sp?) Minnesota. She left 30 years and went down under. We compared one scene from Narnia and how it varied from film to theater to book. At one point in the class, a girl asked a funny question quietly. The teacher heard her mumble and asked what she said. She said louder, "I was just asking why his book is so big." She was talking about me. I got my copy of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe from the Wesley library, but they didn't have that book. They did have all seven Chronicles of Narnia in one big book though, so I had that. It was kinda funny.

After class I wandered around for a half hour until the shuttle back came. I was walking in the dining area of that campus and looked down to see a pidgeon walking in front of me, talk about crazy! I caught the shuttle back to downtown after taking a couple of pictures, walked to the train station (last week I got lost and spent 20 more minutes walking around, this time I was fine) and caught a train back, and walked the rest of the way home. Such are Wednesdays.

Got back around 5, sat around with people watching youtube videos until 6 which was dinner. We had chicken stir fry over rice. After dinner, some people left for Spiro Camp, which is Thurs and Fri of this week, a camp the whole school goes to (they all *try* to go to if they can) and no classes are during it. The main speaker is from Texas, owns a monkey, flies planes, and plays the piano, I've heard. We rented some movies and went to the grocery store (huge differences in brands, foods, snacks, candy, everything) and I got mentos, tim tams (chocolate cookies covered in chocolate--sounds like overkill, but an Oreo is still worse I think), some strawberry Milky Ways (crazy), Uncle Toby's granola bars, and Arnott's Salada Light, Poppy & Sesame crackers. We watched The Scorpion King and now I am here.

We're leaving bright and early at 7. It's 11:30 at the time of this post, so I better get to bed. No blogs during it though, so I will bring a notepad and journal on the day to transfer over when I get back.

In addition to what I said yesterday about driving rules, I mixed up the colors and have now corrected it. They have the red P for 1 year and the green for 2 more years after that. After that you can take another exam to get your full license, which is black.

Also, walking home I went past an orange tree. Now that was weird. And another thing about their crosswalks at street intersections with lights...their "walk" sign is a person like ours, but ours is white, theirs is green. The "do not walk" is a red person just like ours, and it blinks like ours. But even weirder still (yet oh so smart), when it switches to "walk," it makes a noise to catch your attention. Some even beep while you're waiting, to let you know it's aware that you are waiting. Nifty.

Cheers, mates! Seeya in a couple days!