hello people! hope everyone is doing good.
have not heard from anyone in a while.
i am settling in just fine, school has also started and there are tons of work to do!
crazy, though i only have 3 hours seminars twice a week, there are mountains of papers to look through and an assignment due in a month.
pardon me for sounding like an enthusisatic nerd here, but my tourism course has been really fun, and there are alot of interesting field trips planned out for this semester. will be dropping by sydney and canberra. still thinking if i want to go to fiji island in august.
it was a long weekend in melbourne and this was what i busy with. sadly not studying haha.
i went for the moomba festival (water festival) near kelvin's place, and there was a huge carnival going on with all the rides and games, and fireworks going off at 930pm. i am sure they have this in the other aussie states as well. and then we went to see the bird man rally the next afternoon and it was freaking hilarious. basically these people represent different organisation and they got to dress up in whatever costumes they want, and compete to see who can jump or rather fly the furthest. i think you can't use any motors or something like that. some of them basically just fell into water.
yesterday i went to venus bay for pippies picking!talk about fresh seafood. i had to buy a 6 dollars licence and use my hands to dig into the sand for pippies. pippies are basically like shell fish. i think we turned the beach upside down looking for pippies.it was so much fun when i actually found one, and then another. we are limited to 5 kg per person. working hard for your food, this is really physical manual labor, as we could only use our hands. no spades, no nothing. just a bucket to put in the pippies. i brought the pippies home and kelvin tan fried them up, it was superbly good. no kidding. fresh and the sauce fantastic! yummy yummy. round 2 this evening. eh tianli! beat that. this is as fresh as it gets. haahahah.
