School Starts...

Rachel:

Today I had my first day of school, which was uneventful.  I have one good teacher and one bad teacher. I was the only person in both classes that had a computer in class, which was bizarre.  I started to think that maybe you aren’t allowed to have laptops in class?!?! Still don’t know why that is.  I told Lauren about that and she seemed surprised that lots of kids have laptops at uni in Toronto. 

I went to the doctor, two STA travel stores and I scoped out Borders, which maybe my new workplace.  The only thing that sucks is that its open until 11pm everyday, which I don’t understand because everything closes here around 5pm, except on Thursdays and Fridays. 

I’ve been planning our Easter Break trip and its hard to find cheap flights anywhere because its pretty late to book and because everyone has that time off.  Kurtis and I have decided that we are going to Queensland this break, Uluru in the summer (or their winter break), Fiji in our semester two break and a big east coast trip at the end of school.  I might also do the South Korea placement.  I think I will go to info sessions to find out about it.

Hmm what did I learn about Aussie culture today? Oh, that you can do just about anything you need at the Post Office: pay bills, pay rent, get your working with children check, mail stuff (whodothunkit), recharge your phone, pay tuition and probably three hundred other things I have yet to discover.

I got a little homesick last night because it was Sunday night and I was bored and I was thinking what I would do if I was home.  I’m really not that homesick, I just had a moment.  I’m actually really happy we’ve come, and I’ve been more upbeat and positive since we got here.  I was really funny when we first landed because Kurtis was being all anxious and naggy about getting an apartment, and I was all, “Chill out man, lets go to the beach.”  Alexis pointed out that we switched brains when we switched hemispheres.  We are still waiting on internet, which is ridiculously expensive. We were supposed to have it today (that’s what they said last Sunday), so I can’t imagine any internet any time soon.

 

Aussie word of the day: “‘ta!” (short form for thank you. Aussie’s have a short for just about every word in the English language)