CGD starts here

Here I am! This time I’m in my CGD building computer labs and the machines in this building are soooo sexy! Powermac G4′s and Sony flatscreens! I miss my LG Flatron back home.. the monitor I got here is a old classic 15″ which would probably serve it’s purpose but.. well, sigh, its not a flats creen is it?

It’s about 1:25 pm here, I know I know, I gotta fix the time zone thing in GM. Had to wake up really early today to go to for a library tour (yay!) and a tour of the city, which I think I mentioned in my last post.. we went up to Durie Hill, an on top of the hill there was this tower overlooking the river, and it was a 7 floor climb up. So tiring… and the winds were so cold as well, so yeah, you can imagine me huffing and puffing and climbing.

Right after that we went to see some lake in Wanganui and went for a nature walk thing. I managed to take pictures of some black swans and ducks.. they were the most interesting things there :P

I’m settling in OK; at least I’m not as homesick as I was before!

I met a new friend today, his name is Charlie and he has no last name because he is a huge black cat that lives in the Library. He is sooooo cute, I’ve always had a thing for cats!

Hope everyone is good.. still no time to catch up on blogs but started reading a little bit of Tiff’s blog earlier. Sydney is fun eh? Can’t wait to read every entry of all my daily reads that I’ve missed when I get an internet connection.

The student apartments are given ONE house phone line which is in the living room and it’s shared.. because previously other students have talked up a storm and left the Uni with huge phone bills, they’ve taken away the privilege of having personal lines for each unit :( So I’ve gone and made friends with the local computer shop guy, and he’s promised to set up a VPN for me.

You see, the Uni has also taken another step in insuring that there will not be huge phone bills by blocking all numbers except free calls. Lucky for us, local calls here are FREE. Amazing. 0800 numbers are also free. Not so amazing. So.. It means I can’t dial into the local ISP because its an 0867 number, so if the local computer guy John sets up a VPN for me, i dial up into his office, which is a FREE call.. so it works. John’s like my own private little ISP!

I’m seeing him after this to sort that all out then going to grab some lunch. Starving.

I went to Wellington on Tuesday to pick up my dad from Wellington airport, and we stayed a night there. I also managed to spot a Body Shop in Welly, which was great, so I could buy my body butter. There are no Body Shops here in Wanganui!! Tomorrow we are driving up to Mount Ruapehu, which is a volcano in the middle of the North Island, and its a ski resort.. gulp. I know I’m gonna be frozen by the time I get back (it’s a one hour drive there – daytrip) so err, I guess I better look for a hot water bottle.

Hey, thank you to the stranger who bought me the 20-meter phone line extension cord, the video cables and the voice data splitter. Someone left it with my dad to bring it here for me. Really nice of you. Thank you! I owe you a one! I wish I knew who you were!

I got my new schedule for the term. I’m taking three electives this semester. I got exempted from Online Media and will be focusing more on print – it should be fun. I’m taking Digital Type Design, Poster Design and Advanced Publication Design on top of my core subjects.. and I have to take English too.. wtf.

Hey, I watched TV for the longest time the other night and there are a lot of Brit shows here. Tops! I’m now following the show UK Single Girls, which is a really random show. 4 girls are given a 2million pound penthouse, and 6 weeks to pull and find the man of their dreams. Sounds cruisey – can I have that penthouse?!

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