Hey folks!
Having my fabulous mid-semester break now. This is the second day I'm just home relaxing and I love it! Oh yeah, I'm obsessed over Vampire Diaries, that is how I've spent this day so far ;) Last friday to this tuesday, me Cynthia and Christine were on a roadtrip in New South Wales, the state just south of Queensland. It was really nice and fun! Saw beautiful places, ate fatty food, slept in a car 3 nights. We were half backpackers, half homeless but it was great!
I don't wanna start studying again, I should start with some readings for tutorials and reports that are due next week (!!!) already. Grrrr, I want school to be over. Counted today and it is 8 weeks of uni left. 8 weeks of work. I've done exactely 8 weeks of uni so far, so I guess I should be able to do it. But it's SO much left to do, can't understand how I will do it all... Aah just complaining a bit. It's not a dance on roses (like in Sweden) haha. Believe me I laughed when Julian was telling me about his stress a few weeks ago that he had to write six pages to the report in 3 weeks! At that moment I had like 5 days to write 10 pages. But in the end it was less than 10. But still. :D Hopefully I'll think the workload is less in Sweden next semester!
Miss you peeps!
Love/Emma
torsdag 28 april 2011
torsdag 7 april 2011
Differences
Just wanted to make an announcement about differences in writing an exam in Australia and Sweden.
Australia: students sit there at least 10 minutes prior the exam talking, sweating, asking each other questions and speed studying their notes one last time. They sit "packade som sillar", and I'm thinking is this really good?
Sweden: students enter the classroom, starting to put up all the energy in terms of fruits, sweets, coffee etc that could rise the performance. The atmosphere is often calm and quiet, maybe you can hear someone giggling. You sit so that you can't read what someone else wrote also called "tjuvläsning".
Australia: after 50 minutes you are not allowed to write anything more. There was 27 questions and 50 minutes..
Sweden: after 50 minutes you know how you'll plan your answers on the exam. You start to sip on your coffee and let your mind go crazy. You write and write and write. After one hour you refill the energy by something sweet and then continue writing. After 2 hours you have cramps in the hand so you need a break to shake it. You also need to go to the toilet a second time (the coffee is finished). Then you sit one more hour.
Australia: students sit there at least 10 minutes prior the exam talking, sweating, asking each other questions and speed studying their notes one last time. They sit "packade som sillar", and I'm thinking is this really good?
Sweden: students enter the classroom, starting to put up all the energy in terms of fruits, sweets, coffee etc that could rise the performance. The atmosphere is often calm and quiet, maybe you can hear someone giggling. You sit so that you can't read what someone else wrote also called "tjuvläsning".
Australia: after 50 minutes you are not allowed to write anything more. There was 27 questions and 50 minutes..
Sweden: after 50 minutes you know how you'll plan your answers on the exam. You start to sip on your coffee and let your mind go crazy. You write and write and write. After one hour you refill the energy by something sweet and then continue writing. After 2 hours you have cramps in the hand so you need a break to shake it. You also need to go to the toilet a second time (the coffee is finished). Then you sit one more hour.
tisdag 5 april 2011
Hell-week
I'm on the second day of hell week. Have been working about 10 hours today and I still haven't done everything that I wanted to have done before going to bed... Argh
Right now I need 10 more hours of the day and energy like three children.
Hopefully I'll get done before friday, just if we're going to Fraser this weekend... Hopefully. Okay just wanted to say that I'm working like an ass and keep your fingers crossed that I'll succeed :)
I think about you often and I'm looking forward to this summer! Have some nice stuff planned already ;)
With love, Emma
Right now I need 10 more hours of the day and energy like three children.
Hopefully I'll get done before friday, just if we're going to Fraser this weekend... Hopefully. Okay just wanted to say that I'm working like an ass and keep your fingers crossed that I'll succeed :)
I think about you often and I'm looking forward to this summer! Have some nice stuff planned already ;)
With love, Emma
fredag 1 april 2011
Friday
It's 11pm and I'm home studying. Haven't been a good student at all this week and the only one to blame is me. But still, I feel sorry for myself. Right now I feel like I can't wait until that day when I have a job and don't need to study for an exam or write a stupid paper. Gosh!
Have a short thing to write to mondays biology, have two mid-semester exams on wednesday/thursday (also biology) and a big visual presentation that is due next sunday. I thought it wasn't due until 3 weeks time and I found out yesterday that it's in a week. It really sucks goat balls.
Soon I'm gonna make a skype call to the person who makes my heart melt. Thank you Julian for being the best person and boyfriend! <3
Ps. I heard a little noice and ignored it first. Then I saw a BIG ant coming from my bed on to the wall. I killed it. It took me some time, it fought to the very end. Poor ant you could say. But remember I am in Australia, the country with the most diverse ant population and with som dangerous ants as well. So, 1-0 to Emma.
Have a short thing to write to mondays biology, have two mid-semester exams on wednesday/thursday (also biology) and a big visual presentation that is due next sunday. I thought it wasn't due until 3 weeks time and I found out yesterday that it's in a week. It really sucks goat balls.
Soon I'm gonna make a skype call to the person who makes my heart melt. Thank you Julian for being the best person and boyfriend! <3
Ps. I heard a little noice and ignored it first. Then I saw a BIG ant coming from my bed on to the wall. I killed it. It took me some time, it fought to the very end. Poor ant you could say. But remember I am in Australia, the country with the most diverse ant population and with som dangerous ants as well. So, 1-0 to Emma.
torsdag 24 mars 2011
Since last time...
Hey folks!
Since last time I have:
gone to the cinema with the girls, being supermegalazy last weekend and I loved it, started to watch Vampire Diaries (i see now why everybody likes it), eating a lot of unhealthy stuff like Max Brenner. Best dessert in my life BUT way too much and of course I had to eat it all. That resulted in a Max Brenner baby for 3 days...
And I guess Brisbane Forest Park was the main attraction last week. I saw so many cool animals and plants. My favourites were the small green frogs, I guess they were some kind of tree frog as they spend most of their lifes in trees. They pull their limbs really close to the body and can sit like that up to 5 days, strategy to not dry out. I also liked to see how the kangaroos were moving slowly when it used its tale as an extra leg. And in the rainforest I was touched by the life cycle of a Strangling Fig and the mutualism between the fig wasp and the tree. Really cool how they developed to become dependent on the other organism! Talked to some solid nice people too. And guess what, they were not American or Canadian. In the biology course they all tend to stick together... Lame.
The day when it was +33C, me and Cynthia (french girl upstairs) went to a swimmingpool 30 mins away by foot. You can't think or move when it's that hot and humid so it's pretty much swim or die. So we decided to swim. We'll go tomorrow again, at least I will :)
We have also started to talk about future trips that we'll do, many of which we're gonna do together :)
Worst thing of the week: Sofia had to leave the house!! I was just saying to Cynthia that it's only one month left until Sofia has to leave and that's gonna be so sad. When we came back she found bedbugs in her bed and on the walls. So she had to move to our landlady's other house the day after... Fucking shit!
Well, me and the french girls are going there tomorrow anyway.
School is hard. This week has been crap. Don't feel like wasting my energy babbling about that so I wont.
I should really do some reading but I can't be bothered. Not today. Think I'll go earlier to the library tomorrow instead.
PS. Broke a record too, skype for 5 hours... So yeah dad, me and Julian are still "goa vänner" ;) Another not so funny thing, my waist is expanding. Found out yesterday and went running today haha.
Lots of love/Emma
Since last time I have:
gone to the cinema with the girls, being supermegalazy last weekend and I loved it, started to watch Vampire Diaries (i see now why everybody likes it), eating a lot of unhealthy stuff like Max Brenner. Best dessert in my life BUT way too much and of course I had to eat it all. That resulted in a Max Brenner baby for 3 days...
And I guess Brisbane Forest Park was the main attraction last week. I saw so many cool animals and plants. My favourites were the small green frogs, I guess they were some kind of tree frog as they spend most of their lifes in trees. They pull their limbs really close to the body and can sit like that up to 5 days, strategy to not dry out. I also liked to see how the kangaroos were moving slowly when it used its tale as an extra leg. And in the rainforest I was touched by the life cycle of a Strangling Fig and the mutualism between the fig wasp and the tree. Really cool how they developed to become dependent on the other organism! Talked to some solid nice people too. And guess what, they were not American or Canadian. In the biology course they all tend to stick together... Lame.
The day when it was +33C, me and Cynthia (french girl upstairs) went to a swimmingpool 30 mins away by foot. You can't think or move when it's that hot and humid so it's pretty much swim or die. So we decided to swim. We'll go tomorrow again, at least I will :)
We have also started to talk about future trips that we'll do, many of which we're gonna do together :)
Worst thing of the week: Sofia had to leave the house!! I was just saying to Cynthia that it's only one month left until Sofia has to leave and that's gonna be so sad. When we came back she found bedbugs in her bed and on the walls. So she had to move to our landlady's other house the day after... Fucking shit!
Well, me and the french girls are going there tomorrow anyway.
School is hard. This week has been crap. Don't feel like wasting my energy babbling about that so I wont.
I should really do some reading but I can't be bothered. Not today. Think I'll go earlier to the library tomorrow instead.
PS. Broke a record too, skype for 5 hours... So yeah dad, me and Julian are still "goa vänner" ;) Another not so funny thing, my waist is expanding. Found out yesterday and went running today haha.
Lots of love/Emma
lördag 12 mars 2011
Weekend
I love when the weekends come. Yesterday I was happy that another week at uni was over! Jeremy in the house made dinner, again. And it was awesome, again! We had beer and wine and it was nice to sit around in the house listening to partymusic without going out. I began to practice some french again, I'll try to refresh that language now when there's an opportunity :)
This morning me and Sofia woke up about 7am to get to the market in West End. I bought veggies, fruit and bread. They had clothes, jewelry and all kinds of food. Really nice! Felt like it was a bit of a hippie atmosphere.
The house is pretty much empty as it's St Patricks Day and some people went to get drunk in town and some went to Surfers Paradise on pubcrawl=to get drunk. I decided to stay home and study. Didn't do anything yesterday and as soon as you don't care one day you have to deal with it the next. So I need to catch up already plus do quite a lot of reading. I have coffee and chocolate so I'll be just fine :)
Best thing of the week: I got a package from Julian! :D It was a photobook with both new and old photos of me and my friends and Julian :) God I was so happy. It's nice to look at the photos and think about all the great people I'm surrounded by.
You guys are the best and make everything more fun. Thank you!
With love, Emma
This morning me and Sofia woke up about 7am to get to the market in West End. I bought veggies, fruit and bread. They had clothes, jewelry and all kinds of food. Really nice! Felt like it was a bit of a hippie atmosphere.
The house is pretty much empty as it's St Patricks Day and some people went to get drunk in town and some went to Surfers Paradise on pubcrawl=to get drunk. I decided to stay home and study. Didn't do anything yesterday and as soon as you don't care one day you have to deal with it the next. So I need to catch up already plus do quite a lot of reading. I have coffee and chocolate so I'll be just fine :)
Best thing of the week: I got a package from Julian! :D It was a photobook with both new and old photos of me and my friends and Julian :) God I was so happy. It's nice to look at the photos and think about all the great people I'm surrounded by.
You guys are the best and make everything more fun. Thank you!
With love, Emma
söndag 6 mars 2011
Well well cykelställ.
Since the last update I've been to Stradbroke Island but I guess many have already seen the pictures at Facebook. Uni started last monday so I've spent some time there and studying at home. Trying to be organized so not everything will fall apart. Feels a bit weird to read 4 classes at the same time, not used to that at all. So it's easy to forget "homework" in one course when you have three other... Well well I shouldn't complain. One course is only taught in the evening so my schedule is not the best really, and I thought the course content would be piece of cake. But there's a lot of assignments to be done! Pheew, hopefully I wont collapse.
Last friday, that is, two days ago we had a house dinner, pre-party and then went out. I think we went to four different places and I danced like insane. I mean it was over a month ago so I guess I danced off all bad energy or something. I even remember doing some kind of window dance to people out on the street... Well, that's how things go sometimes I guess. And the result of that showed yesterday. The house was completely quiet. Everyone were in their rooms watching movies. I only went out to buy chips and chocolate. Figured that I danced off so many calories so I needed a refill...
Good things in Brisbane:
-The buses and trains are cheaper than in Göteborg. And the system is easier!!!!
-Many clubs dont have any entrance fee compared with Göteborg where you have to pay to look at a club.
-The weather!
Less good things:
-There is NO müsli or cereal without added suger (I had to go to a health food shop and buy stuff and make my own).
-There's no place lite Slottskogen where you can run or walk.
-The temperature differenct inside and outside, they love air condition. Always bring an extra sweater to school as the difference inside/outside easily can be more than 10 degrees.
-Expensive beer.
-The weather makes my hair really dry!
-The bats!
I dont dislike the city at all, even though the less good things-list is longer... I've only been here a month so far so the list can change :)
Looking forward to Skype with Bina tonight! Before that I'll be good and read through the lab-notes I have to do before tomorrow! I'm on page 23/70. Blä!
Over and out, Emma
Last friday, that is, two days ago we had a house dinner, pre-party and then went out. I think we went to four different places and I danced like insane. I mean it was over a month ago so I guess I danced off all bad energy or something. I even remember doing some kind of window dance to people out on the street... Well, that's how things go sometimes I guess. And the result of that showed yesterday. The house was completely quiet. Everyone were in their rooms watching movies. I only went out to buy chips and chocolate. Figured that I danced off so many calories so I needed a refill...
Good things in Brisbane:
-The buses and trains are cheaper than in Göteborg. And the system is easier!!!!
-Many clubs dont have any entrance fee compared with Göteborg where you have to pay to look at a club.
-The weather!
Less good things:
-There is NO müsli or cereal without added suger (I had to go to a health food shop and buy stuff and make my own).
-There's no place lite Slottskogen where you can run or walk.
-The temperature differenct inside and outside, they love air condition. Always bring an extra sweater to school as the difference inside/outside easily can be more than 10 degrees.
-Expensive beer.
-The weather makes my hair really dry!
-The bats!
I dont dislike the city at all, even though the less good things-list is longer... I've only been here a month so far so the list can change :)
Looking forward to Skype with Bina tonight! Before that I'll be good and read through the lab-notes I have to do before tomorrow! I'm on page 23/70. Blä!
Over and out, Emma
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