Friday, September 21, 2007

Italia e Finito

Italy is all over!!! even though i have been home for a while i thought i Better well end it really!

I had an awsome time while I was there. Many would say I didn't do much. But none the less it was a n experience I would gladly do again!!! THough I would go to a place that spoke English! OR maybe Russian??

I amnaged to do all the work I had been putting off in a montha dn pass all my exam things it was weird though! I left Italy on the 31st of May which is an adventure in it's self but none the less it was awsome!!

I travelled to New York and was there for 3days. You need a week there i reacon!!!I wet to the airport of Arizona and then to Los Angeles for 3days. I didn't get into LA probley cause all I wanted to do was sleep and watch tv. It was a good time!!!

Then I arrived in Hobart on the 8th of June 2007. It was scary!!! But when i got off the plane and saw my Dad stnding there I knew I was home!!!

I recomend exchanges and traveling for EVERYONE!! An experience of a lifetime!

Arriverderci

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

ACMILAN vs LIVERPOOL

I am a very very angry person right now...who is just angry!!!

It shouldn't have been a goal.

I was goign for Liverpool...if you didn't already know!

So very angry...and surrounded by Itlaians....

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Come Andata?

Well...I dunno how to explain the relief and well frustration of today. Today I had my frist exam. It was an oral exam which I had never done before....other then in Japanese...and well I think I did better in another language then i did in my mother tongue.

So my exam was changed form 11.00am to 3.30pm which stuffed up my day...but none the less. I was there at 3.30pm waiting..but as usual he was indeed late...i think he is one of those definate people who will be late to his own funeral!!! So we began. I also have by some strange reason a reputation as being the famous Australian. Which well is kinda cool...but none the less...bad at the smae time.

Anyway we started and talked about various things...I tried to show that I knew things...didn't really work when he asked me about Mies van der Rohe...who as I said "wasn't very important to me"...which was exactly the moment when he decided to take a call...from someone...and then I was like yip I am now about to be destroyed by a number. You don't tell a history Professor that a strangley-non influencial to you...-influencial Architect isn't important. It was dead from there...I managed to pass though I know deep down he didn't want to pass me cause well I said that he wasn't important. Though I got an 18/30...60% which is a credit. Not bad I think for dissing a magor architect.

So I wanted to buy tickets to the football match this Saturday, so I started my journey and got a bike on the way...the cool commity ones that have a sexy basket on the front of them. So i headed for the stadium and tried to find the place where I was goign to buy the tickets. So I fond it and asked the person can I buy the tickets to the game on saturday please? He started to talk about things...and i was like eh....yeah I had to wait or something for something or rather around 6 it finishes...though upon my return at 5ish...it hadn't even started. The man said form 4-6pm I could buy tickets....nope....

So during the 4pm-5pm i went to a supermarket i had gone to one of the first weeks I was here. As a way of remanising kinda thing. remembering when I had to walk all that way...but now with a bike took 10 mins...YAY. So that was kinda cool! I also went to Macdonalds and got a happy meal that made me kidna angry but on the end I was happy-ish. I got this strange toy thing that is liek a pen...paper comination thing...it just scares me. The instructions on how it works aren't even clear...or understandable...so it was all a moment of frustration! But when I got it to work I was happy!

So After that I went back to the place to buy the tickets adn well nope had to wait even more and what was I going to do while I wait...? so I decided to go back home and thus here I am ...still....

I apolagise if it is all kinda jumbled but thi week has been kinda weird.
I had a really sore eye for about 2weeks from the time I was in greece to well Monday when I went to the hospital to have it checked out. So I was taken there by one of my housemates in another persons car...all Italians are crazy drivers...I think they teach you how to drive crazy at school! So we rocked up there and had to tell them the deal with my eye and then went and waited and stuff for the person to call me and yeah. I arrived and ther was a man sleeping and snoring in the room on one of those wheely bed things. Everyone was kinda commenting on him. Was kinda strange. But anyway waited and then another man came in on a wheely bed thingy this time he had a bung arm and a wound on his back. He didn't look to crash hot. His sailine solution emptied out quickly. They use bottles like in the olden days not the squishy packets now days it's quite weird. So yeah he came and went and then another man old-ish came in on a bed and it was a bit cosy in there. For the next 2 1/2hours waiting alot of people came and went. My housemate got aggitaed and went to find out why I hadn't been taken care of kinda thing. I was down the bottom as in UN-IMPORTANT so that was that. Abotu 10 mins after she had explaied hta ti am an Australian Erasmus student blah balh blah I was called and then I went into this room from outta space kinda...was really weird...all this stuff everywhere.

The doctor dude came in and talked and then Chiara-housemate who came and translated for me-told him about the issues with my eye and stuff like that. I then laid down on the not very comfy bed thing and then he squirted things in my eye and shone a light in there as well...and then squrited more things in there. All with out warning of what he was about to do...he might have said things but I didn't understand. So afterwards it was concluded that I had an allegic reaction to pollen or the crap flying around and that i needed to get eye drops. Then i had to get one last thing done to my eye and that was have it covered in the cream stuff that well probley made me look like a monster with and infected eye. I had to let that seep into my eye and then afterwards do the drops thing. So fo rhte next how ever long...no idea...I have to put drops in my eye 3 times a day. It's not easy cause it's a stupid glass jar that you can't squeeze so you have to wait ages till the drop falls and by that time your eye hurts and you need to blink and then the drop hits your eye and it stings and everything just hurts. Stupid people and their stupid inventions!!!

So that was that really. not much else has happened...other then i have had to do uni work...umm plan my sightseeing in USA and that about all...very exciting!!!
Not much else!! Hope all is well!!! Only a mear 13days till I leave this strange and much loved-kinda- country!!!

Arrivederci

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Sono Returnata

Yes I have returned from 3 weeks of travel thorugh the wonders of Europe and a tad bit of Asia.

So you ask yourself "Where did she go?" Well I am here to answer your question. I have been to Turkey-both Europe and Asia side-, Greece and London.
So where did I go in those places you ask? Well Turkey I was in Istanbul and I went to Gallipolli for ANZAC DAY. I spent about 2weeks in Turkey which was way to short. I think you need about a month to see alot of it. No words can descirbe how awsome Turkey is. It's cheap, the food is good and the people are friendly. The Grand Bazzar is amazing. The mosques are just as amazing and beautiful. The Topkapi Palace is HUGE!!! And everything else about Istanbul is awsome!!! Especially the Kebabs.

Greece was differnet. I only went to Athens. It reminded me of any European big city...Rome kinda but then I saw the ACROPOLIS and well...that was jsut amazing. To walk amongst the ruins of an Ancient world is just breath taking. Also the fact you are about to Bake becuase of the sun beatig down on you but none the less it's just WOW. The cool thing also abou Greece is that I met XIBIT-the guy from Pimp my Ride (MTV)- Yeah the girl I met from Canada has a photo with herself, XIBIT and I with a part of Athens in the background. It was pretty cool to see him.

Then 2days after coming home from Greece I HAD to go to London for the weekend. What a bummer. it's a beautiful city but one that leaves you constantly wondering if you love or hate it. I still Haven't decided if I love or hate the city. It's just full of the touristy things. Red double-decker buses. Taxi's with suicide doors. The phone booths which are functional and a great momnt for a Kodak moment! Fish and chips weren't to bad...no mushy peas though but yo ucan get them in a can!!! Thats...unique!! An array of things to se and do it's almost as if the city never sleeps...maybe?! But I think to realy understnd London you have to go back...thats what will happen in a few years or so...when I have a bit more money to see a bit more!

So just a low down on the travel notions of myself. I have around 16days until I leave for The United States of America, which I am really reall REALLY EXCITED ABOUT!!! I can't wait to go to New York!! It's another dream come true!!

Well back to reality ad University assignments!
Arrivedeci

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

TURCHIA

Goobble gobble. Does anyone ever rememebr those jelly drink called soemthign like wooble gobble? And it had a turkey on the fronT?
Well anyway as some of you might know, I am off to Turkey for ANZAC DAY! It's goign to be cool!! Going to Istanbul, Gallipoli, Creme and then off to GREECE!!! TO work on my tan! or well LAck of TAN! LOL I am very excited!!

Well at the moment the only exciting news is that Bec and her friend Miake are over from Spain and London! It's cool to talk to some Aussies again! Been rimanising and stuff which kinda makes me feel really old...19 and so old!!! But it's good. Soon this Saturday i will be catching up wot Squishy aka Tessa. YAY A highschool Reunion thing! LOL NIce!

So yeah thats about all. Not much happing. I have alot of crappy Uni work to do whcih sucks...but none the less it's I guess the reason as to why i came to Italy...to STUDY...though my study has only been...the past....2/3 months?! Yeah...I am a bad example to the exchange people!! DON"T BE ME!!!!

Anyway I hope all is well with the world and all your wee little worlds!
Have a great one!

Arrivederci

Saturday, April 07, 2007

BUON PASQUA

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Hope everyone has a great easter and enjoys the greatness of Chocolate and being together! don't forget the "reason for the season" -A quote from Erica.

But none the less have a great break all you study people! Enjoy the chocolate!...ANd Pancakes...though i think your ment to eat them befor Easter Easter! None the less Enjoy!

Arrivederci from me and the easter Bunny

Monday, April 02, 2007

Il primo giorno di Aprile

Well it all started out when I looked at the message my dad sent me saying "I WON THE LOTTERY! LOL(lots of love) DAD" at that point I was like sweet he can potentially pay for a buisness class trip Home! OH YEAH!!! Then I looked at my other message and it read "Happy April Fools day LOL DAD". From that moment onwards it was planning and thinking!

I finally came up with a potential-heart-attack-plan and waited until the time was right...or until it was a kinda decent Australia time to exicute my plan.

The time came and so i put the motions into place. I sent my dad a message saying " I have been taken to the police station because they wouldn't accept my drivers license as ID. I need you to call me so that you can verify who I am and what I am doing here ASAP". With in seconds my phone rang. I answered.
"Hey Dad"
"Whats happened?"
"We were out and we got stopped by the police and all I had on me was my drivers license and they wouldn't let me come home to get my passport."
"Who do I need to speak to then?"
"MR. April Fools"
The both of us started laughing and the plan worked. I had offically fooled my dad into believing I was in prison!

So if you are ever away from home during April Fools, theres a good one for you!

Have a great Easter!1!! Rememebr it's EASTER DINOSAURE!!!!!!! No more Bunnies this year!

Arrivederci