a little more time now...
hey hey hey, it's fat albert!
i've moved into my house! i have no phone, no internet, and until this afternoon i didn't have toilet paper (trust me, 24 pound paper really doesn't work as well) but i'm there! once again, i haven't really been taking pictures yet because i'm still just kinda getting into brisbane and trying to get my bearings. i now know how to walk to school, and a few of the buildings on campus -- hooray!
i've already met a bunch of really cool people! a whole TON of american students doing a program called "australearn". there's a good ... 18 of them, i'd say. then i met the two norwegians, and two germans. so far, i'm the token canadian. we all went out last night to some various places in "the valley". the valley is properly called fortitude valley, and is basically a big pedestrian walking strip of bars and clubs. it was a bit crappy, because i forgot to bring my passport and a lot of places don't accept driver's licences. they're pretty dickish about it too! i guess they must get hoardes of people trying to get in with fakes, but it's frustrating when you have student cards, credit cards, aeroplan cards, etc. to back it up and they won't even glance at them. they just don't care! but we DID spent a fair bit of time at this one club, whose name i cannot recall. i should be able to grab some pictures from the people who had their cameras there, and i'll put it up later.
moving from fortitude to fortuitousness, i am the proud owner of a desktop computer. where did i get it? the side of the street, of course! as i was walking to my backpacker place one day, i noticed a big stack of monitors and stuff on the side of the street. upon closer inspection, i noticed a sign saying "it all works -- help yourself". i cried twice, and then the looting began. before long, i was lugging monitors, keyboards, mice, and towers up the hill to my backpacker place where i put them into temporary storage. after moving into my place yesterday, they are now set up! the problem is... well, it's nerd talk, but basically everything technically WORKS i just have no operating system. but i'll fix that soon enough, and then i'll be nerdin' it up on my computeris gratis. you wait and see!
finally, one of the british girls i met in kuala lumpur is now in brisbane! i'm gonna do my best to meet up with her and hopefully our groups can all go out for a night on the town again. who knows what adventure awaits?! once i manage to get the internet at my place, i will become a real human again. and a phone line. and cable. and a sombrero.
> ian
i've moved into my house! i have no phone, no internet, and until this afternoon i didn't have toilet paper (trust me, 24 pound paper really doesn't work as well) but i'm there! once again, i haven't really been taking pictures yet because i'm still just kinda getting into brisbane and trying to get my bearings. i now know how to walk to school, and a few of the buildings on campus -- hooray!
i've already met a bunch of really cool people! a whole TON of american students doing a program called "australearn". there's a good ... 18 of them, i'd say. then i met the two norwegians, and two germans. so far, i'm the token canadian. we all went out last night to some various places in "the valley". the valley is properly called fortitude valley, and is basically a big pedestrian walking strip of bars and clubs. it was a bit crappy, because i forgot to bring my passport and a lot of places don't accept driver's licences. they're pretty dickish about it too! i guess they must get hoardes of people trying to get in with fakes, but it's frustrating when you have student cards, credit cards, aeroplan cards, etc. to back it up and they won't even glance at them. they just don't care! but we DID spent a fair bit of time at this one club, whose name i cannot recall. i should be able to grab some pictures from the people who had their cameras there, and i'll put it up later.
moving from fortitude to fortuitousness, i am the proud owner of a desktop computer. where did i get it? the side of the street, of course! as i was walking to my backpacker place one day, i noticed a big stack of monitors and stuff on the side of the street. upon closer inspection, i noticed a sign saying "it all works -- help yourself". i cried twice, and then the looting began. before long, i was lugging monitors, keyboards, mice, and towers up the hill to my backpacker place where i put them into temporary storage. after moving into my place yesterday, they are now set up! the problem is... well, it's nerd talk, but basically everything technically WORKS i just have no operating system. but i'll fix that soon enough, and then i'll be nerdin' it up on my computeris gratis. you wait and see!
finally, one of the british girls i met in kuala lumpur is now in brisbane! i'm gonna do my best to meet up with her and hopefully our groups can all go out for a night on the town again. who knows what adventure awaits?! once i manage to get the internet at my place, i will become a real human again. and a phone line. and cable. and a sombrero.
> ian
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