Today marks 1 post-mid-sem-break assessment done, 2 more to complete. Unfortunately today was the easy one, and the next few days will be busy as hell. And then after this lot, I have a design camp, and then a whole crap load of end of semester assessments which I can’t imagine will be a fun time for anyone around me, honestly. But enough of this uni babble.
The last week of break was ok, despite nearly getting whooping cough. Which is apparently still a thing. And then multiple self injuries – skidding down a driveway and loosing a patch of skin off my elbow, punching myself in the throat, punching myself in the eye… I’m a dangerous person. Honestly it just seems like break was divided between uni work and finding new ways to prevent myself from doing uni work. But hey, s’all good. Didn’t do anything reasonably exciting either, but time with Dylan is always nice.
I did procrastinate enough to put up a new theme here though. Yeah it’s not the best but a bit of change never hurt.
5 weeks left. At least there are only 5 weeks left.
We started visiting the snow on Monday. It took a bus & two trains to get to the snow, those daily rides nearly killed me. Our boarding instructor was the best, Tom. Think stereotypical surfie dude with dreadlocks and blonde hair and lanky and stuff. Trust I get out to the snow and my goggles break, so I had to wear his. Snow boarding is difficult as hell, by the way. They say you’ll spend a lot of time on your arse but in the long run you’ll choose to because standing up is like death. By the end of the first day my hips/tailbone were so sore it wasn’t fair. The first day was a blizzard too, so after our lessons we didn’t go much, just chilled in the ridiculously overpriced coffee shop. After our time at the snow was over, we had free time in which Stella, Stacey, Maddie and I hung out with a few of the boys playing poker and chilling out with music (one kid, Michael, had a perfect music taste). That night was also the start of the ‘night activities’ the camp people set up to entertain us. We had to run a mini-market kind of thing and work at “stalls” (Stace, Mads, Stell, and two guys called Hugh and AJ and I were all working on the “secret messages” postal service lmao) which was kind of rubbish but fun for getting to know people.
The next day, Tuesday, was the best conditions on the snow. Struggled with my boarding again but I don’t think I’ll ever be a pro boarder so its cool. Did a few runs which was good enough. Chilled out in the snow with Stacey, Maddie and Chrystal again after, made snow boobies and angles and things. So much fun. That night was also “movie night” – they played Zoolander which was pretty alright. Wednesday again with the snow, blizzard. Only did half the lesson cos the conditions were so bad. It was a pretty crappy day weather wise anyway, and because by then our teachers decided that you couldn’t hang out in common rooms of other peoples, we were pushed out into the BBQ area of a sports field – it was freezing. Wednesday night there was a trivia night. In a group with Stacey, Maddie, Hugh, AJ, Stella, Max, Jess and Patricia, we came third I think. There were challenges mixed in too, I got to participate in a lovely fashion parade of superhero nature. Lamest thing.
Thursday, the last full day. Even worse conditions in the snow, I didn’t even go to my lesson, just chilled out in the coffee shop with a bunch of injured people (Maddy, Amy, Jack, AJ (you should see this kid’s face, looks like he was mauled by a bear), Jay) and waiting for everyone else to come back up. Being the lovely social people we were we spent a lot of time just adding everyone on facebook, lmao. That afternoon was spent saying goodbye to Stacey (she had to leave a day early), returning boards and stuff, and having the boys hide in our rooms (we were not hanging out in the rain again). The night activity, a disco. The lamest thing the world ever graced. Bush dances, macarena… you had it all. I spent a lot of the night doing my own thing, which naturally resulted in a lot of people making sure I could stand (my shoes broke, my boots… the heal ripped off… and trying to rave on your own with broken boots isn’t something I should have attempted). But it was still fun and kind of bad because it meant the camp was ending.
Yesterday Dillan & I saw The A-Team! I know, yeah, all the two of us really do is just go watch films, but I’m cool with it. I like films, and The A-Team was too good not to see. Sharlto Copley’s Murdoch was actually laugh-out-loud funny, which shouldn’t be surprising because Sharlto’s actually kind of amazing. I mean, I never watched the show, so I don’t know the characters or the original depictions of them, but Neeson/Copley/Cooper/Jackson were all really good in their roles. And of course the direction was pretty good – the story line did all blur up at points, and I’m not too big of a fan of the idea of merging the two scenes of describing a plan, and the plan playing out – although I have a feeling that could possibly be a homage to the original TV show (but then again, I didn’t watch it, so I don’t know). But all in all, it was a good film & I think people should definitely go see it.
