Slow Week

Yet another slow week of school here in Newcastle. The weekend was fairly uneventful as well, with a trip to Nobbys Beach being the only excursion that I undertook.

Next weekend should prove to be a bit more exciting. As most of you know, my 21st birthday is coming up next Saturday. Nothing serious has been planned so far, save for getting a group of people together for dinner Friday night, but there will surely be more for me to do this weekend.

Oh. Also, I have found a way to make photo albums public on Picasa, so if you just follow the links from a while ago, you should be able check out a few of my travel photos. No muss, no fuss. Again, post something if there are any issues accessing the site, etc. etc.

Later days!

Hey!

I'm back! Yes, after a week of being sick and immobile, I am back in action, and updating once more!

The week itself wasn't particularly interesting. I had classes during the week, and I went to them all. I am still a little sick, nothing serious though, so I am keeping my doctor's appointment that I had made a week ago for the 27th. Whether or not I will still be sick enough to see the student health people by that time is unknown.

This weekend was pretty cool. On Friday I went to a house party off campus, and the past two days I have gone to Nobbys Beach in downtown Newcastle. Between that and homework, that is pretyt much all I have been up to.

So apparently, I'm going up to the Byron Bay Blues Fest! I will be traveling with a couple international students from uni around my birthday, then seeing such musicians as Ben Harper, Xavier Rudd, and Jason Mraz the Monday after.

I'm gonna try and settle into weekly updates, and hopefully I'll be able to reach all of you more often. See ya!

Blargh

Been sick the past couple days. Not much else going on. Luckily I got a doctor's appointment. For the 27th. Keep checking the site for Web Album updates.

Woo!

Pictures!

I may have gotten my web album thing to work! You should be able to check it out at http://picasaweb.google.com/jkligerm

Let me know if there are any issues accessing the site.

Real Classes con't

Not much going on today. I had only Photo Design classes today, and both the lecture and the studio times were relatively slow. I did get a chance to see the cameras that they would be lending out for projects, however. We also had to listen about how to change the apeture and shutter settings for about forty minutes, so there's that too.

Pictures are back up! Here's one of the ICT like I promised.

And here's another because you're all such good readers.

This is a little hard to make out, but its a picture of one of the dolphins that followed the ship on our dinner cruise about a week ago.

Unfortunately, pictures might have to go like this, bit by bit, rather than en mass like I would prefer to post them. I will try to use Picasa like I originally planned, and hopefully that will be up soon.

Laters!

First Week of Real Classes

Exciting day today! I was murdered! More on that in a bit.

First off, my Professional Writing class. I was surprised today when I found that the building that my tutorial for this class was being held in the ICT, possibly the coolest school building I have ever seen. The ICT, the communications building, is built along a row of really cool, rock garden style courtyards, and the facility is itself built on the third floor of a parking garage. I'll put pictures up next time I'm there.

The TA for the tutorial is also probably one of the most badass journalists I've ever met. He is a native Australian who is working graduate school right now, and during introductions he kept referencing the time he spent interviewing Balinese kidnappers, or Columbian death-squad executioners. Incredibly interesting guy, and I'm sure to learn tons from him about writing in general.

Yeah, about my being murdered. This is called Murder Week at IH because the RAs run a game called Murder. The way the game works is, people sign up, then at the start of the week, they are issued a small plastic fork with someone's name on it. They then have to "kill" the name that they have by stabbing their target with no witnesses around.

Little had I known that the game had started this morning. As I was sitting in my room, innocently watching an episode of Spaced, my killer crept into my room and stabbed me. Afterwards, we had a pretty nice chat about the game, and I got to meet the friends he had brought along. Nice guy, my murderer.

I have Photo Design lecture and studio tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be able to rent a camera from Uni soon, then find a way to resume posting pictures. Later!

First Week

Sorry about the late update again, people. I really, really, need to get myself back on schedule with postings. Anyway, the past couple days.

On thursday, my fourth day of classes, I had only my Ancient Warfare lecture. The subject matter is interesting, though we did have to watch a History Channel special about the Roman legion for about an hour.

Friday, though I had originally planned on going to the Bar on the Hill to see the Fratellis play, I decided to opt out of that to go to International House Commencement Dinner instead. The dinner itself was pretty nice, and afterwards I had a really good time going down to the Customs house, a pub and dance club, in downtown Newcastle. The only issue was finding my way back with Liam afterwards to Uni. We bought train tickets about an hour too early, so we spent that time wandering around and dodging drunks until our train came.

The next day there was supposedly a pub crawl starting at about one in the afternoon, but I was in no way feeling up to going out, so I spent most of the day hanging out with Natta and Boom, and watching Edward Scissorhands.

Today was pretty quiet too. I played a nice pick-up game of soccer with some people from IH, then went to Jesmond to get some stuff to grill with. Then, I grilled for myself, because there were a couple of people doing so by the pool.

Here's to more constant updates!

Third Day of Classes

Sorry about the late post today, folks. Not much going on today to really speak of, though. I had lecture in my Australian Foreign Relations class, and so far I'm really excited with how that course will go. The lecturer gave an incredibly interesting speech on Australian foreign policy since its colonization, and it really seems like this might be one of the best courses for me to learn Australian history.

Besides that, not much happened today. Wednesday is kind of the night for students to go out during the week, so we'll see how that goes. Besides that, it should be a relatively quiet rest of the week. I have one lecture until I'm done with classes for the week, so I've been thinking about checking out the Forum, the campus workout facility, for something to do for now. Talk to ya later!

Second Day of Classes

Today was a little less eventful than yesterday. I had my first lecture for my Photo Design class, which was pretty great, even though it was nine in the morning as I was in a bit of a haze due to the Benadryl I had just taken. Seems like its gonna be a pretty sweet class, though.

Afterwards I went to Jezzo with Liam to resupply a bit, which was pretty cool. Also went with Liam to Hunter Hall, a nearby multipurpose builidng to pick up tickets for O-Ball, a concert on the 13th at Bar-on-the-Hill. Should be an awesome concert. Hopefully, I'll also be able to see the Fratellis play at Bar-on-the-Hill this friday as well. Not much else going on besides that today. Laters!

First Day of Classes

Today I was kinda surprised when I was watching TV. I started watching something at random in our common area, and found that there was a documentary about the Chicagoland area on, with focuses on places like the South Side and Naperville. It was surprising mostly because I am here, on the other side of the planet, and still I see the place where I come from, on the TV no less.

Classes, well, just class, since there was only one, was pretty nice. I had my first and only lecture in my Professional Writing course, where the class coordinator went over the basics of what we will be studying. Looks like we'll be doing a number of interesting writing projects, which will hopefully improve my overall writing ability. More on that later.

Now, hopefully, I'll find someone to get dinner with. Laters!