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| Beautiful Riverway :) |
My foot learned this week the rough and real truth that
it’s not made of as tough a stuff as it originally thought. I’m not sure what
the door said to the foot or vice versa, but I was caught right in the middle
as the two got into a bit of a tussle and I was left hopping through the
kitchen and into the lounge asking a little bewilderedly where the first aid
kit was. I think I may have succeeded in
losing my first toe nail over the ordeal and walking with enclosed shoes will
probably be out of the question for a while.
Needless to say, I now avoid that door in the kitchen; it needs to sit
there and just think about what it’s done for a while. I think I will probably be opening
other doors a little more slowly and carefully from now on as well...
Aside from that little civil war there, I have had a
pretty good week despite how packed it’s been with sitting there and doing very
little aside from studying for finals. I’ve
got one coming up this next week and then three more quite nearly on
back-to-back days the following week. So
exciting… The thing about finals here is that, at least for my classes, they are all cumulative and you don't really have any midterms in the middle anywhere to break-up the course scores. No pressure eh?
Study breaks were of course in order and one night it was
going to a showing of the new X-Men: Days of Future Past with a few of the house
mates. I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed
it and thought it was very well done though, and I won’t ruin it for those of
you who haven’t seen it yet, I was definitely left thinking “Whaaaaaaat..?” for
a little while after the ending. One of the downsides to this was that a number
of us went back home and had to do a bit of research on the original X-Men
comics as a bit of a procrastination effort...
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| Pizza and coffee study break at Riverway |
I got to hang out with the other Julia again this
week and that was fantastic! We went and got Dominoes pizza, some super sweet
coffee at Riverway Park, and read to pretty near the end of Job. Every time I
go to Riverway I am always hit by how beautiful it is and I always love going
there to just hang out and walk around. I left our meeting feeling encouraged and
uplifted as always and it was just what I needed to get a little more done for
study. That same day a few of the gals
from Christian Union dropped by and brought us afternoon tea just because. I finally got an introduction as to what an
Australian scone was and am I right in saying, they look JUST like American
biscuits?? Or am I going crazy here?? I had to make my housemates
American scones a little later in the week just to show them what I thought of
when I heard the word ‘scone.’
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| Pizza and coffee study break at Riverway |
I had another facepalm Julia moment this week when doing
my chore of cleaning the bathroom… So, part of this job requires hosing down
the floor and the walls and such and what you are supposed to do here is put some towels under the door to prevent the
water running out and into the hallway.
Well, I kind of forgot that little detail and went about hosing the
floor and got to the door before it dawned on me that all the water was going
out the door. Than ensued frantic scampering
throughout the house trying to scrounge up towels to stop the little waterfall
out the door and then more to mop up the now raging river coursing down the
hallway. It didn’t get very far, thank
goodness, but I don’t think I will be forgetting that little detail about
bathroom cleaning from now on…
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| Those are biscuits right?! |
Again this week was another demonstration of my expert
coordination skills. I can’t remember exactly what I was doing but I was
obviously distracted with thinking about something else and tried to sit on my bed and read
something I think. Well, I obviously didn’t
know where my bed was and missed it
completely, landing soundly on the floor and smacking my head. I then had to walk out into the lounge and
tell Hannah and Blessing, “Hey guys, want to hear why I now have a raging
headache?" How could I miss that?? It's right there! But I was encouraged to hear
that I am apparently not the only one who has facepalm worthy, uncoordinated moments. Apparently Hannah has this fascination
with being terrified by her own reflection in the mirror in her room and has been
spooked out of her mind several times thinking there was someone in her room when
making eye contact with herself.
I had another 5:30 am wake-up time and early morning hangout
with Belindi this week and that was just as fantastic, if not more so, than the
last time. We almost went and made the
morning a hike up Castle Hill but since
the day was my trial run day to see if I could walk in tennis shoes after the little
door incident we decided that sunrise at Riverway it was. Gah, it was so
pretty! How can one place has so many beautiful sunrises and sunsets?? Because Townsville
certainly has tons of them! Another cool thing about Riverway is that when you
go there for the sunrise (if you are willing to get up that early) the sun
comes up right over the river and turns the river all shades of orange and
yellow. So pretty!
Unfortunately I think that walking comfortably in tennis
shoes may be a bit of a doubtful exercise for a while, but I just had so much
darn fun getting to spend my morning with Belindi and have some pretty awesome
chats.
There was Meringue and smoothie night this week as well since apparently Michelle's preferred form of study procrastination is making smoothies and other sweet food items. Not that I am complaining mind you... By the end of this week I think we finally got some proof that some of us at the lodge may be going a little crazy(er) from all the study we have all been cramming into our heads this week... Had you been here Saturday night you would have been caught right in the middle of a full blown VeggieTales silly song singing party.
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