Okay, these are way late, but they are here This is from when Pemi and I spent the day in Geelong. We took the train over there and it was about an hour long train ride. It was cool because I got to see the scenery. I was hoping to see some kangaroos instead we just saw sheep. But they were pretty rad. We went to the German Bakery and sat on the beach. There were a lot of bugs there and it was one of the first warm days =) Good time!
Otherwise, I finished my essay only to realize it had to be 2500 words not 3500. Now i need to cut out 1000 words. Today I met up with this guy Nic who is going to come study at PNCA and goes to the VCA. I had a meeting with my prof this morning too. Seems my paper is good other than that it’s too long. Tonight I am going to see Jordine’s end of the year performance. Tomorrow I will edit my paper down and go to the health services at UM. I need to get tested for allergies. I think they are getting a lot worse, but I want to figure out if it’s covered first.
Otherwise, the weather is HOT but fantastic. It calls for Wassereis and sunbathing and lots of sunscreen. Sweet. It’s really strange because they are setting up all this Christmas stuff. Lot’s of decorations in the street and all the malls have christmas trees and oranments and this christmas store even opened. This huge Christmas tree in City Square is made from metal stars. It’s a steel cone with stars covering it. Not even a tree (granted, there’s no pine trees here). It’s so strange because they sell snowmen and santa clause with a huge coat, yet it’s hot as hell. So weird!
Okay, it is starting to get warm. It’s only the start of summer and the weather forecast for the week is Sun and up to 32°C! It’s going to get hot!
I had a beach day last week. It was fantastic. I definetly got a tan. Two days ago I bought more sunscreen. It’s amazing how expensive sunscreen is here. You’d think it would be cheap because it’s so hot and the ozone hole…. but guess not.
Other than that, I have been spending most of the last couple days inside working on this crazy essay. 2300 words into it and 1200 words to go! It’s due on Friday the 13th! That’s a bit scary. Good Luck to me =)
Ok I keep saying I will write more later, and I promise I will, but for now, I am gonna take a nap! it’s soooo hoooottttttt
So it is the final week of school. Had my last Australia Now lecture. Got my Final for Photo tomorrow and one more Tute on Friday. Then I have till the 17th to write an essay and I am done. I’ve been meaning to update this but I don’t really have the patience/time right now. So once this week is over I shall update! As for now, enjoy this photo of me underwater:
So last Sunday I went to this incredible (free) show in the Alexandria Gardens. It is part of The Melbourne Arts Festival which is happening right now. It was the opening weekend so I decided to go see this show after a friend had told me about it. So after taking a nap on Sunday afternoon and almost not waking up on time, I headed down to the city. The tram was surprisinly faster than usual (It took 10 minutes… sunday evening I guess). So I got there 15 minutes early, found a good seat and didn’t know what to expect. In the middle of the Gardens there was a huge crane holding some steel construction. In the middle was a bell. Around this construction were 8 platforms. At 9PM the show started. There were a couple French guys who were drinking walking through the crowd, making fun of people, looking like bums. They climbed up to one of the platforms and joked around. One of them saw the bell in the middle of the steel construction and the three guys thought it was a great idea to ring it. “I’m gonna ring the bell” was shouted by the main french guy. So, the raced to the bell… each one of them wanting to ring it. Then once the one guy got up and rang it there were three women who raced through the crowd. They went from platform to platform and light up torches that were connected. The french guy kept ringing the bell and the three women made funny sounds. Then he rang the bell one more time and all of a sudden all these people in circus clothes showed up. They had really cool costumes and all of them had bells that they kept ringing. Each one took a platform and talked to audience. It was cool (and a time filler ). Everytime the French man rang the bell, they switched platforms. At some point they all went to the steel thing in the middle and took their place in front of one of the instruments. At this point the three women from earlier climbed on top of the steel thing as well (they were acrobats) and the whole construction started to lift into the air, all while they were playing music. It was really cool. They got lifted about 40 meters into the air and played music and the acrobats did stuff on swings. It was REALLY cool!!! The show lasted about an hour but it was amazing. Check out this link to see some photos and watch the video as well. Very cool. Here are two photos I took. It was really dark though…
Then Monday Pemi and I went and saw Matt Nathanson in concert. It was his first time in Australia and he gave a great show. Anke and I have seen him twice before in Portland and he is just a really funny and good musician. I got to meet him afterwards and got Anke a super amazing gift as well.
On Wednesday, yesterday, I had my last dance photoshoot of the term. I met up with Tiffany again and we got a couple really good photos in. Time flew by super fast which sucked but the photos are amazing. I got my assessment time as well. Thursday the 29th at 10AM. There will be probably one video and two photos projected. Along with the music (if it gets done) and possible a sign made from glow sticks. Let’s see….
I also applied to a gallery back in Portland in school. Maybe I will get my first solo show! How amazing would that be. Wish me luck! Also I got a job interview on Monday at the Movie Theater so hopefully that is going to happen. We will see but I really hope I get this job!!! That one or the Ice cream store… but movie theater would be better
On Saturday I am going to go to a Wine Tour that’s hosted through MUSEX! This is the Uni Melbourne Student Exchange club. We went to the pub crawl with them when Pemi and I first got here. It should be pretty awesome. Three wineries and then a brewery… Let’s hope for some good wine =)
Sunday I am going to go to a free showing at Fed Square of this animation called Mary and Max. Die sind aus knete gemacht. Wird sicherlicher toll.
As for today, I am gonna cook some food. Still been eating healthy =) Yesterday I made corn ob the cob, asparagus and baked tofu! Yum. Have a wonderful day everyone
Keep Smiling!
So I figure, I might as well also use this blog to track what I eat and if I stay healthy. Someone yell at me if I slack off!
Food:
Breakfast: Cereal (Oats and this other stuff) mixed with Apples and Bananas
Lunch: Miso Soup with carrots, sea weed, those see through noddles (glasnudeln), tofu
Dinner: 2 pieces of German bread. One had tofu sausage and sour cream and dill, the other lettuce and laughing cow cheese. Then a couple cucumbers with salt and pepper
Other snacks: a small handful of peanuts (while watching the last 2 min of dexter), lots of Melon (I bought a melon and cut the whole thing so that when I get hungry…), a couple pieces of chocolate, and some Apfelschorle.
I also did that ab work out and a warm up so total of 20 min workout. Wasn’t much but I feel some muscles in my abs and legs. Tomorrow it’s walking time after class, then a meeting with chris!
Keep smiling
Kurzer update: Gestern war ich von der Uni nach hause gelaufen. Bin über so ne Brücke. Hab gedacht da überquert man nur den Fluss. War aber nicht so. Das war ne 1km lange Brücke. Bin irgendwann dann gegen 1 km weit von zuhause entfernt gelandet. Somit dann am Ende doch 8.5 km gelaufen. Cool. Ich brauche dringensd einlagen für meine Schuhe. Die sind schon ziemlich durgelatscht und meine Füsse tuhen ziemlich weh. Wird aber wieder.
Hab mir gestern auch einen ganz leckeren Salat zum abendbrot gemacht! Mit Tomaten, Gurken, Radischen, Tofu, und ein paar Käse blöckchen. Jetzt mach ich mir erstma Frühstück (Hafer und Banane) und dann gehts wieder in die Schule!
Hab Pemi überredet nachher mit mir so nen workout zumachen. Das nennt sich P90X.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8F6QuoiYA4
Mir ist gerade aufgefallen das ich hier in Deutsch geschrieben hab… haben die Englischen leser wohl Pech gehabt. Neja, nächstes mal wieder!
Immer schön weiter die Welt anlächeln
After spending most of my week in bed, I am now making a conscious decision to get healthy and eat right again. I have been slacking. Before coming to Oz I didn’t have McDonalds in ages. We get here, and everyone get’s McFlurry’s. Granted that hasn’t happened in a while, and neither have the Lord-of-the-Fries outings but the 11km walks are non existend. At least I don’t seem to have gained any extra weight. And I am determined to keep it that way. So, time to change my lifestyle a little bit. I have spent most of my day cleaning so maybe due to the super cleanliness of my apartment (bath, kitchend, bedroom are all sparkling) I am in a positive, can-do mood!
I just made myself a carrot, white radish and radish salad. Ok maybe that translation is off. (Möhren, Radischen, Rettich) It’s amazing. I also had a healthy snack earlier (mandarine… yumm). It’s good to get back into cooking and making good food!
Last night Pemi and I went to the German Club here in Melbourne and celebrated Oktoberfest. I don’t know if you can actually call it Oktoberfest because it really wasn’t. I think they just used the word as an excuse to celebrate and drink beer. BUT, it was really fun. I had Pemi try a Zwiebelkuchen and we had Pfannkuchen. Had a couple beers before moving on to O’Bridies. It’s this Irish Pub/Bar/Club on Chapel St. Pemi celebrated her 100th drink in Australia (plus the first vodka shot) and then we went on to Dance. They had a good band covering pretty good songs. Kings of Leon Sarah met up with us there too and danced with some creepy guy that wouldn’t leave her alone. It was funny! (Sorry Sarah, but it was) I ended the night with my 98th drink. So two more and I reach a 100. DAMN.
I have been applying for a bunch of jobs. Hopefully I will here back soon. It’s really frustrating because most people don’t want anyone that leaves in a couple month. It’s gonna work out though. It always does. And I am gonna hope it will at least.
On the 12th I am going to go see Matt Nathanson in Concert and at the end of the month, right before finals, I am gonna go see Paolo Nutini. Can’t wait!
One of the dancers had to cancel for next weekend. I am desperatly trying to find a male dancer and it’s really stressful. I only got a couple more weeks left. We are gonna have a showing of all the short films in 3 weeks as well. It should be really great. There’s a lot of good stuff!
As for tonight. I am gonna work on my website/add music to my video. Gotta go through my itunes library and find something.
Keep smiling everyone
Cheers
PS: I shaved my head. Donated my hair to a good cause! See photo
So, St K lost in the footy finals agains Geelong. Damn Geelong. They should have lost. They suck! That’s all I am gonna say
Otherwise, here are some more recent dance photos. I am perfecting the shoot! But I guess I will do video for the final. At least one!
So spring break went by way to fast. I finally got a lot of sleep. Fell into a weird sleeping patter but it’ll work itself out! On Monday last week I had a photoshoot with Jordine. It wasn’t for school and it was really awesome. The photos came out really great and I got to see a bit of Melbourne. We went to the Botanical Gardens across from the VCA. It’s a HUGE garden in the middle of the city and it’s really beautiful! Lot’s of people go running there. Then on Tuesday I had my class at the Parkville Campus and then Pemi and I rented a movie in the afternoon. On Wednesday we went to Geelong.
We took the train out to Geelong and it’s a pretty city. However, when we told people we were going to Geelong most everyone looked at us like we are crazy. Same response as Frankston. But, we had a good time. We had an improptu Photo Session. The first stop was the German Bakery for some food for a picknick and some German Bread to take home. The Bakery was alright. The bread wasn’t all very German but they did have a few really good breads and I bought one. We got some rolls, a Baiser, and this desert bar thing. Then went to Safeway, bought some hummus and tomatoes and water. It was really warm that day. Around 25˚C so it was great to wear something other than the big coat. Spring is definitely starting. Apparently Spring in Oz starts on Sept 1. I don’t go by this rule as spring does not start till Equinox which is TODAY! Yay! Anyway, so we went and bought food and went to the waterfront. Found a place on a spot of grass and enjoyed the view and ate food. There are all these weird sculptures everywhere along the WHOLE waterfront. They are painted logs. So awkwardly funny. But we took a ton of photos of them. After food and sitting in the sun we walked towards downtown. Had some ice cream and pretty much enjoyed the whole day. Then around 5ish all these bugs came out. It was really gross. There were bugs EVERYWHERE so we decided to go home. Caught the train and realized how damn tired we were but what an awesome day it was!
Then on Thursday I wanted to go see this movie where VCA students were able to go see it for free. I skipped the part in the eMail that said you had to RSVP so I couldn’t go and it sucked. So instead Pemi came over and we made a nice Salad, watched a movie and had…. LAMINGTONS! Now lamingtons are amazing. It’s pretty much my new favorite food. They can get really expensive, or you can go to Coles and get a 6 pack for a dollar. It’s this little cake square (yellow cake) that has two layers with some jam inbetween. And then the outside is covered in hard chocolate and coconut. It is so delicious you don’t even know!
Then, on Friday, I had my class in the morning, then in the evening met up with the Eng. Boys and had dinner at this awesome All You Can Eat Buffet Place. Afterwards we all went to the Footy game. It was the Western Bulldogs agains St. Kilda. I am always for the underdog and unfortunatly the bulldogs lost. BUT I know Kateri is for St. K. so I am happy for her. Would LOVE to go to the Grand Finals but maybe once I move here I will do that Then had a lazy Saturday and Sunday, yesterday, I went out to see if I can buy a new remote for my camera. My camera has been acting up like crazy. It’s really frustrating. On top of that my remote died during my last shoot. And I got a shoot coming up wednesday. The people here aren’t super into digital. Film is the way to go here. Either way, went out to see if I can buy a new remote and they are all like 50 bucks. So, I ordered on off ebay. It won’t be here by wednesday so Pemi is gonna help me with the shoot. It’s REALLY frustrating to not have my stuff work. It makes me angry cause you spent so much on equipment that when it starts to fail it sucks.
On a lighter note, today was cool. I had a really long day at school but I dropped of my film. Then went and projected it and filmed the projection so I got it on a file. Also Vati, nach langem warten ist hier der film:
It’s really cool when you just randomly stop the film so you can see the individual frames. I had a lot of fun doing this and I wanna do it again. It just requires a lot of patience and time.
I applied to a movie theater last week but havn’t heard anything so I am gonna call them tomorrow. Meant to do that when I got home today but I feel asleep so now it’s too late.
Either way,
Keep smiling
Sandra
Photos are up on Facebook. There are around 200 and I am too lazy to reupload to the blog. Will possibly do this next week in school, where the internet is faster and it won’t take 4 hours Let me know if this works!
Sandra is down in Melbourne, Australia studying at the Victorian College of the Arts and here are the updates from down under :)You are currently browsing the Down Under blog archives.
This is from when Pemi and I spent the day in Geelong. We took the train over there and it was about an hour long train ride. It was cool because I got to see the scenery. I was hoping to see some kangaroos instead we just saw sheep. But they were pretty rad. We went to the German Bakery and sat on the beach. There were a lot of bugs there and it was one of the first warm days =) Good time!
). Everytime the French man rang the bell, they switched platforms. At some point they all went to the steel thing in the middle and took their place in front of one of the instruments. At this point the three women from earlier climbed on top of the steel thing as well (they were acrobats) and the whole construction started to lift into the air, all while they were playing music. It was really cool. They got lifted about 40 meters into the air and played music and the acrobats did stuff on swings. It was REALLY cool!!! The show lasted about an hour but it was amazing. 
