Week 50: The End is Nigh!

Ill upload more photos when they get published on fb from friends. Unfortunately a few photos from my phone decided not to save :|.

I kicked off the week in such adventurous fashion by doing some work for a lecturer. Crazy I know! Tuesday followed in a similar vein and unfortunately the weather turned a bit foul and touch was cancelled due to a severe weather warning. Instead of playing we got a group touch photo and headed off for tacos at Amigos! They were as great as ever and the tequila was pretty good aswell. Once I returned I headed over to a friends flat for some carry on's.

I did some more work on wednesday and headed off for a graduation party pre-drinks before heading out to the grand. Thursday was an unsurprisingly slow start although I did manage a morning jog. We celebrated my flatmates birthday with a multi-coloured birthday cake which was delicious! KB also hosted a rubix cube party, so we all dressed in the colours of the rubix cude and tried to swap clothes to become 1 colour, I ended up going for yellow but nobody was wearing yellow trousers. We had some carry on's before I stayed up to watch some more of the world cup.

Friday was another slow start, waking up at 12, I  was up til 5am for the football! We went out in the evening for some awesome cocktails, I had some great amaretto cocktails yum. After a brief fire alarm at 10.30pm I hit the hay.

The weekend continues in a similar fashion, a lazy start, I went for a food shop before we had a big blow out for everyone who was leaving. We played some awesome games and things got pretty emosh having to say goodbyes to such great people and im sure the alcohol didn't help. We left kb for a UV houseparty which was pretty busy so I decided to come back to watch the Brazil match and because of extra time I dont think I got to bed til 5.30am.

The weekend ended with some more sad goodbyes and I cleaned up the apartment a bit. We were going to play True American in the evening but everyone was super tired and not feeling it at all so we just had some yarns.

Week 49: END OF EXAMS!

Monday was spent being studious, preparing for my last remote sensing exam. My exams went relatively well on Tuesday morning. I luckily checked my exams time and seat at 8.30 and realised my exam was at 9.00 and not 9.30 as I thought. After my exams I headed over to Unibar with some people from my course. We had some food, drinks and played a few games of pool! I picked up some thai food on the way home and watch some of the world cup. During the evening we played touch and apparently drew... we thought we had lost but hey. Upon returning to KB we put Sherlock number 2 on.

Wednesday I headed down to the beach after a lie in. I had a swim and enjoyed a walk up the beach. In the evening we got ready for the second State of Origin match. If you read a few weeks ago we had game 1 which NSW somehow won. The first half was a bit of a stinker with all the players throwing their handbags at each other but the second half really got going and we were on the edge of our seats. NSW grabbed a try late on and managed to hold on for a historic victory. The night of sport was not over yet. We stayed up to watch the Aus soccer match against Netherlands. There was a good 30 mins where I though the Socceroos were going to do the inevitable and beat the Netherlands but alas 2 goals later Australia were dumped out of the world cup. What a goal by Timmy Cahill though!

I took the opportunity of no exams to have a lie in and managed to get into Uni to show my wave exposure model GREMO to some visitors to Uni. In the afternoon I worked on another application for work, fingers crossed eh!  On friday I went in for a meeting at Uni and then headed off on the train to Sydney. I met up with a UEA friend and we headed out for Sushi dinner. I tried eel and octopus puff, they were... interesting to say the least. We had a walk around the Winter Festival in Darling Harbour and stopped off for a few drinks in a bar overlooking Darling Harbour. I then headed off to meet up with my global buddy in Bungalow 8, I said to myself I would never be that guy on the dancefloor with a backpack on but I was for a brief period. I met some folks from the Navy, you know as you do, before heading back to Sutherland to crash.

Who is this kid?!

Breakfast came in the form of Taco's, classic student! I managed to scab a lift to the station and headed back in to Sydney to meet up with Evan, who I met in NZ. I showed him and his gf around Darling Harbour, Circular Quay, the Rocks, and grabbed a delicious gourmet wrap for lunch. We then headed up the Sky Tower and got stunning views across Sydney in glorious sunshine. I had just enough time to show them Paddy's markets before jumping on the train back.

The week ended with a lunchtime trip to San Churro with a few pees, I destroyed a lovely sundae. After this we headed over to shellharbour for a trip and wandered around the shops. We only bought a bit of grog and by this time it was gone 5pm. The evening was spent pretty chilled out as per usual :).

Week 48: The torture of revision

Monday morning I made a job down to sell my board and got a decent price from it off Gum Tree. Whilst I was down there I decided to go for a cool dip in the ocean. The rest of the day was spent revising and watching Game of Thrones. I cannot for the life of me remember what I did on tuesday, I assume I spent the day revising. In the evening we had our weekly touch game, somehow we won 10-6 :), it was a great team effort and I even managed to grab a try.

Wednesday rolled around and I spent the morning studying, then gave an explanation of my independent project with the Wave Exposure Model GREMO to some visitors to the uni. I decided to have a break from the study for and went to a guest lecture, luckily for me some sandwiches appeared... YUM! We had a group photo at KB of most of the residents and then I was invited by Jamie to cardiobox. I died. By the time I was back my arms were shaking and so weak. Thursday passed in a haze of revision.

Friday came around and guess what IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD CUP! The Brazil 2014 World Cup :). I got up at 6am for the opening match and it was a corker. This championship begins with me in Australia and by the final end I will be back in the UK and will be have been home for 10 days! The rest of friday was spent studying and then went to fitness friday at KB. I absolutely died, my abs were killing from cardio box and we did 495 or so sit ups on top of that :| ouch! Saturday morning was spent studying and I had my first exam at 1.30, fluvial geomorphology. It went fairly well :). In the evening we watched The Grand Budapest, it was a very strange film but pretty good actually.

Sunday morning I awoke at 5am to watch a shock Costa Rica win over Uruguay then an England loss at the hands of Italy. I began to study after this and had the Japan v Ivory Coast match on in the background. In the afternoon we made a trip to leisure coast and woolworths. Then I spent the rest of the day study... fun!

Week 47: End of session

The beginning of the week once again started with finishing off my assignments and project, oh very exciting I know. Tuesday night was footy night but our opponents didn't turn up so we got an automatic victory. I submitted my assignments on wednesday and headed off for Uni Trivia. We somehow managed to come second! Wednesday night was a friends birthday and we had double denim themed pre-drinks and had a strange night out in hostage and got the early bus home.

Thursday was spent pretty chilled out, I spend ages walking around town trying to find some dress shoes to buy. I eventually found a lovely pair... they are so shiny!

I spent the arvo doing a practise pack of my big bag and I am on the verge of my weight limit. In the evening we put on sherlock, the movie this time, so good! Friday was pretty chilled out as well, I managed to go out for a run. It appears my chest still hasnt recovered from being ill, my times were a bit slow but hey. By the time I got back I dressed up ready for formal. We got transport to the Portofino Club which was decorated really well! We had a 3 course meal with drinks included, an awesome photo booth and had a great time chatting to everyone.

Saturday was a slow starter but we made it down to the beach for a lovely swim in the sun. In the evening we headed out to the Patch for a friends 21st. We had some great nibbles and cheap drinks... there were some interesting speeches, and the night descended from there for a number of people (but not me). Sunday was another slow burner and I watched a few footy matched and some food shopping. The exciting life I lead.

Week 46: Sporty Week!

Surpirse! Monday and tuesday were spent in class and completing work, thankfully I started feeling better again. Tuesday evening the KB touch team won our first game :), despite feeling a bit ill still I made an appearance and somehow managed to score a try.

Wednesday we hit up Uni Trivia again, and didnt do too well on the State of Origin theme. For those of you who don't know State of Origin is a rugby league game between New South Wales and Brisbane and is played over three games. The first game was wednesday so we had it on whilst having pre-drinks, and somehow NSW managed to come out with a win. We headed out for the usual wednesday night hostage and grand experience which was good fun.  

I tried to work all day thursday and decided to bail mid-afternoon so headed to the beach and got some groceries on the way home. In the evening we watched the final episode of series 3 of Sherlock.... so great! Check out the hedgehog potatoes I made :)

Friday followed in a similar vein as thursday and I bailed studying mid-afternoon so headed up to Mt Keira. It was not too warm but still really humid and a sweaty climb up the creek. The view from the top was... as ever... amazing! By the time I got back to KB I decided to hit up the beach. I had another lovely swim! In the evening we had KB performance night at UniBar. It was great seeing familiar faces performing for us all and chatting to some faces who I havent seen in a while.

Can you see the rainbow?!

Another rainbow!

The weekend hit and by mid-arvo I joined up with some Kooloobongians (is that a thing?! I don't know whether it works or not) and we headed off up to Sydney. I parted ways with these folks and headed over to the Allianz Stadium for the Roosters vs. Raiders NRL game with a UEA friend. The Roosters made a 18-0 first half lead and managed to come out 26-12 victory so we were really chuffed. I then headed over to meet up with KB peeps at Vivid. We walked around a bit grabbed a great pulled pork, apple sauce, gravy and coleslaw roll... YUM! We made it back to KB for 00.30... a long day.

Sunday appeared and I played soccer (football!!!) for KB vs I-house. We all performed our best but did not win, we all had great fun though. I lazed about til heading off for touch training in the arvo. The rain came down a bit but we had a decent practise game of touch... yes I may be starting to get the hang of it. Although I did have to get the ice out after getting back as my groin strain was playing up a bit :|.

That was week 46! Wow... time is flying way too quickly!