End of Exams

So usually finishing your exams at the end of Semester 2 (I've started out here halfway through the year as the academic year is different) is a huge relief and a good excuse for a huge party to start the summer with a bang. Well, not so much for me, as I didn't really have any exams... All of my Spanish tests were in class (there were quite a few though - oral, written, listening, grammar... you name it) and then everything else for Music was just presentations or hand-ins, all of which were over and done with before lectures even stopped for the exam period. There was one day when I had three exams on one day but.... meh.

So, here I am now all finished and ready to party and pretty much EVERYONE else is just beginning their exams. It's been quite fun to walk around gloating about my four month summer (when everyone else only has three) for these past few days but the novelty is waring off and people are really beginning to start to hate me.

Good news though, Harry's moved from the Hunter Valley and now lives at UNSW! He's got a very important new job with a famous race horse trainer just by Randwick Racecourse which is literally across the road, and whilst he was flat hunting, came and crashed at mine for a few days. By chance, a friend here called Em was going off travelling and was looking for someone to sub-let the room off her so that she wasn't paying rent for a room she wasn't using, so Harry has now moved in to her room and is living on campus with me! I have to move out of my room in a few weeks as my tenancy runs out on 26th November, but another girl in the same flat will be moving out then and also be wanting someone to sub-let her room, and so by the end of this month Harry and I will be living in the same flat. Good times ahead boys and girls, good times ahead....! Sadly though, Harry is on a bit of a bizarre schedule as his shifts are from 3am - 9am and then he has the rest of the day off except for having to go back to feed the horses at 2pm for an hour, and this obviously means he has to be in bed pretty early and can't come out much. I'll convince him soon enough though, but he's on best behaviour as it's his first week so I'm being tolerant at the moment. 

I'm keeping myself busy with work at the bar which is pretty hectic now as it's getting into the Summer season, and I've still got another 3 weeks of my internship. Also obviously doing my best to get that mythical bikini bod I know is hiding in there somewhere ready for Summer, but I sprained my ankle last night whilst running and so am now hobbling around like a cripple. I had a bit of a panic moment as I haven't sprained my ankle for years (I think the last time I did it was on the trampoline when I was about 12!?) and had no idea what I was meant to do as Mum/Sister Gil wasn't there to nurse me! I've managed to seek out some suitably sporty people though who have told me "Rest, Ice, Compress and Elevate" and so I've been watching Breaking Bad with my foot up with a bag of peas feeling like a right tit. Oh well...

The weather hasn't really been that great for the past week but suddenly today was boiling and so I dragged Harry and some others down to Coogee for a beach day. We just lay and baked ourselves and soaked up some much needed post-exam vitamin D, but I've managed to burn my bum and so I can't sit down OR walk now, which is proving to be quite annoying. Also the woman in the pharmacy called me a 'silly pom' when I hobbled in to buy some aftersun and ibuprofen... bit embarrassing. I was meant to go out to a shisha bar this evening with a few friends but I had to bail as I wouldn't be able to do that lotus flower thing with you legs, which is obviously obligatory when smoking shisha, and so, what was the point!? (If I'm honest, the real reason is that I have also burnt the lower half (!?) of my face but I was wearing lip balm with SPF in it and it means that I now have a weird white line all the way round my lips.... BRILLIANT. I'm a mess. Hopefully it'll be gone by tomorrow....)
Halloween was an odd one this year. I thought I was going to have to work until midnight and wouldn't be able to join in with anything at all, but they let me go at 8pm as the bar wasn't busy. I rushed home, shoved on some black clothes, Halloweened the shit outta my face, grabbed some wine and ran to meet everyone in a friends flat. I was met with a 'What.... what are you!?' by most people, which was fair enough as everyone else's costumes were pretty impressive. Here are two of my faves....

Ailsa's freaky cat eyes

Stan and Thierry as Jesse and Heisenberg from Breaking Bag - good hey!?

Everyone got very drunk and most people traded bits of their costumes with other people, so by the end everyone was looking like a bizarre hybrid of some kind of meth-brewing-vampire-cat, or something equally as weird. I woke up in the morning wearing a vampire cape (yup, thats right, I slept in it) and there was a micro scooter in my room which definitely is not mine. Also, according to the photos on my phone, we went to Macdonalds at some point and Adam ordered a burger which had no burger in it!?

Look at his little face, bless. I've never seen someone look so shocked and upset over some bread. (Quite possibly one of the most hilarious moments EVER though.)
I have horrible images of myself zooming around Macdonalds on the scooter in the vampire cape, but lets just not think about that. I hope that didn't happen....

Anyway, that's my life right now. Lots of much more exciting things coming up soon, as Oli's coming out here for 3 weeks at the end of this month, then my family come out for Christmas and New Year, and then I'm going to hit up Indonesia and Asia for Feb/Jan with friends before uni starts again in March. Plus a few festivals thrown in their somewhere.

Love to all back home...!

B