Story Bridge
This is one of the more famous Brisbane bridges. It is called the Story Bridge and there is a building on campus called the J D Story Building.
I don’t know what the story is.
This is one of the more famous Brisbane bridges. It is called the Story Bridge and there is a building on campus called the J D Story Building.
I don’t know what the story is.
Here we are again, in the land of gross black tar with hot water on it.
Seems weird to have Christmas cups in 30 degree heat.
So easy to forget how frustrating Canada can be. I have had three major frustrations so far. Almost one for each day! I’m having trouble getting my elective going, I’m having trouble getting my phone back going, and I’m getting rained on. Ah. It is still good to be here, and I have to get through these things, but grr. I can barely put down words that make sense cause I’m so blinded with anger at Bell Mobility, who have gone back on what they told me to do, which makes a $1000 expenditure useless.
I’ll grab a few photos of the rain soon.
There’s the nice Vancouver:
And the crappy rainy Vancouver:
I’m back in my home and native land… and chilling with the Kemps! They have a new house that I’m lucky to stay in for a while, and Sam is hilarious still. He talks a lot now, which to me is surprising, but I suppose has crept up on everyone else slowly. We went for Tim Hortons yesterday morning (minutes after getting off the plane, it was awesome!). Sam informed me that he “thinks he’ll have a donut.” They learn so fast! This is him in the park yesterday and then this morning we found a ladybug and harassed it a little on the floor.
I saw Mike last night too, which was great cause he was able to sneak away from crazies-call (psych rotation) for dinner. I was too tired to watch him play hockey at night. The time change seemed easy to get used to at first but I think that’s just because I was so disoriented. I felt it this morning getting up. Hopefully I’m up to speed soon.
The local students have a phrase that they use to fondly refer to their pre exam signs of stress… It’s purple panic time. There are Jacaranda‘s in bloom everywhere here. That’s how a UQer knows it’s time to panic. The trees make quite bright purple blooms, solidly without any green leaves. This picture was taken yesterday, but they are already a little past their prime and have started to grow green leaves a little bit.
Very appropriate…. my exam is in less than 50 hours. Too late if you’re just panicking now, but hopefully not to late for us.
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Here are my teammates in Sunday night footy. This was just after our last defeat. Theo was pretty tired, he worked really hard.
Thanks to Carol for the photos.
Google’s StreetView is causing a little bit of a stir for some privacy freaks in Australia… If you’ve never seen it before, you can basically see what a street looks like over the internet… just look at the google maps link to the right to see what my street looks like. You’ll have to click the Street View link on the top right.
Australia seems like a strange target for Google to roll this out. I honestly don’t know why they did it here before Canada, but what do I know?
This is the front of my apartment building. It’s a little off on the address with the maps, but the addresses are approximate it says.
Since being sick and not really doing anything else otherwise, I’ve seen a lot of the apartment lately. This afternoon I started to feel a bit better, and a bit cabin feverish at the same time. So I decided to go downtown and just wander. It was a pretty nice afternoon and I went all over downtown and then headed to southbank. It’s easy to forget that you’re living in a place that looks like this sometimes. It just becomes what is normal.
Welcome to the world Isaac Jeffrey. I’m excited to get to know you.
I took a trip with a few second year students in the break. One of the guys I went with is the older brother of a classmate of my younger brother. I met his younger brother first, at UBC… Small world. Anyway, it was great. we decided to try get up Mount Beerwah in the Glasshouse mountains, which are really strange rock formations sticking out of the otherwise nearly flat surroundings. They say that the mountains are the remnants of volcanic plugs, and the cinder cones have long disappeared. Makes for some funny hills, anyways. We drove to Mount Beerwah, but after parking and hiking up the path to the start of the mountain (despite the path being closed) we got to the base of the rock to find it a little slippery because it had been raining. We didn’t know what it would be like to come down if we got up, so we decided not to risk it… we were told by some others on the path that a few people had to recently be airlifted off, and didn’t want to add our names to the list (apparently it happens often enough).
This is what Mount Beerwah looks like on a clear day… That day it wasn’t this clear though!
So we went to another mountain, the name of which always slips my mind. We made the climb in a bit of rain and fog, but it made it feel pretty cool. Despite being soaking wet, I was pretty happy to be there.
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