sez's life

Two weeks

2012-01-31T14:15:00.001+01:00

In two weeks, I will have moved out of my room, got my deposit back, and be wandering around Heidelberg for the last time, with only a few hours until I go to the airport. Last night I took most of the things that weren't photos (postcards, letters, ticket stubs etc) and half of the blu-tac off my walls (though THAT is a job I can't be bothered doing). My shelves are increasingly bare. This is

CAN'T HANDLE ALL THE FEELS

2012-01-30T23:29:00.001+01:00

Just finished watching The Reichenbach Fall, the Season 2 finale of Sherlock, which I have been powering through in the last week or so. TEARS FALLING FROM MY EYES. SO MANY EMOTIONS. Anyway, brilliant. Watch it. Though I still find Benedict Cumberbatch's face odd. And Martin Freeman will forever be the awkward sex guy from Love Actually. In other news, this is my last full week in Germany,

Australia Day in Deutschland

2012-01-29T03:58:00.000+01:00

My third Australia Day away from Australia has definitely been the best to date; 2010 I had my handbag (which contained everything important, including passport) stolen in Prague, last year was fun but I went home pretty early, but this year almost felt like an actual Australia Day. On Wednesday night, Monica (who is from Melbourne) and I went to Rowan's place, as her housemate has an

Happy Australia Day!

2012-01-26T03:52:00.002+01:00

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2012-01-24T15:37:00.001+01:00

Three weeks left.

Out With the Old

2012-01-23T21:27:00.001+01:00

This is the start of the end of my life. The questions I have will only be solved with time. But I won't wait quietly! I have a lot of other things to do.

2012-01-22T21:08:00.002+01:00

While walking along a Budapest street on Friday evening, it suddenly hit me. This xkcd comic (don't worry, it didn't literally hit me), which has always been one of my favourites: ...which always reminds me of this... Oh yes... balloon room. Such a good night. The point is though, we are the grown-ups now. We might not be mature, or know what we want to do with the rest of our lives... but

#stopSOPA

2012-01-19T03:00:00.001+01:00

This is just a quick post as it's nearly 3am, and I have 28% of my battery left. Lots of sites were blacked out today in protest of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act). I've seen some pretty excellent (/ hilarious) graphics, and wanted to just share two videos which make things a littler clearer. PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the

Moar moaning about the paper... and I'm not even there to read it

2012-01-16T23:14:00.003+01:00

Uh, is that not a question, AdelaideNow? Does that not need a question mark at the end to signify that it is in fact a question, and not a poorly-constructed statement? We all know that AdelaideNow, and its parent newspaper, The Advertiser, are not really so big on publishing newsworthy articles, good journalism, or, it would seem, good grammar.* Though really, this is something we've all

2011

2011-12-30T00:06:00.002+01:00

Right now, I'm sitting in an armchair, wrapped in a blanket at my host family's (with whom I've been staying for the Christmas break) looking at the University of Adelaide's course planner, trying to decide which subjects to do next year. This year has seen me travel to more countries than I have fingers to count them on (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland,

Internet predators

2011-12-22T04:15:00.000+01:00

In which Sarah shares her experience of a lying internet user. As we all know, I spend a whole lot of time online. I'm not even going to pretend it's because I'm a Media student, it began way before that and I'm not going to deny it. It really began with my installing MSN back in 2004. I told my parents I was 'checking my email' because I didn't think they'd be too impressed that I was talking

The new SACE

2011-12-21T02:43:00.001+01:00

Reading about the new SACE (South Australian Certificate of Education; the qualification we work towards for the final two years of high school) makes me annoyed. It also makes me pity the people who have to do it. Not because it's hard, oh no, but because it's so easy. Let's face it, the five subjects that we had to do, while difficult and end-of-the-world-ish at the time, were really not that

SCHNEE

2011-12-20T17:51:00.001+01:00

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane, snow is glistening, a beautiful sight, we're happy tonight, walking in a winter wonderland. Well, there may not be any sleigh bells, but there sure is snow! It's so very exciting! And although it still doesn't feel like Christmas, it does feel like I'm in European winter. I know that that may sound ridiculous, because it's been winter for twenty

those were the days...

2011-12-19T23:33:00.003+01:00

I miss last semester so much. My friends, my classes, my travels, the weather, everything. This semester is just really not as good. I don't have a group of which I feel a part, my classes suck, and it's just cold and miserable while everyone at home is enjoying the beach. My travels are good, but with no income I'm starting to feel guilty about travelling at all, knowing I'll have zero money

It's not beginning to look a lot like Christmas

2011-12-19T22:47:00.002+01:00

No, you know what? This cold at Christmas thing is messing with me after all. It does not feel like it's Christmas in less than a week, I think partly because it's cold, partly because I don't listen to the radio and hear all the ads for buying the perfect gift etc, nor TV ads, but also partly because I'm still at uni all this week. By now, everyone in Australia (haha, everyone. Clearly I mean

Now we own the night and it can't be undone, we'll never forget how it feels to be young.

2011-12-18T21:03:00.000+01:00

There was a market (with free cheese samples!) next to the boat landing. Happy Forever Day!* Yesterday I went to Strasbourg (France) with a group of about 60 exchange/ Erasmus students. I set out at 07:45, and we arrived (a bus and three trains later) in Strasbourg at about 11:30. It was a lovely albeit cold day as we walked as a great big massive group around the town for a while. Not on a

Words that only Australians know

2011-12-15T22:50:00.002+01:00

So as it stands, there are a lot of places about which I haven't blogged. I've visited a LOT of amazing places this last year, and would love to be able to write a post about them all. Unfortunately, I think I left it a bit late to do so (plus we all know I'm super lazy), and I think most of the posts would turn into 'and then we did x, and then we did y, and then we did z, and then we went home

The reason I did German through to year 12...

2011-12-14T12:38:00.000+01:00

...is that I was good at it, and I enjoyed it. And I was good at it without really having to put any effort in. Sure, occasionally I had to learn some verbs, but other than that I just sort of absorbed the information, and if I didn't get it (eg case chart/ adjective endings), I didn't really bother too much and just guessed, and the rest of my German made up for my atrocious disregard for the

Were you raised by wolves?

2011-12-13T00:02:00.002+01:00

I am increasingly understanding every single note on PassiveAgressiveNotes.com. Well, the ones between housemates, anyway. I grow more and more frustrated every day that I live in this hovel of a flat, because there seems to be very little evidence of a standard of cleanliness, particularly in the kitchen. Only some of us actually wash up. Granted, I just left a frying pan in the sink, but that

Christmas in the Northern Hemisphere

2011-12-11T14:56:00.001+01:00

Lately, a lot of conversations with various people have revolved around Christmas. To pretty much everyone I know here, the concept of going swimming and having a barbeque on Christmas day is just so foreign. Somebody told me last week that it was just not right. Interestingly, I don’t feel the same way about it being cold at Christmas time – to me, it seems just as normal as it being 35 degrees

Do you remember that email that went around a while ago that said

2011-12-02T00:47:00.001+01:00

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How the English language was developed

2011-11-22T23:03:00.001+01:00

König der Löwen and the Mannheim Myer Christmas window

2011-11-22T14:23:00.001+01:00

On Saturday, after the bike debacle (which is now resolved, the bike shop lady WD40'd the lock and all is well), we headed to Mannheim to watch The Lion King 3D... in German :D not having looked up movie times (:O spontaneity!), we got there and discovered we had about two hours to kill before the movie. After a McDonald's dinner ("I got a cheeseburger for later" *puts it in pocket*), we

I'm coming home!

2011-11-21T15:42:00.001+01:00

I leave Germany on February 14th, and arrive to Adelaide early in the morning on the 16th. So excited and happy, but also incredibly sad that I know I'm leaving for sure.

You've been living in Germany too long when...

2011-11-20T21:14:00.001+01:00

you look at the average high of January in Heidelberg being 3.8 degrees and say "wow, that's heaps warm!" ...at least the South Australian in me is not lost. Mine until February! Yesterday I picked up the bike that I am renting for the rest of the semester, and even rode it twice! When I was a child, Dad used to take my brother and me up to the road and let us ride along the straight-ish,

Dear governments, please stop trying to mess with the Internet.

2011-11-20T12:28:00.001+01:00

Thanks, Wikipedia Internet censorship by country Pervasive censorship Substantial censorship Selective censorship Under surveillance No evidence of censorship Not classified / No data So apparently America is trying to regulate the internet. This video is pretty much all I know about it, but if it's anything like the STUPID Australian filter that they tried to

Chocolate pudding and two German films

2011-11-19T02:24:00.001+01:00

Tonight I was going to go out, but then it got too late and I'm a grandma and getting sick (as always - though better than being in the constant state of a winter cold that I usually am!), so decided to just stay in. So I made a self-saucing chocolate pudding (most of which is still in the fridge) and it was delicious (though not as delicious as last time - the sauce was a bit runny. Also it's

Strawberry Kisses

2011-11-17T00:06:00.001+01:00

...is a terrible, hilarious song by the young girl who sang at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. This is what Heidelberg looks like now. Lots of leaves and lots of fog. I've started gathering things together to send home - mostly my summer clothes, but also a couple of books that I've read (and shan't be reading again before I go home), and some souvenirs. They were all stored in a GIANT Primark

There are just too many days that I don't leave the house.

2011-11-15T01:40:00.001+01:00

Tonight I cooked dinner with Odett and her friend Angela (we three went to the Siedlungsfest together) - polenta with lentils (it took me a good 15 seconds to remember what they're called in English), and a salad with chickpeas, kidney beans, capers, garlic, and herbs. Vanessa sat with us too and had a bit of the food. It was lots of fun, but I haven't been feeling very happy lately and so wasn't

Instead of doing my homework...

2011-11-09T03:20:00.002+01:00

I've been watching Chaser's War on Everything clips. So many hilarious moments... I think they're coming back at the end of the year? But of course, I won't be able to watch it, given iView's unavailability outside of Australia... Oh man. Also just watched one where Craig chased Japanese people trying to harpoon them for "research". The best was when he ran after a school group. I also have

A weekend trip to Wales

2011-11-08T01:38:00.000+01:00

At 7:52 on Thursday morning, the bus driver waited for me as I was running for the bus. It was a good start to my epic journey that day. I somehow made all my train and flight connections in (fairly) good time with minimal stress and confusion, and even got to eat salt & vinegar chips and a Cadbury bar while waiting for the train that would take me to Aberystwyth! Found in a supermarket.

Ice-skating is the same everywhere: a mix of 80s, top 40, and Black-Eyed Peas songs, and a sturdy barrier to hang on to.

2011-10-31T23:28:00.003+01:00

Though jumping into a pile of leaves sounds much more fun than falling down on ice! Of course, I've only been ice-skating in two places ever, so I can't really say that it's the same everywhere. But I'm going to anyway. As I was sitting down during one of the many breaks yesterday, I started thinking to myself about why I didn't want to go back out onto the ice. I decided that there were two

Tequila, a shopping trolley, and ice-skating

2011-10-31T00:21:00.003+01:00

Thursday: End of week 3! Met up with Laurence and we had Japanese at MoschMosch, then went to the Brass Monkey and did the pub quiz with some other people. Friday: I went to Mannheim with a group of Americans/ Canadians/ Irish...ans (what on earth is the collective noun?!). We were going to go to the Mannheim Oktoberfest, but it was a massive fail because they were only just setting up (the one

UM WHAT?

2011-10-27T02:34:00.002+02:00

There are less than 100 days until the end of semester, which means that it'll probably be just over 100 until I go back to Australia. That is not enough time.

The Doctor, doctor, fun.

2011-10-27T02:28:00.000+02:00

Perhaps one of the reasons I've grown so fond of Doctor Who so quickly is because the title sequence is so reminiscent of Stargate SG-1's wormholes. Oh, how many nights were spent watching episode after episode of Jack, Daniel, Teal'c, and Sam going through space to fight aliens/ save Earth. Wow, when I say it like that, no wonder I like Doctor Who so much. But there was one point in my youth, I

Ridiculous things I've seen or heard in the last few days.

2011-10-26T23:39:00.003+02:00

1. I just said (out loud, to myself), "I hate sentences!", as I am trying to write ten example sentences for verbs with prepositions. It's not difficult to formulate the sentences, I just don't have any ideas for them. Frustrating. 2. Last week sometime I saw some Asians taking photos of the brass monkey (the actual monkey, not the pub) with their iPads. I get that they're meant to be portable,

When the highs are higher and the lows lower

2011-10-24T21:41:00.002+02:00

The view from my window on a sunny autumn day. Being an exchange student is hard. Don't get me wrong, I've had some awesome experiences so far this year. But I've also had some rubbish ones. Being so far from friends and family and all that is familiar and safe means that emotional states that are usually extreme are here EXTREME. Super happy, or super sad. I've also experienced a quietly

Trafalgar Square

2011-10-23T17:37:00.001+02:00

Excited to have wristbands!Fountain in the background. Laura has just started uploading photos from our big UK trip of August, starting, of course, with London. There was a photo of our beloved fountain next to/ on which we sat, slept, stood, and kneeled for about 24 hours while waiting for the Harry Potter premiere. Such fond memories. So much rain. It's just going to be interesting, any time

Cannstatter Volksfest

2011-10-22T23:13:00.001+02:00

Now that I've caught up on the trips to Munich, I thought I'd write about Stuttgart's answer to Oktoberfest: the Cannstatter Volksfest. On one of the last nice (20 degrees+) days of the year, Ze (an internet friend who was visiting me) and I took a train to Stuttgart. There we met up with Rosie (a girl from Perth who returned there after doing the six-week language course with me in Stuttgart

Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany, because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights. Sorry about that.

2011-10-21T23:02:00.000+02:00

Yeah, you know what? After enduring this for the last 10 months, it's really not ok. I love you a lot, but get your act together, Germany.

Oktoberfest mk II

2011-10-19T22:53:00.004+02:00

Crowds. So so so many people. For weeks I've been saying that I'll write about my journey returning to Oktoberfest, and I started writing it just now, but I'm really just not feeling it. The basic story, however, is this: I left my house at about 07:13 on the 1st of October. We arrived to Oktoberfest after 15:00, though I'm not exactly sure when. There were delays (so many people wanting to

I kind of feel like playing the piano.

2011-10-19T21:20:00.002+02:00

Unfortunately, there is no piano conveniently located within my house, so I will have to wait until February to do that. Today was the first day of my German course. Yes, my other classes are in German (well, Translation is taught in English, but definitely requires a good knowledge of German), but this course will be like a normal German class at an Australian university - with grammar, and

What do the Queen, Stephen Fry, and Alan Davies have in common?

2011-10-19T12:34:00.000+02:00

They're all in Australia right now. I was just reading an article on AdelaideNow about the royal visit. This, apparently, was deemed newsworthy: Many of the ladies, including Mrs Abbott, were wearing hats and the children waved Australian flags as the aircraft taxied down the runway toward the ceremonial welcome area. Many of the ladies were wearing hats? Gosh, I'm glad that that was reported.

Some crazy ridiculous facts about Facebook...

2011-10-18T02:28:00.003+02:00

Facebook now as big as the entire Internet was in 2004 I've just finished watching Season 2 (of the new series) of Doctor Who. I can't believe I didn't get into it earlier, it is right up my alley. I think I knew that, but never did watch it, except for the occasional episode. But really, what kind of a stupid timeslot is 6:30 on a Saturday evening?! I may have cried in the last episode. In my

You know you're lazy when...

2011-10-17T00:11:00.002+02:00

You're talking to two of your three housemates on Facebook chat, and you know they're talking to each other too. Mind you, at the moment it's kind of a necessity (that we talk, not necessarily over Facebook, but one of them didn't even know if I was at home or not and therefore had to ask), because we have been INVADED by fruit flies. Seriously, there are SO MANY. They're here (not to point

An English class and a(nother) Waschsalon disaster

2011-10-13T20:48:00.005+02:00

So, here I am at the end of my first week of second semester. Sure, it's only Thursday night, but as any Arts/ Erasmus/ exchange student, I have Fridays off. Yesterday I had Textverstehen und Textproduktion (text comprehension and production) and it looks like it could go either way and be super interesting or really boring. It reminded me a little of a linguistics class, in that we were

I need to remember this in terms of speaking German.

2011-10-12T01:55:00.003+02:00

Gemeinsam essen

2011-10-10T21:43:00.001+02:00

Today was the first day of the Winter semester, which is bizarre, considering that everyone at home has just had the mid-semester break and now has three weeks of lectures until Summer holidays (well, exams, then Summer). I only had one class today - Wortschatz B. It wasn't hugely interesting; we compared two dictionary entries about the word Wort (word) - what information was included in each

Semester starts tomorrow.

2011-10-10T02:07:00.002+02:00

So, just went on AdelaideNow which I do sometimes to keep up with the Adelaide news (ha, ha, ha), and three of the main stories on the page were: Paul McCartney's third marriage; the end of the nuclear family; and that Mike Rann supports gay marriage. Do you suppose old Mr Murdoch is trying to tell us something about what he thinks of gay marriage? Semester starts tomorrow. I'm taking four

I've used a hairdryer more in the last week than I probably have in the last two years.

2011-10-08T02:46:00.000+02:00

(I've used it twice, though I suspect with winter coming I will be using it more and more.) Winter is definitely heading this way. Very quickly. It was amazing how fast the weather changed - Tuesday was beautiful and quite warm (I think about 28). Wednesday was slightly cooler but still warm enough that I didn't need to wear stockings with my Dirndl. Thursday dawned bright, sunny, and warm in

Oktoberfest

2011-09-26T21:52:00.000+02:00

I was just chatting to Madison, and her enthusiasm for life is infectious. Then I saw the counter on my profile about coming home... it says 129 days (that's til the end of semester). And you know, that's really not that many days left. I mean, obviously it is, and when you say that it's five months, then yeah, it's a long time. Actually in five months it'll be the night before the first day of

Hufflepuff

2011-09-26T19:40:00.002+02:00

I got my Pottermore email on Saturday! I didn't really go on it for very long though, as I went out to Heidelberger Herbst. But I'll talk about that later, probably in a different post. Yesterday I spent a bit of time on Pottermore, and have finished chapter 7, during which I got sorted into Hufflepuff. At first I was not happy with it (I in fact exclaimed HUFFLEPUFF?! in disbelief), but after

Kekse, Rock, und Alkohol

2011-09-17T23:30:00.001+02:00

Hallo! Don't worry, I shan't write the whole post in German. I would fail miserably and it would be terribly embarrassing. I've had a good few days since I last wrote... and I don't mean since my ridiculously massive post about Harry Potter and Glee, though there have indeed been a good few days since then, but 'good' and 'few' have different meanings in that context. Oh, English. Anyway, after

SIMON IS ALMOST HERE

2011-09-16T16:03:00.001+02:00

SIMON ARRIVES

Die beste Woche meines Lebens, or Glee and Harry Potter week

2011-09-15T03:11:00.000+02:00

Ok, I started this post when I got back from the Glee/ Harry Potter adventure. I didn't ever finish it, but I think I should get back into blogging. Plus Mum said she was still waiting for this post, so I thought I should get onto it. I got back this afternoon from the BEST WEEK OF MY LIFE. You might have noticed that I don't blog all that often anymore (unfortunately), but this was just such an

OH NO THE BACKGROUND'S CHANGED!

2011-09-15T00:30:00.000+02:00

Well, I've changed my background/ colour scheme (it comes automatically with the background) again. I made a few changes to the colour scheme, because some of it really hurt my eyes to read.... but I'm still not entirely convinced that I love it. It is yellow, and I do like Autumn... OH NO!!! Half the reason I like summer being over is because that means it's my birthday soon!! BUT NOT THIS TIME!

I would really like my Pottermore email...

2011-09-14T01:48:00.000+02:00

Come on, I got early access, it's going to be open to the public in October... and it's almost October. They're sending emails every day now, apparently, but I still don't have mine! I bet I get it next week when I can't actually get on... because I'll be at OKTOBERFEST!!! :D pretty excited about that. I've started blogging more (as you can probably tell), and I kind of like it. Even though most

Sez's sea sex life

2011-09-12T18:09:00.003+02:00

I'm constantly baffled as to how I get so many hits on this blog - a high of 31 the other day, hovering usually somewhere around 10. Which really is a lot of people to be looking at my blog every day. Because other than my parents, I don't know who would check it. I raised my confusion with Simon... Simon says: *The title of your blog is "sez's life" and Z and X are very clsoe together Simon

A pubcrawl and the Neckarwiese

2011-09-10T22:46:00.000+02:00

Last night I went on an Erasmus pubcrawl. Now, we all know from previous posts, that exchange students hate erasmus students. It's mostly because of that day when we were all waiting to register for whatever it was, and they sorted us into two lines, where we, the exchange students, had to stand for AGES waiting, whereas the erasmus students (I think just EU students) got to zip through. Then a

Photos on the internet

2011-09-09T02:31:00.002+02:00

So today I noticed that an acquaintance from America posted a photo that was mine. I asked if he was still in Heidelberg or if he'd just stolen my photo (though obviously I knew the answer; I compared the photo he posted to the one I did and it was identical), and he said that it was probably mine; that it'd been passed round a bit. It's really weird that photos can do that these days. I mean,

A stranger in a strange place.

2011-09-07T02:41:00.002+02:00

It's really weird, going around a town that used to be so full of people I knew (or knew of, or had met once), knowing that I could now count on two hands the people I know here - that list comprises two housemates (one's moving out on Saturday), and the girls from my small group (from church). It's strange to walk around alone when I always used to have company. It's strange to only have to wait

2011-09-06T01:54:00.002+02:00

Everything's ruined. *throws pancake out the window* Seriously though.

2011-09-04T18:51:00.004+02:00

Laura's gone.

Community

2011-08-10T02:11:00.000+02:00

It's after events like the #londonriots (that's right, I am hashtagging in the body of my blog.) or the Victoria bushfires or the Queensland floods that you really see what the meaning of community is. And during them, even. Right now the number two trending topic on Twitter is #OperationCupOfTea, which is an anti-riot movement (stay inside and drink a cup of tea instead). #riotcleanup was also

#londonriots and Twitter

2011-08-09T01:57:00.001+02:00

Tottenham High Street (image from Google) I know I try to talk about citizen journalism every time something huge and horrible happens, and usually I talk about it but fail to really get into it. This time, though, I'm kind of in the middle of it, and it's pretty scary. I'm in London at the moment, and in case you have been living under a rock, there are riots going on here right now. They

2011-08-03T09:24:00.000+02:00

Grant left this morning. I'm sad.

Oslo and mattreses

2011-07-22T21:27:00.000+02:00

Oslo bombing - crazy. As bad (well, awful) as it all is, all the citizen journalism fascinates me. The reason I wanted to blog was "Oslo residents asked via Twitter to unlock their WiFi signals to let trapped people communicate via wireless. #Oslo" ... ah, the internet. It's a great idea, it would be really interesting to see how wide-spread the (positive, wifi unlocking) response was, and if

2011-07-18T12:26:00.000+02:00

I promise there's a post coming about my epic Dublin/ London/ Harry Potter adventure. I started writing it the day I got home, but got distracted. Now I have an exam in 2.5 hours so should really be studying for that rather than blogging, and I've another test tomorrow (and I missed basically all the lessons on the unit because of the aforementioned adventure), so I really need to learn for that

Tarzan

2011-06-20T01:50:00.000+02:00

I feel like I haven't properly updated for a while... hoppla! I keep thinking of things or seeing things that I want to post, but then forget or run out of time (because I'm not spending enough time at home to get bored enough to blog ;) but here are a couple of things I saw a few weeks ago and bookmarked for this very purpose: Maps they didn't teach you in school The names of the 7 dwarfs

The Mormon musical

2011-06-13T21:30:00.000+02:00

So the makers of South Park have made a musical about Mormons, which I heard about a couple of months ago. Neil Patrick Harris hosted the Tonys last night. While watching a couple of videos of that (oh the lols), I clicked on one of the related videos. Turns out it's a song from that, which starts off as a parody of The Sound of Music, and now that I actually know some Mormons I think I probably

Wise Guys

2011-05-28T13:17:00.000+02:00

Apparently I go on Facebook so much that it needs to be on my 'most visited' list of websites twice. Hoppla! Last night I went to a Wise Guys concert. That was pretty cool, I didn't really think I'd know any songs because I only know one cd of theirs (which Rick gave me for my 21st last year), but it just so happened that it was the album tour FOR that cd! HOW CONVENIENT. Didn't know any of the

You're kidding me

2011-05-27T10:49:00.001+02:00

Conroy still wants the internet filter. No, don't worry about the Australian public, whom you're meant to be representing, you know, that public that DOESN'T WANT A FILTER (majority of parents support it, but the more information they get the more likely they are to stop supporting it (source, source)). How can this still even be an issue? Did Australia not show before the last election that they

Communication

2011-05-26T23:56:00.000+02:00

A friend of a friend linked my friend to this article and it sounded interesting, so I had a read of it. And it was interesting! It might not be interesting to you, but as a linguistics major who speaks English (and German) and lives in Germany (and Australia) (but not simultaneously, that would be painful and would probably involve time-travel of some description) (which to my knowledge they

Coincidence

2011-05-26T00:52:00.000+02:00

Today I met a girl who is from the place in Greece that I'm going next week (next week!!!!). Completely out of the blue! Well not completely. I was at Hauskreis (home group/ small group/ girls group/ whatever you want to call it) and said that I was going to Slovenia on the weekend with my parents, and then going to Greece next week, and Hannah (who is from England and is the only other native

Stay through the credits of Pirates 4, there's an extra scene at the end.

2011-05-24T18:52:00.001+02:00

Truth. The grammar class that I'm taking which is both my favourite and probably the most difficult was a lot easier than normal today. We were doing passive, which I have previously struggled with, but actually might have a handle on now! (A lot of thanks to Laura (C) and my last minute revision on Deutschy Donnerstag last year) anyway so it was nice to be able to actually DO the exercises (

2011-05-23T10:15:00.000+02:00

‘…That is why we need to travel. If we don’t offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lost sense of our wonder. Our eyes don’t lift to the horizon; our ears don’t hear the sound around us. The edge is off our experience and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfotable and limiting. We wake up one day and we find that we have lost our dreams in order

2011-05-22T16:37:00.002+02:00

And again about Facebook

2011-05-18T13:18:00.000+02:00

In November last year, I posted twice about Facebook's new email client. And this morning, mine changed to have the new messaging system. I got a Facebook email address, and now one 'thread' has every message from someone EVER (I think). But that also means that because I just had a facebook chat time with Mum, that all those messages are in there too. So this'll be interesting.

2011-05-16T16:01:00.002+02:00

Six years. How time flies.

Greece

2011-05-11T18:21:00.000+02:00

Microsoft bought Skype yesterday for $8.5 billion. So much money! In other news, Laura and I just booked flights to Greece!! We're going to Crete for 5 days, right after I get back from Slovenia. So Saturday - Tuesday will be Ljubljana, then Wednesday - Sunday will be Greece. It's a public holiday on the Thursday, and we've no uni on Wednesday or Friday, you see. Greece was never really a

Dein Traum ist Käse!

2011-05-10T15:58:00.001+02:00

How to make chocolate bacon... WHY!? What is wrong with this world!? I have a test on Thursday. Do not want. We had an "evaluation" test last Thursday and I didn't do so well, so naturally I'm spending all afternoon on the internet. Which keeps cutting out. Yesterday I learnt that you are not meant to wear white after Labor Day in the US. What a strange, strange country. The weather's warming

2011-05-04T18:12:00.000+02:00

"Facebook now serves one third of online ads in U.S." Also this photo has got almost half of the views in 38 hours as Flickr's most viewed photo has over five years. Insane.

Wasser für die Elefanten

2011-05-03T19:50:00.001+02:00

"Twitter does not supplant other media, it amplifies it" So I would've found out about bin Laden if Twitter and Facebook didn't exist (or I wasn't connected to them) - we went into a supermarket today to get snacks for the movie (see below) and it was all over the front of the newspapers. But isn't it interesting that it's already old news. I did watch Obama's speech on YouTube this afternoon

Little Red, Hauskreis, Osama bin Laden, Twitter, Facebook, Gelegenheiten

2011-05-02T22:04:00.001+02:00

So firstly, I got an email from Frontier Touring (fairly major Australian touring company) earlier today, advertising Little Red. I remember going to see Little Red in 2008 when they were the support band for The Panics (whatever happened to them?!) and now LR are being toured by Frontier?! Crazy. If you haven't seen them, you definitely should, they have a happy Asian drummer. Seriously,

2011-04-29T18:41:00.000+02:00

so get me out of my head, cause it's getting kind of cramped, you know.

The royal wedding, Starship, and an explosion in Morocco

2011-04-28T20:11:00.000+02:00

I feel like I've been a bit slack in updating my blog lately, but really I've been updating as often as I do at home. Nevertheless, we can do a quick recap of the last couple of weeks... Uni: has started! I have dropped one of my classes so am now only doing three... but one of them still hasn't started (Monday!). It's pretty cruisey. So far grammar has been the best, but I've only had one class

Sometimes I wish blogger had a reblog function.

2011-04-16T16:28:00.000+02:00

I've just been reading some of Death Star PR, and there are some of them which are so funny (at least to me as a Star Wars fan), I wish I could share them with you. But I cannot, as Blogger doesn't have a reblog function. I guess I don't really mind, it's not like I'd really use it that often anyway. I do reblog on Tumblr a lot though. But ja. This morning I went with my housemates to a flea

Sei hier Gast

2011-04-13T00:23:00.000+02:00

My German is definitely improving a lot, though I think it's slipped the last couple of weeks because I haven't been at class (because the course finished) (I got a 2,4 for anyone interested which equates to a C (as in an A,B,C, not a credit C... though I guess maybe a credit C too?, which was better than I thought it'd be, so that's good). I'm glad that I live with Germans, and my third

A world map

2011-04-04T23:02:00.000+02:00

Here's an intersting graphic: It's a map of the world based on population. Pretty interesting I think. We had our first day of orientation today. It was pretty boring because you know, I've been here for a month already and know a lot of stuff ;) tomorrow is more orientation, and Seb is coming to visit. So that'll be fun. There's also some sort of scavenger hunt. For now though, I think it's

Disneyland

2011-04-03T20:58:00.000+02:00

Disneyland was SO much fun! I'm exhausted now and probably getting sick so I'll keep this brief, but hopefully will update more properly (is that even English?) later. The next few days are orientation days for uni, but I think we'll be able to skip a fair bit of it because we've already been here a month and know a lot of things (eg health insurance, accommodation etc). But I guess we'll see.

I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND TOMORROW!!!!!

2011-03-30T00:40:00.001+02:00

Männer sind Schweine

2011-03-28T19:49:00.003+02:00

Hallo, mein Schatz, ich liebe dich ! Du bist die einzige für mich!

Konjunktiv I

2011-03-21T16:56:00.000+01:00

I'm beginning to regret the placement of my desk. At the moment it's on the wall opposite the window... the window through which the afternoon sun streams. At the moment there is a lot of dust and sunshine on my screen. Hmm. I'll have to give this some more thought. The weather is warming up and it's so beautiful! There are so many flowers out, and the trees are blossoming, and it's just such a

"they're so cute I want to die!"

2011-03-18T21:11:00.000+01:00

- Laura about Kate's gloves. So, next Thursday I have to do a Referat (oral) that goes for 15 minutes in my German class. But wait, you say, didn't you have to do one of those in Stuttgart? Couldn't you just use the same one? Why yes, yes I did do one of those in Stuttgart. But because I changed topics at 6pm the night before, it wasn't written very well. At all. I could re-write it, but it's

Tomorrow is Friday! I bet Rebecca Black is ecstatic!

2011-03-17T19:03:00.000+01:00

If you don't know what my title is about, check this. Or just watch this (though I would recommend not watching it, you will never get those 3 minutes and 48 seconds of your lfie back. There are so many covers appearing... these ones were featured by The Daily What, but there are SO many! Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. So although I originally liked my German teacher, I'm not so sure

My first Heidelberg update

2011-03-08T23:19:00.000+01:00