First Day of School

2/27/2012*

First day of school! First day of school!

So today I had my first day of school. I had to be at school by 9am for Photo III. I got to the bus stop a little after 8am and wouldn’t you know it, two busses that I could have taken to school didn’t show up. So didn’t get on a bus to school until a little after 8:30. Lame.

Plus, when I did eventually get on a bus, there were a million school girls who crammed on the bus before me. So much so that I was standing right next to the driver. He didn’t like that very much. Then they all got off just two stops later! Ladies, please, just walk the two blocks! Some of us have a lot farther to go.

So I eventually got to class  (a few minutes late), but Weasley is so laid back, it didn’t matter. There are a total of 8 students in my class (3 ASC, 5 Aussie). We went over the calendar and learned how to set up some lighting. Most of the work we’ll do in this class will be portrait studio photography. I’m excited to get to know how to control my lighting. I’m used to being subject to what Mother Nature provides. But the whole set up wasn’t too difficult, but if I break something I might as well go crawl in a hole, because I would have to sell my organs to pay for it all.

After class, I hunted down internet on campus and skyped my family. That was a pain. Not skyping my family. Hunting internet. Come on people.

Later, got on bus (the driver looked like The Rock), went to shopping center, bought notebooks for school, walked home. Hung out with the family tonight. We discovered that there is a macadamia nut tree in the back yard. Neil showed us the special nut cracker that they use and we tried to crack a few nuts. Unfortunately all of the nuts we cracked were moldy. Hopefully one of these days we’ll get a good one.

Neil made us ‘chook’ which is Australian for Chicken. We also had green beans, potatoes, and corn on the cob. So delicious! And for dessert, Banana pudding! (This whole living with chiefs thing is not too bad). The best part, is we watched the Australian version of The Biggest Loser while we ate dessert. 

Neil, when he remembered the show was on, shouted “Oh! We have to watch the fat people!” 

We talked for hours around the dinner table. Mostly about all of the students they’ve hosted in the past. Some good some bad. We mostly hear about the bad, but that just means that the bar is set really low for us. We concluded the evening by watching a Q and A with Australian politicians. Braeden and Kieran worked very hard to explain the basics of Australian politics. I actually think I grasp the basics more that I do American politics.

Tomorrow I have a pretty full load of classes, but I hope to have some internet time to get this post up.

*I think somehow my dates got off. To clarify, this post was written on Monday.