tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35691092011-04-21T21:22:54.349-04:00Jacinta at UNCJacinta travels from Melbourne to North Carolina to study at UNCJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comBlogger871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-1101635704997826032004-11-28T04:54:00.000-05:002004-11-28T04:55:04.996-05:00i want gmail
Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-1101635543468284192004-11-28T04:52:00.000-05:002004-11-28T04:52:23.466-05:00I want gmail
Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-1101635498100727332004-11-28T04:50:00.002-05:002004-11-28T04:51:38.100-05:00I want gmail
Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-1101635455398370942004-11-28T04:50:00.001-05:002004-11-28T04:50:55.396-05:00I want gmail
Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-1101635432527560932004-11-28T04:50:00.000-05:002004-11-28T04:50:32.526-05:00I want a Gmail
Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-861303142002-12-16T16:47:00.000-05:002002-12-16T16:54:40.000-05:00I've got my hair cut, all my schoolwork is done and that's left is packing and final goodbyes before I hit the road for my 5 week continental voyage.
I just got my hair cut to about my shoulders which is about a foot shorter than it was before so I'm currently going through all that post-haircut stress. I handed in my last essay today and was meant to give a 5 minute presentation about it but my Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-859079402002-12-12T14:45:00.000-05:002002-12-12T14:45:25.140-05:00People are starting to leave and go home now and it is very sad. Kate gave Christmas presents last night. Her family has been sooooo nice to me, Kate had better come to Australia so that we can reciprocate. They got me Australian food - Tim Tams; Caramello Koalas; Peppermint Crisp and Pollywaffle bars; and scotch finger biscuits - from the company in California that sells aussie stuff and they Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-858645062002-12-11T19:07:00.000-05:002002-12-11T19:07:33.160-05:00I can't write this stupid essay. Why do I have to do essays? Just give me an exam with a couple of multiple choice questions and life would be swell but instead I have to write a 10 page essay and I havent got a clue. Imagine how painful life would be if I had to actually worry about my marks!Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-858267832002-12-11T02:02:00.000-05:002002-12-11T02:02:37.563-05:00My hair is shrinking!! Kate straightened it up but it is still pretty long and now she doesnt want to cut it any shorter so I am going to have to pay to get it cut. Apparently there is a place where you can get a haircut for about $10, if I had've known that before I would've just gone there in the first place. However then I wouldnt have the fun of crazily cutting my own hair.
Things seemed to Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-857652372002-12-09T23:25:00.000-05:002002-12-09T23:25:46.493-05:00Matt read my blog and read the bit about "international sluts" so know I am in trouble because he probably thinks that he is an international slut which I dont think that he is. Major dilemma.
I havent had my hair cut since June so it's gotten quite long. I decided ages and ages ago that when I leave Chapel Hill I am going to get it cut to about shoulder length so I've started hacking at it Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-856321872002-12-07T03:23:00.000-05:002002-12-07T03:24:39.000-05:00I had dinner with Matt tonight. I told him about my blog and now he's probably going to read this so I'll be nice. j/k j/k Matt is my exchange person mentor buddy. He studied at Melbourne in semester 2, 2001 and apparently was in my Georgie's political science tute. Isn't it a small world?!?! Half the town still has no power so we went to this cool place called Carolina Brewery where we had to Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-856062942002-12-06T14:58:00.000-05:002002-12-06T14:58:19.993-05:00It definitely snowed, proper fluffly snow flakes for a couple of hours on Wednesday afternoon. I took a few photos and we had a snowball fight. It ended up being a couple of centimetres of snow. Things started getting cancelled. The snow started turning to ice and getting all slippery. I went to see the Breakfast Club at the student union. Afterwards they had games and music and competitions and Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-854938612002-12-04T13:45:00.000-05:002002-12-04T13:45:58.626-05:00I THINK IT'S SNOWING!!! It's kind of like icy snow, even the natives arent quite sure whether it's really snow or not but it's really cool, like nothing that I ever remember seeing before.Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-854934672002-12-04T13:36:00.000-05:002002-12-04T13:36:51.696-05:00Just hanging out waiting for it to snow. They are forecasting snow and ice for this afternoon so I'm heaps excited since I havent seen snow since I was 2 and I cant remember that. It doesnt seem as cold as it is meant to be. I think that 10 degrees C in Melbourne is absolutely freezing but it's probably about 0 degrees C outside now and it doesnt feel any colder. My theory is that because all theJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-854335722002-12-03T12:11:00.000-05:002002-12-03T12:11:31.876-05:00Pizza and cookies - what a traditional, health American lunch.
UNC won the NCAA (=National College Athletic Association???) basketball preseason championship.
Igor is having a nose job today/tomorrow, depends which time zone one is in. He says it is something about his sinuses.
Happy wedding anniversary for yesterday to my sister Karen and her husband Darren.
Off to my last ever Social Theory Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-854019382002-12-02T18:50:00.000-05:002002-12-02T18:50:19.976-05:00Uh oh, it's been almost a week. I hope everybody had a happy thanksgiving!! I've been at Kate's house in nearby Raleigh for the 5 day break. Kate's house and Kate's family are all so totally perfect. Their house has an abundance of food and there was always people around and I spent a lot of time curled up in front of the fire with a book.Very relaxing, didnt do any work now all ready for essays Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-851447902002-11-26T23:21:00.000-05:002002-11-26T23:21:01.573-05:00Some observations:
American beer is funny. Everybody drinks Light beer. At first I thought it was super weird since there's no point in drinking light beer, that's for wuss' but then I was enlightened to the fact that here "Light" means light in calories so of course with all of their weight issues everybody wants to drink that. It is still a bit lighter so it's all really silly - you have to Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-851157932002-11-26T12:07:00.000-05:002002-11-26T12:07:50.880-05:00It's almost winter yet my room is absolutely boiling. I've been pretty quiet about Americans ruining the environment for a while but it's time for another bashing. The heaters are turned up so high, the room here is as hot as my room at Mary's used to be when I had my fan heater going (yes, I am also a culprit) but this is all the time and it's every single room across campus and I assume every Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-849517862002-11-22T21:03:00.000-05:002002-11-22T21:03:14.313-05:00Wow, it's been a big week. Lots of events to keep me busy, entertained, occupied and of course happy, thus there has been very minimal boredom and very minimal homesickness. I will always know that Victoria is the greatest place on earth, that I cant wait to get back there and that I miss my friends enormously but that's no reason to be unhappy here.
Funny story... I was returning home on the P2PJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-848545692002-11-21T00:19:00.000-05:002002-11-21T00:19:13.276-05:00Today has been a great day. There were three major events that made me very happy.
First, I bought my all the University of North Carolina clothes that I have been planning to buy today. I got a hoody (=hooded sweatshirt/jumper) and a t-shirt and a pair of booty shorts. I just got the booty shorts because I think they are funny, I dont actually plan to wear them, at least not out of the house. Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-848050452002-11-20T02:30:00.000-05:002002-11-20T02:30:16.540-05:00Americans spit a lot more than Australians.
I went to Henry's tonight but there were heaps of people there and it was all a bit much for me. Dont worry, I didnt have a major freak out or anything, maybe I just wasnt in the right mood for it but I felt like there was lots of people there but nobody for me to talk to.
I'm now home and in my PJ's, Kate and I are drinking Milo. Kate made me take an Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-847476792002-11-19T00:28:00.000-05:002002-11-19T00:28:53.200-05:00I've been putting off blogging about my weekend since it was a pretty big one but now I am procrastinating about preparing a presentation for school so writing my blog does not seem so bad. Just in case I didnt mention it before, I went to Charleston on the weekend with about 12 other exchange students and 4 Americans. It took about 5 hours to get there and I must say the drive was one of the Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-845662902002-11-15T02:10:00.000-05:002002-11-15T02:10:06.493-05:00Just waiting for my laundry to finish. I went to the predeparture meeting for UNC outgoing exchange students for next semester last night to help answer questions. I met a girl who is doing exchange to Melbourne Uni. She was nice but I felt like I bombarded her with so much information and was (and still am) scared that I was giving her a bad impression and making her scared. After that I had a Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-844522062002-11-12T22:29:00.000-05:002002-11-12T22:30:56.000-05:00I put some of the photos from my going away party as well as a link to a video file of Midnight Madness basketball on my pageJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-844338292002-11-12T15:41:00.000-05:002002-11-12T15:41:36.200-05:00Happy happy joy joy!! I just got my photos developed from my going away party. Finally! Only 3 months later. Tomorrow will be exactly 3 months since I arrived in the states. That is so hard to believe. It's just over a month before my time at Chapel Hill comes to an end and 2.5 months until I am home in Australia. I remember being very concerned at laughing whenever anybody talked to me because Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-843977022002-11-11T22:30:00.000-05:002002-11-11T22:30:23.320-05:00*groan* I feel sick. I think I got food poisoning from something I ate at the dining hall tonight. It's so nasty.
I really like the new Jennifer Lopez song, it's called Jenny from the Block. I also like the Missy Elliot song too but I can't remember what it is called, could be Work It or something like that.
Chase dining hall is evil *groan*Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-843278082002-11-10T15:50:00.000-05:002002-11-10T15:50:34.420-05:00Sunday lunches here are always funny. It's more like Sunday brunch and they have really good bacon and eggs and pancakes but that's not what makes it funny. About 50% of the people there are dressed up majorly because they have just come from church or whatever they like to call their meetings in their religion. I try to avoid all the religious stuff here but it is hard not to notice at Sunday Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-842150362002-11-08T03:01:00.000-05:002002-11-08T03:01:22.393-05:00The UNC fight song is to the same tune as the song from Dirty Dancing that all the geeky people sing at the end concert and it gets played by bell tower all the time. The bell tower plays some weird stuff. Last night it was playing at lullaby at about 9pm.
I went to an ice hockey game tonight. The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Buffalo (NY) Sabres. It was pretty exciting to go to since I've Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-840970342002-11-05T22:54:00.000-05:002002-11-05T22:54:33.080-05:00My Melbourne Cup PissUp was so much fun. I'm marking it down as a success! It made me so happy that people who had no idea what the Melbourne Cup is or have never even seen a horse race before were so enthused about horses running in circles for 4 minutes. I could just say that the people that came just like any excuse for a pissup like me but they were actually all crowded around, glued to my Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-840091932002-11-04T11:28:00.000-05:002002-11-04T11:28:19.836-05:00The mountains were so 'purty' (that's how Amanda Leigh says Pretty) All the trees with their fall colours were so beautiful, I am glad that I came in the fall. I remember learning about the seasons when I was in primary school and we learnt that Autumn was when all the leaves changed colour and then dropped off the trees, but when I looked at the trees then, the gum trees and everything were Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-839199772002-11-02T10:05:00.000-05:002002-11-02T10:05:31.006-05:00It's Homecoming!! Can it get more like the movies? For those people, like me, that have only ever heard of homecoming on American movies and television and always wondered what the hell they were doing... homecoming is to celebrate the football teams first home game after a few weeks on the road so it is welcoming the team back. In high school it is a really big thing, they have a dance, a big Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-838852522002-11-01T13:53:00.000-05:002002-11-01T13:53:11.410-05:00Last night was Halloween. Everybody in Chapel Hill dresses up, gets drunk and hangs out on Franklin Street. It was a lot of fun, it's about time that they didi something cool like that. I dressed up as a pig. I wore Kate's pink pyjama pants, Amy's pink top, the pig ears that I got at the barbeque festival last weekend and a nose that we made out of cardboard with glitter on it. I went with Marta Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-837343512002-10-29T16:08:00.000-05:002002-10-29T16:08:21.586-05:00A girl (well she's not really a girl because she'd be at least 30 and she's really annoying) in my class today had a thermos of coffee and she would pour some out into the lid of the thermos and then drink it until it was all gone, about 5 times through the 1.25 hours class.
I've got quite a shitload of work to do at the moment. I'm starting to believe those American exchange students that said Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-835996092002-10-27T13:01:00.000-05:002002-10-27T13:01:38.336-05:00Okay, what was I saying? UNC students are high achievers and all and so it is very different when you leave the Chapel Hill area and see the rest of the population who do fit into the southern stereotype. It is always entertaining, sometimes it is a pity that there arent more of them on campus. Before I left I was concerned that I would laugh whenever somebody spoke to me because of there accent Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-835301662002-10-25T19:20:00.000-04:002002-10-25T19:20:44.726-04:00Last night, I went to the North Carolina State Fair with some Americans and other exchange students. I have finally started receiving the emails that get sent to exchange students letting them know about stuff that is going on so that's good, I only missed half of the semester *sarcastic sneer*
The Americans really hyped up the fair saying that it was something all international students must do,Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-834253912002-10-23T17:39:00.000-04:002002-10-23T17:39:57.233-04:00I think that I am perfectly settled in now. It took me about 45 minutes to get to class today because I kept seeing people that I knew along the way and had to talk to them. I ended up being 30 minutes late for a 50 minute class - just like at Melbourne except nobody else does that so classes actually start on time instead of 15 minutes late.
I just spent the last half hour reading Vogue instead Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-833784452002-10-22T20:44:00.000-04:002002-10-22T20:44:26.466-04:00It's not so bad being back at UNC in the bush. There's lots of people to talk to which is always fun. Hopefully going to Henry's tonight, that's always fun. We'll see how it goes once the novelty of seeing everyone again wears off and when I start to miss the city again. That really does make a difference, I think I am definitely a full blooded city girl now, I cant believe that I grew up in the Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-833196162002-10-21T18:36:00.000-04:002002-10-21T18:36:52.583-04:00What am I up to? Saturday... after coming back from Salem we wondered around the shops around Fanuiell Hall and Quincy Market and then had dinner at a restuarant that serves traditional Boston/American food. I had Boston baked beans, a pot roast and Indian pudding. It was so good and I ate so much that I could hardly walk. Then we went to the movies again this time to see Sweet Home Alabama. MostJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-833042582002-10-21T12:49:00.000-04:002002-10-21T12:49:16.476-04:00I made it to the shower just before the cleaner came to clean it. I felt kind of bad because it means that she has to come back later to clean our bathroom.
So... Friday. Not knowing exactly what I wanted to do, I decided to start with the computer museum because that's the kind of geek that I am. Lovely walk through the Financial District and past a boat that said Boston Tea Party, accidentally Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-832986232002-10-21T10:42:00.000-04:002002-10-21T11:49:16.000-04:00This is going to be difficult. I didnt get another chance to blog over Fall Break so now I have to write about all 4 exciting days in Boston. Paige looked after me very well. Her apartment is fantastic, it's in the North End which is the Italian part of town (kind of like Carlton) above a restuarant and within walking distance to everything. Boston is full of oldstyle apartment buildings along Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-830932212002-10-16T21:40:00.000-04:002002-10-16T21:40:10.930-04:00I made it to Boston safely. I still get confused trying to find my way around airports and figuring out which line I am meant to be in and all that but I'm getting quite good at all of the on the plane stuff. The one and a half hour flight went by very easily and I'm getting used to that confined space, seatbelt and back of the seat in front of me. So far Boston looks really nice and easy to get Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-830717102002-10-16T13:45:00.000-04:002002-10-16T13:45:30.400-04:00I didn't get to go to Henry's last night because it was raining and nobody wanted to go but....
I'M GOING TO BOSTON!!! TODAY!Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-830366232002-10-15T19:18:00.000-04:002002-10-15T19:18:40.006-04:00I just learnt an exciting piece of trivia. I went to visit my friend Amanda Leigh and she was watching the Dirty Dancing on tv so I watched the end with her. She said that part of the movie, including Johnny's cabin, were filmed in North Carolina. She has been there but she can't remember where it is. I could go there and relieve the whole "Johnny" and then the looks back and forth between Baby Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-830041402002-10-15T03:15:00.000-04:002002-10-15T03:15:43.300-04:00Yet another reason to be scared. A bomb in a car outside nightclubs in Bali, possibly the most popular overseas tourist destination for Australians. So far none of the names or faces have been familiar but just the fact that they are Australian puts me to tears. Being here makes me so much fonder for anything Australian and I also took pride in coming from a country where these sort of things Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-829523762002-10-14T01:56:00.000-04:002002-10-14T01:56:13.586-04:00UNC lost to North Carolina State University ("State") yesterday in the football. State is an agricultural/engineering college in nearby Raleigh and since UNC is more humanities UNC people tease State people for being farmers. The State campus is about 20 miles from the UNC campus and there is a pretty big rivallry between the two. I just found out that there was a murder/suicide at State Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-829459922002-10-13T23:07:00.000-04:002002-10-13T23:07:19.470-04:00I was getting some lunch today at the dining hall and I was wearing my top that says "Australians do it better" and this guy (nice but very freshman) started talking to me and was saying that he had never met an Australian before. So I say, "Wow, I'm the first Australian that you have ever met, I hope I make a good impression" meaning, I thought obviously, that I hope that I gave a good Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-828764792002-10-12T02:34:00.000-04:002002-10-12T02:34:21.283-04:00Notice there have been no updates for a while? I've been pretty bored which is very very bad because when I get bored I get depressed and homesick or rather sick of chapel hill. But things are okay now. I went to an ABC store last night. It was way cool. An ABC store is a "liquor store" that means a grog shop that only has spirits. I think it has something to do with the laws here that spirits Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-827420072002-10-09T11:04:00.000-04:002002-10-09T11:04:31.133-04:00Henry's was heaps fun! I was teaching Australian slang to a German and an Italian. When I got home I talked to my Mum on messenger. She is sending a package to my cousin's house where I will be for Christmas so we all get Christmas presents.Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-826922972002-10-08T11:43:00.000-04:002002-10-08T11:43:46.293-04:00I'm having one of those "oh no, I've gone to the wrong place" feelings. On my way to class this morning there were all of these middle aged men positioned around the campus trying to hand out bibles. A lot of people here are very religious but this really blew me away. I think I can handle other people being religious as long as they leave me out of it but some groups really try hard to convert Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-826573412002-10-07T18:16:00.000-04:002002-10-07T18:16:45.570-04:00I was brave today and went to the library in an attempt to be intellectual and find a magazine that I needed for class. The magazine wasn't there but American Vogue was... all 750 pages of it. So I spent quite some time in the library being intellectual reading Vogue. As always it made me wish that I had heaps of money so I could buy lots of cool stuff and do heaps of fun things like go to the Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-826368512002-10-07T10:12:00.000-04:002002-10-07T10:12:47.843-04:00I have cured the common cold! My cold disappeared sometime on Saturday night/Sunday morning while I was camping on the beach. Kind of strange because I was expecting the whole camping experience to make me ten times sicker but on Sunday morning I noticed my cold was gone and now I appear to be back to full health. So now if I hear that somebody has a cold I will be telling them to go and camp on Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-826233492002-10-07T01:02:00.000-04:002002-10-07T01:02:18.090-04:00From now on I think I need to aim for more frequent and shorter blogs.Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-826232622002-10-07T00:59:00.000-04:002002-10-07T00:59:27.556-04:00This weekend was so great. Please excuse my not blogging yesterday but I did not find any internet access at the beach!
Friday night was very low key. I watched Lord of the Rings at the student union with Marta from Italy some boys from Germany and some girls from Japan. LOTR was much better the second time, just like everything else, well at least the shows that I worked at.
I had to get up so Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-825295122002-10-04T15:57:00.000-04:002002-10-04T15:57:24.106-04:00I am getting so bad at blogging. I must try much harder and aim for an update every day. What's news since Tuesday? Henry's was fun.
I dont know what I have been doing, I think I must have amnesia. I got sick, that's all I know. I have a cold. Everybody in my dorm seems to be sick, it's a very good environment for the spread of disease. Everybody has been really nice and offered me lots of cold Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-823941382002-10-01T21:54:00.000-04:002002-10-01T21:54:19.903-04:00oops, it's been a while. That's a good sign, it means that I have been busy doing other things and not had time to blog. Okay, so I havent exactly been "flat out like a lizard drinking" 24/7 but I do need to rest. I have also been trying to drop some Australian slang into my conversations to make myself sound more Aussie. Nobody is even noticing my accent anymore which makes me sad. hehe
I can Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-822081772002-09-27T16:34:00.000-04:002002-09-27T16:34:05.600-04:00Last night I went to see Brian, the RA from my dorm who I kept drunkenly annoying last week, acting in a play. His was one of four one-act plays shown together. I really enjoyed the first one but was very suprised that it was shown here because of its take on religion and in case it has become apparent to any readers yet, a lot of people here are very very religious. They dont call it the bible Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-821175292002-09-25T19:15:00.000-04:002002-09-25T19:15:40.990-04:00In class right now using wireless LAN. I got the photos that my Mum sent to me today. She told me last week that she sent them so I have been running down to the mailbox every day to be disappointed by seeing it empty. The same thing happened today and then I went back to my room and had a message on my phone saying that I had a package. So I was very excited. The photos were of my nieces and Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-821035632002-09-25T13:41:00.000-04:002002-09-25T13:41:45.350-04:00Everybody is studying heaps because they have mid-term exams and essays due - except me, most of my stuff is due next week so I havent started working on it and have been getting bored while everybody else is studying. I have discovered another theory why Americans study so much: they actually care what grades they get. At Melbourne Uni most people only aim to pass a subject but here at UNC, the Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-819680442002-09-22T19:40:00.000-04:002002-09-22T19:40:29.850-04:00Lovely day today. I didnt go out last night, just watched Save the Last Dance again, so I didnt have a massive headache like I did yesterday from Friday night. I went to a house-party on friday night at the house of an exchange student who I did not know but I went along anyway and it was fun. We got a four litre bottle of wine just like cask except in a really funky bottle. They have a lot of Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-818784072002-09-20T13:01:00.000-04:002002-09-20T13:01:49.830-04:00Last night I went to a club in Chapel Hill called Avalon with a girl that I met in the kitchen yesterday trying to cook a whole chicken and her friends. I had a lot of fun. I had heard that this particular club was "sketchy" but I didnt think it was all bad. They accepted my new International Student Card so I got to indulge in all-you-can-drink for $8, that means beer, wine, spirits and Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-818268002002-09-19T12:07:00.000-04:002002-09-19T12:07:15.730-04:00I changed my background to Carolina Blue! Go TarHeels
Big shout-out to Greg from Texas, who is probably still boasting about their win on the weekend. *sob, sob* poor Heels. I dont know who Greg is but he knows me because he has been reading my blog
Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-817630922002-09-18T03:37:00.000-04:002002-09-18T21:42:53.000-04:00Tonight i go to Henry's and I get drunk. Must type very carefully. This is the drunkest I have been in America so far, I hope I not barfing tomorrow. This is still a very pathetic effort, I must try harder. I learnt to say "Mi numros Hacinta. Quedo dies salafurus" or something like that in Spanish which means "My name is Jacinta. I want ten beers" I dont know how to order beer. If I said "Can I Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-817461372002-09-17T19:54:00.000-04:002002-09-17T19:54:35.786-04:00Some nasty person has been hacking into my computer and installed a virus so somebody from the uni ATN (academic technology and networks or something) phoned me and told me that they were blocking my network access until I got it cleaned up. So I had to spend two hours in their office yesterday getting it cleaned up, it took forever because they are so incompetent. Then last night I had messages Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-816628092002-09-16T03:37:00.000-04:002002-09-16T03:37:41.030-04:00Hello Georgie! Hello Igor!
I am heaps happier now! I went to Walmart yesterday and got a kettle so I can have coffee and milo in my room, even though the milo is not real milo, it is more chocolate. I got to cook last night too. I just made a simple chicken stir fry with szechuan sauce (out of a bottle) and rice noodles. It was so great to cook again and to eat healthy food.
I cant remember if Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-816034532002-09-14T15:31:00.000-04:002002-09-14T15:31:35.156-04:00I didnt go to Kate's house because I wasnt feeling well. It is raining. I am bored. I am wearing my 'Australians do it better' top. I very much agree today. Football game tonight v Texas. Cant go - no ticket. Might watch on tvJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-815611502002-09-13T13:32:00.000-04:002002-09-13T13:32:11.163-04:00You will never believe it, I think I kind of did exercise. I should taken a photo so that people will believe me. There I was, all dressed up in my Melbourne Uni orientation t-shirt, Rip Curl shorts that I got when I was in year 11, my cute Gola trainers and a ponytail. I admit it wasn't very strenuous but I still class it as exercise. We had to do a ropes course, kind of like tightrope walking. Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-814962422002-09-12T02:44:00.000-04:002002-09-12T02:44:41.346-04:00Hi Edwina!!
I also went to the Gap today for the first time. It was a very bad idea, there was a very cool jacket.Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-814962192002-09-12T02:43:00.000-04:002002-09-12T02:43:37.610-04:00I went to the memorial service today. I felt a little bit awkward, I didnt know whether to go to the service and place a pebble at the base of the flagpole like everybody else or whether to stay right out of it because it couldnt have affected me the same way. There were representatives from the military there, I have never seen guns that big so close up before, it scared me for a second.
I was Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-814456492002-09-11T03:23:00.000-04:002002-09-11T03:23:27.280-04:00I can't believe it has been a year. I can still remember the first thing I said on hearing what had happened. Tomorrow (today given that it is 3am) I will be saying as little as possible so that I dont accidentally offend anybody and also because I dont know what it is like to be an American right now, I can't honestly know what my 'Haus-mates, my classmates and my friends are going through. The Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-813646992002-09-09T14:05:00.000-04:002002-09-09T14:05:07.950-04:00owww, I ate too many rice crispy treats. Today's shoutouts are for Miss Shuling and Craig - hiiiiiii Craig. That's not as fun in print. Tomorrow you can start requesting songs.
Now that I know that ShuLing is reading, I can tell her all about how I watched the season finale of Sex and the City last night. I am very confused about how we were only a couple of weeks behind in Australia and had the Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-812819552002-09-07T12:55:00.000-04:002002-09-07T12:55:44.560-04:00First of all, hello to Clare who has been reading my blog too. If there is anybody else out there in the audience, send me an email at cinta@jacinta.zzn.com and you too can get a personal shout-out. Who needs a radio show on WXYC? I can make this my radio show, just without the music
I've been a little slack and havent blogged for a couple of days. I might explain the last post. I wrote that Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-811800452002-09-05T04:00:00.000-04:002002-09-05T04:00:50.230-04:00i feel like i am 17 againJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-811284172002-09-04T01:57:00.000-04:002002-09-04T01:57:47.156-04:00Kate says that I should write more about her in my blog. Kate is fantastic. Kate is going to come with me to Cat's Cradle tomorrow night to see DJ Simon and dance to house music and drink beer. I miss beer. Kate is the best room mate ever! Kate has been reading my blog, so has Anna and Aimee. Hiiiiiiii
That reminds me, I bought an American magazine the other day and it had 12 ways to be Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-811246772002-09-04T00:11:00.000-04:002002-09-04T00:11:11.190-04:00Happy Tuesday! Today has been a good day. Let me walk you through it from the beginning. I woke up bright and early at 8:30, blah blah blah, class, lunch, more class, almost fell asleep in Systems Analysis again, silly people for scheduling a class during my afternoon nap time. It's really bad falling asleep in class here b/c they are all like tutes so the teacher kind of notices. If she says Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-810726262002-09-02T23:37:00.000-04:002002-09-02T23:37:34.416-04:00I got to watch Sex and the City! Mayra borrowed the DVD of the first series from one of her friends so we watched the first three episodes ever. I haven't seen them as many times as Shuling but I have still seen them enough to know exactly what happens in the episode as soon as it starts and say characters lines before they do. Kate had never seen an episode before. She says it is "cute"
I had Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-810009282002-09-01T15:25:00.000-04:002002-09-01T15:25:05.276-04:00Today I wait for my laundry. The demand for washing machines and dryers exceeds supply so you have to hang around the laundry waiting. Good thing is that it is fully supplied with a TV, vending machine and a network port so I can bring my laptop down and blog/email while waiting for my washing. I'm using my big backpack as my laundry basket so I am very paranoid that somebody is going to steal myJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-809610612002-08-31T12:49:00.000-04:002002-08-31T12:49:44.310-04:00My first UNC TarHeels football game todayJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-809594642002-08-31T11:50:00.000-04:002002-08-31T11:50:56.473-04:00Good morning! It is 11:30am on Saturday morning and I am sitting in a towel waiting for the shower to become free. The stupidest thing is that it is a long weekend and most of the people here have gone home. At least other days it is not so bad, I am very lucky that most days I dont start classes until after lunch. My sleeping times now are normally 2am until 11am.
I think the shower is free nowJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-809246352002-08-30T13:31:00.000-04:002002-08-30T13:31:32.006-04:00My room mate is trying to moonwalk while listening to Marilyn Manson. I guess 2 weeks is the limit for being normal and then the weirdness starts coming out!! hehe j/k Kate!Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-808885692002-08-29T17:47:00.000-04:002002-08-29T17:47:42.000-04:00I have surrendered to the evil forces of Microsoft and peer pressure and am now running MSN messenger on my otherwise perfect shiney Compaq laptop. If you would like to talk to me an MSN you can search for me using the address zusha_j@hotmail.com if that is how you find people. If you find people a different way someone will have to tell me because I have no idea - there is no ICQ number for MSN.Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-808585152002-08-29T01:36:00.000-04:002002-08-29T01:36:19.630-04:00I didnt hear from the radio station so I guess I failed.
Tonight was the big night that the freshmen girls found out if they got into sororities or not. My room mate didnt bother applying for any but the girls that live across the hall were right into it. I havent seen them to find out how they went yet. I could imagine them living in a sorority. They are very stereotypical sorority girls.
Kate,Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-808077062002-08-27T23:38:00.000-04:002002-08-27T23:38:30.620-04:00Today it rained and rained and rained. They keep telling me that North Carolina is in a drought but it did not stop raining all day. I was wearing sandles too so by the end of the day my feet were all dirty, almost as bad as after an ICC ball.
I went to all my classes today which is good because yesterday I missed my one and only class while I was getting my computer. I also met with my academicJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-807629382002-08-27T01:00:00.000-04:002002-08-27T01:00:39.530-04:00I have a computer now so I will be able to update my blog heaps more often.
I rented a laptop today to use while I am at UNC. It is very shiney and only 3 months old and it's a compaq and very cool. I have been listening to Streetnation on it. The LAN here is heaps fast and on Wednesday I get to use a wireless card and play with my computer in class.
I am now on icq too so everybody else get Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-804638752002-08-20T01:50:00.000-04:002002-08-20T01:50:35.830-04:00Another day in Chapel Hill! Last night was Fall Fest. It was pretty cool. Met lots of people, got lots of free stuff. It was cool to see the black frat/sorority "stomping" on stage. Georgie would've totally loved it. There was also a table for the cheerleading! *LMAO* I inquired! *LMAO more* They have training on Sunday and you need to try out for the (can't remember what it is called) something Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-803990332002-08-18T16:15:00.000-04:002002-08-18T16:15:02.453-04:00I'm in America now. Actually I have been for almost a week but I've been so busy trying to get into classes and making sure I can legally stay in the USA and trying to find computer access that I havent really had a chance to update my weblog. But good news for readers (if there are any), bad news for me: one of my classes requires me to have a laptop so I will have to rent one or buy a second Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-789011042002-07-13T08:10:00.000-04:002002-07-13T08:13:26.000-04:00My blog isn't meant to be started yet but I have news pertaining to my exchange to share with the world. Firstly, I got my tourist visa so I'm allowed to stay in the states until July 2003 if I want to. Second, I passed all my subjects at Melbourne Uni so they will still let me go. Third, I got my housing assignment. I will be living in Ehringhaus residence hall (I must learn how to pronounce it!Jacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569109.post-776080612002-06-11T09:26:00.000-04:002002-06-11T09:26:53.926-04:00This blog will officially start on the 13th of August 2002, when I leave Melbourne - 2 months and 2 days to go!
Must study hard and pass my Melbourne Uni exams now so that they will still let me goJacintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330839854468424412noreply@blogger.com