Hallett Hall Party
Last week Chris and I were just "chillin'" in our room and he put on some music. A few minutes later there was a party in here!. It was a great way to get to know my floor mates a bit better. It was kind of the pre-game chillout session where we all just talked about crap and generally had a good time. I have some nice photos to share...
From left: Me, Nick, Patrick, Julie, Anastasiya
The gathering moved further up the hall...(notice Chris with the BIMBO shirt LOL)
Hannah and Nick
Anastasiya and Julie (in the background)
Ice Skating
I've only ever been ice skating once in my life before I went to the CU Ice Rink, that was in Albury. In Albury, they had a temporary marquee set up and it was quite small. I had bad experiences skating there with my brother and Matt. But on Saturday, Todor, Kathy and I went ice skating and I was quite nervous but all I can say is that it's definitely easier the second time you do it. It's cheap to skate there too, only $1 just to hire the skates. I'm sure that as time goes on I'll get better. As usual I've got some photos, but this time I have videos:
I needed a hand at the start
After that I was fine
Todor was so excited about ice skating...
Pearl Street Parade
Last Friday, Sophie, Vicki, Jess, Katie and I went down to Pearl Street to visit the cheesecake factory. It so happened that there was this parade for the football game that night. It was really, really good. The CU marching band was there to help support our team and there was people on top of the car throwing out free mini footballs. This just goes to show that America is really into their football. Everyone was shouting all the chants, which knowingly I knew as well but I was a bit hesitant to participate. I was wearing my Wollongong Uni hoodie and some lady came and talked to me. She said that she loved Australia and that she also did her study abroad at UOW. It goes to show that the world is a small place after all. So as usual I managed to score some pictures of the event - though I stole these pictures from Vicki's camera.
Car thingy
CU Marching Band
The Game
CU lost against FSU for the record. Visit the rest of the gallery here.
Tennis at CU-Boulder
After 4 weeks I finally got off my butt and found some people to play tennis with. The courts are made of hardcourt...I don't particularly like them anymore because it's really hard on your feet. You get worn down pretty quickly which makes it twice as bad for me. I played with Patrick last week and today, and yesterday I played with Jin and Maaya. I've managed to score the same court on all three occasions! And of course I did take a few photos, including a video, which I can't upload to YouTube because the file is over 100mb. If anyone knows some online editor that I can reduce the quality of the video, please leave a comment. I haven't managed to get photos of Patrick and I playing but that will come in time, here are photos of Jin, Maaya and I.
Check out Jin's forehand
Maaya getting ready for the next shot
My forehand
Contact point of my forehand
Hallett Hall, 3rd Floor West
Well I haven't taken any photos of my dorm as of yet and my room because I don't think it is in a state that is presentable enough. However, Chris took this video of our room and hallway one night because his camera started working. He had dropped it on concrete at some party and the lens had trouble retracting again. I should start bringing my camera out every day instead of just bringing it for special occasions because you always seem to need one when you don't have one on you.
Please excuse the language at the beginning:
CU Anywhere
I just thought that I might point out to any potential CU-Boulder students that some of your classes may be video recorded. I knew that one of my classes was recorded for archiving purposes but I never knew where to download them. The page is called CU Anywhere. You can download the lecture or stream it (which is not a problem here in America because your internet is great!). Here's just a little snapshot of what you could be watching instead of actually being there (though I'm not telling you to skip classes).
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Google Award
Today was an ok day, I only had two classes that combined 2.5 hours but it seemed longer than that. The teaching system here focuses on heaps of little assignments and I almost missed one this morning! I much prefer the bigger and beefier assignments as you have time to plan for them whereas here you are constantly thinking of what is due next.
I made it into the Farrand Dining hall for lunchtime today, only because I was one of the first in line at 11am. The food wasn't that spectacular this time. I had a chicken burger and salad. After my classes I went to the CU-Bookstore to return one of my books for a better copy because somehow I had bought one already defaced. The textbooks here are insanely expensive (even used ones) as I have probably already mentioned. I'm still waiting on that check (!) to arrive so I can purchase the rest. I did find some of our required textbooks online and I've linked them in the page here.
Before I leave for some dinner I'm going to leave you with a award I recently acquired.
