Camping

Phew, finally a chance to take a short breather and write something.

Martin and Chris got me along for an adventure camp over the weekend, in a place called Arm River, near the Cradle Mountains. I was in two minds cos I had (and still have) an uncompleted assignment.

But it was really a good deal, just 35 AUD for 2 nights and 1.5 days with food and lodging included so I went. Stopped at Campbell Town on the Friday evening drive up for a pizza dinner and it was wonderful.

It was a very "medical" trip though, since it's organised by a society for medical students and most of the people were medical or nursing students. But it's a wonderful chance to meet new people.

They got an real-life Aboriginal to come in on the first morning and he took us on a short bushwalk and showed us the kinds of food that can be obtained from the bush and talked to us about how they used to live off the land and their traditions and beliefs.

This was the most educational part of it and just for this, it was worth abandoning my essay for a weekend.

Went abseiling in the afternoon. Was a long time since I last did that. The way they do it is so safety...double line plus a double knotted safety line. I think I prefer the SAF way, single line with an improvised harness, no safety. :-)

Games and group activities at night. Laugh until stomach pain...loads of funny picture resulted...and a very good sleep.

Rafting in the morning. This is new to me, never rafted before. And it's all I expected: wet, cold (feet especially), impossible wetsuits. But at least now people ask me to go rafting I can say I do before and still think it's not worth the wet and cold. But fun.

All-in-all, a very good time, even though I'm disappointed that we didn't go caving. The caves were flooded from the unexpectedly heavy rain.

Just one assignment left for the sem. Almost done. Just have maybe another 15% left, mostly writing a coherent conclusion and going over for spelling and grammar and making sure the references are good. I wanna finish by tomorrow night.

HRM test next week today. I hope I can still remember how to cram cos it's really alot of material and I have not even started yet. I wanna finish my above mentioned assignment first.

Wonder if Grace is aware of the test. Have not seen her in class for awhile. But I really should not be wasting neurons worrying for someone who can't seem to bother about anything herself. But maybe I'll just mention it if I bump into her.

Yeah, boring life for the moment. Back to work!