as i sit in dublin, comforted by the warm ambient light in daen's room, i realise how much i miss nottingham. it's the gaelic on every street sign, the torrential rain as i am trying to cross the road to topshop & all the damn green that is getting to me. i miss florence boot & the comfort of home. & i miss everyone back home in australia.
where are you? come back. you know who you are.
i am sick. i am sick of the feeling of being sick, the fear of getting sick & the wondering whether i am sick or whether it's all in my mind.
things just aren't the same on the other side of the world.
& i'm not sure they will be the same when we get back.
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20091031
20091029
group work
it's not that i hate you. or that i'm racist. or that i pick fights. i was tired and we were stressed.
a day in the life of an architecture student.
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a day in the life of an architecture student.
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20091026
get better soon, sina!
a diagnosis of meningitis.
group work, A2 panel #4802402093.
3 x visit to cripps health centre.
video diary of life as a second year architecture student.
arguing about primitive communities - should we let them go to sainsbury's and buy their food? tv or no tv? one computer - what if they all want to facebook at the same time?
get better soon, sina!
things are a mess when you are ill!
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group work, A2 panel #4802402093.
3 x visit to cripps health centre.
video diary of life as a second year architecture student.
arguing about primitive communities - should we let them go to sainsbury's and buy their food? tv or no tv? one computer - what if they all want to facebook at the same time?
get better soon, sina!
things are a mess when you are ill!
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20091025
look around
"baby, wake up. baby, come see. and if you lose your way, just hold on to me. the flames have all died out, our hearts are still beating. the rain is gone, the rain is gone. just look around.
our time is not up,
our place is in the sun.
so just wipe the ashes from your eyes, girl,
there's so much work to be done.
and there's no way to be sure,
just be sure to keep breathing.
we'll just keep movin' on,
we'll keep movin' on.
and look around.
we're not okay.
but, baby, we're alright.
so just make love to the day,
and hold each other tight.
just remember your song,
don't forget to keep singing.
cause our love is a bomb.
our love is a bomb.
just look around.
keep your eyes open, it's alright.
keep your eyes open, it's alright.
make better years from bitter days -
this is our time, this is our place.
look around.
just look around."
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20091023
disney
happy birthday rosie and emily. campus fourteen tonight - disney style. and now i sit here, in 64 florence boot eating horrible, disgusting chicken and mushroom pot noodle. yuuuuck.
today was fun, despite 2 x 2 hour lectures and another 2 hour arch sesh in between. i have so much love for clan three. heyohhh.
sleep calls.
brunch tomorrow.
then nusex (nottingham university exchange society) cafe and vintage shop thing.
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today was fun, despite 2 x 2 hour lectures and another 2 hour arch sesh in between. i have so much love for clan three. heyohhh.
sleep calls.
brunch tomorrow.
then nusex (nottingham university exchange society) cafe and vintage shop thing.
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20091022
thursday
it's thursday.
in first year, that meant eight hour drawing torture. in second year, that meant design lecture and studio. in nottingham, it means four hours of mind-numbing archi confusion...survived only by designing clan logos, scribbling people figures all over sketch books and coming up with ridiculous nicknames.
it was fascinating, though, what we came up with. theories of space vs. place. is there a difference? is there a boundary? what is the relationship?
thursday, also meant the booking of various flights for the christmas time. i am berlin, krakow, barcelona, vienna, munich and edinburgh bound. how exciting.
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in first year, that meant eight hour drawing torture. in second year, that meant design lecture and studio. in nottingham, it means four hours of mind-numbing archi confusion...survived only by designing clan logos, scribbling people figures all over sketch books and coming up with ridiculous nicknames.
it was fascinating, though, what we came up with. theories of space vs. place. is there a difference? is there a boundary? what is the relationship?
thursday, also meant the booking of various flights for the christmas time. i am berlin, krakow, barcelona, vienna, munich and edinburgh bound. how exciting.
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20091020
australians in nottingham
last night was karni's seven legged pub crawl...more than 6500 keen university students descending on the bars and clubs of notts. in typical fashion, i roped seven australians together (well, tried to. one canadian - but close enough) and we went as australians/bogans/sports fanatics. with our faces painted green and gold, dressed in wifebeaters, fake bikini/six pack-clad t-shirts, pluggers/thongs/flip-flops and with aussieaussieaussie oioioi written everywhere possible on our bodies, we headed to walkabout. all in all, a fabulous night.
however, with less than two hours sleep under my belt now, i feel downright terrible.
and surfthechannel isn't being kind to me, despite having new episodes of gossip girl and how i met your mother. please have some sympathy!
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20091019
bullshit in architecture
"The perpetual enlargement of the human estate cannot be sustained because it will eventually overwhelm the capacity and fecundity of natural systems and cycles. The unrestrained development of any and all technology canot be sustianed without courting risks and adverse consequences...a world of ever increasing economic, financial and technological complexity cannot be sustained because sooner or later, it will overwhelm our capacity to manage. A world divided by narrow, exclusive and intense allegiances to ideology or ethnicity cannot be sustained because its people will have too little humour, compassion, forgiveness and wisdom to save themselves" (David Orr, Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics and the Environment in an Age of Terror)
university lake run
i went for a run this morning around the university park to clear my head.
saw the cutest family - mum, dad, baby and four little puppies.
absolutely adorable. i was tempted to steal one.
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saw the cutest family - mum, dad, baby and four little puppies.
absolutely adorable. i was tempted to steal one.
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the other side of the world
it has been quite a while since i have blogged, i know.
how slack of me.
but what a perfect excuse - i am now in the uk! how exciting. the last few weeks have been a complete emotional rollercoaster (to be completely cliched). i went to so many international student talks about culture shock and how to deal, blah blah blah. but honestly, nothing can prepare you for being on the other side of the world, completely by yourself (fortunately in the same language as yours) and having to make friends - quicksmart.
fortunately, i have been lucky. i've been popped into the smallest, arguably most beautiful hall on campus with my now-best friends literally two or three doors away - florence boot hall. it's a half hour walk to lectures (i choose to take that as a positive - massive campus university which allows me to exercise whilst walking to my lectures?) but definitely the nicest part of university park. the people are great. of course, they are all eighteen year old high school graduates who constantly want to get drunk, but they are great fun. the food, however, not so great. i have never missed asian food so much! (and eaten so much sweet corn for that matter...the english are nuts about sweet corn).
freshers week a few weeks ago, was intense. every night was some kind of stupid themed party, starting at the ripe hour of seven pm, meaning i was wasted, and in bed by about one. unfortunately, that has meant that even now (third week), i have been unable to stay up past twelve when out. highly embarrassing story #1 - i may or may not have fallen asleep at ocean (student club) on friday night...
architecture is fun, but not quite what i am used to. firstly, there are 180 of us in second year, almost double what i am used to back home. we have been separated into 'units', and i have been lucky enough to be selected into unit one - solar decathlon! we are the only UK entrant in the european solar decathlon in madrid in june 2010. how exciting! it gives me a fantastic excuse to come back in june, providing it doesn't clash with uni work back home.
travelling plans are going better than i could ever imagine. i was in london last weekend with one of my oldest friends, charlie. it was a truly amazing weekend. we managed to fit in all the main sights on london into four very short days (thankyou for the great weather, london!) and went out as well. the londoners certainly know how to have a good night out. i don't remember much, i am sad to say, but i believe we were out in mayfair. not this weekend coming, but the weekend after, i am off to dublin, to visit daen, a fellow UQ architecture slave. it's also halloween at this time - so we might head up to derry (northern ireland) to have a look around. then a few weeks after dublin, is rome with gordon, yet another UQ student over here on exchange. it should be good to have a look at the architecture, now that i know what i am actually speaking about. and then - a massive winter/christmas trip with grace, sina, ben, simon and matt: berlin, krakow, barcelona (with sam), vienna for christmas, amsterdam, edinburgh for new years, glasgow and perhaps back to dublin for a little before uni starts again in mid january.
it's past midnight here, so i will call it a night.
more stories from notts to come!
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how slack of me.
but what a perfect excuse - i am now in the uk! how exciting. the last few weeks have been a complete emotional rollercoaster (to be completely cliched). i went to so many international student talks about culture shock and how to deal, blah blah blah. but honestly, nothing can prepare you for being on the other side of the world, completely by yourself (fortunately in the same language as yours) and having to make friends - quicksmart.
fortunately, i have been lucky. i've been popped into the smallest, arguably most beautiful hall on campus with my now-best friends literally two or three doors away - florence boot hall. it's a half hour walk to lectures (i choose to take that as a positive - massive campus university which allows me to exercise whilst walking to my lectures?) but definitely the nicest part of university park. the people are great. of course, they are all eighteen year old high school graduates who constantly want to get drunk, but they are great fun. the food, however, not so great. i have never missed asian food so much! (and eaten so much sweet corn for that matter...the english are nuts about sweet corn).
freshers week a few weeks ago, was intense. every night was some kind of stupid themed party, starting at the ripe hour of seven pm, meaning i was wasted, and in bed by about one. unfortunately, that has meant that even now (third week), i have been unable to stay up past twelve when out. highly embarrassing story #1 - i may or may not have fallen asleep at ocean (student club) on friday night...
architecture is fun, but not quite what i am used to. firstly, there are 180 of us in second year, almost double what i am used to back home. we have been separated into 'units', and i have been lucky enough to be selected into unit one - solar decathlon! we are the only UK entrant in the european solar decathlon in madrid in june 2010. how exciting! it gives me a fantastic excuse to come back in june, providing it doesn't clash with uni work back home.
travelling plans are going better than i could ever imagine. i was in london last weekend with one of my oldest friends, charlie. it was a truly amazing weekend. we managed to fit in all the main sights on london into four very short days (thankyou for the great weather, london!) and went out as well. the londoners certainly know how to have a good night out. i don't remember much, i am sad to say, but i believe we were out in mayfair. not this weekend coming, but the weekend after, i am off to dublin, to visit daen, a fellow UQ architecture slave. it's also halloween at this time - so we might head up to derry (northern ireland) to have a look around. then a few weeks after dublin, is rome with gordon, yet another UQ student over here on exchange. it should be good to have a look at the architecture, now that i know what i am actually speaking about. and then - a massive winter/christmas trip with grace, sina, ben, simon and matt: berlin, krakow, barcelona (with sam), vienna for christmas, amsterdam, edinburgh for new years, glasgow and perhaps back to dublin for a little before uni starts again in mid january.
it's past midnight here, so i will call it a night.
more stories from notts to come!
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