To the Outback!

Today we had part one of our final (part two is in Kakadu). It was two essays in 90 minutes, one on "Remembering Babylon" (I highly suggest this book, it was amazing) and the other which required speculation on the existence of Australian culture. I actually spent almost the entire class time writing, which never usually happens. The essay questions were badly written though, so it took awhile to figure out what he wanted.

Then I got my third essay back and got an A+ on it. Yay, that's nice. I wish this was more of a real class though so I could be more proud of my A's.

Afterwards, we went down to say goodbye to my favorite place, Victoria Market. I had a spicy lamb borak for lunch which was delicious (and only AUD$2.50) and then we went souvenir shopping yet again (didn't find anything). I love Vic Market. Then I went to Best Buy to see if I could get a new camera battery (my camera died on me and I forgot to bring my charger, so I'm without a camera for the rest of the trip) but I couldn't find anything. Best Buy was so weird. It was tiny with about four TVs and a bunch of appliances. Ah, but I'm bummed that I don't have a camera anymore. Everyone else is sending each other pictures, and I might just go out and get a disposable camera. Oh well.

Tomorrow morning I'm flying to Darwin. I'm pretty excited to see a new place (and for the warm weather) but I will definitely miss Melbourne a lot. I probably won't have Internet access in Darwin (unless I find an Internet cafe) so I most likely will not be able to reply to emails or post to this thing for at least a week. There will probably be available Internet cafes in Sydney though, so once I get there I will hopefully have a little time to update this and such.

Wish me luck as I trek out into the outback! I hope the spiders aren't too scary.