"The future of our country is not found in our boardrooms, but in our classrooms."- Michael Milken

Well, my travels have slowed down for the next month. With my blog I’m sure people reading this don’t think I’m doing much in school, but I am. It’s a different school system here, there isn’t weekly homework assignments and small pointless work to do like back home. My classes come in waves, its weird but I like it a lot more. My classes have large assignments that are worth between 30-70% of my grade. 3 of my 4 class do not give marks for participation and they do not take attendance in the lectures. It is up to me to get to class, learn the material and know when my assignments are due. This past week was hell for me. I had 2 lectures to present, a small research paper, and a lab report, each of these were worth 30% of my grade in each class. Now today, I am finished with all of those assignments and I do not have anything due until the 1st week of June.

Hmm wondering how I did on some of my assignments? I received two 6’s, which is ‘Distinction’. Their marking system goes up to 7, so if you get a 6 or a 7, it means an ‘A’ back home. To get a 7, is almost impossible here, unless everything is absolutely perfect, even the Australians say its hard. And no, they are not easy graders AT ALL.

Anyways, like I said nothing else is due until the first week of June and then I’m done with classes, with only 1 final to take. In the next week or so I am going to try and finish 1 of the 2 research final essays that I have. I want to get everything done because well, first , I have the time and secondly, Dan is coming June 4th!!!! So I don’t want to be stressed the first few days that he is here :-).

Plans for the evening? Well, I'm totally making tacos for Cinco de Mayo. I found mozzarella cheese a few days ago, I'm overly excited for mozzarella cheese.


Happy Cinco de Mayo!