Public Transportaion...

is a pain!!! especially when it is 3:18, you had a Production meeting from 3-4 at Wesley for the graduate play, and you are at home in Lewisham, which is at least half an hour from there... it's even WORSE when you can't find the FRICKING BUS STOP!!! that is because you usually take the train, and the only times you have taken a bus from Lewisham were on weekends when the trains weren't running, and there were "city rail buses" which took the same routes as the trains. or basically from station to station.

BUT THAT WASN'T THE NORMAL BUS STATION! that was from the TRAIN station. So... you spend 10 minutes looking for this elusive bus stop, which apparently is in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION, iow: back the way you came Xp and by this time, you have missed said bus which would take you the quickest way back to Drummoyne, so you call 131500 to get travel help. only they keep putting you through a loop.. and you can't get ANY information or help from the said-to-be-most-helpful travel guide...

so... you know that taking the train to Town Hall, and then the bus from Druitt Street to Victoria/Lyons and then a 15-20 min walk will not get you there before 4:00, so you decide to backtrack a different route which you've taken only just yesterday. Train to Burwood, then bus from Burwood to Lyons and Barney, which is JUST down the road from St. Mary's street, where Wesley resides..

well.. first, you don't know where the stupid bus stop is.. you know where you got off the day before, but not quite sure where to get on the same bus.. so.. you cross a few streets, walk up and down a couple times, see your bus leave, before you've even found the stop! and then you walk AROUND THE MALL, and ask an off-duty bus driver where to get on a bus to Drummoyne. Then you find the bus stop, and discover you have 15 more mins to wait before your bus gets there..

and it is now 4:00. the meeting is officially over, and you are screwed.

so that was my afternoon! it wasn't all that bad actually. I'm VERY lucky that Australians are so laid-back about things tho. Like I'm not in any major trouble for missing the first meeting. I mainly just felt really bad about it Xp but it's all good. no worries.. just get the minutes from the Student Director, figure out how to make it up. make sure you don't miss it next week. pencil it in to your schedule..

other than that fiasco this evening, my morning was pretty great! we meet at the St. James church off of MacQuarie Road, (there was a cafe outside the church! :D bonus points there..) we went inside and had fun discussions about Myths and Histories and cultural identities and personal identities.. (I actually hadn't done the homework.. or finished the reading Xp i know, i'm a terrible student. it was our first homework assignment too. but i guess i "partied" too much over the weekend and just kinda crashed Monday night instead of doing my reading and worksheet Xp that's what i get for going out of my comfort zone and hanging out in large groups of people whom i don't really know!)

that homework i hadn't done was also the reason i forgot my meeting today.. cuz i knew i had to finish up that, and then i also had music to review for tomorrow's class, so i was thinking about THAT homework i knew i had, and totally forgot about the meeting.. although i DID remember about dinner @ 5:00 with people at the Thai restaurant down the street from the school. I WAS ON TIME FOR THAT! and it was DElicious, i must say. i just came from there actually to the school, where i am now typing this up in the computer lab of the library, with a now-empty cappuccino..

anyways! so this morning after our discussion in the church, (St. James, which was in fact the very first Anglican church IN Australia..) we walked across MacQuarie to the Hype Parks Barracks Museum. where convicts were housed. and lots of other things went on too.. it was SO much fun going around there! and i got LOTS of pictures. they will be up in the (hopefully) near future. (no promises guys!) and the gift shop was fun too.. :) more on that later ;) i plan to go back actually before leaving Aussieland and get more pictures and see the rest of the stuff that i missed b/c i was taking pictures haha. and since admission is only AU$5 with a student id card, it's not a bad idea!

so ya.. that was my day so far.. and i think now i'm going to head back home, alone,-- because Mariah is going over to Lauren's for a taste-testing thing.. but I have homework to do, and I'm getting tired, despite the cappuccino, so i shall post this, and then tottle off home. :)

later, mates!