July 26

My phone came in the mail today, finally!! Michael gave Lina and me a lift to QU Books, which sells cheap UQ textbooks and then stumbled our way to campus via asking nice bus drivers for directions. Once on campus, we stopped by the Financial Aid dept to sign our student loan checks and ask other questions.

Then, I headed to my academic advisor to check and see if my academic plan was OK. It wasn't. She wants me to take my core classes this semester because there is no guarantee they would be offered in my last semester, and if they aren't, I can't complete my program on-time which has other major repercussions. Since I was enrolled in a different class, I did not attend the lecture today for the core class, so I asked her what to do since I had clearly missed the first day. She got the professor who happened to be in her office and I apologized for the mix-up and was able to get the class syllabus and a brief summary of what had happened (nothing much on the first day). Whoops!!! Then I asked the adviser why they didn't have an Orientation for the School of Tourism and she said, "We did." I told her that I checked my email everyday and looked several times on the website for such an orientation and never got any information about it. But apparently, they went over all of that stuff and even had a meet and greet with the professors on Tuesday! I felt like the biggest, dumbest blonde in the world. I'm not usually an airhead so for me to think that she is perceiving me that way makes me very embarrassed and angry!! Ugh. At least I didn't miss much in that first class.

Then I headed over to the computer lab to change my enrollment and we walked to the bookstore to try to find some books for our classes. Lina found hers, but mine weren't there. Then we took the City Cat ferry downtown, got some lunch and activated my Blackberry!! So excited. I spent the rest of the evening playing with it and loading my emails, apps onto it. Michael's kitchen is almost done upstairs and I'm very happy because maybe I won't be woken up to drills and hammers above my head every morning. His fridge didn't fit in the space they built for it, though, so he switched fridges with us (we got an upgrade!!) this evening. Ate Top Ramen for dinner - really getting back into the college mode! haha

My first class has two assignments. 1 Report, 1 Essay... each worth 50% of my grade! WTF

I found $40 US in my beach bag. Score! Then I put it back into the small pocket I found it in, and zipped it up. The zipper ripped completely off, sealing the $40 inside! I <3 instant karma.