Shopping here in general seems so expensive compared to home, we complain about it a lot. Grocery shopping especially has seemed to be ridiculous, everything is expensive and comes in small portions.
One thing that does help is that my roommate Sarah and I have decided to share groceries and also cook meals together. She made a really good shrimp stir fry tonight and our friends Eric and George from the program came over for dinner too. It was actually a lot of fun. My menu nights might be a little less impressive (frozen lasagna anyone?) but hey...I'm trying. We got a lot of food today to eat during the week for lunches too, so we won't spend money eating on campus. The meals plans here seem like a rip off but I guess it could be convenient.
Today I had my first two classes. Image and Photography lecture and my Australian Culture/History lecture called "Dreamtime to Dust." Both went well, photography might actually be harder than I anticipated, a lot of what he said today went right over my head, but he seemed really willing to help. Tomorrow I have Australian film analysis. The classes here have a lecture with everyone who is taking the class and then an offering of several tutorials that break up the class into small groups during the week. Some of my classes have a third component as well, like my class tomorrow. We have an AV screening portion. You only go to the lecture and tutorial once a week, but they last for a longer time.
Well, that's all for now - more updates later!
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