learning about australia

Things I learned about Australia today:

1. It gets cold there. Amie came over to help me back because she was concerned I didn't believe her (I still don't, really. Always sunny and warm. I know it!).

Amie: Think about what you'd wear walking around downtown Chicago in the fall, and pack it.

Krista: Jeans, a tshirt, and a hoodie. Done.

Amie: Okay now think about what you'd wear to go out on the town in the fall, and pack it.

Krista: Jeans, a tshirt, and a hoodie. Already done.

2. There are a LOT of poisonous and dangerous things that can harm me. Plus side being that it's not third world and the doctors speak English... so no worries, mom.

Krista: I should get a book of all the poisonous things so that I can be on the lookout for them and not be scared of everything.

Amie: You probably don't want to do that.

3. There is apparently coffee everywhere.

Mmmm... coffee. Lucky for Amie I won't have to be crabby all the time! I think we're also taking some Via. Anyway, I've got no quotes between me and Amie for this one, but I read the "coffee everywhere" fact in a book called "In a Sunburned Country."

a little stressed

I'm a bit o' stressed about this roommates thing. I'm thinking God may force me on to something else. I only have about 8 days to find a roommate. I'm still trying to talk one girl into it (she's really great, but moving is a huge decision for her and probably not the best financial one).

(Before I put the sentence on that last paragraph I got a call from what I am pretty sure would be a very weird roommate.)

So if God wants something else for me I hope that he also helps me pack this entire house, move it, and simultaneously pack my stuff for my month of vacation..... in 13 days.

lsw

So, since Social Work is a profession, I want to get my license. Then in 3 years or so I have to get my clinical license, but let's focus on the license because that alone is driving me nuts.

I think that filling out this 10 page form is harder than my entire 2 year education.

I'm not counting the PAGES of instructions, either. You know, the ones that repeat themselves and don't help fill out the actual 10 page document.

Maybe the secret is that if you fill this out correctly you don't have to take the actual EXAM.

In that case, I better plan on taking the exam...

the acceptance, and completion.

Two years ago, minutes before I boarded a bus for Royal Family Kids Camp, I handed an envelope to my friend's mom and asked her to put a stamp on it for me and send it. I had been carrying the envelope around with me because it was a very big decision and then got busy and didn't send it- but it had to be sent. Good thing for moms.

In the envelope was my acceptance to attend University of Chicago's Social Service Administration.

Today, 2010, I officially became a graduate at University of Chicago's 503rd Convocation Ceremony. Tomorrow, I leave for Royal Family Kids Camp. I think it's a good way to celebrate.

(Flowers from my parents, cards, SSA's champagne and appetizers, and my cousin's wedding reception wasn't bad, either.

sleepy, but not sleeping

My current state of "sleepy, but not sleeping" makes me think that possibly I absorbed more than just the coffee smell today.

I worked at two different Starbucks. 8-2 and 6-9:45. I only drank one coffee at 8am. Yet I can't sleep right now.

After working at Starbucks (or even visiting) there is a very distinct smell that lingers on you afterward because it seeps into your pores. I already knew that. But now I have come to the conclusion that the caffeine also seeps in there with the smell. Because I should be able to sleep right now.

I suppose that it also COULD be the fact that tomorrow is my last day of grad school, that I need to find 2 roommates, and that in general- almost everything in my life is kind of on the edge of changing a lot.. or not. I don't have a lot of control over it at this point.

I do, however, have control over my library selections. I made some good ones that included Our Lips Are Sealed (Mary Kate and Ashley, filmed in Australia), Fiji travel guide, information about Australia, and some FICTION!

fried rice

I'm pretty sure that "fried rice" I just made was wrong. I'm not sure the smell should remind me of 4-H. You know, like visiting-my-friends-in-the-barn-during-the-fair-4-H.

Next time I will listen to the directions more carefully and ask questions or I will look up the recipe online. Or order from Gum Rai. With crab rangoon. Yummy.

remember in turkey?

picture stolen from this site, compliments of a Google search. Dear Google, love, Krista.

I'd see women with flowers to their face in Turkey all the time. I wondered why it was. Until I rode the buses and other transports, then I found out.

I remembered this today on the bus to school. The smell could have been coming from me. I think today might have been shower day.

I did deodorize, though.