"Australian Culture and Society"

- Aussie culture class: The first session (Aug 31 – October 10) we took 2 classes. All 70 of us had to take Australian Culture and Society. We were in the class room Tues-Thurs from 530-830 pm. Wed mornings were reserved for field trips, the first week we went to …(some political building by the Rocks…it’s 1:30 something right now, I don’t remember, haha sorry) then our prof walked us up to the old convict barracks which were pretty interesting. I think I got 2 pics before my battery died L the museum was pretty interesting, the different rooms/floors were set up to show what the building was used for during the different time periods. 2 of them were the sleeping quarters, which was just a bunch of hammocks (there’s a pic of me in one on a friend’s camera…I’ll try to find that asap). Another was about the Irish orphan girls that stayed there. Most of the ground floor was about the history of the convict plan in general. Susan, pretty sure you would’ve liked it a lot, I know how much you love history – I even enjoyed it so you know it must’ve been good haha. Our other field trip got cancelled...

After the first 2 weeks/6 classes, we had an open book reading quiz (that I just got back tonight…48 out of 50 thank you very much!) and we started our modules…this is the sport thing I wrote the other post about. It turned out okay. It stayed pretty boring, but that’s okay. That week was insane, but more on the timing of stuff later… umm We went to Melbourne (pronounced Mel-bin) with the whole program and had a couple “briefing sessions” with the culture prof (Mark – awesome Australian prof) where he told us about the history of Mel and about the tours we would be going on…again, more on Melbourne later. Tonight was our first normal culture class in a while…we talked about gender roles…it was definitely the most entertaining lecture so far…and we only have 2 left (o wow that’s depressing/awesome)