Hey guys!
It's time for another blog entry, after my first 2 days of lecture. Everything's perfect, so far.

Astronomy: In this course there are mainly first year students, and nothing more than high school maths is needed, no calculus. I think that shouldn't be much of a problem.

Exploration Geophysics: The first lecture was quite boring, coz he's just been trying to bring everyone (all the 6 attendants) on a mathematical level to understand the literature. Of course maths below a level a physicist is used to. However, my big problems will show up when it goes into earth sciences, since I've got no idea of that. However, 5 days field trip, this rocks!

Pharmacology: Yeah, my first lecture with more than 100 other students. That's cool! However, the professor knows my name. Today in the lecture he said, that they have always problems with Science students, their timetable and the practical course, so they should choose their group at first. Well, I came up to him, and told him, that I was science student and would like... blabla. He asked me: "ah, are you Lukas?", "Yes, but how can you tell.", "Well, you're the science student." Whatever, I hope you find it as funny as I do.

Yeah, and there's a lot of sports going on here. On sunday I've been rafting. Not much of a raft, we went up to New Norfolk and rafted down the derwent river. Really calm water, with only a few rapids. However, waterfights help! It was great fun and well, we all got sunburned.

And the next sporty thing: Today I joined the soccer training of the University Soccer Club Tasmania. They're actually playing in the Tasmanian Premier League, was quite a nice training. Not that hard as I'm used to back home, but nice.

Well, well, I guess that's all for now. see you later
have a nice day!

hey there!

The thing about time is, you just have to know: I'm 10 hours in advance ;)
Yesterday I found out that there's a nice bar in hobart, the "republic", really nice music over there.
Well, I'm pretty sure you guys know what going out means, so I'll leave out the details. However it's been a long nite, ended at 9 in the morning sleeping on the beach =)

well that's it for now, I'm gonna join my malaysian housemates for some chinese food.
see you later.

Hey dudes!
How're ye doin'? Coz I'm havin' a fuckin' awesome time!
Well, it's not due to lazyness that I've not written anything during my first 2 weeks here, but due to my missing internetconnection. I just had to wait for Orientation week to get my UTAS email account and password. Now I can access the internet from the top of Mount Nelson, that's where I have my "Villa". It's really nice here, I've got a wonderful view, down onto the city.
However, I'm still alone in my villa, hopefully tomorrow this status will change, well let's see what tomorrow brings.
So far I've done a few crucial things 'round here:
#1 I bought a coffee machine, you can imagine how important this is to me
#2 I bought the cheapest western guitar available at Hobart Music Centre
#3 And I spent some time at the beach.

However, I wasn't swimming so far coz there's a lot of jellyfish in the water by that time. Well let's talk about weather. It's really fine here. In the shadow you might shake a little bit (at least if you're not feelin' comfortable with 20°C), but in the sun it's burning your socks off.

Ha, yeah, you might wonder and want to ask:
Have you seen a wallaby or a possum? Well yes indeed, there are plenty of them just in front of my door, playin' in the garden. Goin' out in the evening let's you meet, I'd say at least, 3 wallabys and some possums.

after all this bla bla I'll say: have a nice day! not check by for more, I'll be updating this more frequently now!
luke