If anyone is wondering, yes Im still alive..barely...we have had an insane amount of work the last couple of weeks! Even the Australian students who have 3 years experience in this area were stressed out. That made me even more stressed. I worked half the night almost every day for the last week to make it. Still I didn't have time to do it all properly. We had 2 big projects to hand in and at the same time present them to the class/teachers. The first one was about branding. We have to either rebrand an exiciting company or invent a new brand. We were split in two groups during the presentations and all the experienced students did their presentations first. That was a depressing experience. They were all really professional in all they did, layout, design, what they had covered etc...I felt like digging myself a hole in the ground. What I had done seemed completely meaningless compared to their stuff. Luckily (I guess) the other post. grad. students were also feeling like me and we were all in the same boat. We had all misunderstood the scope of the presentation. At least now we know what to do next time. We will also have time to redo out existing thing before the final deadline in June, which is good.
The other project is about typography and layout. We are designing an annual report, but before we can do any design we had to reasearch about typography, write an essay and analyse 5 different reports. Luckily this went a bit better since I had devouted most of my time to this project. It is hard to juggle it all, when they are both due on the same time. Anyway, it was a great relief to have finished that first phase. Now we have a few days rest before the projects continues. So I am trying to use this time to catch up on things, like writing emails and updating this blog.
For those who think im splurging around on the beach in the sun, think again. There are no beaches for swimming nearby, the weather is often very cold and even if there was a beach I have been locked up in my room with work more or less since university started so I wouldn't have had the time to go there anyway.
Im glad I had those weeks in Thailand before I came, so at least I got enough of the beach for a while :)
In one week, we have easter holiday, that will be good. I first planned to go to Tasmania, but realised that I need to use some of my holiday on schoolwork. The other problem is that things are extremely expensive here. Almost like Norway. The only cheap thing is alcolhol! So I decided to save the money and hopefully I can travel during my "winter" holiday in June instead.
Im trying to think what else I've actually done...yes, I went and saw a dance/theatre performance one evening (part of research for the annual report since im doing the report for the Arts Centre). The performance was called Passion and was performed by an American dance company called Momix. It was really amazing.
Passion features five movers – rather than dancers because the movement lexicon employs suspended ropes, knee pads, props, and each other – moving to or along with music composed by Peter Gabriel for the Martin Scorsese film, The Last Temptation of Christ.
When I moved into my new home I went to Ikea to get some basic things and while I was there I also got a lucky bamboo (well that is what Ikea called it). Afer about 2 weeks though, my lucky bamboo died!! Im not sure if I should take it is a bad omen, but its very typical of me. I can't even keep a stick plant alive :/ And if this wasn't bad enought I discovered a mean looking spider in my window (on the outside). I had a close look at it and to my relief there were no spcific sign on its back like a cross (!), but Im in Australia, so who knows what the little critter is capable of?! At the moment Im leaving it alone tho, I dont want to risk becoming enemies with is spider relatives :)
