7/24/2012

I had a long day today. I got a late start. We didn't have to be in until 11 today. I gladly took advantage of the extra sleep. Since I had time, I brought my problem solving group cookies. We got to practice biofeedback and using paraffin today. It was great. I went to work right after class. Since class ended at 4:15 I didn't have time to go home before work at 6. Work wasn't bad but the 6mile walk home was killer. I had my school bag so that running wasn't really possible. I tried to catch some trams but none of the ones that I needed seemed to come. Unfortunately there really isn't an easy way to get between work and home without a bicycle. Speaking of bicycle I'm almost half way there maybe a week or two till I'm back. On my walk I passed an origami store.

 Pretty sweet! I also saw an opossum but didn't manage to get a picture.

Pushups 3/10

7/23/2012

Lazy Monday for Maddie. My days at uni seem so long. I feel like I get beaten with knowledge for 8 hours a day. I was supposed to go to the gym tonight but class ran 15 minutes late so I headed home instead. Katie had asked me to cook tonight but I got home to find that I was the only one who hadn't eaten. I decided to make cookie to bring into class tomorrow and then I sampled a few too many:) i did a bit of reading tonight but the long days make me not want to study. We start later tomorrow so I hope to wake up early and get some work done.

7/22/2012

I am officially done with economics. It was an interesting class and I really liked it. I hope there is a feedback form somewhere. I really enjoyed the class but found a mismatch between what we were taught and what was tested. To encourage my brain to work during the test I made muesli bread. It's really good and has so many seeds I start to think that I'm a bird.

While I was finishing my final our new exchange student showed up. Her name is Nova.

She's sweet. I took her on a walk to the beach. On our way we passed a store that was having alpaca day.

I love Melbourne. It was a nice 3 hour walk. When we got home I did some homework, cleaned my room and painted my nails. Things are a tad more hectic with two of us and are going to be even more exciting with 3 students but it's a fun learning experience.

7/21/2012

I had an interesting day of footie. I ran the 10k to the field and had been waiting for about 30 minutes when someone else came up to tell me that the game was a forfeit but no one bothered to tell the trainers. Even though they knew on Thursday when I was there. Georgia the other trainer was there as well so we drove over to the seniors game to watch for a bit. At noon we went back to our home field for the cardinals game. Everyone was out of it today. Georgia and I were mentally checked out because we had been sitting around for 3 hours unfortunately our lack of focus must have been contagious because the players were distracted and didn't play as well as normal either. After the game I ran home but found a shortcut so that it was only a 9k run. The shortcut goes under a bridge with marvin the Martian.
Rather hilly though. I'm still not at the top of my game but the run felt much better than it had Thursday. The day was sunny warm and quite fun. Although I was annoyed I enjoyed chillin with Georgia.

7/20/2012

It's Friday, Friday!
We also had our first neurophysiotherapy lecture today. Oooo. They said to us, "If you fail something it's going to be this." wahoo. Guess I better start studying.
After that we had a pain lecture. It was very interesting, maybe too interesting. I kept getting excited and looking stuff up when I should have been paying attention. After class we went scouting for free stuff again but came up empty. It was a fun and i got to catch up with Tuba. She knitted a very cute teddy bear over her holiday.

I really want to learn how to do that. Forlorn from our lack of lollies we each headed home. I had a lazy afternoon of Game of Thrones and planning for next week. I have plenty of preparatory work as well as review. In addition we have a new student coming tomorrow and so I'll need to cook some next week. At 4 I went to the post office to pick up a box for Katie. I purposefully never go that direction because there are nice shops that empty my wallet. I've been looking for a scarf and this one jumped out at me as I passed. It matched my outfit and everything.

 It is actually a men's scarf but I like it! I'm thinking of starting a trend where I wear my scarf, boots and a summery dress. Both of them are so toasty that I would still be warm.
Friday is Stan's turn to cook so we had pizza. Yay! He fancies himself a Jewish American Princess???!! So he makes take out or reservations. He is actually an acceptable chef when he does cook. Abs and bed so I can be top of my game for footie tomorrow.

Pushups: 1 out of 10

7/19/2012

Today was my first day back to work for real. I was there by myself caring for cramping calfs and dislocated shoulders. I did well. There was only once that my shoulder started to protest. Getting to work is also quite a chore. There is no good route by public transit so I decided to run there and back. I like to think that I have kept pretty active with my injured shoulder but the deconditioning was pretty obvious today. I made it there alright but gave up and walked half way back. I can't point to a limiting factor but I just lost all desire to continue running despite the fact that it is much faster. Total I think I ran about 9 of the 12 miles round trip it was a beautiful night but a bad run.
Speaking of workouts, today was officially my first day of training for the eurika tower challenge. 88 flights of stairs as fast as you can with a team in costumes! Our team is 3 boys and a girl we are currently taking suggestions for costumes but have some good ideas already.
With all this exercise you're probably wondering where I fit in school. Well today was a half day with an early start. I even stayed after to get my techniques sighed off for independent practice and then practiced for an hour and a half. I still have a bit of study to do but I hope to get caught up this weekend.
Today was also part orientation week for the rest of the university so we got some free goodies. My favorites were the flag cookies.

7/18/2012

Every notice how when you are cold everything seems miserable? I was sitting here feeling really grumpy and upset about how bad my day had been when in reality I had a pretty good day.  I woke up and went for a swim before class.  It was great.  I felt really strong and even pushed myself out of the pool this morning.  I had a chi tea and then I went to a cardiorespiratory practical.  We had two lectures, then I had lunch with my friends.  So far lunch has been much more enjoyable this semester than it was last semester. We are able to talk and relax since we aren't rushing off to do projects yet.  After lunch we had a practical on interferential current.  It is much different than what I had seen in the USA and is abbreviated IFT instead of INF I wonder if it's actually two different treatments? Either way it was pretty cool and fun to learn about.  I also got back a paper that I wrote for last semester.  I did terribly Yay! This may seem counter intuitive but I already have my final grade, so the fact that I did poorly on the paper means that I did well on the exams.  It was starting to cool down by the time I left the university.  It was a little cold on my walk to the train station and a little cool walking home.  I got really cold once I got into the house and stopped moving.  We turn off the heat during the day to save money so the house is chilly.  I sat down to study and since it was high 30s today I cooled down before the house warmed up.  I need to start coming home, turning on the heat, and then going for a run or something.  Tomorrow is a light day so I'll try to fit in some fun stuff.