Well, we're on the way! Currently in Kunanurra, WA. We crossed the NT/WA border earlier this morning, after leaving Darwin yesterday morning. The weather is incredibly beautiful! Blue skies, not a cloud in sight. It was incredibly, almost unbearably warm in Darwin on Wednesday, but we headed off from there yesterday morning and it's been lovely since. The air-con in the vehicle is no doubt helping with that!
Heading to the Bungle Bungles tonight ... can't wait. We did a cruise on the Victoria River late yesterday afternoon ... spotted a few crocs, and various other forms of wildlife. Watched the sun set ... it was gorgeous! We check out Wolfe Creek Crater tomorrow, then start the Canning Stock Route. Going well, and making good time! Ooh, and survived the night under the stars in the swag last night! I could get used to this I think!! Better go ... heading out of range again now. More news from Uluru!
I just checked in and printed my boarding pass! This time tomorrow night I'll be on a plane heading to Darwin, and I already know I'll be sitting by the window. Checking in before even arriving at the airport seems somehow counter-productive. Convenient though!
So Semester One is officially over, for me at least. I handed my last assignments in this morning, presented my drama micro-lesson to the class, caught up with the crew for coffee one last time, then left uni in rather high spirits ... albeit slowly due to the crutches.
My foot is still broken, but I believe it is healing. I'm done with the crutches. I detest them ... they cause more pain to my hands and arms than walking does to my foot. I've spent the last two weeks keeping weight off my foot ... hopefully that's enough. I may take a ridiculous looking walking stick with me though, to help take the weight a little. Plus, I'm hoping my lovely new hiking boots will help a bit. And we'll be spending a fair bit of time in the car. Fingers crossed all will be fine.
I think I'm just about ready to go. I have a to-do list that I'm working through slowly. I still have to pack, but I have a pretty good list of what needs to be packed. Most of it has already gone ... my uncle left here on Thursday, so I put as much into the vehicle as possible. He's already in the Northern Territory ... should get to Darwin sometime tomorrow. I arrive tomorrow night, then we spend a couple of days stocking up and getting sorted ... then head off. Exciting!
Meanwhile, I need to get some sleep! I can't believe how tired I am ... it's crazy. This semester has been awfully draining ... everyone has said so, it's not just me. Crazy though, seeing as this was my "lazy semester" ... only three subjects and no outside work, yet still I'm more exhausted than I was last semester. I'm blaming the evil literacy subject. Evil, I say!
I was tagged by Rosanna to complete this challenge a few weeks ago, and confess it had all but slipped my mind. It's tricky to decide which to leave unchanged, as in all honesty, I would love to read most books. However there would be no fun in italicising all those that I haven't read, so I didn't. If I have left unchanged any that are particularly worth reading, please let me know ... it may be because I haven't heard of the book.
Instructions: Look at the list of books below.
• Bold the ones you’ve read.
• Italicise the ones you want to.
• Don’t do anything to the ones that you aren’t interested in.
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander Cross Stitch (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I know this much is true (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMavrier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysees (James Joyce)
And as is the practice, I now tag Jen, Courtney and Sandy. :)
I have a timetable for next semester! Which is something of a relief, as I was a little afraid the allocation system wouldn't open up until after I left. That said, they've made a huge mess of it. It was supposed to come online at 9am this morning, and instead randomly started appearing at around 1pm this afternoon. Ridiculous!
To make it even worse, the timetable that had been displayed earlier in the week for the Technology unit is completely different to what is actually available today ... so the timetable I'd worked out totally doesn't work. On top of which, for one of the units ... we've just been randomly allocated to a class, all the classes are full so we can't change to a different time, and not everyone enrolled in the unit has even been allocated. I'm in an 8am class ... which is dreadfully early (leaving home at 6:30am), but at least I've got a class.
Oh well, it's all done ... I've got three days on campus, and two 8am starts. Could have been worse. I hate to think what some people have ended up with, considering I managed to jump in as soon as it came online. My only worry now is that they'll realise they've completely messed up, pull the lot and we'll have to do it all again.