Day 24 - Classes Finally!!

Today I finally got my classes sorted out! (crowd cheers) My schedule ended up being pretty open which is nice and will allow for extra travel if I produce the money. So my four classes are as follows...

Australian Art: Rock to Pop - follows the art created by the first explorers and natives and then moves through all of the Australian art movements up to the 1960s. I am doing a paper/presentation on Kangaroo art for my semester project.

Community Natural Resource Management - Learning to work with stakeholders and involve the community in the management of their resources. I have field trip to a city council as well a group case study project on a community NRM somewhere in the world.

Education in Natural Landscapes - I thought this was going to be RPTMish but it turns out it is more philosophical - which could be interesting. I have 3 field trips to attend a bushwalker, a farmer, and an ecologist - where we are supposed to "become" these people. Should at least get me out there...

Biology of Australian Flora and Fauna - This is my "learn about nature" course, I really wanted to take Australian Fauna (similar to vertebrates back home) but I couldn't fit it in my time table. There are a couple of labs and such and so far the material has been pretty interesting.

All in all I think it turned out well and all of the subjects seemed interesting and should keep me busy over the next four months!

So anyway, today I had my second day of work - which I think went better than the first. Of course I can't get paid until my Tax ID number comes in (bummer) but I don't mind waiting. It doesn't look like I'll be getting a lot of hours so I think I am going to head to Brunnie tomorrow and drop of resumes at the grocery stores and Kmart. I figure I certainly have enough time in my schedule during the week and I just function better over all if my schedule is packed with activity. I also got in touch with some wildliferish grad students to see if they need any free labor on any of their field projects - so fingers crossed on that. Anyway I only had one class in the afternoon so after that I spent some time working out and fighting with my computer (who is behaving better now). I also discovered a new pond (with Goldfish!) on the other side of the street. I spent a good half hour stalking it for frogs (it was warmish today) but to no avail - where are they??? I actually had some homework to do after dinner before returning to emailing and trip research. Sorry no pics today!