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London was absolutely amazing. The scale of the city is impressive. The museums were all massive and filled with really interesting stuff. I visited the Natural History Museum, the British Museum, the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. You can spend at least a day in each one, and they have stuff from all over the world. My favourite exhibit was probably the robotic life-sized t-rex in the natural history museum, I actually felt a little nervous standing in front of it. I also visited art galleries, historical sights and the Globe Theatre (never, ever say the M-word in the Globe). Here's an interesting fact about the theatre; originally the white exterior walls are plastered with a mixture of plaster and cow's hair. However, in rebuilding the theatre in modern times they discovered that cows aren't as hairy now as they were back then, so they had to use the next best thing. This proved to be pashmina goat hair, so the walls are terribly expensive. The underground trains are impressive as well. In some of the larger stations I must have descended eight or nine stories to get to the platforms. I also managed to see the Lion King on stage, superb performance, everything from how the actors moved to the dance routines to the design and puppetry was brilliant. Also managed to spend a weekend in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is very cool, especially at night when they have the light show. We went up it on a pretty windy day and could feel it swaying from side to side. All in all a good trip, and in a couple of days I'll be heading to Adelaide for Oaktree's national conference.

1. I woke up feeling really refreshed when I woke up this morning, and lay there for about half an hour feeling content.
2. In the morning I met up with the student who will hopefully take over the Applecross seed group next year. She's very capable and I think she'll really enjoy the role.
3. Our group meeting for ELEC3303 was very efficient.
4. I hung around the Oaktree stall on the Oak Lawn for two hours and chatted with peeps.
5. Caroline caught up for lunch and had a chat about a range of topics (apparently the Polish go as crazy as the Indians when it comes to weddings).
6. When I got back home I checked my email and found that I have an interview for a grad position next week.
7. Our evening soccer game was awesome, we drew and it was one of the most intense games we've played all season.
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1. Med people should look up http://www.ertards.com/, it's the medical equivalent of fmylife and something I'm sure you'll find hilarious.
2. Med ball was great. Everyone was very shiny and Chesna was kind enough to have pre-drinks at her house before we went the ball. The videos were absolutely hilarious, especially the sixth year one with all the songs. That said, the DJ they had wasn't spectacular. Last year I only stopped dancing when I was tired, but I stopped quite a few times at this ball just because the music just wasn't danceable. Credit though, he did play "I'm On a Boat". Looking forward to next year's ball when most of my friends are graduating.
3. Panto was supermegacrazyawesomefun. The performances went really well, we even sold out on Friday (thankyou Octoberfest) and had some great heckles (thankyou drunken students). The afterparty was cool, "Never Have I Ever" is always entertaining. Bumped out this afternoon, it's a little sad to dismantle everything but it had to end sooner or later. Even if I'm working next year I think I'll still come back and do it.
4. Uni stuff is under control, I've got three pieces of work due in over the next few weeks. One's a lab report (should be alright), and the other two are group reports (both groups are good, one of the reports is practically done).
5. No job yet, what to do if I'm not working in an engineering capacity next year? I'm not keen on further study, at this stage the best way I can learn is through practical experience. I could always study something else for a year, or get a casual job until I find something. Hmm, we'll see.

1. We had our living room ceiling repaired this week. The guys were very professional and efficient, all it needs now is a coat of paint and it'll be good as new. It's reassuring to know it's not going to collapse in on us.
2. Malika left for Houston on Thursday. The movers came in last week to pack all her stuff and ship it to the Americas. She'll probably be back at the end of the year for her leave but she'll be working over there for at least two years. It'll be weird not having her but I think she's going to have a lot of fun.
3. The Schools4Schools website got hacked. Some South American anti-war group posted their message and a picture of a red handprint on the website, but it's been fixed now so it's all good.
4. Yesterday was loads of fun. Oaktree people gathered at John's house for pre-drinks and home made pizza (delicious!) before going to Red Party. Had to wait in line for a bit before getting in, which is not fun when it's raining, but once we got it we dried off pretty quickly. Lots of peeps were there and the music was generally good, plus it was cool seeing everyone dressed up in red.

The quiz night was yesterday, and it was awesome! It nearly didn't happen though. Sheebs and I rocked up to the venue (a hall attached to a church in Ardross) and found out that is had been double-booked. It's not a good feeling finding out that you don't have a venue two minutes before you are about to start setting up, I think Sheebs can testify to the seriousness of my serious face. Luckily, the principal at Applecross managed to open up the staffroom and we managed to have the event without a hitch. We only started half an hour late and the staff room was a great venue, plue we didn't have to pay for it either. The evening was really fun, everyone had a great time with the quiz and the other activities (that said, everyone got owned in the first round "Famous Quotes", I think about five or six teams actually scored zero). The raffle and silent auction did pretty well as well, peopel loved the Crumpler bags and the comics sold surprisingly well. All up over 100 people turned up and we raised almost $1800, which will go towards Qhilika High School in South Africa.Thank you to everyone who turned up, bought stuff and let me steal their strawberries and cookies :) On a related note, we still had some items left at the end of the night. If you're interested in making an offer on something, let me know and I'll bring it to uni during the week. ( Stuff for sale includes... )