Cairns-day and some assignments..

Hello hello!

So finally, the midsemester exam on marketing
is behind me, as well as a GREAT Nickelback
concert, the King's Cross food and wine festival
and a night out with friends returning from
Easter Break! Only one group assignment left
due the 18th, a marketing analysis on a restaurant
in Newtown and then it's sweet freedom until the
final exams! I mean, why worry about them before
the last week :)

So what's been happening since friday..Saturday
I slept in (surprise surprise :) and just did
a quick revision on the marketing chapters
for the exam and went and did the exam and I
actually think I did pretty good! After the
exam time was running a bit short so we had a
quick dinner for two with Chris at KFC, dropped
some stuff at Geegal and headed down to Redfern
station from which we took a train to the Olympic
Park..they had a big AFL match (Swans vs. Geelong,
a rematch of the century or something) at the
Telstra Superdome so there was about a 100 000 people
on the move with us :) We got our tickets, queued
for about an hour before being admitted to the arena floor..
And I must point out that the concert just utterly and
totally ROCKED! :) Nickelback played about two hours,
mostly material from "Silver side up" and the newest
album, "All the right reasons"..pyrotechics,
fireworks, a "beer o'clock song" during which
they threw mugs of beer into the audience
("If you don't think you can catch it, don't put
your hand up!!" :D), all the good songs,
a stand just a meter from the edge of the stage..
great way to chill after the exam and try to get
some feeling of May Day here far away from home,
from the gig we went to Oxford Street to the
Brighton Hotel for a couple
of exam-beers and met up with some
flight attendant friends of Chris's..AND I met
this pilot whose name was Mikko, and had a finnish
mother so he even spoke a few words of finnish.. :)

On sunday morning we went to the King's Cross
Food and Wine festival with Alana, and Chris and
some of our other austrian and german friends
joined us shortly..cool sunny afternoon tasting
wines and eating, watching the shows, listening
to jazz and swing bands play out on the lawn..
good times. And of course, as we were in King's Cross,
the host(esse) had to be a transvestite standup
comedian (or as it were, comedienne) with two
strippers for good measure :) Nothing quite like
the good people of the Cross! :D
After the festival ended we walked back to Geegal
with Chris and tried to get people to go on
a pub crawl with us, but in the end we just
had a little jam session with the guitars, had
some wine and just chilled..probably the worst
case of homesickness so far, thinking about
all my friends back home celebrating Mayday but
hey, you can't win 'em all eh :) Well all for the
best, on Monday we made up for it because
so many people got back from their Easter breaks,
we had a fun night at Paddy Maguires, listened
to Craig's band (think I mentioned about him and his
band earlier..) after a long break, and from there
we went to Scubar to check out the latest batch of
backpackers in Sydney :)

Yesterday I mostly just tried to recover from
the weekend and detox, had dinner in Newtown
with my assignment group in the restaurant
we are doing the analysis on..early night
but couldn't sleep, the pizzas we had were
just MASSIVE..probably because they knew beforehand
that we are the ones doing the assignment :)

Today we started to work on the project itself,
writing down ideas and sketching a preliminary
format for the report..the afternoon I did some
enquiries about prices for a three-week east coast
-experience for me and Elisa..:) Now if ever
I am waiting for her to arrive!! We are
going to have so much fun, a safari at Fraser Island,
snorkling and sailing in the Whitsundays, Cairns,
Brisbane..our days are going to be just packed but
don't matter, it will be awesome I just know it :)
Now I'm trying to decide whether to go to bed
(it's half past four in the afternoon :D) or try
to stay awake until evening, maybe go meet up
with Carlos at the Loft, talk about the trip
with Elisa when she gets home..Going to be
a struggle as I didn't sleep more than an hour
or so last night but maybe better if I try
and make it till evening and then have a normal
01-11 sleep :)