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Time seems to fly by so much faster here. Entire days go by in a matter of minutes and weeks disappear in the blink of an eye. It was hard to believe that I’d already made it to the third week of classes. It felt like just yesterday that I’d unloaded my luggage from the Expedition and wandered through the international terminal at LAX.
Yet somehow it was week three and in the trimester system, week three is when school starts to get real. My week started with a bit of schedule juggling. One of my classes had been moved to Thursday, one of the many days of the week that I refused to go to school, and I was forced to mix around my entire schedule so I could get into a different section and keep my dream of being done for the week at noon on Wednesdays a reality. Eventually it all worked out and another week (or rather three short days) of school flew by as I prepared for a weekend on Fraser Island.
But while the week flew by, there was one noteworthy development. It happened on Monday. Because of my schedule juggling, I ended up on campus much longer than I had expected on Monday with several extra breaks between classes so we decided to head over to the nearby plaza for food. It started out like any other journey. We walked over, made a pit stop at the Post Office and headed into the mini-grocery store, IGA. But it wasn’t long after we started wandering the aisles that magic happened. After passing the fruit section and then the lunchmeat section, we approached the frozen food aisle. And there it was. COOKIE DOUGH!!! Because I still had to get back to class and had to catch a bus home from there, I couldn’t actually buy the cookie dough, but just knowing that it existed somewhere on the continent of Australia made going back to class a little more bearable. It was also more than enough excitement to get me through the week as we anticipated our weekend on Fraser Island.
Because our Fraser Island trip that was set for last weekend had been postponed after we’d already packed, we put off packing until the last minute on Thursday night. But as Wednesday afternoon and Thursday began to pass and we had yet to receive a call that our trip had been postponed, I had to scramble to get all of my week four homework done before we left.
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