So begins a new week. Monday we spent the time finishing off some uni assignments, (ohhh the drama, i know i have you hooked from sentence numero uno!) and well, that was a dull day. However Tuesday popped around and I went to my Shakespeare class as per usual on a tuesday (yipee!) and we have begun studying A Midummer Night's Dream; one of my favourite plays. perhaps my liking this play has something to do with the fact that there are fairies and mischief, and possibly because it reminds me of our year 7 school production 'In your Dreams' to which the infamous Shimmy King and I randomly burst into rendition of. Or perhaps it is all of the above. Either way, I really like it, and its a brilliant play to start with :)
MY Comparative literature teacher actually showed up this week, and started talking about a vikings romance story we had been reading, and then proceeded to assign us an assignment. Ofcourse, as things 'roll' here in the Philippines, I had to ask when it was due. She responded with next week before changing her mind and saying "Actually, since tomorrow is a public holiday, you can hand it in on Thursday because it means you have the entire day to do it tomorrow". I must have given her a dirty "oh hell no!" look because she took one look at me, and said "actually, no lets make it next tuesday..."
Darn tootin! who the hell expects people to spend their entire public holiday writing an essay, especially for the Filipino students who also take another 5 subjects twice a week. INSANITY!
Now tune in here miss Dais, because Wednesday appeared to be the day of the housemate 'bitch-a-thon'. Being a public holiday, we endeavoured to go to a park for the day, however having no clue how to get there, we instead decided to get some work done, and to hop off to the gym. So off to the gym we went in the arvo to do a class and make use of their free wifi. But ofcourse getting anywhere here in the Philipppines takes an hour, even to get 3 kms away due to the insane traffic. The traffic here is, well, MADNESS. sure, there are lines on the road, but nobody takes any notice of the lanes, they drive where they want to, don't use indicators, just honk at each other, swerve in and out of cars and trucks, and the taxi's have no seatbelts either. So, i have decided looking out the window just sets me off in a panic attack thinking that i am going to die. So after we arrived at the gym and took our skype calls etc, we went to do our gym class...and ofcourse because of the public holiday it wasn't running, but it took 4 people to let us know that, as they kept pawning us off onto someone else. So, we grumbled and left, and when we arrived home, Cathy, Erin and I, had ourselves a little grumble (as i mentioned earlier, living here feels like living with Bipolar, our moods seems to swing from one extreme to the other) and poor tania, came home after a day of awesomeness volunteering with kids, and walked into our ultimate grumble session, to which then we had to complete a group assignment together.
The next day seemed to get better, atleast for me, however poor erin jumped out of a taxi, and then the taxi reversed into her and just drove off.... ahhhh Manila, only you could do that. So after my Shakespeare class (loved it!) and my Comparative Lit class (to which, once again my teacher didn't show up to) Cathy and I decided to go to a nice restaurant to bring up our moods. I waited for her until her class finished, and hung out in the Literature library. My mood elevated quickly when i saw that ALL of their books were very old hard copies of all the classics, Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, and more. I had severe nerd-gasms walking through the aisles checking out every single book they had. Tania then messaged me to tell me she wasn't feeling great and wouldn't be coming to our next class. She also told me that she hoped i had brought my umbrella with me. Confused, because the morning was incredibly hot, i asked her why i would need my umbrella, to which she responded "You aren't near a window right now, are you?" I stepped out of the library, to see torrential downpour. The weather here can change in a second, and when it rains, it doesn't do it half assed. Thankfully Cathy had her umbrella, and I had a plastic binder folder, and we made our way in the pouring rain to the restaurant. It was called 'The Chocolate Kiss' and just so happened to be on campus. However we turned up there DRENCHED, but got excited when we saw real food on the menu. I got an eggplant parma and we stuffed ourselves silly of food. DELIGHT!
My next class was Community Organising, and we had to present an autobiography of ourselves. Very, very awkward, but spent the three hours listening to people explain their history's. it was a handy way to get a background info on each of my class mates without having to use small talk. I hate small talk.
Friday 8:30am, we were to present our group presentation with our teacher who has decided that social work is all about economics (dipshit), so we got their bright and early, aaaaand dn dn dnnnnnnn.... he didn't turn up! Cue, grumbles. What i found funny was that as soon as we found out, the other girls in our class whipped out their nail polish and sat there painting their nails, haha. Turns out, always come prepared!
Cath and I went home for a quick nap before heading off to the shops to do some Christmas shopping, and then head to the gym. We took a Pilates class and it turns out I have no core muscle strength, and I am not quite as flexible as i used to be. doh!
Saturday, our plan was to go to waterfalls, however Tania, convinced us to come along to this volunteer day with the children who are victims of military abuse. So we headed to the gym in the morning, and tried to make our way to this volunteer place. we got incredibly lost for a while (goooooood directions tan :P) and finally made it. The kids were really cute and sweet, and we spoke to a few of the workers of the organisation. They seemed very excited to have us there, even though we weren't actually doing anything. They even dragged us up to be in their big group photo. They explained some other volunteer days, and I, for one, am definitely keen to do more work with them. Hopefully there will be more opportunity in the new year for this.
Our subdivision had a Christmas party on Saturday night, so we went along to this and everyone brought a dish of food. They also had a talent show, to which Erin and Cathy decided we would partake in. P.s. I hate you guys. I have massive stage fright, and somehow I had to partake because I would be the main singer in our little band. We sang Slow Club's 'Christmas Tv', and i spent the entire time shaking, voice cracking, and wanting to die. Did i mention i had stage fright and i am now plotting the death of my house mates? lol. Not to mention they got some of the new friends we made that night to film it. The film will never see the light of day!!
There were some younger girls who sang as well, and wow they are so talented! I couldn't believe how there were so many young talented girls in playing instruments and singing. When we tried to sneak off on occasion the presenter would say on the microphone "Don't leave Australians, come sit over here!", so i wonder if we were told to stay because we were a novelty. Anyhoo, we decided to sneak off again at the end, and they gave us a little 'prize' for partaking in the show. Win for getting an angry birds coffee set! hahahaha. Seriously, there is a HUGE obsession with angry birds. I remember one night when i was obsessed with angry birds back home and used up all of Kyles iphone battery.... hahahaha.
Afterwards, Cathy, Erin and I decided to get our boogy on, so we got ourselves dressed up and went into Makati to hit the clubs. We found an awesome one with awesome music called 'Republiq' and spent the next few hours dancing the night away, although i remember why i love Australia's law of not smoking inside clubs. We crawled our way into bed at 4:30am, ready for Tania's alarm to go off at 5am for her to make her way to church.
While Tania was at church we decided to finish up some Christmas shopping and headed our way into Makati once more. I had found this amazing vegetarian restaurant online, so we stopped there for breakfast/lunch/dinner (mostly because we stuffed ourselves silly) with the most AMAZING food. I was in vegetarian heaven. As there is hardly ANY, and i mean NO, vegetarian food here in the Philippines, when i find somewhere like this, i overdo the amount of food i eat. We tried the entree's of carrot soup, spring rolls, and spinach and fetta croquettes (amazing!!) and then Kofta balls (i am pretty sure i died and went to heaven with this one!) and a vegetarian nut roast, and then ofcourse banoffee pie for dessert. When i say we stuffed ourselves silly, i am not exaggerating. The menu had SO much to choose from, and it all looked delicious!! and everything we tried was DELICIOUS!
We headed to a health food store, so that we could stock up on some healthier options for our pantry, and then finished our shopping before heading back home in our food induced coma and all watching movies on our laptops. Lovely :)
That brings us to today. We woke up, needing to do assignment work, and spent a good hour watching the kittens and cat that had made a playground of our little courtyard. We named the Mother Bermuda (or muda) and the Kittens are now called Cinnamon, Sirus, Zona aaaand Gubba. What a good way to procrastinate :)
Anyhoo, now i suppose i should write these two essays that i need for tomorrow's classes, and the two readings i need also.
I hope i had inserted enough bitching for you miss Dais, if not i shall try to remedy this situation :) turns out I am not in the bitching mood right now, as both my assignments are literature ones and i enjoy it *cough* NERD! *cough*
There is now less than two weeks until I am back in Australia for Christmas, and hopefully i will be able to catch up with some of you then before I make my way back to the beautiful city that is Manila.... HAHAHAHA, well i think my jokes are funny :P
Love B xoxo
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