Surface Detail
Week One: It Begins
Well I arrived in Sydney on Saturday carrying as much as humanly possible. Arriving at the Maquarie University Village at 2:58 (the office closed at 3:00), I got into my room and… ah… no sheets or pillows. So the first few nights were spent using a beach towel for a rug, but we found a pillow in the apartment.
Anyway, the two flatmates with me at the moment are a 21 year-old American (Yanina) and a 19 year-old Kenyan (Pat). They’re good people, if a little messy in the kitchen… My unit is a 15 minute walk or so to a Marion-like shopping centre, with a small shopping complex just across the road. It’s pretty quiet here in the village because uni hasn’t started, but more people are gradually trickling in.
So far at AFTRS we’ve been bombarded with information for most of the week, but it’s an amazing place and the talent of the people there is pretty scary. All up there are 80-something of us (and about 50% of those are radio students) and it’s great talking to people that are really “into” their various areas. The facilities are also very, very nice. Oh! And the library – 15,000 videos and DVDs and great books…
It’s mostly been orientation, getting-to-know-you, introductions etc this week and will continue until next week, then we get into the course proper.
So it’s all going well and I’m not broke yet, so I’ll give you all another update in a week or so.