26 February, 2009 in Recreation, University by Aonghas

Happy Birthday Mummy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUMMY! (AND HELEN CLARK)
This morning when I got off the bus in town, I met up with one of the guys on my maths course. Apparently he caught the same bus as me but I didn’t realise he was on it. He told me that he was Shameela’s uncle and that he came from Afghanistan some years ago. We walked to university together before he went his own way (because he was doing another course for the day). Marianely arrived at the lecture theatre just before it started but Luke was still nowhere to be seen. I later found out that his car didn’t want to start this morning so he had to catch a bus into town later. Our morning lecture today was on integration. It was mostly revision stuff for me, but it was still good to refresh my memory. We met up with Luke after the lecture when we went to our tutorial room.

My first time upstairs at the Queen Street McDonald's

I met up with Persis and Lydia for lunch today (Lydia was Head Girl of Henderson High School last year and Persis was Deputy Head Girl). We met at Albert Park before walking down to McDonald’s on Queen Street for lunch. Since I had already finished all my lunch at interval, I decided I would just buy a small combo at McDonald’s. When we arrived, it was pretty full of people and quite a few students in uniforms standing around. I ordered a bacon cheeseburger combo (or something like that) for $5. The upstairs eating area was actually opened for the first time in my life so we went upstairs to sit down (I’m sure I’ve never seen the stairs without the chain across the bottom before!). It was good to catch up with Persis and Lydia after not seeing them for ages – I think the last time I talked to them was at Rangeview last year when we were promoting our high schools to the intermediate students. They are both doing Science degrees at Auckland Uni this year, though they will be specialising in different fields later on.

Persis Samuel and Lydia Rayner

After lunch we had a two hour lecture by Addie Pujii about Mechanics. I didn’t actually know what part of Mechanics he was going to talk about, but neither Marianely or Luke came to the afternoon lecture. Before the lecture started, Julia passed around an evaluation form for everyone to fill out about the course. Although the Mechanics lecture was mainly about deriving the formulae found on the Mechanics formula sheet from last year, Addie did show us a video clip of these guys rapping about vectors. I managed to find the video on Youtube, it’s called The Vector Song. Original title, I know. It was kind of funny in places, but pretty random! Here it is below:

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Tonight we went to Sylvia Park Shopping Centre to pick up a Pharmacy book that Calum bought off Trademe. After we picked the book up, we decided to have a browse around in the different shops. We came across the Sony Style shop that sold all sorts of Sony electronics, but everything was really expensive. I saw a tripod that was $849! For a tripod! I don’t know how many people actually buy stuff there; they might just gawk and ‘wow’ at everything and then walk out, like we did. As we were leaving Sylvia Park, we spotted Ryan Benjamin at a restaurant/cafe place about to have dinner. He waved us over, and we had a quick chat with him. He seems to be enjoying his job at Rosehill College. Apparently the interest in Debating has risen over there, which he’s excited about. Too bad Rutherford is going to win the competition this year…

Although we didn’t have a special celebration for Mum’s birthday today, we’ve got a little secret up our sleeves for this Saturday which she doesn’t know about (or at least we don’t think she knows about it!)

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