Yeah! My essay on agriculture's impact on water and human health in New Zealand is finally done. Well, it is partly done. All I need to do now is a short conclusion on 100 words the highest. The word count was on 1500, on AUT it means that you can write 10% more or less than that (150 words). I am currently at 1555 words, so I'll just need to make it really short but good. Nemas problemas!
Time to study my ass off for the upcoming exams!
Why didnt this dude win A-idol?
Postad den 2011-05-31 @ 10:43:52 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
Hey, I have developed my Cook Islands underwater pictures today and I got the CD with them on:) The quality is quite crap if you compare it to my digital camera, but who cares. It's sweet anyhow!
I'll upload some here and then I'm off to watch Pirates of the Carribean on cinema! sweet as.
nice memories =)
Postad den 2011-05-30 @ 08:41:37 Postad i Rarotonga, Cook Islands | Kommentarer (0)
Today I had my verbal presentation covering the bulletpoints of my findings in my benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) essay. It went really well I think, I didn't look down on my Q-cards once! I basicly had memorized my whole speech.
Right now I'm dead tired so I'll just chill & watch some modern family. Got a couple of assignments left to work on, and then its hardcore study for the final exams in psych and HAP1.
Enjoy
Postad den 2011-05-30 @ 03:45:32 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
Hey, I just came back from a flat showing. It is located around 20 minutes on bike from university and it seemed really good. So that's where I will be living from the last week of June :) Nice to know that you got a place to stay when the contract here runs out. It is 150 NZD a week (150x5.5 for SEK I think) and everything is included. Even internet and sky TV, yeah! It is quite expensive to live here in Auckland, especially on North Shore. In sweden I could probably get a pretty decent flat if I payed 220 a week (like I do here at AUT studentvillage), and I wouldn't need to be flatting with 4 other people. What I need to do next is to get a cheap bike, I wonder if dudes bike on female bikes here like we do in Sweden. I might just end up looking like a total outsider if I end up buying a cheap female bike with a basket, haha. The swedish dude with the female bike, would be funneh. better do some more investigation on this ;p
Right now we are going to make hawaiian pizza (ham, pineapple, cheese, blabla..) and later it's time for party to end up down town in the viaduct. Not complaining.
We got our results back from our team project, it resulted in an overall grade of A+. Woop woop, now I only need to do a decent essay to get a good mark in Health & Environment. The only paper I am fearing right now is HAP, the exam will be brutal considering I feel pretty lost right now. There are so many topics that will be covered :E bleh, I really want a good mark in it.. Hopefully I will manage to reach a higher level....
I am a very mood-dependent person. I can end up doing an excelent essay 2 to 3 days before we need to hand it in. It all depends on if I feel like writing or not. I am trying to plan my study etc, but it's as if I don't get anything good done if I'm not in the mood for it. Why can't you always be in a study mood, imagine how good grades you would get :E
This one, good as
Postad den 2011-05-28 @ 06:40:58 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
Hoy, Here I am, pumpin' Calvin Harris - Flashback in my headset. I have approximately 350-400 words left on my essay which is due on firday next week. I want to get done with it so I can focuse on the exams in psych and HAP. I am really tired but it is too late to sleep now. I think that I am getting old, really. If I party, I am dead tired the day after. Doesn't matter if I have had just a little bit to drink. I guess I can be considered a rookie nowadays. Nevertheless, tomorrow it is pardey and on the eleventh we will celebrate mine and a flatties bday. Will be fun as.
I am sending my CSN papers in a couple of days. It kind of got me to think of money when I got them, jeez-. I wonder why? It is insanely expensive to study as an international here, I guess it's not better anywhere else. Anyway, I emailed two swedish universities today that seemed to provide the bachelor of science program in physiotherapy on english. I really do not want to go back to Sweden, so I will most likely end up living here for the next years. Really, it is soon winter and it is still 17-19*C. How can you ever miss Sweden's cold temperatures when you're spoiled with palm trees and humidity in a country on the other side of the world? hah, I cant wait till summer. It is going to be epic!
I am pretty sore right now, my muscles are aching. Everytime I've been to the gym and don't get enough sleep the day after, I feel abit sick. It's as if my immune system weakens in the aid to repair my sore muscles. It probably is. I hope I didn't say anything stupid now, hehe ;)
Anyhow, I forgot to write that I went rock climbing a couple of days ago with a woman I met in Cook Islands. She is really fun and the rock climbing was awesome. I am regreting not taking the drivers-license in Sweden before I moved here. The wall-climbing place is on the other side of town. I am trying to force my flatties to come with me someday. I could easily become addicted to that sport, there is always a wall that will buuld up a challenge for you.
Here is a bounch of mixed pictures for ya;
"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." (c)E.B. White
Postad den 2011-05-27 @ 10:06:05 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
I've got so much to do right now. blaeh, on monday I've got my first verbal presentation ever here on the other side of the world. I am nervous but I feel secure on my speech, I don't really know how I will react. Hopefully I won't forget the words or screw up, its time-limited and we are not allowed to speak longer than what is required of us. I think it will be good, hopefully I am one of the first ones.
It has been raining hard for two days, but it is still quite warm - around 17-19*C. I like it, it's the end of autumn but still warm, I'm def not complaining <:)
Tomorrow we are covering another topic in Human Anatomy & Physiology. i am already lost and our exam is in 2,5 weeks. I need to study my ass off :E
I went to our second physiotherapy meeting today. It was good, we got to know what our four papers for next semester will be, and guess what: I don't need to buy any books for next semester, SCORE! They're are freaking expensive, but apparentally we got three practical papers (which will be fuun) and the fourth is physiotherapy & movement - which we will use our HAP book for :)
I need to go to sleep now, got to get up seven tomorrow -.-
good night
Postad den 2011-05-26 @ 12:24:07 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
Hey, I am very tired right now. I've been searching for valuable sources to use for my upcoming health & environment essay. I found myself writing approximately 900 words our of 1750 on a combined topic that was totally unnescessary to cover. I started writing about agriculture in New Zealand and its affect on environment and water shortages as a cause of irrigation. The thing is, we are supposed to write about something that affects human health negatively (or has the ability) and how it is being managed today in New Zealand. Ofcourse, I am too stubborn to change topic now since I have been working on this for a day or two. I decided to change my direction to how the increasing freshwater shortages threatens agriculture in New Zealand, and somehow link that to human health. The only problem is, I am really struggling to find articles to use as my sources. So right now I am really tired.. I will probably end up watching modern family (<3) and then fall asleep like a baby, without any new information added to my essay. Meh, I will find a way to make this work. If I do, it will turn out to be an awesome essay! I can feel it.. I need it as well, it's 40% of our final mark.
I finally got myself together to take my third Twinrix shot (Hepatitus A+B). What's annoying is that I need to take another bloodtest to proove that I am still immune. How stupid doesn't that sound? I have already provided them with bloodsamples that proved my immunity, these taken after my second shot. Bleh, just annoying, luckily the bloodsamples are not as expensive as the ones in Sweden. However, I spent 86 NZD on my twinrix shot (86x5.2 for SEK).
It looks like we've found a place to live, I really hope for this one. It it cost 150 NZD a week, which is way better than here (220NZD a week). It is a bit far away from university though so I'll have to get a bike or a buscard, but it's all good. Either way I will save money.
All this talk about money makes me feel anxious of not having a job. In Sweden I went into saving mode, in New Zealand I've only wasted money. Well maybe not wasted, it has been for useful things. It is just weird not to have a steady income anymore, I'll have to get a job soon. It's expensive as to study here.
okay, time for some modern family:)
Adios amigos /alex
Postad den 2011-05-24 @ 11:04:40 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
Life is weird. We are all born with different abilities, personalities and characteristics. People talk about main-stream, but is there really such thing? Ofcourse you can aim to be like someone else, or even larger groups. But when it comes down to it, are you really just like anybody else? or do you have your own interests & own goals in life?
Here I am, on the other side of the world. I'm studying a physiotherapy program and will most likely graduate after 4 years into my program. So how come I choose such path in my life? Why didn't I stay in Sweden to study marketing or engineering which seem to be extremely popular for most? How come I ended up here out of everywhere in Europe; was I really that tired on Sweden and its mentality that I had to travel as far away from the country possible?
It is weird how fast you adapt to a new society. Everything I read is on english, even my thoughts appear in english. I bet I even talk english in my dreams. Do I find it weird? no, it exist in my every-day life which I have so fast learned to adapt to.
New Zealand is very americanized, they listen to the same music and seem to have the same traditions such as proms etc every semester. I do tend to forget that I am actually in New Zealand and how hard I struggled to get here. Adaption is a weird thing.
I have approximately 7 hours left on my spotify-free to listen overseas. I love spotify, will be hard to say goodbye.
I need to study for my HAP exam now. It will be way harder than the first one which I got an A on. May the hell weeks begin.
ps. I got an A- on my psychology essay.
Postad den 2011-05-23 @ 08:57:02 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
Essay is all done, now I'm working on another one.. We've got alot of stuff coming up; exam in HAP, exam in psychology, essay in health & environment and another essay + presentation in KEC. All in a couple of weeks, busy busy!
Otherwise there's not much happening right now :e Still looking for a place, they rented the other place to someone else. abooeh -.-
The weather is getting colder now, under 20 degrees. Some days can be quite nice still, but there's a lot of rain nowadays. o well ;)
I wish I had the money to come home during our winter break (summer in SWE). That would've been so nice.. I got a 4-5 week long break, aah.,. money's talkin'
Right now I'll do some HAP study & then hit the gym.
Adios amigos
/alex
Postad den 2011-05-18 @ 08:24:14 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
I am streaming ESC at the moment & ofcourse people are downloading. Annoys me, it worked perfectly fine untill now. -.- it S U C K S living in a student village, will be awesome to leave this place.
Postad den 2011-05-15 @ 01:06:54 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
I am pretty 'dead' today after my workout yesterday, you can tell I'm not in shape. What's even worse, I ate nachos today again!! I'm never eating that again, really. bleeh, its insanely F A T and yeh,.. not a good combo with training.
So today it's friday and I will probably just spend the night watching a movie and eating banana cake with ice-cream, yeaaah! Tomorrow is the "prom-night". Since I left all my "nice" shoes at home, I'll need to get some cheap ones for tomorrow. I can't show up wearing white converse with my suit? it would be nice, but I don't think they would let me in. I would be classified as insane, haha :) It's "formal affair" which means everyone has to dress up in proper outfits. We might hit the town after, we will for sure look very.... dressed up ?;e
ah yeah, I just recalled what I missed out on writing yesterday. As we have all learned, it is grammatically wrong to write and after a comma. i.e. blablabla, and the horse was black. Although, I have seen the wording in several books and the teachers love to use it. So I questioned it and they said it was actually an open debate about it going on, some say it should not be there and others claim it to be correct. Basically, you can use the phrasing if you feel it is appropriate. Let's say you have a long sentence that you want to continue with a and:
- the horse was black with white stripes that could be considered as grey, and was in general very muscular with blabla...
It's a bad example, just couldn't think of anything else right now. No idea why I got horses on my mind haha. I don't know if this applies to swedish, but it sure does here..
If that made any sence, good. If not, just ignore it ;)
I need to start working on my essay now. I am currently listening to blues, again, but I cant really focus with music on for some reason. I write much better without any disturbance, it's like music blocks my thinking processes. It decreases my academic level, haha. o well, imagine a world without music though. How sad wouldn't that be.
Enjoy :)
Postad den 2011-05-13 @ 07:30:53 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
"I gave you a brand new ford
and you said "i want a Cadillac"
I bought you a ten dollar dinner
and you said "thanks for the snack"!
I let you live in my penthouse
you said it was just a shack!
I gave you seven children
and now you wanna to give 'em back!"
BB King, ain't got nothin' but love for his music.
I just came back from the gym. I haven't been working out for over two weeks. Even though I ate a load of nachos about a half an hour before I hit the gym, it felt pretty okey. I have a feeling that I will sleep well tonight :)
I am finally getting somewhere with my essay, at least that's how it feels like. I have simplified my answer and got lots of room left to write about the conflicting theories claiming different things. I really hope I will get a good grade on this one, would be awesome. Sort of like an achievement of my own, that I've been able to examine medical articles and translating it into a simplified version. That is harder than it sounds, really.
Me and a friend from my apartment complex have been looking for a place to live after this semester. I just handed in my bond-refund document to get my bond back, & we'll have to check out the latest 25th of June at 10 o'clock. Since time goes so fast here, we kind of need to find a place ASAP. We did find one just up the street from here, we even send in our application forms. We did this on saturday last week and she, the real-estate woman, didn't respond. So I called her today to check whats up, she basicly said she had a hard time getting a-hold of Sarah's references.. Well, since I am from Sweden and Sarah is from Canada, it is understandable.. :p Although everyone seem to be so insanely slow in this country. Everything goes in slow-motion and it's pretty annoying to be honest.
.....oeh no, my blues song just ended!! Need to put on a new one, ...
okay, BB king - Blues Boys Tune is on.
Anyway, I am really hoping we will get that place. It is awesome and it's just a couple of minutes walk from university. Awesome location!
I was thinking of something else to write about, but for some reason it disappeared somewhere "up there". Well, time to get some sleep I guess, early lecture tomorrow in HAP (Human Anatomy & Physiology).
Adios amigos Alex
ps. So sad about the earthquake in Spain. My thoughts are with you.
Postad den 2011-05-12 @ 11:19:58 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
I just "cleaned" my mailbox. Aparantely, I had mails from 2005.. What the h? :p Time goes so fast.. Friends come and go, life goes on.
I've tuned my guitar and it sounds good :)
Today's schedule is:
Write 200+ words on my essay
Print out the "bond-return form" for my current accommodation
Try not to consume more tea today, I had one cup today already - it's enough!
Hit the gym, haven't been there for weeks? bleh
Play some guitar
Sleep
It is raining a lot today, I guess winter is on its way.. It is weird though, it is really windy today but the temperature is still around 20*C. .........oeh, just as I'm sitting here writing, the rain has increased its force. I don't think I have ever seen this much rain coming down at once :O
I guess I'll need to bring my raincoat..
Postad den 2011-05-11 @ 03:46:53 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
Yeah, that's right. I am writing about BPPV for a upcoming "essay" in my KEC paper (knowledge, enquiry & communication). At first I started to freak out cause I chose such a hard topic to write about, but then I started studying it and it all kind of fell to place. The only problem now is that I can't write it as if the reader is an academic. I need to write it "simplified".. hell, that is even harder than describing the in-depth anatomy and physiology of the inner ear and how it links together with my subtype of vertigo. :E
So what to do? well, pump some blues in my external speakers and it will all be alright. What to do without youtube? :)
I bought a guitar a few days ago and now I just have to figure out how to tune it. It is a steel-string acoustic guitar, my old one was "steel & plastic" stringed. It sounds different ;o much easier to tune a "steel & plastic" one :E
Postad den 2011-05-10 @ 10:23:41 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
We had a massive tornado here some days ago, luckily it changed direction before it hit our studentvillage :)
Today is a pretty busy day; I have to go to a meeting concerning a team project in Health & Environment, then I have to rush to a house showing. After that I need to study and then take the bus to the city to meet up with Louise for a beer.
I have decided to stay here for the summer-break (swedish winter) & I bet it will be AWESOME!:)
Here is the tornado:
Postad den 2011-05-06 @ 23:43:24 Postad i Auckland, NZ | Kommentarer (0)
