Meeting the parents

Shit went down last semester with my roommates (story's too long to share on this blog tho) so this semester we got a new one! And her name is Taylor. And she's pretty awesome- this time I'm not being forced to write this, unlike similar posts made in the past. She brought me along to have dinner with her mum on Wednesday, to a place called Pizza Orgasmica (luls). Besides the delicious, yet painfully bad titled pizzas, I also enjoyed...

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Finding a placement

For one of my classes this semester, I have to volunteer a few hours per week at a mental health organisation. I was contacting a few different orgs, and one of them responded back saying they had a temporary volunteer opportunity for me over the weekend. It was a dance event for queer youth, and I was asked to help set-up and just help around at the event. So I jumped at the chance, thinking that maybe I could make some connections at the event,...

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Prepare for much cheese

A few weeks ago, my good friend Wendy left to Sydney to study abroad at UTS. We were having a kickback at Kevin and Greg's house, and we decided to skype her since we hadn't talked to her as a big group since she had landed in Sydney. I just wanted to share these photos with you all because look how amazing she is, wrapped in her fucking American flag, drinking Jack daniels (I think?) Anyway the point of this post is that sometimes you meet...

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One step closer to a heartattack

Much food porn. I put my $20 gift card for Cheesecake Factory to good use.  Twas great.  I think it's slight-to-near impossible to not gain weight in America  Spent like, a good 20 minutes deciding which cheesecake to get.  Food therapy is a real phenomenon.  I'd throw my pie for you, Emma x...

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Winter Break Posts: Scavenger Hunt

So just before school started, IEEC hosted a scavanger hunt around the city. This included going around the city and taking photos of ourselves in front of things around the city, and checking places/things off of a checklist. Needless to say, because we were awesome, we won. And we each got a $20 card to Cheesecake factory :ooo. Our photo of a piece of artwork with all of the different number plates...

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