Halls Take 2

2nd year of uni is a go! So that means that 2nd year of halls is a go. 

You'd think that since this is my 2nd year in halls I'd be used to all the crap that goes on and all the different people coming and going. But I'm not, I'm still as awkward and odd as I was last year. 

As with everything, these halls have good and bad points.

The Good

1. A huge common room with a TV, pool table and ping pong table.
2. My room is at the end of the corridor where no one can bother me :)
3. It's far closer to Uni than Robbins was

The Bad

1. Everyone, and I mean everyone is terribly naive.
2. We're still in the stage where everyone's being nice to everyone else
3. The rent is aspensive!!
4. I'm on a floor filled with girls :(
5. There are already 2 separate groups forming and I am a part of neither!
6. Ajm isn't here with me :(

Gotta take the good with the bad I guess. 

Who Knows The Most About The Guest Post(er)

Since I somewhat erratically made it to 50 posts, I fell into the old trap of finding someone else to write it for me. In this case, the big bro. I think he delves into some tips about back packing - which can also be useful for students too, especially considering that students are almost the same as back packers. :D  Anyway. He wrote this for me aggggges ago, so I'm going to assume that some of the details he's put in here are going to be very different to what they should be. You don't need to know how they've changed, just accept that they have :D

Well my blog is all but abandoned, decomposing at the bottom of the literary sea bed. I guess I've changed the world enough with my spectacular insights and gave it perhaps its greatest gift...This blog 

Rachel guest posted for me and I have been asked to return the favour, I suppose I can come out of retirement for one more round.

What to talk about, mmm....

I know! the global financial crisis is great detail... gotcha!

I'm Rachels big brother, am backpacking in Australia with my girlfriend Kylie, learning, experiencing and doing!

So how about a few tips into backpacking? to be fair most of these can be applied to you student folk as well.

- Buy own brand. 90% of supermarkets own brand stuff is actually made by the big brand companies, because they buy and sell in huge quantites they can sell at reduced costs.

- Use self serve tills. Lets face it most of your diet consists of Macca's, KFC and the like but every so often your body will crave fruit and vegtables (it's true) but that shit is exspensive. So what you do is choose the items you want and go through a self serve where you have to weigh things yourself, wait till the helper lady ain't looking and bang everything under carrots. 

- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. If someone hands you a half used jar of peanut butter you damn well better take it and don't be shy if there is a free food shelf too. Early bird gets the worm. (Ahh, metaphors) Connected to this is the reduced section at the markets.

- Make friends, chat to that hippy looking dude, they usually have better stories. Don't be overly friendly though you might end up in a cult who worship the almighty Banana. It's a fine line but tread it anyway.

- Money ain't the end all and be all. Splash out once in a while. Take your girlfriend to the Ripleys Believe It or Not Odditorium even though it freaked the be'jesus out you.

- Do something every once in a while that takes you out of your comfort zone. "Me?, look after 10+ horses for 3 months. They'll be dead in 3 days ya eejit" but you know what they didn't.

There you have it, a guest post. Not too painful was it?

Who knows I might write book someday with all this material in it, it probably wont be as popular as 50 Shades of Grey but to be fair there will be no anal training in my book.

See ya!