Wow, it is already day 49! Time really flies quickly. Seeing that number reminds me that I should add a day and time of day counter to the vlogs, so you know on which day I took the footage. But let’s not talk about the vlogs because I am still working on them. So what have I been up to? Mostly working my butts off with the internship. I am sitting around in the lab, trying to optimize the optical alignment of my experiment, but it isn’t quit working. But I will figure it out soon. At least that is my hope.
In other news, I went got some Thai food with Vera today. We mostly want to eat something in Newtown. Newtown is a place close to the university, so it has a lot of restaurants that have decent prices of students. We couldn’t really agree on which type of food we would go for, so we ended up eating at a Thai at the end of Newtown. The dish was around $14.50.
During the day, some early plans of the blue mountain were constructed, like doing a picknick together. The idea is also to bring some Japanese cheesecake that i came across a few time in townhall, back when I was living in the center. Also early drafts of Saturdays plans are drafted. We are probably going to ivy bar. But that is still up in the air. (Note: we didn’t go to Ivy bar, because we wanted to go early to the Blue mountain)
To finish up this update blog, lets talk about some stuff of the last few days, because their are some stuff I didn’t record, but still like to talk about. So lets document it for now, so i know it for the future. So first thing first. I joined a lecture on general radiation. The lecture was for master student at the University of Sydney. But a Dutch friend (Mels, is a student from the Physics student from TU Delft) I met is currently doing that lecture, so I decided that I would join him, and see how a lecture at the University of Sydney would be. The lecture didn’t teach me much, because I covered a lot of the material during my radiation minor back in the Netherlands, but it was still cool to see the different in the way the lectures are teach. The lecture room wasn’t big, it considered out of 3 row, with each row elevated before the previous one, so everyone could easily see the slides. The row where also circle instead of straight, and every two sitting places had a microphone, so you could easily give answer to a question from the professor.
Another story, is that I took my first Starbucks beverage. It was a mango frappuccino. But I don’t know what I was expecting, but it didn’t tasted like coffee. It tasted more like a smoothie. But it still was good. It costed me $6. So that was around €4. Little bit cheaper than in the Netherlands, but not that much. Still I did something that was on my Sydney bucket list, and now I can cross it off. Would i drink more frappuccino in the future? Probably not, but i cant say it for certain.
Speaking about Starbucks, during ordering the bevarege I did a little experiment. How would the waitress write my name, when I pronounce it in Dutch. And as the picture shows, they didn’t got it right! My name became Stone and Vera name turned into fvra/fura (Can’t make out which version it is, I leave it up to you to decide which one it is).
Finally, let’s finish with the dinner I last cook myself. It was burritos. As some know, and some don’t. My favorite food is burritos. So I decided to make it! And wraps are here a real thing, so I decided to buy a random large one, and use that instead of the traditional wraps. And I like this burrito more than the traditional wraps. It gave a different kind of flavor to it, I really enjoyed the burrito. Next time, I may need to add some more corn, to balance out the dish. But otherwise. Perfect dish!
But that was the update blog for today, see you next time! 🙂
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