| Jan. 6th, 2005 @ 08:08 pm (no subject) |
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Well well well, an entry at last you say? About time you say? Well I oughta smash you in the face, but my threats are usually shallow so you needn't worry.
So, I decided I should do a wrap-up of my year, 2004. My first year of uni, my first year living away from home. Semester one started off well, at least until my mum left to go back to good ol' gympie. The first week after that was pretty good. Mum had given me heaps of warnings "make sure you compromise the most because UJ (Uncle John) won't be used to living with people." So, I thought 'treat him like mum and we'll be hunky dorey.' WRONG!! Man, how wrong can you get. If you ever live with your other relatives never EVER treat them like your parents, it just does not work. So, anyways, I spent most of the semester fighting with my uncle and that was really my main priority. I developed wierd sleeping patterns, bad study habits, and most of the time was just plain lazy. I got a drivers job at dominos to get out of the house it was really that bad. He started to go to work earlier and come home later just so we could avoid each other. I recieved advice from heaps of awesome friends, but never really put it into practise as much as I probably should have. Exam time came at uni and I somehow managed to do little study and still pass all my exams. I don't regret anything of the first semester, I saw it as a learning curve.
Semester two arrives and I have a new outlook. I decided I was going to tackle the "problem" of mine and UJ's relationship from a different angle. I tried to implement what I was told, like do stuff around the house. UJ hired someone else to work in his office, and that took a hell of a lot of stress off of his back and made living with him a hell of a lot easier. So, this semester was going along relatively cruisy. I still had my weird sleeping patterns, my bad study habits and was still really lazy. I met a whole heap of new people through a new church I started going to, which was really good, because I think some of my friends from my other church were getting annoyed at me wanting to go over all of the time. Well, maybe it was more me getting annoyed at myself for annoying them all the time. Late in the semester my grandma dies. I hadn't really known her until this year and it wasn't until after her funeral that I actually realised just how much I did actually like her. She wasn't the nicest grandma going around, but she tried her best considering the immense pain she was in. So, my mum was flown up the day she died and arrived about 3 hours before her death. It was the week I had off to study before exams (there is actually a week, I wasn't skipping lectures). So Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were taken up with preparing for the funeral and actually having the funeral. We had a small gathering of about 10 people at my uncle's place that night to celebrate her life. The Thursday of that week was spent getting over that night, oh boy, that was not cool. I tried to get some study done, but only managed to get about 2-3 hours. I knew I was in no shape to do well on my exams, but thought that I knew enough to pass. Well, you can guess what happened. I failed all of my exams, henceforth, failing all of my subjects. A lot of people were very supportive and showed me that there was light at the end of the tunnel. I was awarded a supplementary exam by one of my lecturers meaning that I had to go back to Townsville (I was in Gympie, originally till Febuary) and study like crazy.
Well, that was the past 11 months or so of my life. I know it doesn't say everything that went on, but if I put everything in I would be sitting here in a fortnight still writing. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed. Feel free to leave a comment, please leave your name at the end if you aren't already a memeber so I know who you are. =D
Aaron |
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