Monday
No worries folks, we started our presentations around 9 or so, had a dance party about 11, in bed by 1 and final touches this morning before giving the presentations, oh the life of a design student. But seriously, the presentations went well, good feed back from Ms. Conroy. Oh, also we didn’t finish our presentations with Rebecca, she had places to be so we went to a café to finish, but they had places to be so we moved a third time to studio and ended up talking about our projects from 1 or so to almost 7. We like talking about ourselves.
Tuesday
Tuesday I didn’t get out of bed until probably 11, which is nice. The professors were changing residence and didn’t want to deal with students and their children and all that jazz, can’t blame them. We did meet Adrian around 1:30 to visit ArtSpace, the original ARI in Sydney and Adrian’s home where she squatted as a young artist when she lived here, pretty cool history. From the gallery, we went to the Library of New South Wales, where it’s a huge hassle to get a library card and look at books, very bureaucratic. Look up a book in the catalog, fill out a slip, title, author, location number, your name, your card number, your dogs initials, your cousin’s birthday, the whole nine yards, take the slip to the desk, oh you’re in the wrong library there are two in this building, they sign the slip, stamp it, file it away, bury it for three days, come back later, pick up your book from the shelf, then you can look through it. And you can’t check it out, but you can fill out another slip and they hold said book for you for one week. And that’s just one book.
So we spent about three hours at the library doing research and trying to come up with an abstract for the research paper we have to write after this trip. Meh. On the upside, it’s $5 large pizza night at Eagle Boys Pizza on King Street. Yea, I ate the whole thing. I don’t believe in leftovers.
Wednesday
This morning we got up earlier than normal (still not til 830 or so) to go visit Tranby Aboriginal College with our very own Andrew Gauggel as a tour guide who provided us with a riveting tour chock full of interesting facts (and engraved rocks at the college that gave us all the information). It’s a pretty interesting little space meant to embrace all Aboriginal cultures with a focus on the pathway through the college and reaching one’s goals while bridging European and Aboriginal culture. Nick of Constructive Dialogue met us again to see the college himself and to impart his knowledge of the site to all of us.
Tranby
From there we went out to lunch with Michael, enlightening him with the $6 lunch special at Newtown Thai and proving how cheap we really are. It’s really good food though so why not, and it kicks peanut butter’s ass any ole day. Nach dem Mittagessen sind wir an dem Uni wiedergekommen, um unsere Hefte zu sehen und diskutieren. We talked about our sketches, worked on some studio stuff and headed home for the evening.
Tranby
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