o-week

Went to O week today. Made some friends, got lost, scored freebies, signed up for a few things, got lost again, etc. All in a day's work.

It was HOT. The sunlight was strong and bleached and clear, and you got an idea where the saturated-style of the Newcastle brochures came from.

The campus is HUGE. And it is exhausting getting lost there, in the heat. It's all very exciting though.

The Design building is so AWESOME. It has two stories, and a loft, and it's all very scaffold-esque, sort of. Maybe not. Like, industrial. That's it. But it's made of corrugated iron, so it's scaldingly hot and stuffy in summer, and freezing in winter.

The lecture halls are GI-NORMOUS. Maybe not, but to me they were. There's quite a few people in my course, and being surrounded by all these design-y people, who are at least a little like-minded, was gently gratifying.

I met a girl name Gee. She wants to do web comics. She was pretty cool. Different. She had short, lightly red hair and long black jeans. She carried a heavy shoulder bag around with her, with a laptop and books and perhaps a sketchpad inside, and she reminded me just the tiniest bit of Tea. Minutely. Microscopically. It was the bag.

What else? They had a huge rusted sculpture of a spider.

Ee and I got lost. My fault this time. We managed to get OFF the map.

I re-met Bri and her friend Ta, but we didn't speak much. Didn't have much oppurtunity, I suppose.

They had jumping castles. {? I know.} And the campus has two bars/pubs.

Live entertainment.

Welcoming speech.

Etc.

I might report more tomorrow.

But yeah - It was HOT. Especially walking around in the sun.

{Ee and I had to ask a Tradie to help us find our way back to the Great Hall. He was nice.}