Have you seen the BANNER?! :D

If you haven't then look at it, go on, look! Look! LOOK! 

Isn't it the most amazing thing you have ever seen! Of course it is! Now, I'm not going to take a smidge of credit for it, because it was made for me by the amazing Michelle (http://crazycatastrophes.blogspot.com/). Honestly, if she'd let me pay her for all the work she did on the banner, I would have. 

Thank you so much for making this for me, Michelle. It was very fun, very frustrating and I had a great time, I hope you did too. :)

You have a bright future ahead of you in graphic design. I know it!

~ Australian Kiwi

750 Words

So, a friend of mine on Facebook directed me to an amazing site called 750 Words. As you may have guessed, the idea of the site is to write 750 words every day about anything and everything you can think of. It's a great way to journal and it analyses your 'statistics' at the end of each session, it tells you what your writing says about you! The one downside is that you can't go back and re-read previous entries, so if you want a running record them I would recommend copying and pasting your completed words either onto a word document, blog or online diary (this link here is a great little online diary: http://www.my-diary.org/). 750 Words is 'private, unfiltered and spontaneous' according to the creator. I would highly recommend you check it out by following this link: http://750words.com/. I've only been writing for two days and I'm already addicted. It's great for clearing your head and getting all your thoughts out without having to worry about grammar, punctuation, spelling etc. If you check it out you won't regret it.

~ Australian Kiwi

Actions speak louder than words

Or, that's part of my New Year's Resolution for 2011 anyway. Next year, which will arrive in Victoria, Australia in approximately two hours, I have decided that I am going to judge people on how they act rather than what they say or what is said about them. So, if X says that Y is a cheap skank, I will wait and meet Y before I judge them. It might be a hard thing to keep, but I'm going to try. Do any of you readers and followers have a New Year's Resolution? If so I'd love to know what it is. Just comment beneath this post if you're brave enough ;)

~ Australian Kiwi

Scholarship!

So, I got a letter for VTAC this morning saying that LaTrobe University is considering me a scholarship for next year. It finally feels like something has gone right!

Early Acceptance

I am very excited because an early acceptance letter arrived in the mail today offering me a conditional place at LaTrobe University to study social work next year. That takes a lot of pressure off me knowing that, as long as I get an ATAR over 50, I'll be going to uni next year. Now, if my Atar results would just arrive... But that's not going to happen unti lthe 13th. I wish anyone else waiting for results and uni offers the best of luck.

Australian Kiwi

Lock Island

I put a towel down underneath a gum tree, put my headphones in my ears, put my iPod on shuffle and then lay back and closed my eyes behind my sunglasses. A kookaburra laughed and I laughed with it. I sang along to Missy Higgins 'All For Believing' while a bird whistled in a tree above me. I did absolutely nothing for over two hours and I loved it! I highly recommended it to anyone feeling stressed or lost. Go to The Great Australian Ice-Creamery first and get yourself a double scoop of your favourite ice-cream and then walk down to Lock 11, you'll have finished your ice-cream by the time you get there. Cross over the gates of the Lock and then walk around the island until you come to a little 'beach' area. Then just lie down and do nothing. Incredible relaxing.

Australian Kiwi

Crazy Student

What the hell is a crazy student? I'll tell you. It's me! I have set up a blog on tumblr which I will update once a week until uni starts and then more frequently once I am a uni student. Crazy Student will detail all my adventures through uni, Australia Kiwi will detail my adventures outside uni. You can visit Crazy Student and see what I've got so far here:http://crazystudent.tumblr.com/