yesterday was the first day i ventured out of the house since tuesday, cos i’ve been sleeping for more or less, two whole days.and i realised, to my extreme horror, that the thunderstorm on tuesday night wasn’t any normal thunderstorm! there was hail!! so exciting and i didn’t even know that!

well, there wasn’t any hail around my area, but according to my brother’s friend who lives across the road from campus, the hail lasted for three hours and on the next morning, the ice was about, say, ten inches thick on the roads? parts of the school was flooded, and they had to bring in those funky snow-clearing machines to clean up.

and i had zero idea what happened.

man, i felt like i just woke up from hibernation last night.

the brother came and is gone. came to pass me the six heavy textbooks and other stuff that i needed. and now he’s out there exploring canberra before his bus leaves at 6pm. i feel quite bad for erm, not even sending him to the bus stop? after all his efforts in lugging my stuff across the ocean and everything, all i offered him was two hours’ use of my laptop last night and breakfast in the morning. but i think by the end of today he’ll know this place better than i do anyway.

i haven’t had the time to go out and walk around, having to handle moving, settling in, school housekeeping, school work and the part-time job, in which i’m behind time again. i swear when i’m done with the part time job (probably during easter break) i’ll go out there and explore.

gotta stop being the cavewoman already.

anyway the brother’s friend was offering me another housing option with effect from next semester. i have the option of living three doors away from him, across the road from the campus, right in the centre of the city, in a studio room with my own bathroom and kitchen. but the entire studio is about half the size of my current bedroom and i seriously wonder if i’ll get claustrophobic again, the way i did when i was staying in the motel for the first week.

staying in that building also means i’ll get to know a hell lot of other people, which is a good and bad thing. i need to know more people but i can be quite a hermit. but then again, that place will give me even more privacy than what i have now.

don’t know lah, will consider first.