2 weeks later

So I am now at College. Living in one of the campus houses. It's 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. The 3 girls in the back half of the house ( incl. yours truly) use the back bathroom which is much smaller than the front one. BUT as we have to clean it ourselves, I can appreciate having a smaller bathroom and also a frosted shower door instead of a clear one! It's the small things to be grateful for.

Once I work out how to migrate my photos to the new MAC* I will put some photos on here. I love my room, and it has a separate study area ( what used to be the sunroom). I've rigged up my bedspread from Lombok as a curtain to cut down the light in the morning streaming in from the study. and I have some of my Balinese things in there ( a silver square offering box, some wayang kulit puppets, a couple of little batik fans all on the mantelpiece of the nonworking fireplace. It's very comfortable!

* My new MacBook Pro ( 15" screen) was delivered yesterday afternoon. So I spent last night setting it up. Haven't sync'd my photos and music on there yet or uploaded my contacts. I think I need some help and also a quick tutorial! I'm sure once I get the hang of it, I will love my Mac, just like all the other devotees.

I've been good about exercising 5-6 times per week so far ( this is week 3) and lost 1 kg already. Am also having 1/2 portions at meals and filling up on salad and fruit. I refuse to put on any weight at College this time around - in fact my goal is to lose the 6kgs that I put on when I was here 10 years ago! ( I need to lose about 10 kgs in total to be at a good height/weight range).

I survived NT Greek intensive 4 days. Am a little annoyed that I got 2 of the easy test questions wrong as I didn't read the question properly ( and I knew the answer). Thankfully none of the tests this week count towards our final grade. So hopefully lesson learnt - READ THE QUESTION!