I really miss my computer. I can’t wait to get it back. Everyone else in the apartment has Internet except for me, because I don’t have my computer back from repair yet. Today I received the wireless router that my mom sent from “the States,” as they’re called around here, but I had to set it up with somebody else’s computer.Â
  Other than that, things are pretty good. I was really stressed about having to prepare (i.e., do reading that I hadn’t done) for two tutorials today, but I ended being able to switch one of the tutorials (the one for POL167) to Friday morning. Hopefully that won’t conflict with any planned CEA activities… I think it should be fine because Murray said that if we did another activity that left on a Friday, like maybe a weekend trip to Canberra (pronounced “Can-burr-uh”) we would plan to leave after my last Friday class. Speaking of pronunciations, I’ve learned that all along I’ve been pronouncing the names of some Australian cities wrong: Melbourne is “Mel-burn,” not “Mel-born;” Brisbane is “Briss-bun,” not ”Briss-bain;” and Cairns is pronounced “cans.” I really enjoyed the tutorial I just got out of today, which was for POL165. It was really light-hearted and an overall fun atmosphere. Most of the people in the tutorial are Americans, so I got the idea that the tutor (as I think she’s called) will make an effort to explain some things better to us that might otherwise not be as clear.