Yesterday was mainly about a chance to take stock following a fairly full-on start to the trip. Washing and cleaning up took priority, especially given the wet weather we had experienced over the past couple of weeks.
last night however I ventured off to uni for the first time in about 18 years. having been undertaking my Master of Economic development for the last 3 years, this was the first chance I had had to attend a lecture. For a country lad from WA, who had attended the little Muresk campus of Curtin University (located half way between Northam and York), the Melbourne campus of RMIT was a slightly different experience.
It was also funny to see the look on some of the faces of the other students when i (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) mentioned that I had fired up a diesel engine and done 6,000km in 7 weeks purely to attend a lecture on environmental sustainability. It would be fair to say that there was a level of shock mixed with outrage until they realised that it wasn’t actually a fair representation of what had brought me to Melbourne.
Today has been all about commencing my last assignment for this unit – with the opportunity to catch up on blog entries coming while I am waiting on reference resources to download.
It has also been very enjoyable catching up with Sharon once again. Circumstances have changed significantly since e last stayed with her but the welcome is just the same.
Happily, now that I am up-to-date again with the blog I can turn my sites on a post I have been wanting to do regarding community camping sites. Many of the places we have stayed have been run by community organisations as opposed to full commercial operations and the similarities and difference have been very interesting, so next post hopefully might let me explore the benefits and drawbacks to these – especially from an ED perspective.
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