aight, i feel heaps better than before. not sure why exactly, things never really make sense to me.

anyway, planning lynn's stay is making me really excited. she's here sooo soon!
i think her vigit will reignite my love with sydney.
this is what i have planned for us so far:

touristy shit we can do in syds-zoo-opera-beaches-footy game?-blue mountains?-tattoo-pancakes on the rocks-go to blink-walk the harbour bridge-races

gold coast:-surfing-amusement parks-partying-shopping?-go to surfer's paradise

cairns:-diving-hikes-skydiving?-kuranda day trip

homo has to:-try tim tams, vegemite-try oz beer, duh-hit an aussie-order coffee-say reckon, heaps, mate, dodgy


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today i was really happy that i'm here. the weather was gorge. asa and i had coffee on our school's tiny patch of grass.
can you believe ry's quad grass patch kick's uts's grass patch's ass? unbelievable.

anyway, in doco class today, we watched a few profound things. the last one was called 'seeing and believing', how cameras were used as political weapons.
it was interesting, it mostly followed this filipino dude who helped the indigenous folk reclaim their land.
this was particularly of note to me because i was born in the philippines.
seeing all the crap that goes on in the world that gets ignored by sooo many people is very sobering. the images of children, people in general being massacred. for no valid reason.
the other doco was about ethiopian children who were adopted by sydneysider parents when their birth parents died.
both these docos just made me sooo grateful for what i have, the life my mother's given me.
i've gone over this lovefest many times before.

but after the emo sesh i had last week, missing everything and everybody, it was nice to finally see the silver lining.
i promise i will write a blog about all the things i absolutely love about this country, city - this whole exchange experience in general.

i think i'm happy again. content at least.
and i'm grateful for that too.