Have handed in my last assignment for Financial Accounting today and just sat my last test for Marketing tonight. So I can officially relax, for a night.
Tomorrow I need to start my Management Accounting assignment which is due next Wednesday. And then need to do my Entrepreneurship assignment which is due the week after. After those two I’m done for the semester, thank god! Well except for exams in June of course… but I’m heading for the home stretch!

I have work tomorrow for the first time in three days, I’m actually looking forward to go. So relaxing, I barely have to use my brain since I know my job inside-out now.

Wooohooo! Look what I scored myself on Trade Me for $40NZD. I have requested a black one, because you could choose the colour.
Features:
- 2 GB of USB Flash Memory Storage!
- It plays Music
- It plays Video
- Record with it’s Built-In Microphone
- Photo Viewer
- Listen to FM Radio

I am very excited!! Shouldn’t take too long to receive it. Now I can have even more music to run to.

I woke this (Saturday) morning at 7am and could not get back to sleep. Lying there ticking off all the things in my mind that I needed to do today.
After 15 minutes of that I decided it was not going to get any better and I would not fall back asleep. So decided to tick one thing off the list and got up and changed and headed out for my run. Such a gorgeous, crisp morning that it was actually quite enjoyable. It also clears your mind and I feel better having been.

I now need to start and finish my 2,000 word accounting essay about auditing oversight boards. Oh the excitement, I’m going to need many cups of strong coffee to get me through this one. (8.30am: Coffee count: 1)

I’m looking forward to this afternoon; coffee with the girls at 3pm, and then a Uni friend is having a BBQ for his birthday so will go see everyone there. Then off to a friends’, brother-in-law’s cocktail bar for another birthday celebration!

This past week has been painful. I really can’t wait to be out of Uni, I’m over studying, time to earn real money! It feels like this study will never end, but I guess we’re already in May and it’s only five weeks until exams. So I shouldn’t complain, just start studying.

It is pouring down here!! I’m at work about to have my lunch and then have my Financial Accounting lecture at 3pm this afternoon. I am very tempted to skip it because I’m going to get drenched running to my class!
But I know that is not a legitimate excuse just to skip class. So I’ll end up going and getting drenched and cold.
I have decided now that I’d rather have a trench-coat style coat. There’s no need for a thick woollen coat here where I live in New Zealand as it doesn’t get that cold, (8-10*C in the middle of Winter), it just rains all the time. So now I’m on the hunt for something similar to these:

That way I can wear warm clothing underneath and just throw it on over top to keep me dry. Good plan I feel.

Oh. My. God. It just got better. Just heard the weather report on the radio: we’re in for thunder storms this afternoon and the rain is here for the rest of the week at least! Geez! I need that coat asap.

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Another test done and dusted. I’m very happy with that test, I think I will have done pretty well in it. I’m expecting an A in my Marketing paper.
We were all stressed earlier today because we’d all been studying for our Financial Accounting test that we had on Monday night and no-one had looked at the content for the Marketing test until yesterday. But thankfully after much hard work and testing each other we all felt successful when we left the test. We found the best way to learn was to quiz each other verbally. My friend, Nick, was feeling stressed by it all and didn’t think he knew anything. But after I persuaded him to do the quizzing with me he felt far more confident. And as we left the room after our test he said thank you to me for helping and he felt confident that he had done well in the test. I feel wonderful that he feels I helped, really he helped me! They say to really know something, you should teach it.

A few people have mentioned to me that they’re having issues with my maths-spam catcher. So I have deactivated it and put in a new comment spam catcher. If there’s any problems, please let me know.

Something light and funny to end… if it doesn’t scare you!

At the moment I am chocca-block and really don’t have time to have a break. I feel tired just thinking about it. But I guess they don’t just give degrees away for free, do they? They make you work, damn hard.

I had my Advanced Financial Accounting test tonight, I have a Marketing test on Wednesday night (I miss out on tennis! Boo!), a summary for my Entrepreneurship paper’s assignment is due Thursday afternoon and I have a Management Accounting assignment due next week. It’s pretty nuts.
Then May is chocker with assignments and tests and then just when I feel like I might lose the plot if I don’t get a break, they throw in the exams in June.

I’m just pleased I have my UK/Europe trip to look forward to, got to have the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

I’m 23, a University student, in New Zealand, in a happy and loving relationship, close with my sisters, have good groups of friends at University, from High School and through other leisure/social activities. Life should be wonderful and so easy. No, sadly that’s very far from the truth.

People always say “oh student life is so easy, best time of your life”. Sure I love being a student and love that I will come out with a degree. But it’s not easy. I don’t party every weekend. That’s how it should be, but somehow hasn’t turned out that way. I’m too poor and always seem to be on a deadline for an assignment or test.

Money stress is the worst thing ever. It’s holidays for me at the moment. Normally I would work full time and try and make some money. But this year, my third year at Uni, has proven to difficult to work full time as well as complete the two assignments due at the end of April and study for the two tests I’m going to sit next week.

I got paid today, but I’m already poor. I’ve already worked out all my costs that need to come out and I’m basically left with nothing. It’s also Rob’s birthday next month. He told me not to worry; after I came home tonight a bit sour and burst into tears at the depressing level of it all, but I can’t forget his birthday! I’ve got two things in mind I want to get him and I want to take him out for dinner. So somehow I’m going to have to work out how I can achieve it all. I seriously need to type up a budget for the next three months. Just to get through until June when we have a mid-semester break.

My first and second years of Uni were cruisey, I barely did any work at home and still passed OK. This year is tough, I know I need to put in a lot of work to pass it.

I know this sounds a bit whiny. But it’s my blog, it’s what my blog is here for. I’m sure there’s others out there like me. Just wanted to share.

And if anyone knows the winning numbers to the lotto draw for this Saturday, please leave me a comment with them enclosed.

Yesterday’s Advanced Financial Accounting turned my brain into lumpy, thick porridge. I’m not going to go into all the details of what we learnt because accounting is dull, right? That’s what everyone says when I say I’m doing an accounting major anyway.
But into the second hour of our lecture my friend Toni and I could not stop laughing, like hysterics, we had to laugh so we didn’t cry.
The bad news is that we have another two hours of that class this afternoon, oh joy!

Uni has definitely gone up a notch this year and I can already see that I need to be doing more study each week.

And just for fun, because everyone seems to be posting photos of snow. I thought I’d post a photo of what’s on our lawn.

We currently have a 25-year-old Korean guy staying with us while he studies an English course at a local High School. Tonight while trying to communicate my mum spills a bit of wine onto our couch while trying to play talk-charades with him.
“Oh crap!” she says.
Me looking shocked at her asks him if he understands slang words like crap.
His response: “I don’t know crap.”

Lol.. priceless! We were in fits of giggles for ages, poor guy. Probably thinks us Kiwi women are nuts.

Also, today in my Entrepreneurship paper at Uni we watched a documentary about Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006 which looks at his work with Grameen Bank to provide micro-credits for the less fortunate of Bangladesh.
It’s amazing to think that $27 he paid to a loan shark helped a group of women out of debt they were afraid they’d never pay back.
It certainly brings poverty into perspective when I think that I can spend $30 in five minutes on a top I didn’t need to keep me alive.