Hi!! I know Michael wants us to be doing creative entries so I wrote a quick poem on my favourite pastime, it's a pro-smoking poem. So sorry to all those healthy anti-smoking people and those who are trying to quit!! I am too eventually, I just have a really poor or non-existent will power when it comes to smoking. I KNOW SMOKING KILLS but I'm ( Read more... )

This week in tutorials we studied two poems, "At Cooloolah" and "At Cedar Creek".
The second we didn;g go into in depth because everyone was so into discussing the first and had so much to say that we ran out of time!!! I also lost my notes from this week so I'll have to do this entry by memory. Don't be suprised if it's very short. I have a ( Read more... )

Go marrickville!! hehe... Not that she's admiring it or anything but who cares? It's in there!! yeah it definitely makes a play much more relateable (Ummm.. is that a word? Please excuse the grammar, I'm dying to go to bed, gotta be at uni in class in six hours!) and easier to read when the setting is similar to that of your own life. I haven't ( Read more... )

This weekend I celebrated my six month anniversary with my boyfriend. We had the best night and I'd just like to share what we did because I had such a good time and just in case anybody is stuck for ideas and is celebrating something soon. So here's how our eventful night went.... 
First we went for a swim at the hotel:

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This week's lecture and tutorial focused on poems by Judith Wright from our set text  "A Human Pattern".
The first poem was "Two Dreamtimes" (p. 166)
In this poem Wright is addressing Kath Walker (also known as Odgeroo Noonucal), an Aboriginal poet.  We read the poems and as a group reflected on the meaning. We discussed the "two dreamtimes" and ( Read more... )

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This week we continued to look at different attitudes to the Australian landscape. We studied "Kangaroo" by D. H. Lawrence. In his writing Lawrence is challenging the traditional idea of colonisation/civilisation. He challenges the "new Brittannia" idea of colonialists by calling the Austrlian landscape (Como) "oh so unlike" the British landscape ( ( Read more... )

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