Yey!!

I finally got my marketing case done and turned it in yesterday!! It felt good having emailed it to the assistant and knowing nothing more could be done. I went to the gym straight from the library, where I had been finishing it all morning, and did my workout. Later I had my tutorial and lecture for International Marketing. After these first 3 weeks it seems like a pretty easy subject, discussing the basics of marketing from an international point of view. Focusing on Australia and its relations with China, the US and India is interesting, though. Our textbook is called International Marketing: An Asia-Pacific Perspective, which tells quite a bit of the subject outline, as well. We spend a lot of time discussing current topics, like international trade agreements, at our tutorials. We also have to read many articles. So instead of just studying a few year old books we get to know what´s really going on at the moment. Which reminds me of my homework; I gotta find and summarize a cultural article for marketing.

UTS City Campus Tower Building

City Campus. People sit on the grass studying or just hanging out.

Today was my full day at the uni. First I had the Olympic Games lecture in Kuring-Gai. We´re preparing short group presentations. My group´s topic is the security costs at the Olympics. Then I had lunch in Chinatown with Keiji (my new Japanese friend) before my tutorial and lecture for Fundamentals of Corporate Finance. I´ve never taken finance before so most of the stuff is new to me. It´s a freshman subject, though, so the lecturer is treating us like first-year students. He´s interesting and fun and it´s a pleasure listening to his British accent. Right now we´re learning to discount and accumulate cash flows from future to present and back to future... The damn subject made me change my flights to New Zealand :( I had just booked them the day before, and then we got told the day of the mid-semester exam had changed. So I had to reschedule them and pay additional $70. Oh well, I´m a rich student, I don´t mind throwing money out of my pockets.

Kuring-Gai Campus.

I think I should save you from the torture of having to read this (if you´ve even made it this far) and go to bed. Good night mates :)