It´s so cold in here :( Now you can really feel its getting winter. Even though I still spent some time in Victoria Park studying and sunbathing in bikinis this week, days in general are getting colder and rainier. The temperature is still around 17C but it feels colder, especially when it gets dark at around 6pm. And I´ve got almost no long sleeve shirts or long pants. Well, another good reason to go shopping ;) But for real, it´s cold in our house. There´s a 2cm-high hole under our outside door and you can feel cold air getting in through windows. Yesterday I made a transition to my warm quilt, which is so royal! When Silja was here we tried to find her a mattress to sleep on in Kmart but they had none, so we bought this king size thick winter quilt instead. It´s funny having a single size bed but a king size quilt. Also, Tim was laughing at me yesterday night wearing my long pyjamas, whool socks (what a great invention they are!) over them and a fleece. When it gets even colder I´ll have to invest on a heater to put in my room. I´ve been telling people here how well our houses in Finland are build and that we´ve actually got central heating to keep us warm enough to wear t-shirts inside during the winter, and they think it´s cool. Most Australians have never experienced proper winter and they have a hard time understanding it can get below -30C in Finland and keep asking how it feels like. The funnist question I´ve been asked so far was about our winter jackets: A girl from my financing class asked how many days it gets to dry them after washing them. (She imagined them being really really thick.)
Anyways, back to stuff that might actually interest someone... Yesterday morning I went to the opening of a new floor at the Broadway Shopping Centre. (It´s our nearby mall where we do our grocery shopping, go to the movies and often shop for clothes, too.) They handed out free big Cadbury chocolate bunnies and mini chocolage eggs. I also got a free Johnson&Johnson goody bag with some flu medicine, lotions, soap etc. The nicest store at the new floor is definately Target. I liked it in the US, too. The other stores are mostly fashion stores, including Forever New where I saw a really pretty winter coat. I didn´t buy anything there but decided to stop by at Rebel Sport on my way to the UTS library. They were having really good Easter sales and since I really needed new sports clothes I bought three tops and a pair of shorts. Then I walked to the library to search for references for my Olympic Games literature review. I´ve never done a literature review before. What we gotta do is find 10 references, review them seperately and write a conclusion of them. The most important part is choosing good references that give you a large picture of the subject from different perspectives. My topic is ambush marketing at the Olympic Games, which seems interesting.
Today I´ve been just working on our International Marketing major project and studying for a Finance mid-term exam. The project is almost identical to the one we did for Corporate Planning (yrsu) last autumn. The only difference is that this time we´re in connection with the company and they might even find our report useful while planning their expansion to international markets. Our company is a small one producing shelves and cases and its intention is to begin exporting to the UK. So far the manager has been helpful providing us with information and answering our questions, but now he refuses to give us any financial information, such as balance sheets and income statements. Since we´re required to come up with a financial plan I´m a bit afraid we´re screwed :(
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