The Classic American Cheesburger!

Riley started class at 10 AM on Wednesdays and goes basically all day with few breaks in between his classes and tutorials. Normally Lauren would have her Creative Arts tutorial for two hours, but because it is the first week of school there were no tutorials scheduled. This left Lauren to catch up on a little of American time (facebook, email) as well as organizing events and classes here at the university. First that required printing out a study abroad agreement to go to Germany in the Fall with UNC Charlotte. With no student ID yet to load with money I was challenged with the task to get a library printing card, learn how to use the printers and then also figure out how to scan it back in to email it to the study abroad office. Yes, I know that all sounds easy to do in the US, especially when I had a printer and scanner in my dorm room, but in a library with hundreds of computers and printers that was a little challenging. I completed the first task by putting four gold dollar coins into a slot machine to get a library printing card. Then I tried to print from a computer that was closest to the printer but nothing happened. So I then went to the computer directly by the printer and still nothing happened; I couldn’t even figure out where to swipe my library printing card. I asked three people who came to also print and no one could help me. Apparently no one in the library knew how to print. Beyond frustrated at this point I went to another computer and just hit print again to see what would happen and lo and behold it printed, but never asked me to swipe my card! Therefore I had just spent four dollars for a card that wasn’t even needed since it probably charged my student account! By then it was time to sign and scan the paper back into the computer and meet Riley for lunch. Mission accomplished I made my way to the International student lounge where Riley and I shared our leftovers from the night before. I shared my experiences from the library and he told me about the Introduction to Asia class he had just got out of. He had met several people from the class, one guy which knew how to speak five languages (Russian, Chinese, English of course, French, and Japanese) which was a little daunting to him. He also met a girl from New Zealand who shared a little about her country, saying it was a good place to visit but not necessarily the most exciting place to live. Riley had a bigger break than expected since he didn’t have to run to a tutorial with it being the first week of school. This gave us a little more time to get things done around campus as well as give Lauren time to skype with Alex for his birthday! It was nice to see and be able to speak to him, especially since he was a free man from being recognized the night before. That was the first time I’ve seen him in civilian clothes in a long time! I was also able to get a few tips from him on how to prepare our group project that he had coming up on ‘how to prepare to bushwalk.’ Needless to say Alex found it quite funny that they call hiking bushwalking over here! Afterwards we left the library in hopes to get a few more things done before Riley had his last class. We succeeded in dropping a little bit of cash on some things that we more expensive than expected but had been meaning to buy for a while. I stayed on campus while Riley headed off to his last class, Anthropology. Then with the school day done we were off to Coles once again to pick up ingredients for dinner. Riley had been wanting to make cheeseburgers for a while so we grabbed the things for that along with a few extras like pineapple slices, green peppers and onions. The burgers turned out to be delicious although they were a little more messy than expected. With not much to do for the night we went to bed early since Thursday is deemed our adventure day of the semester, considering neither of us have classes!