Powerhouse Museum

Yesterday I took a bus over to Darling Harbour and visited the Powerhouse Museum. It's a huge museum dedicated to advances in technology and design that have occurred over Australia's history. For a huge and impeccably maintained museum, the Powerhouse didn't really have many interesting exhibits. Most of them were about the design of clothing and furniture, but there were two exhibits that were worth walking though. One was about the daily lives of Australians of all classes during the 19th century, and the other detailed the history of the Australian wool industry, which is now the world's largest and most successful. None of that stuff would have been interesting if it had been about America, but I enjoyed it because it was all new to me. I've added an album of pictures from the museum. There are also a couple of new pictures in the albums 'Random Places in Sydney' and 'Wildlife'.

Pictures added

I took my camera with me to one of my classes today and took a few pictures of birds I passed on the way there. They're all over the place and aren't scarred of people. I also took two pictures in the middle of campus, but those are much more boring. The new folders on the photo website are 'Wildlife' and 'Macquarie University'. Later I'll add more pictures of campus.

Textbooks

Now that I've been to all of my classes at least once, I know which textbooks I have to get. All books here are really expensive. An average paperback novel can easily cost over 20 bucks, and most textbooks are between 130 and 200. I found out something really neat though. The university library has a couple of copies of most of the textbooks, and I can check them out for a month at a time. By just renewing every month I can keep them all semester. I've only had to buy two books so far. The library has already saved me hundreds of dollars. I like saving money. At the end of tomorrow I'll have finished my first week of classes. Everything's going well so far.