May 27 - Pengi's University Adventure, Guest Blog!

  On Monday in Australia, Pengi went to university with Mr Smart and he wanted to tell you all about it.  Here is our little penguin to tell you all about it!

  Hello again everyone!  It’s Pengi, back for another big adventure!  I was so excited last night when Mr Smart said that he would take me to university today.  He made me promise to keep it a secret so that we could surprise Jess, but I nearly let slip a few times because it was so very exciting.  For a long time I had wondered what it was like at the place where he spent all that time, so now was my chance to see it for myself.
  Even though I was really looking forward to the trip, I must admit that it was tough getting out of bed this morning.  The alarm went off, but neither Mr Smart nor I stirred for quite a while.  It was nearly an hour later before we finally started to get ready and set off.  It’s actually a long trip to reach the university, which began with waiting for the bus.

  Nearby was a pretty church that I thought Jess might like the look of so I told Mr Smart to take some pictures of it.  He’s quite a handy assistant to have around.

  The bus arrived quite soon so we didn’t have long to wait, and arrived at the stop where a tram was waiting for us.  We hurried across the road to get on before it drove away, which Mr Smart told me has happened a number of times. 

 
  Despite our late start, we arrived quite a bit early so had some time to kill.  That was fortunate since I was quite hungry by this stage having skipped breakfast.  Mr Smart wasn’t sure what to get, but I put my flipper down and insisted on fish.  Thankfully he was happy to oblige.  We found a quiet table in to the Union House food court to enjoy it.

  We took the short walk to the first class of the day, Advanced Screenwriting, and were still quite early so had to wait around until it started.  It’s quite a nice little courtyard to wait in and I enjoyed looking at the tree in the middle and the buildings around it.

  Mr Smart explained to me that since it was the last week of classes, there wasn’t a lot of work to do in the classes.  This proved to be the case since apart from catching up on one student’s pitch, we mostly watched that starts of old 80’s movies and commented on them.  It was quite fun to see movies like Working Girl and Tootsie, and I think I’ll make Mr Smart show me the full movies sometime. 

  After the class finished, Mr Smart grabbed another bite to eat, though I was still full.  Even though we had plenty of time, we made our way towards his next class.  On the way, we passed this awesome moat, and I really wanted to have a swim in it, but Mr Smart said that it would be very nice to swim in it today.  Perhaps I shall have a bath during the night when he’s asleep to make up for missing out!

  There quite a large area outside his Brand Management class which has many people sitting around studying.  Since we had time to kill, I asked to borrow Mr Smart’s laptop and begun to work on writing on this blog.

  I think I fit right in with the other students, and could easily get used to this student life! 

  The brand management class went pretty quickly and it all seemed so complicated.  I have no idea how Mr Smart is going to be able understand it all.  I’m sure he’ll find a way though.  We finished early, and headed to the tram stop, just to see our tram depart.  Something else that Mr Smart says happens regularly.  It wasn’t too long a wait for the next one though.

  This trip home was pretty much the reverse of the trip in.  Tram followed by Bus.  I was pretty tuckered out by the time we got home though and went straight to bed, leaving Mr Smart to work on his assignment some more.  I did catch him watching some star trek at the same time though! 

  Time for this little penguin to sign off.  Until my next big adventure,

  Love from Pengi

  Monday's food was:

• Breakfast... if I had any, then I forgot to photograph it, but I'm pretty sure it would've been two muesli bars.  I definitely had a navel orange at morning tea time and I may have been feeling a little aggressive...
• Lunch was Breadtop.  Clockwise from the top-left, a sacha pork floss bun, a mini burger, an crunchy prawn roll, a green tea red-bean filled donut and a sausage bun.
• Dinner was two toasted sandwiches, each comprised of two slices of Woolworths Select chia bread, two slices of Woolworths select Tasmanian lite tasty cheese, and 85g Hamper lite corned beef, accompanied by two dried peach halves, two dried pear halves, and three Brazil nuts.
• Dessert was a cup of Russian Caravan tea with milk and three dark chocolate Tim Tams, and they were slammed.