i'm gonna spoil the mood of the thread now...
i didn't really enjoy moving up to bathurst... and my course (B.IT) wasn't all that good either...
the town is quite dead, in comparison to wollongong or sydney (i know, there's a huge population difference, etc) and i didn't really get along with the people i knew
homesickness, lack of power (study and physical) and arguments with housemates contributed to me moving back.
so now i'm tafe-ing it up in wollongong until i finish it... then moving to sydney to do some uni-age. Probably a B.IT... but this time in surrounds closer to home.
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edit: is lithgow actually that close to bathurst? i thought it was further... it took us close on 1 hour from portland to bathurst, and about as long to lithgow by bus. (travelmate reckons its 48 mins by car from L-B)
once i fell asleep on the countrylink bus and only woke up as we crossed the bridge coming into bathurst... talk about a near-heart attack!
p.s. one lesson learnt: never try wollongong-lithgow return or sydney-bathurst and back in the one day, especially whilst intoxicated
friends and i left home at 3:30am, got to lithgow at about 9, and i left back for sydney by 11 lol.
(this sucks on weekends with lots of trackwork - lithgow-penrith AND central - my place... the entire blue line was out of action!)