Twenty days
I should probably write a little bit on this blog again about my university exchange with Melbourne. About the things that have been going on with regard to my travel preparations and such. The thing is: I haven’t been really busy with it. I’ve been spending most of my time on a fulltime university project which involves a giant dataset of the blogosphere, from which we have to automagically extract weblog communities. It’s extremely interesting, but time consuming. I could fill pages with the nifty things we’re doing right now, but hey this is a travelog so I won’t bother (maybe I should start a “James’ Geekblog”).
Ah yes, there are some updates on my ‘trip’, come to think of it. I found someone to rent my room to during my absence, which is great of course. I also had a decent talk with my student adviser who shedded a lot of light on the options of how to handle the rest of my bachelor studies. At first I was under the impression that it would be best if I skipped the first semester of the next study year, but as it turns out there’s quite a bit of flexibility with regard to the schedule of writing my thesis, starting my Masters, and so on. My brother Tristan and I already vaguely discussed that if I’d have the first semester off we could do the Trans-Siberian Railway together, a trip which has I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time. But if I get enough study points in Australia which I can transfer to the University of Amsterdam, I guess I’ll have to postpone that voyage for a bit later. Ah, the burdens of time! Speaking of which:
20 days left until I’m in Australia!
