We also got a new student in the lab, a guy from Sweden.
In the following weeks, I believe we will three more "visitors," which might create a problem because we are running out of desks. Let's see where we can put them.
I finally figured out how to turn on the heater in my room. Now, I don't have to freeze at night!
In New Zealand, houses don't have central heating. Instead, people have wood stoves or electrical space heaters. I have a space heater (at least I don't have to drag around fire wood :D ) but there are a total of three switches to control it. To make matters worse, the electricians that wired the switches messed up (so the lady at the reception tells me) so that the heater is turned on when one of the three switches is in the off position. Talk about confusing!
Another oddity: yesterday, I learned about the (missing) environmental regulations. Today, Marcel told me about the - missing - apartment regulations.
I guess the New Zealanders never thought of making up official rules about apartments. That's why there are so many crappy ones on the market (I have seen my fair share by now, too). They don't even have rules dictating a certain size for apartments. So if your broom closet has a kitchen and toilet, you could technically rent it out as an apartment.
Recently, they began to draft some legislation, causing lots of contractors to quickly build a lot of small apartments that they can sell before the law is passed.
By the way, I took a picture of my desk and the lab today:
This is my desk :) (it's actually a little small... or I am too messy, because papers start to fall off!)
These are other people's desks. And yes, every now and then, someone bounces the big blue ball around ;)
3 comments:
ahh, the chicken :)
Hi Lina!
Is that a MacBook you have? If so, good choice. I want one badly ;-)
haha, I wish it was a MacBook... it's an older iBook G4 (but a MacBook is on my list of "things-to-get" too!)
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