“By the way for the passenger that just got on at Wynyard, it is polite to say thank you when someone reopens the door for you, especially if they’re not supposed to. Sorry I am just human.”

Yes it is true, this is the message that I heard over the loud speaker on the train today coming back from uni. I thought that was great, except she shouldn’t have said, sorry I am just human, she should have said. I am human. I wish that people would stop apologising for been just human, when they say something that is important to them, they should pronounce that they are saying thsi because they are human and it is important and they are proud.

I had an okay day today, I went to work and that was the usual adn thhen I went to the hairdressers before uni, it was a bit of a spur of the moment thing as it was cheap and I felt sick of my hair. It was a good experience though which is unusual as I usually hate going to teh hairdresser, I find they are always really pretensious and nasty to the apprentces but today wasn’t like that. He was an iranian guy who did not speak much english, well enough but not great and I asked him if he thought Australians wereracist, he did not understand racist so I aked if people were nice to him or were they bad when he idn’t speak good english and he said “no not at all, Australian people are always trying to help me and they are very understanding.” This gave me so much hope for Martin, maybe it won’t be so bad after all. However I think it is a bad haircut. Mind you neither Robert or Tom noticed it when I got home so it can’t be that bad.

I saw my old friend from school Brianna on the train today, it was good. I like her, she may be one of the very few of my friends who I actually have anything in common with now that we have left school. I gave her my number, I hope that she calls as I would really like to see her again but I am not sure if she will, I mean she seemed happy to see me but she is a little bit, I don’t really know how describe but not the kind of person who I think will call.

Uni wasn’t so good, everybody just started winging about how bad the ubi systems and tafe systems in this country are and I thought and I know that you are all sick of hearing me say this and are saying “oh mil, the socialist is at it again” but really the ubiversities of Peru spent months on strike last year, months and then went back with about a $1 pay rise and there is no HECS so if you can’t pay now, you can’t go and they are not even that good, you have the choice of about five subjects and that’s it. I mean I just wish people here could appreciate wht they had, so I said that and I got in return, “yes but this is a first world country” I liked that you know, we are so far ahead of third world countries now that we don’t even bother comparing, we just have to compare with other first world countries, now we really areliving in two worlds.