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Hi!

I'm glad you're enjoying living on campus, I guess it's a nice change and definitely a new experience and with regards to the 'thirty minutes away from a shopping centre' I am here hoping that there is a fantastic place to order coffee on campus :) I'm sure there is, I'm fairly certain student coffee consumption is rather high.

The Great Ocean Road is gorgeous. A few years back my family and I drove up to Apollo Bay and the scenery is ridiculously stunning, I loved it to bits regardless of the insane winds that were close to blowing us over.

You'll have to tell me how the Melbourne gathering went, perhaps I can work on converting some friends to nerdfighteria and doing something in Adelaide and the gossipers are telling me that a friend's new boyfriend is a nerdfighter so I should probably get to know him also. I saw him at a party but said friend and him were too busy being in semi-nerdfighterlike to be too involved in conversations.

I love 'Looking for Alaska' but I still think I like TFiOS a little bit better, maybe I just fell in love with Augustus Waters just a little bit, I also felt this was the first book I had read where a middle aged man could write the voice of a teenage girl so convincingly.  I agree with you that the swearing can be seen as unnecessary but then again most people our age (much to my annoyance) swear unnecessarily. It may not be particularly pleasant to read but it lends a sense of accuracy and perhaps creates this flaw within otherwise intelligent characters. 

DFTBA and Best Wishes

Congratulations on getting into Monash!!!! That's wonderful (Environmental engineering/Arts, isn't it?) How's Melbourne? I've only been briefly before and I didn't really see the city (it was either the inside of the Space School or the airport that I spent my time). Do you like living there? I really hope you make it to the gathering. 

I'm really glad though because I made it into Pharmacy in the first round of offers and I start in approximately one week and I'm super excited to start!! 

It must be hard living far away from your family, I'm really lucky in the sense that most of mine live in Adelaide so it's quite easy to see one another although we aren't incredibly close to our extended family we do love one another and it's simply comforting to have the, nearby. 

I ended up ordering TFiOS from The Book Depository and it's amazing. I can't wait to hear what you think of it. I utterly adored it, simply put it was a beautiful novel. I was once more lurking in Dymocks the other day and to my great surprise they'd placed the copies of TFiOS on its own stand and attached a paper star that said DFTBA to it. I nearly keeled over in shock and excitement. It was certainly a welcome sight :) 

I certainly hope you are enjoying university as much as it is keeping you busy, 

DFTBA 

Hi Louis, 

I hope you were happy with your end of year results, I was quite pleased but am anxiously awaiting uni offers (I would've liked to do slightly better but I should be able to get into Pharmacy regardless). I haven't got my copy of TFiOS yet...I can't wait though. I'm super excited to receive it. You mentioned that you were out of Australia? I love stories of foreign travel...I will be an attentive audience if you wish to regale wonderful stories of your adventures. I've just spent a wonderful week on Kangaroo Island with my family myself. I hope you're having a wonderful time overseas :) 

DFTBA

Hi Louis, 
I'm really sorry I didn't reply to your last note...sometimes my computer doesn't alert me to important happenings. Sorry. 

I really liked 'Chains' it was a well written and engaging novel and anything involving a fight for equality generally hooks a reader. I didn't know all that much about New York during the American revolution so I suppose it was good to  get a bit of a historical back ground as well. I agree with you regarding Maureen Johnson, only having read this one book though, it does appeal to a more female audience. The main protagonist is a teenage girl and while there is an interesting paranormal plot there is defiantly a series of events that make more sense to people the same gender of the protagonist. I'm not going to say guys wouldn't enjoy it but it is marketed at a female audience.  

You're probably smart for not listening to TFiOS yet...I really want to know what happens next. Hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on a copy soon!! 

I'm glad you had a good time at the Reilly signing, I actually haven't read any of his work *makes mental note to get onto that* and it's a shame the notes are gone :( Maybe we should send them a letter. "If more people become nerdfighters, more people will buy books. You will profit" 

DFTBA

Saffron

Hello!! 

I just heard from another friend who went to the same school and apparently their principal didn't speak for all that time...thank goodness she was exaggerating, that truly would have been awful. I really need to read 'The Great Gatsby'. I actually need to read a lot of classic American literature, I've read hardly any and should I feel that I should probably get a move on with it. 

I loved the second chapter of 'The Fault in Our Stars' and I can't wait to read the rest. Did you like it? 

I found your note in a copy of Paper Towns and I left one along with it and another in a different copy of Paper Towns as all the others had sold out!! 

I just finished reading 'Chains' by Laurie Halse Anderson and have moved onto 'The Name of the Star' by Maureen Johnson. Hopefully Forrest Gump in book version is less sad. Let me know how it goes!!! 

Best Wishes and DFTBA, 

Saffron

Hi 

I'm sorry for not replying to the comment before last...so I suppose this shall have to cover both. I'm sorry that your graduation was boring...the best thing about my school is they keep it short, it was really only an hour and a half long which had to cover three speeches, two musical item, awards for yr8-11 and the presentation of year 12s. However, at my friends' school the principal spoke for an hour and forty five minutes!! 

I haven't actually seen any of the movies that you mentioned. I must look into them! 

Thank you so much for asking at Dymocks :) I think I may still order it through amazon  to be safe though...after hearing the first chapter I can't wait to read it. I also need to buy the latest novel in the Inheritance Cycle. Have you read them? 

Our note disappeared!!!!! Next time I go into town I'll try to put another in. So many nerdfighters out there that just don't know about us...

Thank you once more for asking :) 

DFTBA

Yep...I've only ever been to one party with underage drinking. It was the formal after party and it was very small, very cold and rather awful. 

On a positive note I had my graduation ceremony today. I was the valedictorian as well which was exciting. On another much more pressing positive note what movies did you watch on the weekend? What sort of  films do you like?

It would be absolutely wonderful if you could ask at Dymocks! Thank you so much. Go wild with your book voucher...they're always the best gifts

Yes...the MAC thing was weird. I know a few people who had photos taken while drunk. Another friend nearly died of alcohol poisoning. On the other hand I had a few friends that didn't drink at all...regardless the whole culture/loud music/people I don't know in large numbers all being sweaty and drunk isn't appealing. 

I like the idea of non-schoolies schoolies :) 

Maybe you could pre-order TFiOS and have your parents send it to you in Melbourne??

I think I'll pre-order 'The Fault in Our Stars' through Amazon...but then I was wondering if it was possible to have Dymocks or another bookstore pre-order it for me...as the whole first printing will be signed...I think I'll call and ask

I worked on schoolies weekend as well. I just don't understand the attraction of getting hideously drunk (or Victor Harbour for that matter). The fact that society accepts this festival and legitimises it as a 'rite of passage' annoys me.