Day 39 - Getting down to business

Today’s the day! Today I knew I wanted to finish my final online exam and complete my postgraduate study. I was studying my last course and had really been enjoying learning about how different cultures function in varying ways. But now I was ready to finish and allow myself more time to make the most of my Tassie experience. The Bandycoot (my boyfriend) was in full support of my plans and promised to give me space to finish this task today. He had an outside project that he could tackle today – the guttering.

Him and his dad had taken down all the guttering a few weeks ago as it was in a pretty bad way. They managed to fix or replace most pieces, now came the job of putting it all back up in place. With his dad now back in Queensland, the Bandycoot had been putting off doing this massive task on his own. However his Nan checked the water tank when she was over for a visit and was concerned it was getting really low. That was the extra incentive he needed to get outside and up the ladder so we could catch some of the predicted rain. He really was a man on a mission and managed to get it all up in the one day. Having him drilling right outside my window was slightly off-putting when I was trying hard to concentrate, but then he would make a funny face and I would laugh away all my exam stress.

No sooner had I submitted my exam in the late afternoon, than it came a wild wind with heavy rain to flow down those newly installed gutters and start filling up our tank. It blew so hard for so long into the night, I started to wonder… did the alpacas get blown away?