September

Went to Straddie with Umo. We saw whales, dolphins, turtles, kangaroos. Bought gelato and milkshake-of-regret. Its taste was not worth the price, my bad. The gelato was nice. Quite pricey though (13.2AUD). The next day I started to grade for 67 literature review assignments. My maximum limit for my brain per day is only 10. Hence, to avoid frying my brain and neglecting the research for too long, I decided to ask two of my friends, one is in Italy pursuing his PhD and another one is my previous student who is currently working (internship) at a private bank. Each of them had 10 essays to mark. Thus, I can finish the marking in roughly 4 days. One more thing that I am grateful of is that some of those students are not submitting anything (or dropped out?), which makes my grading even faster.

I just realized that the attendance is not a mandatory thing as it is in developing countries. The students will not come to the class unless we (the lecturers/school) make it mandatory. The reason is that the courses are mostly recorded and uploaded. Therefore, the only thing that matters to them is finishing their assignments and do well enough on the exams. This caused my teaching schedule to be very rare (a.k.a. less money earned) which luckily compensated by doing data entry for that unit.

For the second assignment marking, I did it myself because the rubric is far less complicated than the first one. The assignment was only 5-minute video submission with only three grading criteria. However, the allocated time is half than the previous one. 

Need to lodge the tax (both here and there.)