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Climate action and changing seasons
![book pages in shape of a heart](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-02/paper-1100254_1920.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=qTLjqTle)
School students are back in classrooms and city traffic is slowly starting to get busier. Where has summer gone?
Final year worries
![Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@chuklanov?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Avel Chuklanov</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/work?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a>](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2021-09/avel-chuklanov-dumfltmeabq-unsplash-copy.jpg?h=c4dd2c7b&itok=v9RPL29b)
This year I am heading back into my studies with renewed vigour but also a few anxieties.
Breakfast club is the best
![Breakfast cereal](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2021-10/cereal-gb7f5826f9_1920.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=SDWeJbY6)
If you haven't been to breakfast club in the old uni bar, you are missing out!
Falling in love with fictional characters?
Whether in books or films or TV shows, there’s always that one or two characters that we just become completely obsessed with.
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Getting back into sport
![Soccer ball](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-02/soccer-3471402_1920.jpg?h=bac60463&itok=sO_fg_dx)
I have focused less on participating in social sports and I think I miss it.
Staying sunsafe
![towels, hats, sunglasses on a blue mat at the beach](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-02/summer-g8b6ee9804_1920.jpg?h=06f6671c&itok=GmMIEh0S)
We have all made the mistake of bathing in the warmth of the sun at the beach or outside and then the next day coming out looking like a broiled lobster.
Interested in volunteering?
In conjunction with the AUU, Student Health and Wellbeing are currently recruiting volunteers to join the 2022 team.
Fresh starts
![listening to music on headphones](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-02/music-791631_1920.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=LseSbF1e)
My first blog piece for 2022 – quite exciting but also a bit daunting.
Throwback: Arriving in Adelaide
![Me, in front of the Fangirls banner.](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-02/img_1222.jpg?h=c4dd2c7b&itok=EMg8xmmt)
Let us rejoice for the South Australian border has finally opened to international students!
Acknowledgement of Country
![Sea of Hands](/student/wellbeing/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-02/virtual-sea-of-hands-copy.jpg?h=c4dd2c7b&itok=YUBQJtDU)
Adelaide is located in the traditional Country of the Kaurna people. I acknowledge and pay my respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First people of Australia whose ancestral lands and waters we work and live on throughout Australia. I honour the wisdom of, and pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.