Our very own HONY
I’ve played piano and violin since I was a baby. I write a fair bit of music. I’m pretty into musical theater, I’ve been the musical director for three shows and also done a lot choir. My three shows are Rent, Spring Awakening and the last one I actually wrote and arranged the music for it, so that was pretty cool.
I originally looked at a certificate four, through TAFE, of legal services. I thought that, with law, I wasn’t really going to cope with it, I didn’t really want to do it so I started looking into conveyancing. I realised that my university is the only one that can be done via correspondence that says “okay, you can be a conveyancer, you can be a certified conveyancer in NSW, instead of a lawyer”. There’s only three schools in NSW that recognise conveyancing as a degree and they’re all in Sydney. It’s win win, not all the law, but the law I want to do.
Basically because I like to go on holidays, so I want to be able to afford to go on holidays. I want to go on exchange next, but I can’t decided how long I want to go for, either 6 months or 6 weeks. The idea of 6 months gives me a little bit of anxiety because it’s such a long time. But it will either be in Stockholm or somewhere near Prague. Hopefully at the end of the year I’ll fly out to Europe.
Legends of Law School is a monthly column by Georgia Briggs
I think the best part of being a maid of honour is just being there for my sister throughout the whole process, the worst part is probably doing the speech in front of heaps of people. Luckily it went quite well.
…because my dad is the Deputy Captain, but I really fought my first fire at 17.
I was in a fire last week on night shift, doing back burning to keep the overall fire contained.
It’s quite rewarding but it can be a bit scary, particularly when you’re going into the fires, rather than standing out of them.
When you go in you don’t know if a tree is going to fall, if something is hot, if something is going to ignite or how fast fire is coming if it’s at a distance.
My dad is a big part of it, but actually so is my mum and both my brothers, it’s a real family affair!
I think my current uni is a really good way to get me there, it’s a really good place for me to work out what I’m doing and get the support I need.
I think if you work really hard at what you do it doesn’t really matter what uni you come from – it matters where you go from that.
It’s at the Duxton bar, and then a little tea party. It’s just the girls, but when I say just the girls I mean 25 people. We’re doing a painting session, painting ‘Red Bike’. This woman has a business and she sort of paints it with you, so you all paint the same thing. It’s a very different kind of Hens’ party. This is the second Hens’ party I’ve organised and neither of them have involved strippers because none of the friends would have wanted them, nor would I have wanted to organise it! Instead we’ll have one big photograph of us all holding the same painting.
My first boss used to always tell me I was a unique person because I have a strong creative side and also a strong intellect. He would always say in his experience people are usually one or the other but I had a good mix of both. So I’ve always held on to that.
I moved to Sydney to study a bachelor of design at UNSW but left after a week. I called my parents in tears and moved to Canberra the next day. I just had a realisation moment that my creative side is my outlet/hobby but not my career.
The plan is to do the Grad Dip of Legal Practice then, once I get admitted, I’ll be applying for permanent residence. Then I think 3 years after that I can apply for citizenship. It’s not that easy, but that’s the general plan.
My dad is supportive of this now. I think he feels the situation is so bad in Pakistan now. When I went home I was there for three weeks and two out of those three weeks the schools were shut because of security threats. Three years ago there was that big attack at the school and then there was one at a university while I was there, so in that sort of situation you sort of think “things aren’t getting better”, so I think he realises it’s a good idea.
Legends of Law School is a monthly column by Georgia Briggs
I was born in Cameroon to Norwegian parents, who lived and worked as Lutheran missionaries. We lived there until I was seven years old and then we moved back to Norway. My great-grandparents on my father’s side were among the first missionaries in India, way, way back and he wrote a lot of book about his journeys.
I am glad to share some of the adventurous spirit or, rootlessness that led my relatives to leave their comfort zones. Granted, relocating from Norway to Australia to commence studies in the noughties is drastically less problematic than taking your young family and jumping on a merchant ship headed to Cameroon in the fifties, but it is still far away from home.
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