I am flying home so soon. The last month has gone by so fast and I do not want to leave, but miss everyone at home a lot. Enjoy some random thoughts I have about Oz and life here: Cheers to the ending of an epic adventure across the Pacific from everyone I know. Conny came back from Ayers Rock/Uluru (middle of Oz) with these Games learned in Australia 1. I can see the moon in the spoon 2. A trip around the world 3. 2 up, 2 down, 1 up 1 down I've noticed I really do hear the f [View Full Entry]

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October 17 - Waking up and having my usual breakfast of peanut butter toast and an orange around 830 a.m. was a great start to the eventful day. Andy, Maria, and I met up with Andy S Paul, and a group of at least 30 other mostly German students at the pavilion at UniCentral. We hung out for a bit then headed over to the bus stop to take the 615 bus to Landsborough train station. After overfilling the bus with standing room only left we were off to the station that only takes 20 minutes to get to. Then the [View Full Entry]

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I <3 sailing! Hope you enjoy the photos from semester break in the middle of September :) *Leave me some lovely messages [View Full Entry]

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How to begin describing the wonderous whirlwind of my semester break...there are so many words to describe it yet the most fitting would be AMAZING!! I have been in Australia for over 3 months and just touched the surface of seeing all that this beautiful country has to offer. The main attractions of only one state, tropical Queensland, is just 1,852,642 km² of the 7,686,850 km2 land area of Australia. (It is huge) Well the best way to check out all the glorious pictures of my holiday is to head to my facebook album #1 and then I will be adding [View Full Entry]

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Today is 9-9-09! I had my first exam at USC. I think it went well, but we will see when I get it back. I have been overloaded with assignments, a ton of reading, and studying over the past week. The instructors are loading it on for us to work on over semester break. :( Well even though I have had a lot to do, I manage to make the most of my time on the sunshine coast and met up with Milo and a few others to go to a house warming party after watching the Australia vs. South Africa [View Full Entry]

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21st August For my birthday it was so nice to check the mail and get a card from so many people, my mom, grandparents, and my friend from the sorority, Moe. After I got ready for the day, my roommates (Maria and Andy) and I met up with Paul, another Andy, and Sarah to go to Maroochydore and Moloolaba beach for the day. We walked all along the coastline, sat and watched tons of kite surfers b/c it was a really windy day. We went out to lunch at a little surfer beach side cafe then went walking along the rocky [View Full Entry]

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Sorry I have not been updating but I will make up for it in the next few weeks! :) So a few weekends ago we worked out plans to spend the night in Brisbane for Andy S's birthday, there were going to be six of us traveling together and staying at Bunk Backpackers hostel. It is pretty sweet if you want to check it out the link is http://www.bunkbrisbane.com.au/ Well the group heading out on Saturday morning was me, Andy, Maria, Sarah, Paul, and Andy S. We got together at my apartment in the morning and made a huge great breakfast. [View Full Entry]

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Highlights of traveling to the Australia zoo: -Big yellow Australia zoo bus from the Alexandra Headland beach to Berwah, the city where the zoo is -feeding of the three huge elephants -petting the camel -Crocoseum show with exotic birds flying overhead, Andy winning the monkey impersonation, zookeepers bringing huge snakes all around the audience, huge crocodile feeding - the croc was cranky and refused to leave the arena. -Roo heaven-we sat around with the kangaroos and wallabies, petting them, and watching them just bounce around -Koalas Koalas Koalas! There were so many of them high u [View Full Entry]

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On Friday morning I had class until noon and then went for a run around Chancellor Park again. I was surprised to see that no one uses the trail, the only time there is anyone on it is when the Chancellor Park College finishes school for the day. The “college” at the sunshine coast is for high school students, which I found very strange. After getting ready for Friday night we went to get supplies for the BBQ. It is only a 5 minute drive to “woolies” the grocery store that is most common in this area. Then instead of going [View Full Entry]

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I am back to the grind of classes and keeping busy all over the Sunshine Coast. Last week was orientation "o" week and there was a great opening welcome session presented in one of the great big lecture theaters on campus. There was lots of useful information provided about everything from course material to great tips and offers for travelling around all of Australia (much more important, i think. haha). There was presenters from the international office, STA travel, and security officers on campus. The next morning was the vice chancellors welcoming session that had a lot of the same info [View Full Entry]

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