http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/OKaylaMay/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from OKaylaMay en-us Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:10:58 BST Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:10:58 BST I just have to make a bold statement right away here.I think that I'm very smelly. At first I wasn't sure if it was me but this smell has been following me around. Therefore I must conclude that I'm the one with the stentch. And it's not just my feet anymore.. Anyhow. Day in Wellington. Mostly successful. Successful in the fact that I left this shitty hostel at 930am and didn't return until 1 http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-278965.html Alright I've stayed in some pretty shoddy places before on this trip.. but I think I might have just stumbled into one of the worst. I know I know I was pretty spoiled at my last location actually VERY spoiled. Last night was my first night alone for the first time since I was at home. It was nice of course but a little freaky quiet and weird... Today was my long bus ride from Lake Taupo t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-278552.html So today started out again kind of rough I knew I had to make a decision on whether or not to take the RA job and only have 3 days at home or stay for about a week and then go up. As of now I have declined the position. I talked to Brittany and Laura again online and while it was nice to talk to them I just didn't want to stop. And lesson 3 for those keeping count don't tell a homesick pers http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Taupo/blog-277750.html Don't get me wrong I love this city but yeah it smells kind of like farts. I'll explain laterSo yesterday morning started kind of rough watch out kids there are a lot of lessons in this story. I tried to call home with the phone cards my classmates had given me in Australia. Lesson number one Calling phone card numbers in another country counts as an international call so pretty much they http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Rotorua/blog-277341.html Obviously I don't have a lot more to say but I'm on the internet again.. so yeah I'll tell you about what's going on I guess Today I got to sleep in til 9am and then I enjoyed a Dunkin' Donut for the first time in New Zealand. Then I headed to the Art Gallery where I discovered that their Main Gallery is closed til 2010. Yep 2010 the year I'm supposta graduate... So I headed over to the Con http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-276878.html Weeeellll Another long entry I believeSo I don't really remember the last time I wrote in Cairnes I think Do ya'll know I went snorkeling over the reef Cause if not it was pretty freaking amazing..So yeah after our day on the reef we headed to the Daintree Rainforest which is just north of Cairnes. It was pretty cool actually being in a rainforest It was like the henry doorly zoo... onl http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-276485.html Alright. Apologies first. No Pictures. Sorry still my camera cord is at home. Also. Internet still v. expensive so I will go through the last week and a half pretty quickly but yeah ask me more when I get home I'd love to tell you the stories.First off we flew from Sydney to Uluru AKA Ayers Rock and met up with the TWO Australian MEN who were going to be our guides for a WEEK. Let's just http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-274721.html I'm alive. At a computer where i can't put pictures on and paying a crazy amount for it 4hr So yeah. I'm back from the Outback and I'm in Darwin for the day and then tomorrow we have a early flight to Cairnes where I'll be located for the rest of my time in Ozland.So love you all but nothing more from me todayCheersKayla http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Darwin/City-of-Darwin/blog-273971.html Another apology to begin with I see that I forgot to publish my first post Sorry all Just a quick update as I only have about 20 minutes and I'm realllly tired and have to get up at 445 am tomorrow morning AhhI'm not exactly where I left off so I'll just inform you that I spent the last two nights in the Blue Mountains which are just a couple hours west of Sydney. We stayed at this AMAZ http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Blue-Mountains/blog-271519.html No I haven't been sailing at all but man did I get my fair share of salt water today. Yes that's right the girl from South Dakota went swimmin' in her first ocean It was amazing the waves were crazy big today and it was lots of fun 'riding' them something I of course hadn't ever done before. It was a great afternoon. Now to back track a little. I'm not really sure where I left off actual http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-270484.html Hello All from Sydney Australia Hope the weather is still nice there because it is absolutely GORGEOUS here They were warning us of the winter conditions on the plane... a temp of 66F I thought I had to start out with a bit of bad news that I couldn't put and of my pictures online because I brought the total wrong camera cord with me but it seems like there is a slot on this computer that I c http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-270017.html Just a few words before I leave mostly just to play with this and figure out how things work... So yeah my last couple of days at home have been very relaxing I still don't think that I have quite realized that I'm leaving the country in 2 days I'm very not ready I havent started thinking about packing and of course I'm most 'freaked out' about not having anything planned for New Zealand. It http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/South-Dakota/Sioux-Falls/blog-268447.html