Travelblog Lisa

Organ Pipes and Hanging Rocks I'll start updating this blog more regularly again from this week on. My lectures are slowly getting past de introductory phase. It was about time, because we're already 3 weeks in the 12 week short semester. Especially the neuroscience classes really complement my curriculum. The knowledge from all life science courses (cell biology, biochemistry etc.) that I have been taking at UCU is now used to study the brain, which the big nerd in me finds exciting. Yesterday, 12/3, Joe, Andrew, Adam and I went on a daytrip together. Everyone else we knew was either at a folk music festival or at the Great Ocean Road for the weekend. The sight of spending all Saturday at the halls wasn't a very good one, so we decided to explore Melbourne's surroundings. The ... read more

Voor de mensen die nu heel erg in de war zijn, dit is mijn nieuwe blog: http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Anouschka/. Er staat (nu) nog niet heel veel op, maar hier kan je als je wilt mijn avonturen in Adelaide volgen de komende maanden. Liefs, Anouschka... read more

First Week in Melbourne Lisa 9/2 - It’s strange to walk in here knowing that I will live here for the next 5 months. Nothing or nobody around here I know. Then, globalisation becomes strangely comforting. To see the same signs, symbols, brands, buildings styles, films; to hear the same noises at traffic lights, the same music. All familiarities that I want to escape when I am travelling, I am now looking for in some way. 10/2 – I live in Deakin Hall on the ground floor. My door opens directly to the outside and the other door in my room leads to the bathroom that I share with 3 other girls (1 from the USA, 1 from Canada, and 1 from Germany – they all arrived later this week). My room is semisplit in two ... read more

Routeburn Track 3/2-6/2 English (Lisa) To say that it was raining when we drove from Milford Sound to the start of the Routeburn track is an understatement. It was rather as if the sky was continuously emptying buckets full of water. Luckily, heavy rain results in the most spectacular views in Fiordland. Many mountains are just bare rocks with hardly any trees on them, so the water has nowhere to go but to stream down them in the form of big waterfalls. While Erik and Jean were in complete awe in the front of the care, us two in the backseat were also slightly worried: we were about to start the Routeburn Track. The Routeburn Track is one of the nine ‘Great Walks’ in New Zealand. It’s 32 km long and the track goes through both ... read more

Eerst wat verdrietig nieuws dat ook gedeeld moet worden. Vandaag bracht Jay het verdrietige bericht dat Tante Ini is overleden. Ook al ben ik ver weg, ik zal er in gedachten bij zijn vrijdag. Veel sterkte voor iedereen die van haar hield. Lisa Christchurch & Driving to Twizel English (Lisa) 30/1 Christchurch Inner City & Anouschka's Birthday 2.0 We went to the Art Centre of Christchurch today, located in the former university building. It is a really nice, old building (especially for NZ standards) with a court yard. Artists have their own room. Outside, we had lunch on the grass and went to the market stalls were other artists sold their work, many of which was jewelry. The annual, two week long buskers festival was running. Some amazing musicians were playing all around the city; ranging ... read more