So, AH! I can't believe this has gone by so quickly. I feel like I just got off the plane and saw my little room for the first time. Now it looks like it did before I put stuff on the walls, pretty bare and pretty boring. Anyways, Dad was here! He had a rough trip here, but we got to Uluru without any problems and had a really relaxing time. We both got hot stone massages (heaven!), watched the sunset over Uluru and had a tasty dinner, then the next morning we watched the sunrise and toured the rock. It [View Full Entry]

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Hey Everyone, I'm super busy with assignments but I thought I'd quickly update on last weekend. We went to Surfer's Paradise and stayed at Griffith University with Nichole's friend Erica. Griffith was a really nice campus, it looked very new. None of us slept the night before because we had a 430am taxi and a 6am flight into Brisbane. Our flight went well but when we got into the Brisbane airport it was raining! We left Melbourne to get away from the rain and it followed us to Brisbane where it's usually really sunny. We took a train for an hour [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone! Mom and Barry have left me :( and they are now safe and enjoying the last leg of their trip in New Zealand. We had a great trip. They said a fair bit away from where I go to school, but we were able to work it out. They got in Thursday night and I saw them Friday. I met them at Federation Square and took them to Queen Victoria Market. We shopped around a little and after some thought I've decided that I should not leave here without a pair of Uggs. They are an Australian icon and [View Full Entry]

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This past weekend I flew to Sydney to meet up with Mom and Barry! I had to take a taxi at 530am the night after Suitcase Ball, that was rough. But, I got to the airport fine and with plenty of time to sleep a little near my gate. I had a nasty headache and tried to sleep it off on the plane as well. I landed on time and waited to hear from Mom, as they were supposed to arrive before me and call me from a pay phone. Well I waited and waited and waited and heard nothing, so [View Full Entry]

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Hey Everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I've been busy with assignments! We had a big Chisholm event last weekend, the Suitcase Ball. It's call the suitcase ball because two people win a trip for the weekend right before we leave for the ball, so they have 15 minutes to pack their bags and then they leave right from the event to their trip. Two girls won it and they were sent to Geelong once the event had wrapped up. We all had to dress up, and the theme was a Day at the Races. People pretty much just [View Full Entry]

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Hi Guys! I haven't updated in quite some time, mostly because I've been spending a lot of my time on assignments. I have 6 due within the next month or so, 3 of them are this coming week! AHHHH! It's stressful, but hopefully I can make it through. I think I'll be alright. Yesterday I couldn't get myself out of bed, I felt terrible. My whole body ached and my back hurt and it was really unpleasant. I called my friend Merinda to see what I could do since she's a nursing major and she advised me to stay in bed [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone! This past weekend my friends Nichole, Brenna, Woody and Smidie and I went to Smidie's parents beach house in Anglesea. Anglesea is right by the beginning of the Great Ocean Road. We got up there Friday night, watched a footy game on TV, then went to bed kind of early. TOO BAD I COULDN'T SLEEP THOUGH. Woody snores and talks in his sleep, LOUDLY. It was a while before I could fall asleep, oh well. The next day we woke up, made banana pancakes for breakfast (YUMMY...WOW), got in the car, and started driving. We stopped in Lorne, which [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday (Saturday) Nichole, my friend Matt and myself went on a day trip to Phillip Island. I don't have any pictures of Phillip Island itself because we weren't allowed to take them, but I have pictures of all the other stuff we did. We got into the city, grabbed a quick breakfast and loaded onto the bus at around 11. Our first stop was a wildlife park called Maru which was still on the mainland but very close to the island. We got to see a wombat! Her name was Wilma and she was 17 months old. SHE WAS HUGE! The [View Full Entry]

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I HAVE FOUND A SPORT TO BE OBSESSED WITH! Last week my friend Smidie took me and Nichole to an Australian Rules Football (AFL) game. It's also called footy. We went to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) to see the Essendon Bombers play Carlton. People were screaming and yelling all around us (lots of cursing haha) There were 65,000 people there and it was amazing! I still don't know a lot of the rules, but I know enough to get really into it. The guys don't have any padding (just little shorts and a jersey) and they run all over this [View Full Entry]

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Hi! I've been putting this off because there is so much to say! After our wine tour, we stayed in the city in a hostel for the night and got up super early to go on our 3 day Great Ocean Road/Grampians tour. Our tour guide, Bernie, picked us up in the city around 7:30am. Once everyone was picked up, I realized we had a mini United Nations in our little bus. 3 Americans, 2 Brits, 2 Polish, 2 Spanish, 2 Japanese, 2 Filipino, 1 Italian, 2 Germans....I think that's it. It was a very mixed group. All of us were [View Full Entry]

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