So while I write this, you should all know it’s about 30 degree’s outside, and I am sitting my porch enjoying the view of some palm tree’s, the beach, ocean and boardwalk! Now if that doesn’t make you jealous, I don’t know what will!! Within the last month many exciting things have happened! Most importantly…I finished my practice teaching placement and began my summer vacation. The first week was spend mostly just on the beach in 40 degree weather and surfing everyday! (see picture of my new surf board!) The last 2 weeks Sara and I spent in New Zealand [View Full Entry]

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These last few weeks of mine have been spent living the life of a real teacher. I am at school everyday from 8am to 4pm, teaching and writing lesson plans… which doesn’t leave much time for anything else!! I am enjoying my time with the kids, as they are very adorable! In my prep class (kindergarten) we have been studying passports and each week we study a different country. The first week we ‘went’ to Canada and got to make some pumpkin pie in class! Very cute and delicious! Some interesting things I have noticed that are different from the school’s [View Full Entry]

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Side Note*** The captions and pictures are all messed up, and I can't figure out how to get them right... but after multiple tries, unfortunately you are just going to have to deal with it! Almost at the 3-month mark now and time is just flying by! Life has been pretty busy lately with wrapping up classes and assignments before I start my first day of practice teaching… Tomorrow! Dun, Dun, Dunnnnn. I’m pretty excited and a bit nervous at the same time! I am going to be in a kindergarten class at a near by Montessori school. Should be a [View Full Entry]

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I am officially a true Australian tourist- we took surf lessons this last weekend on the local beach! It was a ton of fun! Luckily, one of our dear old Canadian friends is an avid surfer, and taught us all for free! The surf shop across from the beach rented us boards for $30 for 24 hours…cheap entertainment I’d say! We split two boards between about 6 people, which was more then enough because surfing is exhausting! The actual getting up on the board was not so bad, it’s just getting back out against the killer waves. Needless to say, the [View Full Entry]

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So this last weekend all Canadian students in the Education program at USC got a FREE trip to Fraser Island! Free you say? Of course we all took advantage and signed up right away! Aside from the 6am bus departure on Saturday morning it was a great trip! Fraser is the worlds largest sand island (bigger then Singapore) and absolutely stunning! Team “we’re better then you” is the name of our group that traveled on the same bus for the weekend. (see picture). On Saturday we did a ton of exploring! We stopped at a rainforest for lunch with a silent [View Full Entry]

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I have officially completed my first week of school in Australia!! I won’t go on too much about the school part, because basically it’s all the same- go to class, do some readings and assignments and try to stay awake! Since I don’t have any classes on Friday’s, Jocelyn and I decided to take a long weekend trip to Brisbane for the weekend before the assignments start piling in! Some highlights from my Brisbane trip include South Bank- a beach in the middle of the city, a small shopping spree with many sales, a trip to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary and [View Full Entry]

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Thanks for reading everyone, I am loving the comments and hearing what you all are up to! Keep it coming! I have officially started orientation at school! It is nothing too exciting and pretty boring. There have been 2 lectures that I had to attend and a few free lunches and that’s about it! Since it’s been pretty slow around here we decided to spice things up a bit and head to the Australia Zoo. What an AMAZING place!! I could not even tell you my fav part of the trip- it was all so exciting. The animal are much more [View Full Entry]

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I made it! In what was supposed to be a 14 hours on a train, only a week after a 14 hours plane ride…. Turned into almost 16 hours on the train due to ‘track repair’. As if I wanted to spend more time on the train! Any way, I have now safely made it to my residence where I am staying for the next few months. I have 3 other roommates in an apartment style dorm. One of them is Australian (not bad to look at I might add), and the other 2 I have yet to meet! There is [View Full Entry]

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And so it begins, I have started a blog to answer some of the common questions, show you some pictures and keep in touch…and by keep in touch I mean this blog is not meant for you to just read and not comment on! No matter how ‘boring’ you think life is back home, I still want to hear about what you are up to as well!! So here goes… I arrived in Sydney after a long 14 hour flight from LA. At the airport in LA I met up with a girl named Sue who I had met at the [View Full Entry]

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