I know it has been some time since my last entry but life has become rather static since school has begun and life so busy on occasion that is has been impossible to write my thoughts down for some time.I have just arrived back from my equivalent of reading week and have numerous stories and photos to share. I will even try to relate some of the exciting happenings since I last wrote in my blog. Since arriving here at Wollongong university (pronounced wool-ung-gong), I have been meeting heaps of people and having numerous wild adventures. My residence puts on a [View Full Entry]

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I know that it has been a while since I updated this blog and for that I apologize. I have been having too much fun running around and starting up with uni. I also would like to apologize for my spelling mistakes and grammar from my last entry, I was very excited and wanted to convey my adventure to you all and in doing so I made several errors some of you were kind enough to point out. Since my last post I have done a whirlwind tour of Australia. We met up with some friends from Canada and travelled down [View Full Entry]

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Two days ago Dave and I arrived in Melbourne to meet up with two friends we made in Edmonton that are from this side of the globe. We hitch-hiked quite efficiently from Callala basically town hopping all day until we arrived in a city known as Narooma. We had rides from really nice people, an old lady gave us some peaches and an old man took us on a tour of a town and then on a tour of his dairy farm. We didn't make it as far as we'd hoped but Narooma turned out to be a great city. The [View Full Entry]

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I guess it has been a while since my last update. I have been out of internet contact for sometime. I met up with my friend Dave on the 24th and we spent the day catching up on my recent travel, his through Europe and then went out drinking with people from the hostel. Dave and I found a free museum and spent several hours walking through it looking at everythign from modern art to chinese and Australian aboriginal art. The 25th was Australia Day which was a great deal of fun. We spent the day around the Botanical Gardens and [View Full Entry]

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Well my last entry just got deleted so I will try to remember it all. I went to the blue Mountains a few days ago on a day trip with the Swiss fellow. We got on the bus at 7AM and didn't get back till about 7PM. It was a good trip but too much time was spent on the bus and we only had 15-20 minutes at each site with the exception of lunch. The mystery behind the blue Mountains lies in the sap of the gum trees. It evaporates in the heat and scatters the light by Rayleigh diffraction [View Full Entry]

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I made contact with a friend from residence at the U of A who lived in my residence tower and spent the night with him two days ago (my saturday night). I took the ferry from near the Opera house (which is a beautiful structure) and rode the ferry to a place called Manly. They have really nice beaches here, a great deal less touristy than Bondi, but the sand is definitely not as white and not nearly as nice though still quite amazing. My friend Sandy took me out surfing, to the local equivalent of our Peter's Drive-in (a chicken [View Full Entry]

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Here are a compilation of photos! [View Full Entry]

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Well here I am. Finally in Australia. I haven't had much time to write because I have been caught up in the excitement of adventuring around Sydney. My flights were rather good. I realized that airport food wasn't as bad as I was dreading after being able to survive on food form residence for three years. I found it quite intriguing how similar and yet different everything was at all the airports I visited. I know that it is hard to judge a country by seeing as much as you can inside an airport but it granted me some insight into [View Full Entry]

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This is only going to be a quick update because I have a little time ticker in the corner of this free internet terminal. The flights have been surprisingly goo up to this point in time. Sitting down for hours on end has made me more sore then I could ever have imagined. I am currently in Singapore right now at 2:30AM in the morning wandering around the airport looking for Wednesday. I left on Tuesday and landed on Thursday so I'm missing a day somewhere, I hope this isn't a trend that will continue. It has been a fairly uneventful [View Full Entry]

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Well, I am off in about 9 hours. Wish me luck! I won't be writing in her for at least two days considering my traveling will see me in Australia in about 50 hours from now so look in a few days time for a tired and disgruntled message! I hope you all get out and do something active when you think of me sitting on a plane for about 31 hours! [View Full Entry]

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