My building

First Day here

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July 26th 2007
WHEW feels like an understatement right now. I left home almost 40 hours ago and that seems crazy to me right now; however, my body does feel kind of like a train wreck. My 14 hour flight from LA to Sydney went okay...not very restful as there were a HUGE group of kids all traveling together, so they obviously were not interested in sleep. Then, had a short layover in Sydney which was almost t ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Hawthorn

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more