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Day 98
It’s really hard to believe that I have been here for 98 days! Insane! It has gone by so fast too, however, I am excited to go home too. Things haven’t been too eventful lately, jut going out on the weekends and homework during the week. We did go to the Sydney Aquarium last Sunday which was nice. I am really excited for the near future though because we are going to the Whitsunday Islands to snorkel at the Great Barrier Reef, camp on the beach, kayak and sun bathe.
Even more exciting than that is New Zealand! I will be doing a 13 day tour to both islands and then returning back to Sydney and then flying home. I am pretty much counting down the days to these trips because school is lame! Unfortunately I have a lot of schoolwork, essays and finals to complete before I go to New Zealand.
I am so sick of spending money though! I live so poor here and it is still really expensive! The states are gonna seem super cheap after this trip. I am so excited for these things back in the states:
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Good + cheap Mexican food (incl Taco Bell)
• Fountain pop
• FREE chips/bread before dinner
• FREE refills on pop
• Driving my own car
• Being able to go to the movies (it’s about $13/student ticket)
• Ability to buy actual food at the supermarket- not just noodles and bread
• Not having to carry all my groceries home
• No time distance from here to back home and not having to talk to people from home during the
middle of the night
• Not Sweating all the time (because it’s always hot!!)
• Having more than 4 tv channels
• Not hearing the bad aussie accents (there are more bad then good contrary to popular belief)
• Not everyone has bad teeth/receding hairlines
• Not so many sex commercials on tv (aka Girl’s Gone Wild)
• Being able to go out to eat again!
• Better cell phone/having more than 10 contacts in my phone
• Not being so far away from friends and family
• Not having an apt with wood floors so you can hear everything
• Cheap drinks!
• Being at an actual Uni (NOT SYDNEY UNI YUCK YUCK YUCK)
• Not writing
essays for a business degree
• Being asked if I live at Unilodge or not
• Having more friends near by
• Not so many awkward people
• Being able to go to Walmart and Target (that’s normal) again!
• NO MORE TECHNO MUSIC at bars/clubs!!!!!!
• Not having 500 loud semis driving by your apt at 6 in the morning
• Not fighting with my teachers
• Not having 67% be a good grade
Some things I’ll miss:
• How absolutely beautiful Australia is
• Being able to walk or take public transport just about anywhere
• Driving on the wrong side of the road and car
• Meeting lots of new people
• Generally friendly people
• Non-judgmental or arrogant people
• Having the gym a 2 minute walk from my apt
• Having the Indian convenience store 1 minute walk from my apt
• The boys singing
• Getting packages
• Rove
• Hearing the news from the whole world, not just the US
• Traveling around the country
• SO many bars and clubs to chose from
• Darling Harbour
• Kangaroos
• My friends I’ve made here
• Swimming between the flags
• 30
cent ice cream cones at McDoanld’s
• AMAZING Chinese food (especially honey chicken)
• Hungry Jack’s
• The Kabob place
• Hardly going to class
• Dressing up extensively just to go out
• Drunk, old Landsdown men
• Open minded people
• Being able to walk to multiple malls within ten minutes
• Koalas
• Actually shopping at Kmart haha (much better than the Target here)
• Trying new foods (that I hate, but I still try)
• Bridget from Big Brother
• That’s Academic
• Going to so many gay clubs (such a trip)
• Having a half-flush button on the toilet
• Bathrooms being called toilets
• Sitting around all day doing nothing with Jenna and Emily
• Passion Pop
• Creaming soda
• Buy Lo and Go Lo
• “Heaps”
• Living in Chippendale
• Everyone loves Americans
• Being the best dancer in a club
• Having tons of beautiful beaches nearby
• The Blue Mountains
• Nimbin hippies
• Melbourne
• Kangaroo Island
• Basically every place that I have visited there!
• Meeting people from all over the world
• Having to explain my name to everyone (what? Ana? A-U-T-U-M-N)
• The Great Ocean Road
• Having the ocean nearby
• Everyone wearing winter coats when it dips below 70F
• Metric system
• Pump, tone and Flex
• Boxing class
• Pilates class
• Rope rug
• Making fun of how they say different words- ORE-E-GONE-OH *oregano, GE-RAGE *garage
• Their amazing insults-Suck Dingo
• Harris Market
• Newtown
• Teaching the aussies beer pong
• Seeing Australia and its 10 cities on a weather map
• News reporters' outfits
• Lick her store
• Liquor stores being called bottle shops and drug stores being called chemists
• Green shopping bags
• Smaller food portions
• Insane public service ads
• Government proceedings
• Backpackers everywhere
• People that care about their health/not so many fat people
• Victoria Park
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