Blogs from Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 8

This past week marked week one of our two week “fall” break (spring break back in the States). Ash n I took a trip to Cairns and Sydney with Misha and Des (two girls from Concordia) and Berto (Des’s roommate at Uni from Mexico). It was crazy fun, and I will never forget it! Friday, March 26th Des, Ash, Berto, Misha and I headed for the airport in two cars, and arrived with a good hour to spare. We creeped everyone out in the airport by yelling, “UHUHUH” like Lorraine from MadTV does. It’s just what we do. The flight itself was relatively uneventful. Misha had the row to herself in front of Ashley and I, so Ashley sat with Misha (with a seat in between them) and I did the same with some crabby 50 ... read more

I have now officially been here for one month. The rain finally let up for one day so that I could have an amazing Australian adventure! Before I tell you about that though, let me just say that it has still been raining non-stop. All Ash n I did Saturday was lay around. I finally got some homework done (a first, I must say), and then we made some soup and watched CSI all night. When Mitchie got home from working at Eagle Boys—the amazing local pizza place—he brought us pizza, garlic bread, and dessert pizza. Mitchie is our favorite Aussie boy. No contest. On to Sunday. A friend of mine named Desiree had been taken by her roommates to a nearby rainforest with an amazing waterfall that you can swim in. We had been waiting ... read more

I have a few random, but great, stories that I forgot to mention! The first day we were here, we headed to the pool after our long Woolies adventure. After the pool, I decided it was a good idea to throw my towel over my closet door to let it dry. Turns out, that was a terrible idea. I had completely forgotten about the proximity of the ceiling fan to the closet door, and I whacked my hand against the fan! It immediately started dripping blood (no exaggeration), and I ran to Ashleys. I freaked out once there, and that happened to be the first time meeting her roommates friend Shelly, as well as Ashley's other roommate Aleks (I found out last night that the next day, he asked if the "hysterical American" was around). After ... read more

Hello all! Thursday, February 11th, I embarked on the trip of a lifetime with my best friend Ashley. We are currently at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, studying abroad through our college in Minnesota. This first entry might be a bit long-winded, but that's only because so much has happened in the short week that I've been gone. First, let me explain how the trip HERE went. First stop? Minneapolis, MN. After hearing our flight was delayed from Minneapolis to Dallas, they found us new flights and Ashley and I boarded at 2 p.m. Once in Dallas, we waited for our next plane for 4 hours! For those of you who don't know this, Dallas had a crazy snowstorm that threw off a ton of flights (because they aren't prepared for snow ... read more

When we knew we were heading to Woodford again this year we were looking forward to catching up with our long time family friends "The Macks". Christmas Eve we set off for their place near Mooloolaba, and stayed overnight to have Christmas morning with them also. It was fantastic to hang out with them! Christmas eve we had a BBQ, and their daughter took my little guys for a walk to see the lights around. In the morning we loaded the trailer with the BBQ, tables, chairs and plenty of food and headed off to Mooloolaba beach. There we met up with a heap of other families who didnt have any other family to spend Christmas with and we all had breaky and played in the beautiful water. I have to say it was the nicest ... read more