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Published: July 12th 2005
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This blog entry is a compilation of emails and thoughts from the last 5 days, so it's a bit choppy, but I'm not writing it all out again! Hope nobody minds the uplifting from emails, promise it won't happen again.
We went on a Dive Boat in Cairns, it was fantastic. We did 3 days living on board the dive boat on the reef. Janice, Karl and Eva got their dive certification and I snorkeled.. It was amazing; I swam with a shark, sea turtles, amazing fish..When i thought about going to the great barrier reef, i was sort of like, "great, it's just a bunch of fish, nothing to get excited about." But it was absolutely amazing.. I saw sea turtles, Nemos (clown fish), a shark (I was right over it, swimming!) and extremely cool fish and lifeforms. It's a whole different world down there..Amazing. Also amazing was the diversity on the boat, which was great; some Aussies, and then europeans. Also a guy from Philadelphia. We had some Germans too; I liked all of them except one. But I told them the german I know (Excuse me, I am from America, I speach English, do you speak
The Big Banana
Australia has an obsession with large things english) and they were much impressed. So much so, they started speaking to me in German, and I said, "What?" They were probably making fun of me in German, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
We all got along famously, even though we were all different ages and whatnot. I also really enjoyed Eva's company; we both are quite nuts. We dove off the top of the boat, much to the amazement *lukewarm "Oh" kind of feeling* of the others.
I'm a bit sunburnt, but not too bad.
Everyone I meet is a traveler, taking a year, or some months off from life to see the world. I think I will go round the world after I graduate.. or do something to that effect. The former head of the UN of Africa was on the boat, and I think I'm gonna see if he can hook me up with an internship or something..He was my snorkeling partner, so that should count for something.
When we went out with the people from the boat after the trip in Cairns it was probably the most fun I’ve had since coming to Australia, and that’s saying something because I’ve
Me Holding a Black Cockatoo
I'm well on my way to becoming a croc hunter enjoyed myself immensely being here. It was hilariously fun. I’m trying to think if there’s a good story to tell y'all, but… hmm.. No good stories, but I did learn the German way to tell if your steak is done. You use the palm of your hand as a guideline and.. Scratch that, it’s too difficult to explain. I’ll give you a gist of the crowd though…There were two Danish guys (typical Danes, tall, blond blue eyed) ex-army men about our age who couldn’t speak English very well, but were very amusing anyway, a law student from England named Neil who spoke in a blithering English accent, barely pronouncing his words. He almost sounded like a villain, except he looked like a puppy. There were some girls from England, Spain and Australia, all very fun and nice. Tim, a goofy German, Chris, a shady German, and our dive instructor Mick who was an ex army dude from Switzerland. There were more cool people but for obvious reasons I won’t continue this list. Anyway, it was just loads of fun, and a great way to end our East Coast of Australia adventure. I can’t believe it’s over- about 3000 miles of driving in about 12 days. Crazy, eh? All the Aussies we meet think we're nuts for doing it, which is strange, because Aussies are all loonies.
I saw Batman Begins today. I enjoyed it immensely, as I have a movie-star crush on Christian Bale. Also, it was definitely the best Batman movie yet (Val Kilmer can’t act worth beans.. and Micheal Keaton???!!) although I’m no Batman expert. I can give a 20 minute talk on bats though. Bats are now thought to have been descended from primates rather than rodents. Imagine 20 minutes of fascinating facts like that, and there you have it- Caroline’s talk on bats.
Yesterday we walked around University of Sydney a little bit; it’s really quite impressive architecture, very gothic for some reason. The Women’s College, where I’ll be living, is very nice too. I’m looking forward to moving my stuff in. Currently, our rooms aren’t ready, but they were nice enough to put Janice, Karl and I up for free in a large room during our orientation. Tomorrow we head over to make friends with the international students and enroll in classes.
London situation=bad. Luckily no brits on the boat knew anybody involved.
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Hi sweetheart!!
Love your blog, Caroline, and the pictures are great! We miss you. Love, Mom