BRISBANE

Mid Semester Break :: Recap!

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October 6th 2008
HOME SWEET HOME!! After 11 days and nights of crazy Australian fun, I am MORE than glad to be back home! I had an absolute blast (and have a nice sunburnt body to prove it!) but am truly glad to be back home with my own bed, a clean kitchen, and my own bathroom with a hot shower! I definitely lived the life of a backpacker: sleeping with multiple foreigners in one tiny room, cold showers (or not s ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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