Sunset at the Opera Bar

Sydney!! - Day One

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November 2nd 2012
I’ve been meaning to blog this past week but there’s been so much going on that I haven’t had time!! I’m with my best friends Alexa, Melissa, Colleen (but everyone calls her Bird) and Leah on the 10-day break in between the Australia and New Zealand portions of this semester. This, without a doubt, has been and forever will be the best 10 days of my life. We left early in the morning on t ... 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