Tomorrow's my last day of classes. This weekend is my last in Melbourne. How crazy is that??? I still have a month and a half left but this is my last weekend here. Luckily I finished all of my work 2 days earlier than I expected to so I have the end of this week and the weekend to relax and hang out with everyone before I leave to travel. Monday I have my Contemporary Australia exam which is going to be easy, and then Tuesday is the road trip around Brisbane. Our flight got changed from 7 am to 2 pm so we can't pick up the van that day anymore. Hopefully we can stay with my friends in Brisbane, otherwise we'll have to get a hostel that night. I'm excited about the trip, it will be interesting because we don't really have anything planned. Hopefully the people I go with are good travel buddies!
I said my first good bye yesterday. One of my friends who I hang out with in 2 of my classes is leaving tomorrow for the outback and then going to Indonesia so I won't see her again most likely. It was weird saying "nice to meet you" when we've known each other for months now. Hopefully I can see all of the friends I've made again some day. It's good that New Jersey's so close to NYC because whenever anyone visits I can just meet them in the city and catch up.
Class time!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Great Ocean Road
Just got back from my Great Ocean Road trip. It's a road that follows the ocean across the bottom of Victoria (which is the state i'm in) and possibly further, i'm not sure. We didn't nearly do all of it, but got to see The Twelve Apostles and Loch Ard Gorge. It was a nice trip, but I'm glad it was free because most of the time was spent on the bus and after a while the ocean out of the window all looks the same. It was a good time to catch up on sleep. What we did see was amazing. And we got a surfing lesson too. I think i'm actually getting a little better at surfing. I'll put pictures of it up. And i'll put some pictures from One Fish Two Fish up too. Hopefully I'll find some time to squeeze in writing more about One Fish Two Fish, but this is the last week of classes so I have A LOT of work to squeeze in before i start all of my traveling!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Something small before I write about everything else
sorry i havent updated about my trip yet. i've been so busy with classes this week since i've gotten back. i figured i'd just write a short one and then go back and describe my trip in detail later on.
bungee jumping was amazing. i was the first one to go out of all the people from my trip. it was tons of stairs to climb up. you just kept walking and walking and look up & there were still tons of stairs. it was 44 meters high which is about 145 feet, and then you get up to the top and they tie your ankles into a towel with straps & buckles and tons of knots, then you get down and shuffle to the edge (since your ankles are bound together) and they make you wave to the camera, which is hard to do since you've already looked down at the water below you. then they said put your arms up & stick your chin in & then count 5,4,3,2,1 & you jump or dive off. i hit the water & went waist deep. i wasnt expecting it because they said it doesnt happen to everyone but apparently it has to do with how you dive off and since i was the first to go no one told me about it. it was fun though. so then you're hanging by your feet and a man in a raft comes & unties you and you get off and run back to your friends. it was weird, i felt a bit paralyzed when he was untying me, i guess because i didnt know what to do and i was really shaky. it was amazing though and i bought the video to watch when i get home.
Scuba diving was amazing too. At the Great Barrier Reef. It was a two hour boat ride on a really nice boat but it was so choppy & bumpy that we all got nauseous and had to lay down & sleep. for me diving was scarier than bungee jumping was. you have to remember to breathe a certain way & pop your ears and then swim a certain way & stuff. they say the most important thing is to not touch the reef because you'll kill it and it will cut you and at one point i thought we were going to run into it because i didnt realize the guide was steering us (3 of us were linked at the arms) so i kind of freaked out, but i just used my A-OK signal & everything was fine. the reef is so amazing, colorful. stuff you'd never be able to imagine on land. we got to see Finding Nemo fish in their little house. It was really indescribable.
I'll have to write about the rest later because i have to go to class.
I changed my flight from November 16th to the 28th. I get home the day after Thanksgiving, but I get to go to New Zealand for almost two weeks. I'm excited but I miss everyone so much!
bungee jumping was amazing. i was the first one to go out of all the people from my trip. it was tons of stairs to climb up. you just kept walking and walking and look up & there were still tons of stairs. it was 44 meters high which is about 145 feet, and then you get up to the top and they tie your ankles into a towel with straps & buckles and tons of knots, then you get down and shuffle to the edge (since your ankles are bound together) and they make you wave to the camera, which is hard to do since you've already looked down at the water below you. then they said put your arms up & stick your chin in & then count 5,4,3,2,1 & you jump or dive off. i hit the water & went waist deep. i wasnt expecting it because they said it doesnt happen to everyone but apparently it has to do with how you dive off and since i was the first to go no one told me about it. it was fun though. so then you're hanging by your feet and a man in a raft comes & unties you and you get off and run back to your friends. it was weird, i felt a bit paralyzed when he was untying me, i guess because i didnt know what to do and i was really shaky. it was amazing though and i bought the video to watch when i get home.
Scuba diving was amazing too. At the Great Barrier Reef. It was a two hour boat ride on a really nice boat but it was so choppy & bumpy that we all got nauseous and had to lay down & sleep. for me diving was scarier than bungee jumping was. you have to remember to breathe a certain way & pop your ears and then swim a certain way & stuff. they say the most important thing is to not touch the reef because you'll kill it and it will cut you and at one point i thought we were going to run into it because i didnt realize the guide was steering us (3 of us were linked at the arms) so i kind of freaked out, but i just used my A-OK signal & everything was fine. the reef is so amazing, colorful. stuff you'd never be able to imagine on land. we got to see Finding Nemo fish in their little house. It was really indescribable.
I'll have to write about the rest later because i have to go to class.
I changed my flight from November 16th to the 28th. I get home the day after Thanksgiving, but I get to go to New Zealand for almost two weeks. I'm excited but I miss everyone so much!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
During One Fish Two Fish
Is it seriously October already???!!?!!!
I'm at an internet cafe in Port Douglas, which is an hour outside of Cairns up in Queensland. One Fish Two Fish (my spring break trip) is amazing!!! I have 3 days left, but figured i'd do a quick update to tell everyone i'm still alive!
We've done the australian zoo, sailing, kayaking, snorkeling, beaching, 4WD with a bus through an island, whitewater rafting was yesterday, stayed on an island with the clearest blue water ever, tonight is bungee jumping, tomorrow is snorkeling the great barrier reef and i'll probably scuba if it's not too expensive, then we still have the rainforest & cliff diving.
i'll go into more detail when i get back to monash and have time to write, although it will be my last 2 weeks of classes and i'll have a lot of work!! I can't believe how fast time's gone. I also still can't believe i'm in Australia. We all have to keep reminding each other that we're actually here... a lot of times this trip i've felt like I was in a commercial or in a dream or something. i feel like i won't be able to remember it all because there's just so much to look at!
I'm at an internet cafe in Port Douglas, which is an hour outside of Cairns up in Queensland. One Fish Two Fish (my spring break trip) is amazing!!! I have 3 days left, but figured i'd do a quick update to tell everyone i'm still alive!
We've done the australian zoo, sailing, kayaking, snorkeling, beaching, 4WD with a bus through an island, whitewater rafting was yesterday, stayed on an island with the clearest blue water ever, tonight is bungee jumping, tomorrow is snorkeling the great barrier reef and i'll probably scuba if it's not too expensive, then we still have the rainforest & cliff diving.
i'll go into more detail when i get back to monash and have time to write, although it will be my last 2 weeks of classes and i'll have a lot of work!! I can't believe how fast time's gone. I also still can't believe i'm in Australia. We all have to keep reminding each other that we're actually here... a lot of times this trip i've felt like I was in a commercial or in a dream or something. i feel like i won't be able to remember it all because there's just so much to look at!
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