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Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
... out in the Caribbean for a bit to fly to north brazil and go to the amazon first then travel down the coast to Salvador then inland to Brasilia and finally end up in the big bold Rio! Mark is flying to the Caribbean in the next week so we really need to get a proper backpack and some good walking shoes ASAP, shame I know nothing about things like that. Off to do some more research in to what we ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... chat. He even explained the inflight entertainment which was otherwise a complete and utter mystery to me! Definite highlights of the flight were the views, especially flying over Baghdad and Basra and even Kuwait, even though it was dark, it was still possible to see the cities all lit up below. The whole flight was surreal, I felt like I was watching myself in a film. Coming down into Dubai was amazing, we could even see the desert and swimming pools below...!
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Shopping - Aaargh!!
On our first day in Oxspring, we slept in very late. I think the last three weeks are catching up with us. Also blackout curtains and a sunrise around 8:30 helps. We had a cook up in preparation for the big day of shopping ahead but didn't get motivated until about 1pm. Ash opted out but Dean tagged along (he soon regretted this decision).
We decided to dedicate the day to shopping and preparing ...
Day 3
Day 3 - Novemeber 1, 2010
Today was the first day we had to get up early. We had to be at the Arundel building, where the education majors are located, to meet Tricia and begin our orientation. She walked us over the the main building of the University so we could enroll, and have our student identification cards made. We our officially students at Sheffield Hallam University.
Next, we met "Uni" students and they talked about the curriculum and their experiences. They ...