Dejar el hostal en Sydney fue un gustazo y encima tuve que devolver yo misma las sabanas a recepcion. Deben estar escasos de personal. En Europcar nos indicaron la cantidad a pagar por el coche, nada que ver con lo que teniamos reservado (la letra pequena...). En fin, terminamos reduciendo los dias y trastocando los planes. Por fin encontramos l...

A few more weeks in Australia and I feel like I am starting to get a handle on things. I no longer feel like I am going to kill myself crossing the street, and living with an Australian family has made that transition a lot easier. I moved in almost a week ago and they still make me feel right at home. The whole family is really down to earth an...

Today, the day after my Central Australia trip I relaxed. Slept in, wrote in my journal and swaped pictures with the gang. I have a fairly lazy week ahead of me with no class till Thursday.

This past week was fairly uneventful. I worked hard all week to finish my essay for my Special Interest Tourism class. That class is now over. On Thursday I had to get up just before 6am to register for fall classes. Great meals were the theme of this week. Thursday night Krystal made an absolutely fabulous meal for us all again. The meal was Th...

The week was largely filled with birthday joy! My friend Laura turned 21 on Tuesday and we celebrated with a potluck dinner and later going to the Rous Hotel for Jazz night. The music this week wasn't the best but the night was so fun. Fast-forward to Saturday, because the rest of week was basically no fun. On Saturday we celebrated Kala's 22nd ...

I headed via train back to my university town, Lismore ... for the last time. The wet Irish hills in town had always made walking grueling. The sun seldom came out. The local nightclub, the Powerhouse, was only good because of the fun energy all of us who went there brought. But, I and the other exchange students and the Australian students did ...

At the end of last week, I picked up my things, thanked Kim for her hospitality, and moved onto Kristi's floor. Our biggest dispute centered around the Denny's memorabilia I wanted to display (a dessert menu and a stuffed Santa-head I'd deftly won from the crane game). But, I replicated a Denny's Ooey Gooey Oreo Sundae for housewarming, and by n...