"Brisbane's unique Queensland architecture, riverfront setting, perfect climate, cultural diversity and unrivalled employment growth make it one of the most attractive cities to live in on almost any angle. "

So many plane rides!

So Thursday afternoon, I finally arrived in Brisbane. From Cairns it was a 2 hour plane ride which was a walk in the park compared to 13 hours! I’m done with planes for a few weeks!!!!

I got back in Brisbane International with all the AustraLearn kids and there were separate busses to take us to our final destinations of where we are living. A total of 15 AustraLearn students were living in Urbanest, where I am so we were the first stop. My apartment complex looks identical to the pictures online!!! I absolutely love it! I walked in with a fully made bed so I didn’t have to buy sheets, and my very own bathroom! And my building is all black, green and white, my windows frame is bright green!

I am living with 3 others girls and they are all the same girls that I roomed with for the past week in Cairns which is awesome because they are the girls who I got along with the best! Two go to American University and one goes to West Chester. Yes, you read right, American University…where Dan goes! How is it, that my world somehow gets smaller even thought I am 10,000 miles away?!

But we each have our own room and bathroom; we are literally in a 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom apartment! There is one extra room in here but no one is going to be living in it.

I immediately got settled in to make my room more homey, and for the fact that I was sick of living out of a suitcase! I love love love my room, I printed out pictures and brought my cards from anyone who wished me luck here. In the afternoon, all of the kids that were living in Urbanest decided to go into the city which is a beautiful walk from our Apartment! We walk right around the river, through the gardens and the beach, so its like we have our own city, without the hustle and bustle of the city..get it?

We went to a giant 6 story mall, which was mostly underground to get soap and cleaning supplies and just little odds and ended that everyone needed. It was werid because everything started to close at 6pm, only restaurants and liquor stores stay open later which means we have to plan our whole day around going shopping. MY favorite store so far…The Reject Shop, where it is basically Australia’s dollars store, that is where most of us got our bathroom stuff and hangers from. 

More pictures will be coming soon of the city :-)