G’Day Mates! Are you right?!
::Stares blankly:::
“Oh your from America aren’t yah!!? Are you right means OK. Get it? So when I say Are you right, you just say yes!”
…This happened as soon as I got through customs…..and the accents start! Yes! Accents, mate!
The flights getting to Australia were not as bad as I thought. The 6 ½ hour flight to LAX was probably the worst because it was in the evening and there was nothing to do! All they offered was the terrible Michael Jackson movie, which I refused to watch and it was too early to sleep. Once we arrived in LAX ( which by the way, it the biggest airport EVER.) It was a 3 hour wait for the big flight! We took a 747 called “The Spirit of Australia” and it flights out once a day every day at 11:50pm. The 14 hour flight was the longest possible flight ever, and it was very tough to sleep since Economy is so squished, I must have only gotten 3-4 hours of sleep because it was so uncomfortable! But on the bright side! I watched three in flight movies, beat the Advanced Mancala on my ipod, and even listened to all of This American Life Podcasts. J Once arriving in Brisbane, we then went through Customs and headed to the next flight to Cairns, which was about 2 ½ hour flight.
After 3 flights I finally arrived to my AustraLearn culture program in Cairns, Queensland (pronounced Cans ) Our flight landed at around 1pm on February 13th and that final 2 ½ hour trip to Cairns was just like a postcard. The last 40 minutes of the flight we overlooked the Great Barrier Reef with crystal blue green waters, once we passed the reef we began our descent through the mountain area. With everyone around me, we all agreed that it feel like we are in Hawaii more than Australia.
For the next 6 days, I am living in a hostel called the Bohemian Resort. Actually, I’m sitting right next to the salt water pool in a lounge chair with flaming tiki torches lighting all the pathways! I will end this post here, hopefully I can post throughout my adventures in Cairns, which include holding a Koala, petting Kangaroos, diving the reef, and touring the rainforest!
Hopefully you will be enjoying these posts! ( this is Cairns center!)
3 comments:
:) im glad ur safe :)
Very exciting!! Like the descriptions of what you could see out the windows.
The customs story is good.
Feel sorry for you sitting by the tikki's-SO COLD here
Mom
Ashley, Hi!!! Your Mom gave me the link to your blog, and I'm so happy she did!!! I wanted to start at the beginning... so here I am. I'll make my way thru till I get up to date. I'm glad u are doing a blog... it is really a great way to communicate with a lot of people at once... XO
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