“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

The month of April has flown by over here. Most likely because I have been traveling for 3 of the 4 weeks in the month but still!

Today at the front desk of my apartment, I was asked to do a survey about how living in Urbanest was. The first thing it said was “ You’ve been living here 10 weeks…that’s 70 days!” Well, that hit me, I’ve been here exactly 10 weeks. Time is flying by and I feel like I just stepped of that 14 hour Qantas flight a few days ago! I have the travel bug and I just want to be able to see everything this country has to offer. I’ll be leaving for Sydney tomorrow night for the weekend, and I’m excited to see one of dreams, the Sydney Opera House. The weekend should be great, I’m going to 8 other AustraLearn people and we are sharing a hostel, so for the first time, I won’t be sleeping with strangers! I’m trying to see as many  free things as possible this time around, because I’ll be heading back there when Dan comes down. We have no solid plans, which for me , as most of you know, is a big step. I am a planner! I need everything written down before I do it, and this weekend, my agenda is,well, empty.

As I stated before, I want to see what this country has to offer everywhere. But as I’ve been saying that, it reminded me that Australia is about the same size as the United States, and I was never as excited to just journey around my own country. When I come back, I know I’m going to have a different outlook, since I have so many beautiful things to see in the U.S, why not just explore my own country? My dad asked years ago, why I would want to leave America when there is plenty of things to see there, instead of going to Europe and I didn’t have an answer.  I hope in the next few years I will be able to experience the U.S more then what I have before. Maybe go down south, or Midwest..or everywhere   Thanks Austraila, this experience is giving me a better outlook on not only this country but my own. :-)

Cheers!