“Not all those who wander are lost.”- J.R.R. Tolkien

Its June 3^rd. This is a big day!

For one, I am OFFICIALLY DONE WITH CLASSES! I cannot believe it. Its really surreal. I feel like I was just at orientation yesterday getting lost on this giant campus. I’ve grown to love everything about my school and I really do not want to go home just yet. My classes have been some of the most challenging but all of them were so interesting since I was getting an Australian perspective in some of them.  There were days where I wished I could just wave and say hello to people in the great court like I do at BSC, but the experience is a give and take. It made me realize that I love Bridgewater State and cannot wait to see my friends back there.

Now, this is the bigger news! DAN BEALS WILL BE IN AUSTRALIA IN 24 HOURS!!!!! Now, you may have been thinking that I have been waiting for this for 5 months now, but actually, Dan and I have been planning this trip since 2007. This dream is 2 years in the making!! I am beyond excited and I know I wont be able to sleep tonight. I get to see my best friend!

We have big plans for the next two weeks. This weekend we are staying around Brisbane since Dan will have some major jetlag time traveling and all. On Tuesday, we are heading south to Melbourne for 2 days. I’ve wanted to go their all semester and I really only wanted to go with Dan. It seems like its our kind of city. It’s a coffee shop/live music city and I am so excited to explore it with Dan. Since its going to be cold there, we are only staying there for 2 days and then moving north to a semi-warmer environment in Sydney! Yep, back to Sydney! My parents were generous and bought us a hotel room for the weekend.  We are going to be in Sydney from Thursday-Sunday. I’m excited because we can see the city and finally go to Olympic Park were the 2000 Olympic Games were held!

We are heading back to BrisVegas on Sunday because, unfortunately, I do have a final on the 15^th that I need to study for! So that Monday and Tuesday is all study time! It’ll be hard to study since I know that the next morning we leave for Cairns! Tropical Paradise! This is the most exciting adventure since we are finally going to be diving the Great Barrier Reef! I wasn’t able to go before, and this time around we are doing a Live Aboard trip. For 2 days and 1 night we are going to be on a boat in the middle of the reef completing 7 dives including 1 night dive! We are both thrilled! Those are the only plans so far up there, and they are the most important, but then after we have 3 days to do whatever we please. I guess we will figure it out when he gets here!

..wait when did it become june?

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give"- Eleanor Roosevelt

I’m sorry, I’ve been really terrible with my blog posts. Many of you many not realize but it take a while for me to actually write everything and post it!
Anyways, I have the time to post again. Why you ask? Well I have currently just finished 3 of my 4 classes in the past week which equals a lot of work! Heres an insight to what my workload was.

1. EVNT2001-Event Proposal & Sponsorship, 6500word group project on the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival in South Bank, QLD in August. Worth 70% of my grade.

2. AUST2000- Australian Popular Culture, 2500word research paper on Surf Lifesaving. That was awesome, I was able to pick my own topic so of course I had to do something with the ocean and the lifeguards! Worth 40% of my grade.

3. MSTU2008-Television and Popular Culture 2000word research paper on television. It was a struggle since I barely watch television at home and here I don’t even have to TV. I picked the question relating to makeover/transformation shows but I still struggled to finish it..but now its done! Worth 40% of my grade.

Now, those are three of my classes, now I still have one final on June 15th at 5:45pm. Its my BIOL2001 class, Australia’s Terrestrial Environment, and that’ll be a difficult one since even of here I suck at science. But I can’t believe I am finally done with 3 out of 4 classes! Yay!