Saturday, March 19, 2011

Aussie Life

Hey guys! I guess it's time for an update again! It's so strange because after seeing most of Sydney's sites and settling into our house, I'm beginning to realize that I actually have a life here, and it's not just a visit. I'm going to get to come home and say that I LIVED in Sydney, Australia for 5 months of my life. It's such a surreal thing for me to think about, and I am beyond blessed to be having this experience. This experience is also making me realize more and more how much I want to see the world and have traveling be a part of my life. We meet so many international students here, (sometimes it's actually difficult to come across Australians), who have seen so many different parts of the world that I now have a huge list of places I want to visit. Hopefully I continue to be blessed enough to travel throughout my life!

Anyways, we finished our third week of classes (aka - 9 days of actual class!), and we finally decided that we better at least open our course readers. And, because Tyler's parents are arriving tomorrow and my parents the week after, we want to try to get any homework we have during that time out of the way. But don't be fooled, I am still spending my days without class by the pool and the beaches! I'm starting to worry that the weather is going to be cooling down soon (meaning 70's rather than 80's), but I try to keep that idea out of my mind:) Tyler and I also get to travel to the Whitsunday Islands with my parents for a long weekend (click here to be extremely jealous) and up the east coast for spring break.. errr or mid-semester break... or reading week? -- whatever they call it here...and it will be nice and warm there! 

I also wanted to show you all pictures of the house I am living at in Sydney. Tyler and I live here with two other girls from Madison - Taylor Christensen and Ali Vogel, a girl from Canada - Tricia, and two other guys - Michael who is from China and Ahmed who is from Saudi Arabia.  They are all really nice and easy to live with! The only downfall is that we don't have a dryer, therefore, we have to hang-dry everything (which doesn't mesh well with my obsession with non-wrinkly clothes) and there is no air-conditioning. We bought fans right away and our house doesn't get that hot, so we're doing good! Also, cockroaches tend to take residence in our living room, but as long as they stay out of my room I think I can contain myself from passing out when I see them (however, I doubt the screaming at the top of my lungs will ever cease). Below are the pictures of our house - it gets the job done! 


My and Tyler's room 
Bedroom
Bedroom 
 Closet!! (the other half is Ty's but I'm invading most of that space as well!) 
Living Room 
Living Room 
Kitchen
Dining Room - See mom, we study! (on very rare occasions) 

Other than that, I'm looking forward to our parents visiting, planning some weekend trips around Australia, and impatiently waiting for spring break! 33 dayyyys! 

Megan 

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