Day 2 (AustraLearn Orientation) - Cairns, Queensland Australia Today was packed full of activities. From what I can tell AustraLearn has broken up all the students studying in Australia into three big groups - one that came a few days before us, my group, and one that arrives tomorrow. In our big group we were broken up into two groups with different daily itineraries. My group, the green group, went to Rainforestation today. We watched Aborigines show us how to...

Day 1 (AustraLearn Orientation) - Cairns, Queensland Australia Exhausted is an understatement of what I feel like right now. I guess the day started on Thursday at 8AM when I got up and took off to Spokane Airport. From Spokane I flew to Seattle, then to LAX, sat in LAX for about five hours, then took the 14hr flight to Brisbane (pronounced Bris-bin), and then ran to my next flight to Cairns (pronounced Cans). It's now Saturday evening. The big 14hr flight was b...

Day 3 (Washington State University) - Spokane, Washington United States This morning Joe took me to Idaho to see the Lewiston Clarkston Valley. We pulled off the side of the highway to a sightseeing overlook to take pics of the gorgeous rolling hills scenery. The hills looked very brown, and but in the summer they are green making the scene more breath taking. Later that evening, along with a few of Joe's staff members, we drove to Moscow, Idaho, which was like ...

Day 2 (Washington State University) - Spokane, Washington United States Today I got a tour of Washington State University, aka "Wazzu." Campus is set on a hill so there is a plethora of stairs and hilly areas to climb. Joe said that Washington is known for its colleges and university buildings to be constructed of red bricks, so every building - new and old - has red brick in it. We walked through the Student Union Building known as the "CUB.&quo...

Day 1 (Washington State University) - Pullman, Washington United States Today was a long one.Took off from home at 11:30am and drove to Detroit Metro Airport for my 4:20pm departure to Denver.After a two hour drive to Detroit, I sped through security and the ticket counter with the airport being deserted.I sat for about an hour or so before I boarded this teeny tiny plane.I was stuck by the window for 2hrs and 40mins with my legs crammed into this small space....