Day 48 (Wonthaggi Lifesaving Club) - Cape Paterson Bay Beach, Victoria Australia Agh (sigh). Today was good, and it started early - 4:30am.Got up, finished packing, walked 20 minutes to the Bendigo train station, took the 5:56am train to Melbourne, got in at 7:45am, walked about 6 blocks to the Conservation Volunteers Australia office, got in a van, and drove 2 hours to the small coastal village of Inverloch. There are 5 of us students: Justin - studying abroa...

Day 46 (LaTrobe University) - Bendigo, Victoria Australia The internet sucks here. Plain and simple. I learned that each hall gets a whooping 25gb of bandwidth to use for the month. Split that between 20 people, and it's gone in about 5 days. So then we get phone modem speed for the rest of the month. At that speed it's impossible to get anything done. I go to the library and have to get someone from IT to log me onto the network. Then I have to wait to connec...

Kooyoora Day 2 - back in Bendigo, VictoriaSlept under the stars for the first time EVER! We all lined up in a row in our sleeping bags and slept out under the night time sky. I still had a tough time sleeping, being elbowed in the head by Chris and Jie, on top of being hot and sweaty in my sleeping bag. After brekky we went back to the water drop site to get some water for the day. We hiked to the caves - a more touristy place - where we took turns squeezing be...

Kooyoora Day 1 - somewhere in the Kooyoora State Park, VictoriaThis is the first trip for first years which is supposed to ease students into the outdoor living experience. It's only one night so in case you really messed up on food or something you're not going to die. Our group leaders are two third year students, both who are laid back. They showed us how the Indigenous people carved these small pool-things into the rock to collect water when it rains. It lo...

Day 35 Lake Eildon - Victoria, Australia Back from my first camp. So tirrrreeeeedddddd! My sickness didn't go away while sleeping in the out-of-doors, so now I have to recuperate. Lake Eildon was a decent trip, it wasn't OMG! BEST TRIP EVER! Like most OEs (Outdoor Education Majors) and POEs (Physical Outdoor Education Majors) would say. It was tough because I didn't have all of my energy due to being sick. I was in a group of maybe 50 second years, and we took...