It's been quite a while since my last update. Things are coming to a close now as I know have an amazing 10 days left in Adelaide!! A few highlights of my last few weeks include the amazing wine tour of the Barossa Valley where we sampled over 30 wines and saw some of the world's most famous wineries. It was beautiful to see the vines with changing fall leaves. Sadly we didn't get to visit my favorite winery known as Jacob's creek. But it is the biggest winery an...

Well it's about time to update my blog! It's been a busy few weeks since returning from the mid semester break. The week back was an interesting one because I had a big essay due on Australian sport for my Australian Culture class (just got it back and got a Credit). The grading system here is really harsh so every paper I get back from that class is depressing. A Credit is a 65-75. So when you see that grade yeah it's so depressing! But It Actually transfers in ...

We arrived at the Hobart international airport (very small-1 terminal airport) at around 8 pm so it was already pretty dark. The airport is about 15-20 miles to the city center and again limited transport. So we hopped in a taxi to take us to the Tassie Backpacker's hostel right in the city center. This was my very first time staying in a hostel ever! The hostel was once a hotel so there were many rooms and dormitories. The first floor was a popular bar. After we...

Driving into Melbourne was amazing! Melbourne is such a huge city probably an equivalent of Houston maybe even bigger. This was our last day in the campervan so we first made our way into the city to find a car wash and vacuum. Once the van was shiny and almost like new we drove it back to its home in Melbourne. Here we unloaded all of our things and had a quick lunch on the couch of the Wicked Camper office. That was pretty funny but they were nice about it. T...

The first entry to this blog post will be my first week of vacation: the Great Ocean Road for 5 days and Melbourne for 2 days. Before coming to Australia I knew of the Great Ocean Road as a must see trip. It was one of two trips that I would for sure take to see a bit of Australia outside of Adelaide. Boy was it something! We road tripped in a camper van (very common in Australia, especially among International students) our van was through Wicked Campers. This c...