I was pretty pumped to start spring term as I had some interesting subjects lined up and let's be honest, I am a nerd and love to study. The first couple of weeks the snow was still good up on Mt Bachelor so I did a day trip in week 2 and then spent the weekend in Bend week 3. Spring skiing is awesome here, really warm and although there wasn't as much snow as the last few visits I'd made (obviously), it was smooth and fun to play around in. I spent Easter weeke...

The rest of winter term kind of flew by really quickly. Assignments for all my classes started to be due and weekends were filled with trips up to Mt Bachelor to snowboard, nights out (maybe too many) and just generally being busy with life here at college. One Thursday night, the girls from Core, the snow club here at OSU, had a night together, just the girls (until the boys crashed the party later). It was awesome to get to know a whole new group of people an...

Corvallis was turned into a winter wonderland over the past few days! The snow started early Thursday morning and was constant all the way through until the end of Friday. The result was 15 inches of snow which is quite unheard of here. Due to the snow, the campus was shut down and classes were cancelled on both Thursday and Friday and I ended up having a six day weekend! I don't know why exactly snow is so exciting and magical. Maybe as Australians we rarely ...

Corvallis: my new home for the next few months or so. Not normally one for small towns and cold weather, it will be interesting to see how long it takes me to go crazy and be found washing my hair in the river or singing karaoke at a bar... Corvallis is a university town, located in the Willamette Valley about 140km south of Portland and is where Oregon State University is located. Most people living here either work at or are students of OSU. Of course it is th...