It's my last day in Australia :( Tomorrow morning I leave at 11:50 am on Qantas Airlines for Beijing. I got back to Sydney last week, after I almost had to stay in Canberra for another night (the horror!) since Greyhound messed up my booking. BUT i did get back eventually. Keir has been nice enough to let me stay at his place till I leave, so in exchange for monetary rent I have been doing some laundry and i even made dinner one night...well sort of. I got back...

I spent last night on a ten hour bus ride from Melbourne to Canberra. It was not comfortable. The seats weren't bad, they just weren't made for long term company. I popped a sleeping pill (Thanks for those, Mom!)...turned out to have some weird effects. I was absolutely exhausted, but because of my unsavory positioning (atleast thats what I am blaming it on) i kept waking up and feeling really disorientated and confused. At one point I woke up when the bus stoppe...

Melbourne weather is retarded (Dad-i know you just cringed cause i used that word...but it is). One day it will be 40 Celcius (over 100 F) and the next day there will be such a cold wind I have to wear jeans and a long sleeve shirt!! BUT that said, i really like it. I will always be a New Englander at heart, so constantly changing weather is in my DNA. For example, yesterday I wore jeans, today I am wearing a dress because just the thought of wearing so many clot...

Hey Everyone! A lot has happened since my last entry- well sort of. I believe when I last wrote Rob and I were staying in a hostel in the city. Well we decided to try out something called Couch Surfing. For those of you who don't know what that is, I will explain.... If you go to www.couchsurfing.com you will find an online community mainly of travellers or ex-travellers who are either looking for a place to stay for a couple of nights or who are offering their...

So if you haven't noticed yet...I'm in Melbourne!!! I had been thinking about moving to a different city to work in after new years, and a friend, Rob, from work was heading down to Melbourne so I decided that now would be to a good time to start somewhere new. We used GumTree (the Craig's list of Australia) to find a lift down there. Two women ended up contacting Rob two days ago saying they were heading down the next day and could take us along for $35 bucks ea...