On Friday I finished my very last class of the semester - I cannot believe how fast my time here has gone by. I left on Friday night for the airport, I have gotten the bus route down to a T now. I took the 11:55 flight to Sydney I then transferred terminals and caught my flight to the South Island of New Zealand. I came by myself, some of the girls in my dorm are going to Bali for the study week but they will just stay at a resort there -- I wanted more of an adv...

The past two weeks have been pretty low key as I finish my classes for the semester. Last Thursday my whole hall went to the Notre Dame play because one of the girls in our dorm was the lead role. On Saturday we went to the Fremantle Dockers Footy Game. It is the Australian version of football (kind of a mix between football and rugby). We had really good seats right behind the goal posts, not that it really made a difference because I had no idea what was going ...

My friends and I woke up at 6 in the morning to go surfing one last time before I left. I then said goodbye to all of them and headed to the airport. I flew from the Gold Coast to Sydney where I had another long layover. I took the opportunity to go back into the city; I went to Darling Harbour and had a delicious kangaroo lunch. I then went to one of my favourite places, the botanical gardens where I watched the sun set over the Opera House and the Sydney Harb...

I woke up around 5:30 on Monday morning to catch the bus to Byron Bay. Two of the girls I stayed with also woke up to take me to the bus stop and see off. They had class and had already been to Byron Bay so I went by myself. The very first thing I did was I went SKYDIVING. It was one of the most amazing activities I have ever done! The whole process was very quick; right when I arrived they put me on the very next plane. I went tandem and on the way up my partner...

I arrived in the Gold Coast around 10:30 PM, the reason I went was to visit some friends I met in Thailand. I was going to take a bus to the hotel they are staying at for the semester but the busses stopped at 10 so I had to take a taxi. The taxi dropped me off and they came downstairs to meet me. On Saturday we just hung around and they showed me around the area where they live. They live in Broadbeach, which is right next to the famous Surfers Paradise, appro...