It appears I will find out on monday if I got into the english program, the test was rather difficult...haha. conjunctive, prepositions..adverbs...its been quite some time, but I feel pretty good about it actually, so we will see... so while that is on hold....my roommate has returned to oz. She is 82, and as i've said we did an apartment swap. Lilly is a Holocaust survivor, and a very intriguing woman. She feels I am a hippie and I need to learn to be domesticat...

Lets get up tp date before ileave on monday....I landed in Sydney on June 30th. My first look from the plane left me gasping for air. Possibly because I couldn't believe I had finally arrived after the year I had, in a country I literally obsessed over for months. It was a very different feeling from Italy....My first stop was a cafe where I ordered an espresso and found myself wanting to speak italian, and then sat a pizza shop..my body felt destroyed from the ...

I thought possibly I would give some background on why i' am here, and why I went to Italy and am not sitting behind a desk, working at the moment...I have also decided that I will be using this blog as a personal way to express my journey and what is happening in my life. If anything..its my own personal psychologist...who doesn't give any advice, and i am okay with that! I should start with I bought this ticket to Australia a year ago. During one of my moments...

All of my pictures are now up of Italy. I started in italy with my mom in late may... We went to Rome, Florence, and venice together. It was an amazing trip and one I will never forget. When I returned back to New York, I felt a strong desire to head back to Italy and possibly go to language school. As with anything in life I left for Italy the second time 2 weeks later with a "friend" to Milano. I got to see what it was like being with an Italian famil...

I have been in Sydney for almost a week now and have seen Manly beach, went diving with sharks there in a tank, sydney opera house, botanical gardens, ran a race along the Bay, Darling Harbor, Bondi Beach, Featherdale wildlife park and a trip to the Blue Mountains. I went to a theater in Kings Cross the old red light district and ate a vegetarian meal and then layed down in a theatre to watch a movie with friends. Along the way I have met fabulous people, some w...