March 6th

Today I had orientation for all of the study abroad students and I skipped out early because I decided to go to the doctor because I've had a terrible cough and haven't been able to breathe and basically have just been miserable. My experience at the doctor was not painful at all. I walked in at 10 til 11:00 and they told me to sit down and they could see me in 10 minutes. I went back and talked to the doctor about my symptoms and she said alright well i'm going to give you a prescription for this and i went to the pharmacy and they gave it to me in about 5 minutes. I was very pleased!

March 5th

This morning I met everyone up at Uni to register for courses and I decided to take Anatomy, Sport Law and Society, Marine Environment, and Gender in Australia. After registration Rob and I went and dropped everything off at his apartment and then he came with me to Bondi and we laid out on the beach for a while and then we came in and showered. Then we went to dinner at Bungabar where we just shared a couple appetizers which were really good and then we grabbed some gelato and then walked on the beach. It was a really nice night.

March 4th

Woke up this morning at 8am and packed up all of my stuff because I was leaving Coogee Sands Hotel and moving into my apartment in Bondi. On the bus ride over to Bondi I was having hesitations because I didn't want to be that far away from everyone else in our orientation group because they were all living in Coogee but once we rounded the corner on Bondi Rd all the hesitations went out the door because Bondi Beach is absolutely beautiful. I live right off of the main road in Bondi and I'm only a minute walk from the beach. Once we got to my apartment Merlin and I didnt have the swipe card and we were trying to use my keys to get in the main door and having no luck and then a girl who ended up being my roommate Rachel came down and let us in and helped me carry all of my bags into the apartment. My apartment was a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be and I got really lucky and ended up being in the double room by myself because one of the girls had already moved out to Coogee because she didn't want to be soo far away from school. After I unpacked my roommates Rachel and Spring and I went and grabbed lunch at little restaurant up the road. After lunch I went to go meet my orientation group up at Bondi Junction to get mobiles (cell phones) and other things that we needed for our apartments.

Blue Mtns

On March 3rd, Merlin took our group on a bus up to a wildlife park where we got to see koalas and take a picture with one and then at another part of the park we got to play with kangaroos and feed them. I just sat down beside a couple of them and would talk and play with them. They have such great personalities and I thought it was so awesome how the personalities came out so strongly through their body language. After the wildlife park we drove up to the Blue Mtns and went on a 2 hr hike. At one point on the walk we went up 4 at a time on this rock and laid down and peered over the rock down at the drop off. At this moment I just took a deep breath and tried to savor every second of that amazing landscape and the overwhelming feeling that took over me.