Swimmers and Sunburns

Hello from Port Douglass, Australia!

I received a free hour of internet access when I booked my tour of the Great Barrier Reef so I figured I would update my faithful followers so that you may live vicariously through me :)

It's suuuuper hot here and very humid.  But I'm enjoying nonetheless before I have to come home to the cold.  Tomorrow, Sara and I are going Crocodile hunting! (Don't worry though, we'll have a tour guide)  On Thursday, we'll be going on a tour of the Reef.  Sara is just snorkeling but I'm going to take me hand at doing an intro dive!  I'm a little nervous but I'll deal.  Yesterday I faced a little fear by jumping off a baby cliff into Mossoman's Gorge- look it up, it's beautiful!  And then on Saturday, we're going to hire a car and take our own tour of the rainforrest and go to the gorge again.  Sara's a chicken so I'll be the one responsible for driving.  I'm a little nervous about that one-  I'll have to stay very focused with the whole other-side-of-the-road thing.  I'm confident I can do it though :) Yesterday I drove around the block in a Manual that we rented with girls that we met here as soon as we arrived and I didn't even crash it!

Right now, it's roughly 96 degrees fahrenheit and I'm sweating bullets.  So- rather than waisting anymore time on here, I'm going to go find Sara and drag here to the beach with me :)

See ya in 7 days, Ohio!

The definition of bittersweet

Today was my last day of school.  It was VERY sad and I'm still not fully believing that I wont be seeing these children again.  On top of that, I didn't get a picture with all of them :(  I got pictures of them, but not a full class picture with me.  Talk about a bummer.

Now, all I have left is worrying about finishing my University assignments.  Bleh.  No real updating until I get them done... Sorry.

Christmas time is here... Happiness and Cheer!

It has been rather cold, here in Australia.  It's almost if the Ohio weather is creeping over here and summoning me home.  Not cool, Ohio, NOT COOL.

Anyway- tonight I spent my evening baking and listening to Christmas music :)  It was the BEST.  Yesterday, I went to the Blue Mountains with Sara and my host family.  It was breath breathtakingly beautiful, and a really great time.  I will post more about it once I make some significant headway on the six page paper I have to turn in by the end of the week.

It's really unfortunate that I can't escape the end-of-semester cram even from all the way across the world.  Woof.

Alright- here I go... wish me luck!