Feb 24 2009
Since I’ve had a bit of free time between the Welcome program and class starting, I’ve been exploring the city and going on a few fun adventures. A group of us have gone down to the local beach South Melbourne a couple of times. One of the things most surprising about this beach and the [...]
Feb 21 2009
After becoming settled, the next adventure was to go on a Welcome Program. The idea of the program is to group international students together to make friends but also learn and enjoy some things Australian. The program was hosted at one of the university residential colleges — a generally all inclusive place to live. However, [...]
Feb 20 2009
I’m here and having a great time. The first few days I was running around getting things I need, bedding, friends, etc… Walmart here is called Big W –which I think is hilarious. My room is basically a single dorm room — we share a kitchen and bathroom. The housing is all students and a [...]
Feb 18 2009
So I’m now in Melbourne, Victoria Australia, but before I came I stopped to visit my brother Matt for a few days in San Francisco. You might have noticed that based on a previous post about baffling airplane ticket prices… Anyway.. San Francsisco was a really good time, and we really did a whirlwind of [...]
Feb 08 2009
I realized that I never posted about the Inuaguration of President Barack Obama (44). I went downtown for the event which was amazing that so many people had gathered, I think the crowd estimates were ~1.5 million people. Wow. It was funny being in the city when everyone was a tourist and had no idea [...]