Sean Colyer – PrometheusX

No, I am in fact not homeless. Nearly everyone it seems was very concerned about my sandals.  It was rare I would carry out a conversation with someone I had just met or friends I hadn’t seen in sometime without being questioned about my sandals. The story goes like this.. My brother and I were [...]

My dad came to visit Australia for my last ~2 weeks there.  I also had a final (on the last possible day over the course of a month, haha). While he was here we were quite busy, he spent some time exploring Melbourne on his own, we also visited much of the city together. I [...]

I realize that I haven’t been posting much lately (eek!); so I’ll give some quick life updates. My semester here is quickly wrapping up and I head home very soon.  My dad is out here visiting me and we’re taking a mini whirlwind tour of Australia, at the moment we’re up in Queensland. Several weeks [...]

Ocean breeze.  You know the smell. The one that makes you feel like a little kid when you finally roll up to the beach. That was last week.  I went with a group of friends (15 of us in all, wow!) to a tour of the East Coast of Australia.  We fly into Mackay (pronounced [...]

This past week, I rented a car with G and his friend, Alex, visiting from home. We were on a quest to see one of Victoria’s famous sites, the Great Ocean Road.  The road was originally built by returned service men of World War I using little more than picks and shovels. The road runs [...]

Recently, my friend asked me to participate in a rogain. What is a rogain you may be asking yourself — it’s essentially extreme orienteering; they give you points on a map with varying score values, a limited time, and tell you to get to as many as possible and have the highest point score at [...]

Kangaroo, or Roo as it is affectionately called here, has grown in the Australian diet. The government encourages Australians to eat it, it is a lean meat, has a low CO2 output (they digest food differently?), and uses less water. I cooked up my first Kangaroo steak the other day, it’s actually really good. At [...]

Over Easter Break I went to New Zealand with a group of 13 students. Most of us live together and we were all Americans or Canadians who wanted to see New Zealand. New Zealand is divided into two islands, the North and South. The South island is where most of the tourist action is, extreme [...]

I went to the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Melbourne this weekend. It was quite an experience. The sound. The noise is pretty incredible and probably the most indescribable experience of the race. It’s loud, but powerful and actually pretty entertaining to hear. With redlines of ~18k RPM, they rev a lot higher (~3x) than [...]

Sydney. The eternal rival of Melbourne. This led my visit last weekend to involve a number of comparisons as to which was actually better. At the end of the day, or weekend really, I prefer to live in Melbourne. I tried to take an unbiased opinion but it’s quite difficult and I’m sure compelling arguments [...]

I went camping recently in the Grampians National Park. The park is roughly a 3.5 hour drive from Melbourne and is located in a hilly part of Victoria. We got in pretty late on a Friday night. My tent mate and I decided that because the weather was so nice and we wanted the nice [...]

The Moomba Festival is a huge festival kind-of carnival in Melbourne every year. It’s dubbed a “Water Festival”, and surrounds the Yarra River which runs through the middle of the city. Melbourne has been in a drought for 12 years (though it’s rained the past few days…), and they take their water conservation quite seriously. [...]

One of my favorite places I’ve found in Melbourne is the Carlton Gardens. Luckily, they’re also very close to where I live. Within the gardens is the Melbourne Museum. The museum is something of a science museum, which aren’t my favorite, but it’s still informative and a good museum. I love the architecture of building, [...]

During the summer in Melbourne, every Wednesday there is the Queen Victoria Night Market. Located at the intersection of Elizabeth and Queen St on the edge of the CBD (downtown), the masses really show up for a good time. Food vendors representing a broad range of taste sell food, craft style merchants hawk all sorts [...]

If you could have only one pot/pan for cooking, what would you choose? When I was at Big W in my first few days here, the answer for me became obvious. A Wok. I’ve been pretty satisfied, you can cook on the bottom like a frying pan or boil water, and it’s also large enough [...]