Day 8 - A place I have traveled to

Australia!!

When I was a junior in college I spent my Spring semester in Newcastle, Australia "studying" at the University of Newcastle. Studying is quoted because I hardly passed any of my classes while I was there. pretty sad but it is what it is. I have no pictures digitally from my travels there since it was pre-digital. I have a whole album full of my travels though- maybe someday I can scan them in. I went to wikipedia and copied a bunch of pictures though.

I went to see a show at the opera house, it was so cool.

 

 

 

 I went to Sydney many times (my school was 2 hours north) and I never got tired or less impressed with the sight of the opera house. Its just magnificent.

They had this little petting zoo type places with kangaroos, wallaby's, and koalas. it was weird, they were fed by humans all day everyday so they would just come up to you looking for food.  I held a koala for a picture too, they are smelly smelly animals.

I traveled up the coast after the semester was over and went to Ayers Rock, Cairns, and down the coast back to Sydney. Crazy Times, backpacking, hostel staying, all by myself. I think it was a huge growth period for me. It gave me some self confidence and Independence. Knowing I could do something like that alone was a great feeling.