I took my last final yesterday morning. It was my Algae one, the one I've been dreading forever but I think it went okay and it meant the end of probably one of my better rounds of finals in college. Right after I finished I went out with Jacko to Stockland (local shopping center) and then out to an Australian TexMex resturaunt for dinner called ( Read more... )

I decided to take a quick study break to make my last big entry in Australia... I turned in my LAST assignment this past Wed. and celebrated on Thurs and Fri by doing absolutely nothing, aside from going out to the Club one last time before semester's end and consequentially missing my last 8:00am Friday morning class. Oops ( Read more... )

I just wanted to say that I'll be home in exactly 4 weeks as of today!!! =D

And only one more week of school to go, too. Can't complain!

This past weekend Amy and I travelled down to Brisbane and then to Beerwah to visit the Australia Zoo, home of Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter =). The first thing most people will want to know is "did you meet him?" but alas, Steve wasn't there yesterday. I'm not surprised to be honest, not only is he a conservationist and researcher but he's ( Read more... )

First and foremost I want to say thank you to everyone who sent me well-wishes on my birthday. Being able to read all those messages over the past two days have really made being on the other side of the world during my birthday that much easier, so thank you all =). Inidividual thank-you's will be coming shortly, I promise (in "Erica Time" mind ( Read more... )

was....surprisingly uneventful. I was really excited about my Linking Indigeousness class field trip, but it turned out to be bitter-sweet. The bitter part? It rained the whole damn time we were there due to cyclone Monica (cyclone number three since I've been here), so much so that we had to be evacuated so that we wouldn't be flooded in for ( Read more... )

So Frances is back in the States and life here in Australia is back to the way it was. The last few days of her visit went pretty much as planned. Thursday I had a lot of class and lab so she amused herself downtown in the shops, aquarium and museaum while I drew algae =/. Thursday night I recieved mixed information, some people insisted there ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's already Thursday. This week has gone by both amazingly fast and amazingly slow. As you all (should) know, Frances is here and will be until Fri night/Sat morning and it's been WONDERFUL to have her at JCU! My Australia friends have been treating her very well, everyone is getting along great, and Frances has kept herself ( Read more... )

Who has Frances coming to visit for a week? I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D You know you're jealous....

Peaceful Weekend #2. Actually, I ended up finishing my Algae paper, the one that has been driving me absolutely nuts for the past few weeks, so I was SO happy to finally get that done and out of the way. Now I have about four more to go =P. Saturday, aside from finishing the paper it was April 1st Australia time which meant my one year ( Read more... )