After a lovely stroll through the bountiful West End Saturday market with my host family I was ready to start a weekend adventure to North Stradbroke Island (Or “Straddie” as the locals call it). The journey to Straddie would take a while, but I knew it would all be worth it once we arrived. Located […]

This past week has been my introduction to the wonderful city of Brisbane. I was welcomed with open arms by my host mother, her boyfriend, and cyclone Marcia. Arriving on Friday and leaving on Sunday, she made her mark on the city of Brisbane and surrounding cities in the state of Queensland. Growing up in […]

Now that independent research week has come to an end, we have reconvened as a single unit, but we are not simply picking up where we left off. We have relocated from New South Wales to Queensland, from Sydney to Brisbane, from a residence hall to homes. The conversations before and after the lectures are […]

As our independent travel week commenced Emma and I took off to the gold coast to hang out with the hippy, world traveling backpackers of Byron Bay. We spent our week with sandy bottoms, surfer babe hair, and some pretty gnarly burn lines. On Tuesday of that week we were driven away from the sandy […]

Life is the beach. Let’s be real, a huge reason why Australia is an amazing place to study abroad is because of their easily accessible beaches. You can hop on one bus and thirty to forty minutes later, you’ve arrived. While we were in Sydney some friends and I decided to go to Coogee, probably […]