Travel Tuesday

It's traveling Tuesday today! I'm going to feature a place I have either traveled to or want to travel to. Today will be about Australia, where I'm studying abroad for a month and traveling for two weeks before my program starts.

First of all, I'm incredibly excited for this. Australia has been a place I've always wanted to travel to and didn't know when I'd get the chance to go, unless I was studying abroad. So I made it a goal to study in Australia during a summer while I was in college and now it's actually happening!

I'll be traveling all over Australia for the first two weeks. I'll be hitting Sydney, Melbourne, Ayer's Rock, and Cairns, among a few other places along the way. Then for a month I'll get to live in the rainforest in Australia and New Zealand and work on studying the ecology, environment, and conservation of the rainforests.

Among the many things I'll be seeing, I expect to see a lot of different animals, especially when I'm in the rainforest. I do know that there are some dangerous animals and the School for Field Studies has told us about some of them, but that we really shouldn't have to worry about them where we will be working. But here's a fun video my brother showed me the other day all about deadly animals.

Having just finished "Lost" for the first time, it got me even more excited to go to Australia if only for the reason that everyone on the island was flying from Sydney to LAX. Either way, I can't help, but hope that my time in the rainforest will be similar to some of the events from "Lost." However, I am not Abed from "Community" so I don't expect anything that crazy to happen and I won't go out of my way to make it happen as he so often does.

More than anything I'm excited to go to the "land down under" and to see the Sydney Opera House, the Great Barrier Reef, Ayer's rock, and lots of other cool things too. I've heard that once you go to Australia you never want to leave, so we'll see how I react to it, but I usually become attached to new places when I travel. It would only be a matter of time I'm sure, before I would be sick of living there and want to travel to another new place.