Today (Wednesday, March 7th, 2012) is the two week mark since I arrived in Sydney, Australia. A lot has happened in those two weeks! I won’t go into detail about everything but I’ve definitely stayed busy! School here is set up differently: instead of having classes Monday, Wednesday, Friday and then Tuesday, Thursday, each class is once a week and is three hours long. At first I wasn’t sure how I would like that but they give you breaks during class and it’s nice to be able to focus on one thing at a time. Monday’s I have two photography classes and then I have one class a day for the rest of the week (excluding Saturdays and Sundays of course). Another part of my program here is to do 35 hours in a service placement, I’m not yet sure what I will be doing because they’re in the process of switching me to a different placement.
This weekend was full of fun, new adventures with the other American students: Friday night some of us went out and had Kangaroo burgers (it was pretty good but we all decided we’d rather have normal hamburgers). Saturday I found my way into the city by myself for the first time and met up with a couple of people to attend the Hillsong evening service (not the main church but one of their other campuses). After the service we went to a place called “Pancakes on the Rocks” (“The Rocks” is a place within the city, near the Opera House). Sunday we spent most of the day at Cronulla Beach, with the intention of watching a Surf competition (wasn’t as exciting as we imagined), and for the most part just soaked up the sun and watched people brave the intense waves. Monday was a full day of classes and then yesterday, our whole class (there’s 37 of us) went into the city and got to explore a lot of the historic parts of Sydney.
I think that about covers my adventures of the past few days… here’s a collage of some of my favorite pictures I’ve taken so far (I haven’t taken a whole lot yet but don’t worry- I will!):
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