Australia

Thursday, October 14, I left LA at 10:30pm for my long 15 hour flight to Australia.   The flight was not that bad.  It was a huge plane (2 stories) and we were fed a lot, which I liked.  For dinner we had prime rib with mashed potatoes and veggies, then we had a snack before bedtime which was popcorn then I slept for about 8 hours.  I started to watch Sex in the City 2 but fell asleep halfway thru and woke up for the ending then I went back to sleep after watching 3 episodes of How I Met Your Mother and then woke up at about 4am (Australia time) and watched Marmaduke and fell asleep half way thru that.  I did not get to watch a full movie but I did get a lot of sleep.  I also was able to play tetris on the tv, which if you didn’t know I am now addicted to it on Facebook and the fact that I couldn’t play it for the past 30 hours is killing me. 

Once I arrived in Australia, a representative for the program, Margeux, picked Sara and me up at the airport and brought us to our apartment complex.  We dropped our stuff of and went exploring.  It was about 930am here and we went to see the Opera House, the Bridge, we walked thru the botanical gardens, and just explored the city until almost 2pm.  We found our way back to the apartments, I moved into my apartment and got settled before we went out to explore some more and get an early dinner at Darling Harbor.  After walking around and getting familiar with the area we went food shopping (which was so much fun and expensive).  Australia is very expensive, it was almost $6 for a box of cereal, crazyy!  Once we got back to the apartment Sara, Stephanie (my roommate) and I watched some tv and I was in bed by 8pm.  I was so exhausted from all the excitement of the first day! I still cant believe I’m in Australia J