Sunny Days

Australia

Alright so it's been a while since i've used this - everyone has already pretty much received an update of my travels here but i have some time to kill so i will add one anyways

The flight didn't really seem as long as i thought it was going to be - the flight from Detroit to Chicago seemed super rough, i was holding the barf bag when we landed - although the flight itself wasn't really rocky or anything i think i was just nervous, hadn't eaten much that day, so i already didn't feel well and i didn't take any gravol - chicago to los angeles i slept the whole way! 4.5 hours - then we had 3 hour layover there but there was no time to think about anything, we had to get our luggage, then find the air pacific departure area where we then stood in line to check our luggage and then had to go in another line where our luggage was scanned and then had to go through security and they were already boarding our plane - our seats were already assigned though so there was no worries there - so the flight from los angeles was 10.5 hours - we were served both supper (imagine supper at 1:30am canadian time?? what is that!) and then we were served breakfast probably about 7-8 hours later - i slept for about 8 hours of that track and then listened to some music - so much for reading books and doing sudoku puzzles, not a chance - i had no energy nor did i have the brain power for them - when we landed in fiji it was 5:30am their time and was so beautiful, the weather was warm and we got off the plane and were outside - i took a couple pictures - then inside the airport there were 3 men playing their banjos/guitars etc and singing quite good they were and then we went through security there and got some food - imagine eating what we felt like was lunchtime at 7am - so i had a chicken burger and fries at 7am! but on my canadian watch it was already like 2pm! interesting - the flight from fiji to Sydney was about 5 hours travelling over the pacific ocean the whole time - i slept for about half of that time - we landed in sydney safe and sound and were picked up by the hillsong shuttle bus and they brought us to the college - i got all my luggage safely and to my knowledge am not missing anything - at the college we signed our housing agreement and then we were taken to the bank to open an Australian account - we got some groceries at the Coles and then were taken to our apartment - there is no fridge yet though so we could only buy things that would keep - kinda hard but we are surviving - it is coming on monday! only have to make it through the weekend! the team here have been so helpful in showing us where to go and what to do etc so that is good - i have a phone card that has many minutes to call home but no phone to call from - a pay phone costs 50 cents for the local dialing and only gives me 15 minutes but it works for now - there is a library about 5 minutes walk from our apartment where we can bring our own laptops or use computers available there to email etc - so weird without phone or email i feel disconnected from the world - how sad is that? anyways there are 4 of us in our apartment - the fourth girl has not arrived yet though - apparently she is Canadian too - so there will be 4 canadian and 1 from England - everyone here is from all over - people from Australia, Canada, Germany, England, Netherlands - cool to see how different people talk etc

anyways the shopping mall is near by as well and there is a shuttle that runs through the college to bring us to class and back for free - it is currently not running though because it's holidays and no classes going on - haven't found any beaches nearby yet :-(

flying in - when we say the australia land, it was so beautiful the water and the beaches, gorgeous!! what a beautiful place it is here - i love the accents - can't always understand everyone if i don't pay close attention - but it's fun trying!!!

well this is pretty much the same as the email update but hopefully i will keep this updated and everyone can check it

take care and God bless,

miss everyone

posted by Meliss @ 11:52 PM