goodnight uh-merica.
Hello! Sorry it has taken me so long to get this up and running, but I'm here! I have to remind myself constantly that I am actually living in Australia, so writing this blog will help me a bit. Not much culture shock exists when moving here, at least it hasn't happened yet. It is just far to similar to stir up too many uncomfortable feelings. I promised pictures though, and so here they are.
My first weekend in Australia, I hopped on a bus and traveled down the souther coast to Jervis bay, which holds the whitest beaches in the world. It was a wonderful way to start of my trip, and at the same time, a horrible way. Australians are tricky like that. "Here are some of the most beautiful things available to the human eye! Don't you just love Australia?" said the overpaid, and over-sexed Australian tour guide to his wide-eyed, mostly american, mostly overweight group of tourists. "Yes!", we all chanted, as we looked around and saw things like this....
and this....
and this....
As it turns out... not everything in Australia looks like this. As it turns out, my University is in the middle of a suburb, 45 minutes from anything worth seeing. But I still love it. I've met some one-derful people here...
The simple fact that it is so easy for me to be here, makes me think its right for me. But if nothing else, for now, and for the next five months, I'm going to be okay here.
goodnight uh-merica (and ghana).
love,
sydney...
editors note: Bess, I think the method that seems to work is to Upload File on the left sidebar first, copy the URL of the image, THEN use the special little Image Insert tool, using the resultant image URL - Jeff