its getting warmer outside!

I have been sick the past week or so with a super soar throat and a cough but its clearing up as the weather is getting warmer! its going to be 23C this week! that's about 66F! and they call this winter!

On the 29th, even though I was sick, I went on a walk from coogee to bondi beach, thinking that the outdoors and ocean air would help my sickness, well little did I know that if was a four mile walk along the cliffs of the country! yikes! but I had an amazing time and got some amazing pics!

My classes started on the 30th and so far I have been to two out of the three, tomorrow is my last, and they have gone wonderfully should be a breeze considering they don't give exams here!! today in my class when I said I was an exchange student from new york city no joke the whole class went "oooooooooooooooooohhhhh!!" they all love the idea of meeting a new yorker!


But first by popular demand more pics of my dorm room
















My desk, nice and clean!!
















I put up some bus maps for things on the wall!

















My door and food area, went to the store yesterday!






















This is what we walked along the coast not the blue line!

















Coogee Beach!

















A grave yard that looked out onto the ocean!

































Oh look its me!

















I do have friends!


















what we were walking along!

















Bondi was the end point and I was glad to reach it!

lots to say

So since the last time I posted a LOT has happened! You know that I moved into my room but I had yet to go to orientation and all the international events...well those both went every well! I have made a few friends and met lots of people from all corners of the globe! My 'flat mates' are from Milan, Malaysia and Pakistan! During orientation I got my ID card and all my classes are ready to go and I start them Monday the 30th! The first class I have is called Communication and Audience! Its from 1 to 4 in the afternoon! Can't wait to get a feel for how the semester will go as far as work loads and reading and so on!

In other news the weather has gotten BEAUTIFUL! Its about 20C every day which is about 63F and for winter thats amazing! I cant wait for summer! But just in time for the weather to get nice my Mom and Jan had to head back to the ole USA :'( I'm so great full that they came with me at the start of all this! They kept me from ever being overwhelmed! But I miss them already!!

The shopping report to date is that I haven't done much of it!! K-Mart and Target are both on the PRICEY side!! can you believe it?! Tops at target are about $40 and a little less at K-Mart! but i did get a nice top and bag from there for less than the norm! :)

Now for some pictures!!!


These are from when we took the ferry to Watson's Bay and then looked out at "The Gap" on the 26th!
















The View from the boat of the Opera House!!
















The Gap is the Pacific ocean and the next mass of land you will get to is America!





















The Cliffs we were on looking out at the ocean!!
















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When you looked over one shoulder you had the Sydney Skyline and over the other you had the Pacific! This was on the last day with mom and Jan!
















Amazing.
















The Bay
















The Bay and Sydney from the top of the cliffs!!
















The Boat home
















The Harbor Bridge from the boat home!
















The last meal with mom and Jan and thats Dom my Pace buddy here in OZ!!

















Aussie Idol...where they have no Simon because everyone is so nice here.

















The Anzac Bridge from the fish market i went to today I also went to Glebe market which I will be going to very very often! It may be better than my upper west side flea market in NYC!!!
















The photo studio I live across from!
















Some Aussie food I like!!



And I leave you with the sunsetting over Darling Harbor...view from mom and Jan's hotel room!

The Rain Forest

Forgot to add these but rach reminded me lol

Part 2 - Since I Have the Time

This is from the 18th to the 20th of July!

18th
This day we took an all day tour of the Blue Mountains! They are a mountain range about an hour out of Sydney and they are amazing! This tour took us to a Kangaroo Park also where we got to see them in the wild, tea on a river, lunch in a mountain town, on the world steepest railroad, down in a cable car into a cold-temperate rain forest, through Olympic Park and a boat ride back to Sydney! It was a long but FUN day!!











































































The Three Sisters Rocks!






















This was down the cable car!

















My mom was FREAKING out! but she did it and lived to talk about it!






















NOW FOR THE KANGAROOSSSSS



Thats a video of them hopping around :)




































This is one of the Olympic stadiums!


















This is for Rachel Pesin....Sydney, London sytle! and yea thats the opera house.

















19th
Today I got moved into my dorm room and then we went to the Royal Botanical Gardens and then to the Victoria Building for some dinner!

















i think i over-decorated lolz



















20th
Today my mom and Jan went on a wine tour and I had a meeting about housing and spend the day going to Target and K-Mart to see if they were like in America and guess what THEY ARE BETTER! (Rach I will take pics of things there another day I had limited time lol) but there was a Steve Irwin ride for little kids and yes there will be a pic of me on it soon.

Part 1 - The First Days

This is the first post of when my mom and Jan are here its the first two weeks of being in Sydney this post is from the day we got here - Monday the 16th - to Tuesday the 17th!

This was on the quantas airplane how funny NO FERBIES!!














The first day we walked around our hotel and this is by Darling Harbour! and no i didnt see Nemo. how sad.















This is the view from our hotel of Darling Harbour!














The Monorail going over the walkway to get to the other side of Darling Harbour!

Then we went to the world largest Chinese Gardens outside of China!



































Mom and me looking pretty in the gardens!

DAY TWO














We decided to take a bus tour to get a feel of the whole city! This is mom and Jan on top of the bus...it was a little cold considering this is the coldest weather they have had in 20 years! its about 53 every day!




















Oh look its UTS!















The harbor Bridge!















The Opera House!!

We decided to take a tour of the opera house its AMAZING inside! i must go see something there!















The outside is made out of concrete but the inside is all wood! lovely!



The next post will be the Blue Mountains, kangaroos in the wild and my dorm room i will try to post those soon!!