My Australian Adventure

Hi Everyone! It’s going to be a long one today…I hope this finds you all well. I’m writing this in a hostel in Wellington two weeks into the month-long trip! The first 2 weeks of the November went by very fast. Exams lasted from the 2 nd November to the 12 th so I just spent those days studying a lot! We did watch the rugby world cup as a revision break (what happened England?) in an English pub with a group of English friends and I dragged my American friend Antoine along which was a laugh. I then had four days before my flight to Christchurch where I packed and spent as much time with friends as possible before I said goodbye to them. My friend’s girlfriend flew out from England and the three of us along with my other English friend, Katie, and Antoine cooked a huge goodbye roast dinner for 13 people, complete with a Yule log as we won’t see each other at Christmas! It was a nice way to say goodbye to people – it was so sad to see people leave but I now have a long li...

Hi Everyone! I hope that October treated you all well. I'm afraid this is going to be a much shorter blog post as I have the first of my exams tomorrow so have been working hard revising for that which hasn't left me much time.  This month has been a struggle of balancing university and my social life.  I obviously know that I have to do well in exams and that's very important to me but it's also the last time that I will see some people I've become very fond of for possibly years, which is sad.  So the second part of this month has consisted of revising and seeing people when I have a chance. With the rugby World Cup we have got into a nice routine of having taco night (which I like to think we've now perfected) and watching the rugby! And we're heading to an English pub to watch the final which we're very excited about!! Moreton Island At the beginning of the month 6 of us went away to Moreton Island for a long weekend to cel...