Stuff I just learned about my trip!

Hello everyone, 

I am back with another blog!

My time in Sydney is going to be amazing!  I’m really excited to go on the dinner cruise, I just found out I will be going on! While I will be incredibly jet lagged by then (damn that 14 hour time difference), i’m still really excited to do something that fancy and fun. I won’t reveal everything, but we also get to go on a jet boat. Isn’t that amazing? The adventures are going to begin immediately, and I shall feel like i’m in Flo Rida’s Wild Ones video. After O week, which isn’t as dirty as it sounds (it’s orientation week), we’re going to go see the Koalas and Kangaroos at the wildlife park (the zoo). That’s everything that i’m going to say about this.

As it gets closer to the time to leave we get more information about our upcoming trip and it just makes me more excited. But, this trip is still about 4 weeks away, which is too far for me to feel any anxiety about it. I will let you guys know how bad my anxiety was, and how I dealt with it when I land in Florida in about 2.475 weeks. Yes, I am taking a mini (8 day) vacation with my bestie Victoria, ‘cause she’s also coming to Australia, woop, woop! Also super exciting, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Harry Potter world, as I call it), and Disney world (again!:D). A packing tip that I was told by IES, my school’s affiliated study abroad program, was to bring cosmetics and toiletries from home because they can get quite expensive in Australia. It’s a good thing that I was planning to bring all of that anyway. This may mean that i’m going to need to pack 2 suitcases and a duffle bag, instead of just 1 suitcase and a duffle bag. I don’t know, but I will let you guys know what I packed, and at the end of my trip i’ll tell you what I actually needed/ended up using.

The final thing that i’m going to talk about is cellphones. We have been told repeatedly to just buy a prepaid phone in Australia, but I have also just been informed that I can bring my “american” phone and have that connected to an Australian mobile provider. I just have to have my phone open? I have no idea what that means, but I will find out and tell you guys what I ended up doing about the phone situation. That’s all folks!

Thanks for reading this!

Until next time