Firstly, I would like the thank Adam Gallagher for the title of this first post. His cleverly written blog about Egypt has inspired me to stay current with this blog (though we all know that probably won't happen...) Anyways, I have recruited him to help me "maintain" this blog, and hopefully with his help my posts can be as clever as his were, and I can have just as many followers as him. I doubt I will be able to accomplish that, but I will try. Thank you Adam for your support in this endeavor. (No thanks to Madeline Shattow whose only comment on me creating another blog was: "Emily......another blog?" No doubt referring to my failed attempt to keep a blog for Egypt. Very unsupportive if you ask me.) Now to the actual post:
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Leaving Egypt was more difficult than I thought it would be. I had gotten used to my Egyptian life and I unexpectedly burst in to tears at the airport while boarding my flight to Madrid...all I could do was laugh at myself while the security guards looked at me as though I was a crazy person! I still miss Egypt but the past few weeks spent adventuring around Madrid and northern France have been incredible! But this blog isn't about these past few weeks, it's about my adventure to come in...AUSTRALIA! Kangaroos, boomerangs, "down under", the Great Barrier Reef, you name it--that's where I'm going! It hasn't really hit me that I'm leaving for my next semester abroad, because well, I'm not really leaving. I have been traveling the last few weeks and haven't settled anywhere long enough to feel like I am leaving anywhere!
Tomorrow at 10am I will get the train to Paris and go to Charles de Gaulle airport for my flight to Australia. My cousins have been asking me where I am going in Australia and in broken Franglish I have pointed to pictures on the news of the current flooding in Queensland, saying that my final destination is Brisbane...but not to worry because I am flying in to Melbourne first! The reason that I am going to Melbourne first is because I have been lucky enough to receive a grounds pass to the Australian Open from my family for Christmas! :) So I will be in Melbourne for the beginning of the Open and then I will fly to Brisbane to stay with some family friends for a week, and then I will fly back to Melbourne for the end of the tournament. My hope in attending this event is to find Rafael Nadal and marry him...we'll see if that happens. =)
Orientation doesn't officially start until the 12th of February (in Cairns), but I am going to spend the first week and a half or so of February in Brisbane looking for an apartment! I have been doing some minor searching now and most of what I am finding is in the farther suburbs and I am trying to decide whether I want to commute that far to campus and back! Also, I'm not sure if those places will survive the threatening flooding that they are predicting for the area... =/
Okay, I'm going to wrap this post up...it's too boring to keep writing. Basically, I am very excited to get to the warmer weather in Australia, but am not looking forward to my 22 hours of Airplane time/arriving in Melbourne 2 days after I leave Europe... I am mentally preparing right now!
Au revoir France! G'Day Australia :) (How much more cliche can I get?)
yeah! Emily blogged! Help her, Adam, please! I
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