pictures from the royal botanical gardens. it was so gorgeous!
Coogee Beach to Bondi Beach Walk
The beaches here are so different from the beaches back in the states. They’re so clean and gorgeous; they’re all tucked into little nooks and crevices, surrounded by rocky cliffs and houses built into the sides of the cliffs. A group of us did the walk from Coogee Beach to Bondi Beach. It was about a six kilometer walk (so says google) and took Cus a little over two hours because we walked slow and constantly stopped for photo-ops. The walk was on top of all the cliffs and then it cut through about five or more smaller beaches between Coogee and Bondi. It was beautiful, I wouldn’t mind doing the walk again during sunrise.
Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge
We visited the opera house. It was a rather rainy and cold day, but even still, seeing the Opera House for the first time was amazing and beautiful. We stood by the water across from it and took pictures in the rain for a good twenty or thirty minutes. Then we took a short trek around the wharf (at least I think it’s a wharf, harbour I guess is the proper term) and got to see the Opera House up close. It was so neat to see, and I wish I knew more about architecture because it was truly a masterpiece. We also saw the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which was really cool. I can’t wait to hopefully climb it when my parents come to visit me. It’s supposedly spectacular fun.
it was raining this day, but the opera house was still so gorgeous and amazing to see. i can’t wait to go back on a beautiful day and take more pictures.
first day of school!
My first day of class was interesting. I got to my anthropology class without fuss, but the class of over 400 people was moderately overwhelming at first. I warmed up to the class, though I’m still quite nervous about the people and the intellect that seems so much higher here than back home.
My second class- Entomology- provided a bit more of a challenge. Their system of naming buildings here is quite confusing. My class was in the Anderson Theatre, yet contrary to obvious assumption, that theatre is *not* located within the Anderson Building. Instead, it’s located down the road and to the left at the Heydon something-or-other building. The professor seems rather interesting and looks rather like a wooly caterpillar. He talks rather fast and moves through his slides even faster, but the fast past is nice thus far.
Lastly I have my Personality class. The professor is so peculiar, he giggles constantly and reminds me of a leprechaun on speed. I can’t tell where he is from, but his accent is quite different from the Aussie accent. I think he might be French? He’s got a last name of Tiliopoulos, which I still haven’t figured out how to say. The Personality class is huge, with over 600 students. It’s just a tad bit different from the 17 people classes that I’m used to. A lot of the classes are taught by more than one professor, which is strange to me, but I think I’ll like that because we get exposure to more professors. Tomorrow I have my Vertebrate class and my first “practical” which is their word for a lab. Wish me luck getting all my books, because thus far its a stressful mess!
