New Zealand

standing on the worlds steepest street in the world. Grade: For every 1m horizontal 2.89 meters vertical

The crew

We did a lot of driving... had to keep busy somehow in the camper van

Morgan Brett met me in the airport, immediately went to the parking lot were she introduced me to our camper van home for the entire road trip and without letting me even put my bags away we were off to see New Zealand. Joining us were her friends from the winery where she's been working for the past couple months - 4 south africans, 3 californians and a brit in total. We did everything from walking up the steepest street in the world (our camper wouldn't have made it up), see wild penguins and lots and lots and lots of hikes. Spent a week with crew before I had to head home early due to finals back in Melbourne.

The Ball

The galvatrons played. Amazing food was eaten. Laughs were shared. We all looked dead sexy. What more could you want.

23km

Only 6 km to go! One of my happiest moments ever

Getting pumped with kellen before the run

8 km mark...still looking pretty fresh

we did plenty of touristy stuff too

I am not a runner. I'm not good at it, I would much rather participate in sports or ride a bike for fitness but I still agreed to run a half marathon. My thought being that this would give me motivation to stay in shape during the semester and what better way to see the Great Ocean Road other than running in! Yea maybe not the best of my ideas, but I still did it. Me and an American friend (Kellen) from Queens ran a steady slow jog (only stopping for the occasional koalas in trees and water stations) completed it in just under 2:30:00. We decided to dress up for the run because if people saw us decked in ridiculously clothing then they wouldn't take us seriously because we thought we were going to be at the back of the pack. We stayed with a friend and her family who live on the great ocean road, ate a great meal before hand, checked out their family surf shop and shared many laughs. Note: I'm never running a marathon again.

Rowing Day

Kovacs - our star rower

Queener's Racing

Hair cuts of the guys seconds

ok wow, so it's been a while since i've posted on this thing. I've been back in California for a few weeks now, working on campus at Poly. But first I have to wrap up my Melboune and and Oz trip. I'll throw in a few of the big events leading up to my flight home - starting with Rowing Day.

Yup woke up at 6am, was down by the river eating breakie at 8 watching the races until Noon. At queen's the sport we take most seriously is by far rowing. With this said it's obvious that the ENTIRE college would be watching as well. We won all 4 events: Men's 1st, Women's 1st, Men's 2nd's and Women's seconds. This amazing feat has never been done in the history of University of Melbourne and many said will never happen again. Needless to say the celebrations were high spirited and lasted weeks. To keep us entertained between races were the traditions of Watermelon heads which entails making a helmet out of a watermelon and bang heads until one breaks...whoever's lasts the longest wins (i didn't participate...haha) and the hilarious haircuts the Men's seconds (for aeronautical reasons of course) revealed that morning.