Less than 3 days...

I am less than three days away from the beginning of what I hope to be my year-long adventure in Australia. Since this is the first entry in this blog, I will begin with the basics. 

For anyone who doesn't know, I just recently completed my first year of college at Bowling Green State University and will soon begin my sophomore year studying abroad at Griffith University in Gold Coast Australia. The first thing to note is that Australian semesters run differently than American semesters; first semester runs Feb-June and second semester runs July-Nov, with Summer vacation taking up Nov, Dec and Jan. I will be attending Griffith for 2nd and 1st semester, with summer in between. Hopefully, I will be able to find a job over there, that's the plan anyway. My student visa allows me to work 20 hours during school and unlimited hours during school vacations, provided I am still enrolled at a University. 

I leave Detroit airport on Tuesday (7/14/09) sometime in the evening and will fly to L.A. international airport. From L.A. I will fly to New Zealand, and because I'm crossing the international date line, I'll sort of miss out July 15th, weird, right? I have a 6 hour lay-over in NZ then I'll fly straight into Gold Coast, Australia! I'm not entirely sure how long the flight is, I haven't done the math and, quite frankly, I don't really want to know. 

I suppose that's all for now, I just wanted to get this blog started- I've got lots of packing that I haven't started yet. Be sure to check back, hopefully I'll have lots of adventures to share!

<3 Lauren