Today
was officially my tenth day in Australia!
(Okay, technically the eleventh, but I’m not going to count that first
day when I was still in time-warp jetlag mode.)
It feels like I’ve been here for so much longer. It honestly sounds really weird to actually
say I’ve only been here ten days. That’s
not even two weeks! I’ve only
experienced one Wednesday and one Thursday here. How wild is that? It feels like I’ve been here for months.
Anyway,
my classes still haven’t started yet!
Woohoo! So after bugging people
on my house facebook page forever, I finally got some people to come with me to
the zoo!
It’s
not big, and is by no means impressive, but Featherdale Park is such a wonderful
place. For starters, the whole park is
free range for their collection of kangaroos and wallabies. These guys just roam around the park, picking
up food scraps and posing for photos.
If
there’s a theme for the animals in this park, it’s that they just don’t
care. Whether they were in an enclosure
or out, the animals let anyone come right up to them and touch them. One of the cockatoos even waited on a branch
by the edge of a cage for people to come up and pet his head!
And of
course, what’s an Australian zoo without the most nonchalant animal in the
world: the Koala bear.
We
learned that these guys sleep for 20 hours a day, so seeing them awake is
actually kind of special. We also got to
hang out with Featherdale’s world-famous koala, Archer! (There are pictures at the entrance of Kelly
Clarkson and an entire Australian band posing with him.) I’m not really sure
why he’s the famous one, but he’s adorable and chill as hell.
This
whole zoo was host to an amazing array of animals, all of which are native to
Australia, and most of which live right in our area. Of course, I was freaking out the whole time,
because I’ve never seen plenty of these animals before! Australia is home to so many colorful birds
and weird creatures! And because I'm a nerd who's obsessed with every animal, I took pictures of all of them.
Tomorrow
at 9AM, my classes finally start. My
first class is one that I will hopefully be dropping soon, but I’m going to go
anyway. I’m a little nervous to actually
start school again, since it’s been so long since I’ve actually had schoolwork
to do. This break from school has been
so good for me, though. I’m so happy I’ve
had this time to relax and get ready for this big adventure! I’m going into this school year the happiest
and healthiest I’ve been in quite awhile.
I’m really excited to see what the rest of the semester brings!
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