Australia in pictures

This is my lovely room in my hostel!

There are three campuses at Uni Adelaide. I have classes at two of them, and this is the one called north terrace.

This is the other campus where I have class, called waite.

Every wednesday, on my way to waite campus, I walk through the waite arboretum. Its sights and sounds and smells are incredible!

Barr Smith, the stately library at north terrace

For my birthday, I did a trip through the grampian mountains and the great ocean road, and then stayed in Melbourne with a friend. Wild kangaroos lazed about in the mountains.

Here are some sea stacks found along the great ocean road. They were all so beautiful and majestic!

It's a twenty minute tram ride to the beach from the university.

There are lots of birds in adelaide. The swans are black!

I went to sydney and cairns with my parents for mid-semester break. Sydney was rainy, but that just made it more fun!

The chinese food in sydney was better than the chinese food in china.

In cairns, we stayed in an oceanfront apartment. This is our view during breakfast, from our balcony.

A better picture of our view during breakfast. Unfortunately, the beach was unswimmable due to it being box jelly season

But that's okay, I got to swim in the great barrier reef, and then again in the heart of the world's oldest rainforest!

For one of my classes, we went on a field camp to the beautiful murray river. I imagine this is what the grand canyon looked like before it was a canyon! The field camp was a great experience.

We went on lots of boat rides, with our professors explaining freshwater concepts to us.

We waded into the water to catch fish with nets.

This is where we had breakfast, lunch, and dinner. During dinner, we ate and drank with our classmates and professors, sang songs to guitar tunes, and then went outside to look at milky way and bonded by a bonfire.

Our professor's kid kept trying to make the fish eat each other.

We explored a really cool cave!