Category: Australia: TEAN at Newcastle

So far, this semester has been a whirlwind of travel, making new friends, and of course studying. I have spent alot of time exploring Newcastle and visiting the biggest sights: Nobby’s Beach, Newcastle Beach, the Merewether Baths, King Edward Park, the Bogey Hole, Caves Beach, and the ANZAC Memorial Walk. I also got to know…

During my first week in Australia, I attended the TEAN study abroad orientation in Cairns, which is one of the main tourist cities in Australia known for its proximity to the Great Barrier Reef! We went snorkeling and diving at the reef, held koalas and fed kangaroos, learned about Aboriginal culture, and were taught about…

My first two months in Australia so far have been amazing, unbelievable, exciting, extraordinary, all of the adjectives.  I can’t believe I am already close to halfway done and to think I was so nervous coming here, not knowing what to expect. The pre-orientation in Cairns was unlike anything else. We learned about how Australians…

Today marks the end of a weekend getaway to Melbourne that began on Thursday afternoon after leaving my Biology lab. Tomorrow morning I’ll be flying back to Sydney and taking a train from there to Newcastle, to begin the week anew on Monday. An integral part of the study abroad experience, and the part I…

Hello! My name is Sebastian and soon I will be embarking on a trip to the other side of the world, where I’ll be sending a semester abroad at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. Even though I already study abroad from my home town in Bogota, Colombia, Rollins gave us all…

Hi, my name’s Makenzie and I will be traveling to the land down under this month. I am so excited and blessed for this opportunity to study at the University of Newcastle! I chose Australia for the weather, the culture and the easy access to travel to other places in Asia and the south Pacific….

Hello! My name is Amanda Byrnes, and soon I will be embarking on a semester-long adventure to Australia to study, learn, and most of all, travel! I am very excited to spend some time Down Under, but I will admit I am a little nervous about going so far away for such a long period…

“You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?” I realized it was only one chance in a million.” -Holden Caulfield, The…

Is identity something that we are born with, an innate quality of our existence, or is it a malleable, ever changing byproduct of experience? There are some aspects of our being that I would suggest many of us understand as being constants in our life: a particular interest, a general aura, a certain way we…

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.” -E.E. Cummings Since the last time I updated everyone about good ole Australia, I have managed to start, but never finish, multiple different posts for this blog. Some of them were about the joys of being…