Category: Australia: TEAN at Sydney

This last time in Australia is bittersweet. On one hand, I’ve made lasting friends here and this entire experience feels like a test that I’ve passed. I’ve seen a lot of the world and done so very much on all on my own. Better still, this semester has crystallized for me that I need to…

I judge every city against New York City. New York city is a patchwork city of many cultures, languages, and experiences. Because of the sheer variety of experiences and people, it is relatively easy for me to blend in seamlessly. It is an international city and a city of travelers. Sydney measures up very well….

These first few weeks in Australia have been a whirlwind. As always, things did not go according to plan, a fixture in my life. Upon landing I made the almost immediate discovery my bags had disappeared somewhere between Orlando and Melbourne. This was not an auspicious start to this experience. I was forced to almost…

I exist in a space somewhere between American and Colombian identities. I’ve been traveling for my entire life. As a child, I left Colombia to come to the United States, and in the United States we found ourselves frequently moving. For this reason, tradition for me is solely associated with the people in my life…

Hello Mates! I have been in Australia for exactly 2months, and I just returned from my mid-semester break in New Zealand. I struggle to put this experience into words, as I am still in sort of a shock at the things I experienced there. A good shock, but a shock nevertheless. I arrived in New…

I am in my fourth week of study abroad, and “mid-semester break” is approaching. I use the quotation marks because it is hard to not call the week long break Spring Break, but since I am in the opposite hemisphere, it is fall here, hence the mid-semester break title. I have decided that I am…

I am about 7 hours from flying out of Orlando to begin my journey to Sydney, and as I lay here thinking about my journey I can’t help but think about the long flight there and how happy I will be to get on land again when we de plane in Sydney. I am so…

One of the classes that I took this semester was called Outdoor Education, and as the title suggests the class included bunch of field trips to the great outdoors. The last trip was to the Blue Mountains, in which we stayed in cabins with a nice fireplace, and hiked for 3 days straight. I liked…

Hiking The Royal National Park with my Outdoor Education class was a really cool experience. It was a rainy and gloomy day. However I think I preferred it to be rainy for a couple of reasons. First off, the river crossing at the beginning of our walk didn’t seem so bad, because getting wet was…