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…
Spring Break!
04/20/17 Spring Break! Maddy, Brandon, and I are headed to the Cook Islands! If it were a straight shot its only 2,387 miles away, but instead we are driving to Christchurch, flying to Auckland, then flying to Rarotonga, a pretty long journey, nut definitely worth it. After Maddy and I were got deboarded from our…
Cathedral Cave Expedition
04/01/17 Nugget Point (Ahuriri Flat), Purakanui (Tarara Falls), Cannibal Beach Today me and some buds went for a journey across the Catlins. Our mission was to go to the Cathedral Caves which is one of the must see spots in NZ. On our way we passed a sign for nugget point and someone recalled it…
Mom Comes to Visit
03/11/17 Queenstown Again My mom came to visit! While she’s here we go to Queenstown and do every adventure packed event they have to offer. We conquered the rivers via jet boats and white water rafts. We beat the lake with a shark boat. We beat the mountain with a gondola ride and a few…
Shanghai Sweetheart
Andrew came to visit! After not seeing my boyfriend for a little over 4 months, I met him in Shanghai. It was like a movie scene: me, waiting at the airport, spotting him in the crowd and running over to give him a hug. Unlike the movies, I was sweating like a pig, panicky and…
Minnie Water: Emergency Only Calls & Ablutions of the Body, Mind, and Spirit
“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…
Opportunity, Community, Ability: Australian Edition
“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…
It’s Autumn in NZ, but I’m on “Spring Break”:)
I’ve hit the halfway point of this amazing adventure, and Spring Break couldn’t have been better!! A 10 day road trip was the perfect way to spend it. 5 girls and WAY too much stuff made for quite the squeeze in a little car..but a trip around the South Island was well worth it! From Dunedin,…
Week Three of Independent Research Project
Happy Earth Day! Yesterday I arrived back in Ubud, after being at a Buddhist Monastery for five days. My time at the monastery was an invaluable experience for both my research project and my personal life. During my time spent here, I met the Buddhist monk who has been living at the monastery for decades…
Worlds Away…
Wow. Two weeks feels like two years. I’ve gone so much, and spent time in three different countries, speaking three different languages. And, I know I keep saying this but it’s still so mind-blowing to me, I’ve seen sights I’ve only heard of or read about in books. I even saw the Pope! Italy was…