Back to Basic (but Brilliant) Brisbane

Bula, everyone! That's Fijian for 'hello.' = )

I have returned to Brisbane after three splendid weeks of traveling around Australia and Fiji with Adam. A quick recap: he arrived on the 9th, we went to Byron Bay for the weekend, a couple days in Brisbane, to the Whitsunday Islands for a week, Brisbane again for a few days, and topped off Adam's visit at Fiji for half a week.

I'm so sad that we had to say good-bye a second time during this trip, but it was entirely worth having him here for 3 weeks. I'm such a lucky girl to have such a guy who would travel across the world to see me.

So, until I get back to the US, I'll be in Brisbane. I'm broke and can't afford any more big trips (all the more reason for a second visit to this side of the globe, hehe!), so my return date has been bumped up a bit. Mom's hashing out the flight changes, and as it stands right now I'll be back in Indy on July 5th. I'm hoping we can score something around June 29; it's not looking so good from LA to Chicago, but I'm crossing my fingers. It would be so cool to be home to celebrate Dad and Sam's birthdays and the 4th of July.

It's the last week of class here at QUT. I did outstanding on my Australian class essay. I earned an 86% - sounds like a B, but it's really great by Aussie standards since 60% is average (equivalent of an 80% back home). I'm pretty happy about that. On the down side, however, I missed part of my German final when I was in Fiji, so I took a hard-hitting zero on that, and then, tonight, I feel pretty crumby about another part of the final we did tonight. Ugh, what a hard class! I've my Australian final next Tuesday, a take-home exam for Creative Writing tomorrow, and a potential presentation for my Management class (there's a time clash, so I don't know what's going to happen there?). Then, my Management and German written finals, and viola! I'm done with another semester, and one more to go!

All right, I've gotta get going for the time being. Expect to see some posts coming in the next few days - I've lots to catch up on!

Cheers!

-Amanda