Hello From Oz!

Hey everybody! So this is my first blog ever, so i hope it's okay, not just a whole bunch of rambling. I just thought it would be a good way to keep everyone posted so I don't have to tell everyone the same thing over and over! lol!

Anyways, so I guess I'll just start at the beginning, the trip was crazy long, left for Detroit at 10am i'm pretty sure, on Wednesday the 20th of January, and we arrived in Sydney on Friday the 22nd in the late afternoon! Super long trip! I made a vlog while traveling but internet here is very strange and so i don't think I'll be able to post it.

I moved into my furnished flat (thank the Lord) that day and met my first room mate Nini. She's super cute, I quite like her. I did a bunch of shopping that day and thank goodness my parents were here to help me because I did have to go all over the place to get the things we needed. I'm the only girl who's starting first year first semester so it's kinda nice to have people who can fill me in on life here and school and stuff. And most people moved into flats with not a stich of furniture, not even a fridge, so I'm super happy about that.

The next few days I hung out with my parents and did the tourist thing, went to circular quay which is where the Sydney Oprah House is and the big famous bridge. We also discovered that during that week it was Australia day, which was super cool, they had so many things going on at all the different harbors, bands, food, boat racing. Super cool.

My other two room mates moved in as well, so now there is four of us, Nini (whose full name is Carine, but it's Portuguese and no one says it right so we just call her Nini), Izy, who is Norwegian from Korea, and Stephanie who is from California. we all get along really well which is nice. Me and Steph share a super tiny room, I'm pretty sure it's smaller than my room at home. But it's fine, we have a system starting.

School started this week. We're doing 2 weeks of intensives while they get everybody's personal time tables worked out. Everyone in first year is in the same class, and we're doing a full year course in two weeks, which is way it's called intensives. It's super busy, we have lectures from 9-5:30 everyday. But it's soooo good. I already feel like I'm becoming a different person. I'm learning so much. I actually love sitting in lectures, it's a little long, but there is sooo much information and I want to just listen to them over and over because I feel like I'd learn something new every time!

Yeah, I don't know what else to tell everyone, I'm making lots of friends. Everyone is sooo friendly, everyone just talks to each other. This is such a relational country, total strangers talk to each other all the time. Most of the people in school live in the same buildings as me so it's easy to get to know each other, and everyone just hangs out at each other's flats. Me and one of my friends Breanna (yeah i know, i just can't get away from Brie's lol) spent a whole day touring (more like getting lost) around the city, which was so fun. Everything is super expensive here. You have to buy interent by the GB, which is so crazy. Food is so much too, a red pepper in the grocery store is 12.98 per kg!!!! People talk really sweet here. I'm trying really hard to immerse myself in Australian Culture (as much as i can considering I'm surrounded by Americans) so i'm trying to pick up on Aussie slang, which is hilarious. So even if i don't come home with an Aussie accent (I'll more than likely have an American one, and I'll probably be saying ya'll) I'll probably come home with some very strange sayings. So just so everyone is prepared, you probably won't have any idea what I'm talking about half the time. lol. The birds here are super wierd. There's this huge one, like two feet tall with a MASSIVE beak, and this one that i haven't actually seen but i can hear it all the time and it sounds like someone is strangling a baby, and this really cute one that looks like the baby birds off Up with a little mohawk. (google search it if you don't know what i'm talking about)

OH! This is for Mady mostly but it's super cool. I got to work with the TV crew yesterday for a United concert. So so cool. I got taught how to use the cameras (which i didn't get to actually run while the concert was on, boo.) and got to sit in the TV room and watch during the actual show. Mady, you would have LOVED it, it's so insane, so many cameras, so many effects. If you end up coming i'll see if you can sit in. You would love it soo much!!

Anyways guys, i've been writing for a while so this is getting super long. Just want to let everyone know that i love it here so much and you should worry because I probably won't wanna come home (we'll see, i've only been here two weeks, i might end up hating this place). The weather is usually awesome, it's been raining alot but it's usually really nice, super humid and ridiculously sticky (I've been wearing my hair up alot here, it's weird), but super awesome. The beaches are beautiful, the water is like the colour of a painting, sorta green but mostly a gorgeous blue, the waves are HUGE and wonderful (as long as your past the breaking point because I've been thrown around a bit on the other side), so many people are surfing at any point in the day. I just can't wait to learn to surf.

Well, hope that everyone is doing well, can't wait to hear what's going on with all of you guys.

Love you and miss everyone so much
Brittany <3