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Just one more week in Melbourne
Apparently it’s already been almost two whole weeks since I last posted, but it’s been a two weeks in which much has happened, including finishing finals, the election and doing some more sightseeing in Melbourne. Back on Nov 2nd I took my last final exam (Large-Scale Weather & Climate), which went quite well just like […]
Vacation
Namaste, friends and family! So we’ve spent another week at Visthar, and I finally wanted to tell you about my vacation last week! Vacation began on Friday, October 22. I decided to travel up the southern part of Kerala with my friends Britanee and Erin. We headed to the train station at 8:00 at night. […]
Bollywood, Sufi shrines, and more!
Today, as a part of our Religion and Cultures of India module, we traveled to the ancient Channekeshava Temple at Belur and the Hoysaleswara Temple at Halebid in Karnataka. About the Hoysaleswara Temple, my guidebook writes, “Every centimetre of the outside walls and much of the interior is covered iwth an endless variety of Hindu […]
2 down, 1 go to!
Believe it or not, it’s time for final exams here at Monash. Thus it should be no surprise that I haven’t been doing too much this week apart from studying, as I had finals yesterday (Thursday) morning in Fluid Dynamics, and this morning in Climate Change & Variability, and I’m happy to say that both […]
Midterms and more
I’m thinking my plans for going to Prague are falling through, but the good news is that I just bought a ticket for Paris! Madame Gronhovd will be proud of me, I’m going to attempt to use my two semesters of French to make my way around the city for three days. Andrea and Sheri, […]
My first post
It’s kind of odd that this is my first entry and yet the semester is half over. I don’t quite know where to begin, as this semester has been one that has changed my direction in life tremendously. I’m studying at the London Dramatic Academy in the heart of London, in Bloomsbury near Russell Square […]
My first India post
Namaste friends and family! I hope this email finds you all doing well and enjoying the beautiful colors of the Fall. I just returned from field visit number 2, where I was stationed in the town of Mananthavady in the Western Ghats of Kerala. Kerala is definitely the most beautiful place that I’ve seen yet: […]
Last week of classes in Australia
I was browsing the web tonight and happened to discover that this blog of mine was rather prominently linked on the Gustavus home page, which made me realize that I’d fallen down in my job a bit and not updated this in nearly two weeks. It’s not like I didn’t think about doing it, but […]
Spring break in the Whitsundays
Can anyone tell me how it got to be October already? Because I have absolutely no idea how time is flying by so quickly down here. Spring Break is over, and now we only have a shade over two weeks of classes left this semester. Since I don’t have classes on Tuesdays, that means that […]
Wilson’s Prom
Wow, this has been a fun-filled and exciting past week for me. I’ll try to sum everything up without having this get too lengthy. I spent the weekend camping and hiking in the Prom (Wilson’s Promontory), a national park a couple hours southeast of Melbourne that’s situated on a peninsula that also happens to be […]