Yesterday we took our final and officially finished the study part of study abroad! We spent a few hours in the morning taking surveys and giving them feedback on the trip and then we had a lunch break. We spent some time in the grocery store loading up on candy that you can't get in America. They have starburst babies and they're like gushers in the shape of babies, crazy. And I've formed an obsession for moro gold which is like a twix but better, and cadberry chocolates, and tim tams!
Their fast food restaurants are so fancy here! The Burger King looks like a diner in the inside with black and white tiles on the floor and wall, tons of posters and paintings and records. The Mcdonalds is 2 floors and they have a separate McCafe and it looks like a Starbucks. Anyways, after lunch we went back to Christchurch Polytechnical, which is the university that has hosted the trip. We took our final, which was open note and open book. It was much harder than we expected. The TAs ad Professors kept telling us how easy it was and how we just needed to have our notes organized. The problem was that we needed to look through our book for a bunch of questions and our book is 500 pages and there is no table of contents. Just a bunch of articles. So that took a little over 2 hours unfortunately. After our final we walked back to HotelSO and showered and got ready for dinner. We had a group dinner at Two Fat Indians, which is obviously an Indian restaurant. Katelyn and I weren't fans. They only brought out 4 little bowls of food for 5 of us and they were fish, vegetables, chicken, and lamb. We tried one bite of chicken and decided to stick to just eating the steamed rice. Had 2 scoops of rice and decided to dip out and go to Burger King. We're such Americans. We got chicken nuggets and came back to the hotel to celebrate with everyone. We all went the bar near our hotel and then a few other places. I think it may have been too much fun, today is going to be a long day.
We are doing laundry right now then packing and heading to airport! The adventure is beginning, and probably not on the right foot. To start, we don't know how we're getting to the airport. We are going to the square which is where the church is and all the shops, and hoping there are some shuttles. According to Andy our bus driver, there are shuttles there but we aren't sure when. So we are going to look like tourists and roll our suitcases plus the extra duffel bag we each purchased here for our souveniors and our huge backpacks down a couple blocks and stand on the sidewalk hoping for a shuttle. We're super worried because we are getting into Cairns around 10:30 pm and the hostel will be closed and they said they're leaving our key in a keybox, but they said that in an email 2 months ago. We're crossing our fingers we have a place to sleep tonight. If not... guess we'll just sit on the beach til the sun comes up. (Just kidding Mom and Dad) We will have a place to sleep.... we hope.
Not sure what we're doing in Cairns yet either... maybe we'll figure that out tomorrow. Hoping to snorkel, go to the beach, shop, explore, maybe go to the outback and rainforest. We're really not sure and I love it! We'll just go wherever the wind takes us haha.
We don't have wifi at the hostel so I won't be able to blog unless I go to an internet cafe, and I won't be able to skype on my phone. So whoever I have texted off the app on my phone or skyped or facebooked, just fyi you won't hear from me.
Mom & Dad, don't worry you can call me if you're worried... it'll be $2 a minute though! Katelyn has internet on her phone so if you're worried I'm sure she will have checked in with her parents so you can always call the Fish's!
Well it's almost time to check out and head 'Down Unda'
No more sheep :(
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