Ready.... Set..... Go Australia!

So a year ago around this time I was gearing up to go to Australia with the GCP. For those of you who do not know what the GCP or Global Citizenship Project is, well let me enlighten you. The GCP is a spring break trip that is paid in full by the University. The only thing that you have to pay for is your passport. There are five different destinations each year, you do not get to choose your destination. I was chosen to be on Team Australia.

While we were there we traveled to three different cities: Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne. These three cities were absolutely amazing, not only were they cleaner and more colorful, but the people were more friendly. Australia in general had much nicer people than Americans, when we asked about the city or directions they would always answer it.

There was one major down fall about this trip. The U.S. dollar compared to the Australian dollar. Our dollar is actually weaker than theirs, this ment that everything was more expensive. For an example I went to McDonalds for a late night snack, it cost me $8.50 for just a big mac. I was amazed at the cost but hey when you are hungary you stomach makes the decisions.

We did many adventures while in Australia. We toured the Sydney Opera House and got to see what happens behind the scenes. We got to travel on a boat at sunset and see the beautiful skies of Australia. One of my favorite things that we did was visit The Three Sisters and the Blue Mountains. These were both breath taking and an amazing sight. The final adventure that we did, was we went to an animal sanctuary. Here we got to pet wild Dingos, Kangaroos, and Kolas. This was so fun and something that I will remember for a while.

All in all this was a great trip and many adventures that I cannot share for different proposes. I met many people here had really gained new friends here at the school. Because of this trip I am planning on traveling more and more out of the country and hopefully bring friends along for the adventures.