As my last stop in the Southern Hemisphere a friend and I spent a weekend in Chirstchurch, New Zealand on our back towards the states. The trip was a little too quick and our bank accounts were a little too low to fully experience all of New Zealand, but we made due with what we [...]

Continuing my week-long dream vacation in Thailand, about half of our group left Bangkok at 6 a.m. on our fourth day while the rest stayed behind to explore the city some more. I went with the group to Phuket and I am thrilled that I did.
Phuket is located right along the coast in the southern [...]

At the end of each semester in Australia there is a one week “reading break” before exams get started. Since I don’t know how to read, I rallied 16 friends and we spent our week “reading” in Thailand. The first three days and nights were spent in Bangkok.
Bangkok is an amazing city, smells horrible, but [...]

So it’s been a pretty crazy month between traveling to Thailand, Singapore, and New Zealand, finishing the semester, moving back to the states, and starting my new job with the Baltimore Examine. I will be writing updates on all of those shortly, but just to catch up I put together a little list to some [...]

A few hours ago I finished up my last days of classes at Notre Dame Australia. I officially have one year of education remaining in my life before becoming a real person. The past week has been a hectic seven days of finishing papers, presentations, and months worth of work that has been put off [...]

It has once again been far too long since my last post, but this time I have a little more of an excuse. Two weeks ago the internet in Port Lodge unexpectedly went out. It was discovered, two days later, that the problem occurred when our household pets chewed through the cables that were connecting [...]

Friday night the Western Force rugby club took own the Chiefs from New Zealand at the Subiaco Oval, 20 minutes north of where I live. The four guys who I live with decided that we had had enough estrogen and snuck away to drink a few beers and watch grown men smash into each other [...]

Due to a recent conversation with my blogging sensei - and the fact that I am desperately trying to avoid writing a philosophy paper - I have decided to take a slightly different approach tonight. In our discussion we touched upon many subjects such as cewebrities (Nope, your computer has not developed the cute lisp [...]

This Friday (April 25th) was Anzac Day in Australia. Anzac Day is held every year in memory of the combined forces of Australia and New Zealand that fought during WWI. It is a huge national pride holiday because it is considered to be one of the first elements that really pulled the Australian people together [...]

It has been a while since my last post for two reasons. I recently spent a whole week camping four hours from any internet, electricity, or western civilization with a family of aborignial australians. It has taken me a while to write about because I struggled, and I still am struggling, to find away to [...]