Category: Travel

  • Day 2: G’day from Sydney!

    Day 2: G’day from Sydney!

    I made it to Sydney! After an exhausting 30 hour journey, I am finally in Australia. Last night I was hopeful that I would get a good sleep on my flight to Fiji. Unfortunately that didn’t exactly turn out to be the case. I did manage to get about five hours of sleep, which isn’t…

  • Day 1: Halfway there (kinda)

    Day 1: Halfway there (kinda)

    Two flights down, two more to go! I’m sitting in LAX waiting to board my 23:55 flight to Nadi, Fiji. It’s been a long day already, and I haven’t even made it halfway to Sydney (by distance, that is). I got to the airport in Edmonton earlier than I normally would with the intention of…

  • The journey begins

    The journey begins

    The countdown is almost over! Tomorrow I will be embarking on my adventure to Australia; a journey I have been planning in one form or another for the past four years. Most readers will know that I lived in Australia for a year in 2009. My mom exchanged jobs with a teacher from Mount Gambier,…