{"id":2651,"date":"2011-05-17T17:33:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T05:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2011-05-17T17:33:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T05:33:46","slug":"student-perspective-blogger-thrilled-for-north-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/student-perspective-blogger-thrilled-for-north-queensland\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: Blogger thrilled for North Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alyssa Lai, 2011 North Queensland<\/a> student blogger, writes:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alyssa Lai in Miami<\/p><\/div>\n

G\u2019day, mates!<\/p>\n

Excitement and adrenaline are running so rampantly through my veins that I can hardly contain myself. Maybe it\u2019s the pictures that I\u2019ve seen of the amazing starry skies of the Outback, or the breathtaking aquatic world of the Great Barrier Reef, or maybe it\u2019s simply the embarrassingly large number of times I\u2019ve seen Finding Nemo<\/em><\/a>, but I cannot wait to study abroad in Australia this summer.<\/p>\n

From mid-May to mid-June, I\u2019ll be traveling to North Queensland, Australia with fifteen other University of Florida<\/a> girls, and rumor has it that some of the activities we\u2019ll be doing are trekking through the Daintree Rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest in Australia, spending a night in the Outback, and we\u2019ll even get the opportunity to feed wallabies and hold koalas. Did you know that there are over 1500 species of spiders in Australia? Hopefully we won\u2019t run into too many of those while we\u2019re there!<\/p>\n

Of course, we\u2019ll also be learning all about the Aboriginal culture, ecotourism, marine biology, and much more! I\u2019m looking forward to submersing myself in Australian culture\u2014the food, the lifestyle, the nature\u2026but, not so much the long journey to get there. It\u2019ll be an excruciating, drool-inducing fifteen-hour flight from Texas, and since their time is almost exactly opposite that of Florida\u2019s, we\u2019re talking about some major jet lag. Sounds exhausting, but I know it\u2019ll be worth it!<\/p>\n

Until then, I guess it would be smart to start figuring out how to pack everything in one suitcase. That\u2019s traveling light for ya, huh?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for now, sheilas and blokes! Hopefully next time I\u2019ll have lots of pictures and stories to share!<\/p>\n

Hooroo! (Apparently this is how they sign off in Australia. I must check my sources first so as to not make a fool of myself once I\u2019m there.)<\/p>\n

Pictured left, Alyssa is aboard the Carnival Destiny passing by the Miami coastline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alyssa Lai, 2011 North Queensland student blogger, writes: G\u2019day, mates! Excitement and adrenaline are running so rampantly through my veins that I can hardly contain myself. Maybe it\u2019s the pictures that I\u2019ve seen of the amazing starry skies of the Outback, or the breathtaking aquatic world of the Great Barrier Reef, or maybe it\u2019s simply the embarrassingly large number of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-student-blogs","category-australia-north-queensland","category-student-perspective"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}