G'day mate!

Hello from down under everyone! This is my first post from Oz, and it is a week late because I don't yet have internet access at home. This should change today or tomorrow (hopefully, 'cause my modem is already 2 days late!) In any case, I just wanted to let everyone know I arrived safe and sound and am now (more or less) comfortably set up in my apartment. I am five minutes walk from campus, ten minutes walk from the nearest mall (the huge Macquarie Center), and ten minutes walk from the nearest bar and bottle shop (or bottlo in Australian English). My three flatmates are Nils Jacholke (ya-heul-ka) and Marco Rothaufe (rote-how-fa) from Germany, and a Thai named Montri Thangpijaikul (don't ask). They are all cool and easy to get along with, and you'll hear about them often in my posts, of that I am sure.

         Nils                   Marco                 Montri

As I am typing this from campus it would be difficult to post pictures at the moment, but rest assured I have over a hundred already, as well as some videos and stories to go along! My next update will come as soon as my internet is set up at home, and I will post a few pics on the blog itself and upload the rest to another site and provide the link here. That's it for now, but stay tuned for more!