We have just started our second and final week of class! Time at Southern Cross has flown by so far! We took a couple of field trips last week to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, an aborigonal musuem, and to Byron Bay to go up to the lighthouse. The sanctuary was amazing! We got to pet kangaroos, koalas, see some wombats and join in on a huge parrot feeding. This past weekend I went to the Lantern Parade in Lismore. It's a huge deal here and it attracts alot of to...

Let me tell you about my homestay "family"... His name is Steve and he turns 39 on Wednesday. He lives in Gollenabah, which is a suburb of Lismore, the city our university ("uni") is. Supposedly, wallabies, kangaroos, snakes, and koalas come up by his palce, but I haven't seem then yet. He has a 2 year old daughter named Annisa who is never there when I am because he only has custody 9-5 Mon-Wed and I am in class during that span. He is a bi...