Only one month left until my departure June 26th and there’s still so much I haven’t done, even in Sydney. I feel like I’ve done and seen so much in the past four months, which I have, yet I’ve probably only seen about 5% of what Australia has to offer. Consequently, during the week I began to create a list of different things I can still do before leaving. My main goal is to do at least two more dives (scuba) since I got all this expensive snorkeling equipment for my birthday before coming here and have only used it once. Chuck and I have discussed taking the three-day train ride across the outback to Perth in Western Australia for a couple days where I could dive at another beautiful reef off the southwest coast. I would also kind of like to try surfing one more time and could hire a board over there and do that as well. Now that I’m confident driving here I have also thought about driving a car up the Gold Coast north of Sydney. In Sydney itself I have yet to visit: Hunter Valley vineyards, Featherdale Wildlife Park (to revisit some tame kangaroos and wallabies), AU National Maritime Museum, Sydney Aquarium; or see a movie at the world’s largest iMax theater in Sydney Harbour. I will officially begin training for my second Twin Cities Marathon tomorrow giving me exactly 18 weeks to prepare for the October 4th race. Qualifying for Boston Marathon requires that I finish in 3 hours and 10 minutes which would require I cut about 15 minutes off the time I finished in last year. I’ve managed to stay in pretty good shape here although my weight has fluctuated more than it ever has in my life and seen me as high as 180 pounds and now right around 175 pounds (I’ll probably weigh closer to 165 by 10/4). Chuck and I actually completed are first full week’s workouts with four days of running (3 miles) and lifting, and an additional two days of longer runs for me. I know Drew, my roommate back home has also begun training so I look forward to getting back on some familiar tracks. Tomorrow I will write my final essay of the year leaving the following two weeks to study for my final exams in Quantitative Management and Math Stats, but probably just Math Stats. Hopefully I utilize my time well and get a lot done, so I can continue to see and do more. My friend Brett Tuma is visiting Danielle (girlfriend and mutual acquaintance) next week and traveling with her until the following week so it would be fun to hang out and take him around Sydney. Also, tomorrow (June 1) is the first official day of winter. Temperatures will generally see highs in the 60’s until my June 26th departure. Below, I've posted a couple more pictures of campus...they're both
taken from the same spot (one facing left and one right) in the Alumni Green behind the tower building.
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