Last day in Sydney

Today is our last day in Sydney, before heading to Auckland this evening. This week is going to be even busier than this past week. I've already visited seven of our partner schools here in Australia, and we're going to tour several more in the next several days in NZ. I'm going to miss Sydney a bit, but I am ready and looking forward to New Zealand.

It's going by so fast and we are so packed in with activities and college visits that it's difficult to recall everything I've done.

The Sydney Opera House was amazing. We dined at a lovely restaurant there called "Guillaume". I had a delicious blue swimmer crab as a starter. I am still thinking about that crab now... It was soooo good. It was served on a bed of sliced avocados and topped with sliced cucumbers. Yum. For the main course I went with seared scallops (of course). Sometimes I think we are on a culinary tour, as we are definitely eating our way through Australia.

After dinner, we saw a comedian perform at the Opera House theater. She was what I like to refer to as the Kathy Griffin of Australia. Very brash, but very funny.

Yesterday we visited the Uni of Sydney during the day. One of the advisors and I took a nice walk through the botnaical gardens in late afternoon... and last night we had a nice Laotian dinner with a few of our students.

I've been struggling a bit with jet lag, and finally caught up (I think) last night. Perfect timing as we are about to enter a new time zone in New Zealand! sigh...

I certainly can't complain though. Yes, we are incredibly busy with site visits, tours, presentations, etc... but we are being treated quite well, and the scenery is incredible. I can't wait to bring all this information to students in the U.S. I am going to be quite busy over the next several months, learning more about the programs and recruiting students on campuses across the western U.S., but I am sur eit's going to be full of lots of fun and interesting experiences as well...

Off to see the sun come up over Sydney for the last time! Ciao...