In Virginia (Georgie)

Well hello there. I’m gald you could join me. Pull up a chair, stick your feet up and relax while I bore you with my travel stories from the lovely U.SofA .

At the moment I am in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, in a library. It is a little, old, historic town. Kind of like a better Soverign Hill. But I was still surprised when a man dressed in colonial clothes just wandered past me.

So far (my whole half a day) I have found everyone to be so much lovlier than the cities I’ve been to – NY, DC and Boston. Someone said it was a Southern thing, or perhaps it is a small town thing. But either way, it’s a lovely change of pace.

My uni trip officially ended yesterday. We had a final free day in DC, when I finally got a sleep in. Normally it would make me feel guilty to be wasting my time sleeping, but I have an extra three days there so I am not too stressed. I did however go to the world’s most visited museum, the National Air and Space Museum. While it was not bad, it was not fantastic. I did get to see Amelia Earhart’s plane, as well as the Lindhberg plane and there was a great Wright Brothers exhibition with the first plane ever flown. There was also some good space stuff. But really, not the best museum I have ever been to.

I went up to Capitol Hill after and then did the Presidential walk to the White House – very cool. And in the evening we had a farewell dinner with all 58 students and Glenn and Cassie. It was lovely. And good to not eat street vendor food for one night.

In one way it’s good to be just travelling with one other person. There’s not as much logistics to think about and sometimes 60 people can be really full on. But I think I will soon miss everyone from the trip. Even though I’m sure I will see them around uni it’s just not the same as sharing a room with or eating with or taking photos with for three weeks. Very sad.

I am trying to work out my subjects and timetable for next semester which is really just giving me a headache. I’m doing an internship, which is worth 25 points, which I am still yet to organise. And Searching for the American Dream was worth 25 points. So technically I could do no subjects on campus next semester.

But seeing as I have another semester at the start of next year, due to my Global Issues Program, I am thinking I will do at least one more at uni. Probably the history subject Remaking Australia. Has anyone heard about it before? Or any suggestions on interships? I was thinking about the Victorian Multicultural Affairs commission or maybe the Darfur Action Network.

Anyway, I am off to soak up some history. I hope you are relaxing or working or holidaying or doing whatever you want to do with a month of uni.

Good bye for now.

 

Georgie