Archiv der Kategorie 'Sydney'

Travelling time begins - see you in January

Tuesday, den 20. November 2007

Hey people,
just to let you know: I am going to be on the road from today on for the next weeks: Starting with Perth and Darwin, I’ll be back in Sydney on the 27th but leave the same day with Steffi and Faris and our campervan to our road-trip to Adelaide - I’ll be […]

Australia - where even the cleaning personnel says farewell

Friday, den 16. November 2007

Just a quick thing from everyday life:
We were just sitting in the kitchen having lunch and a chat as it knocked on our door and the supervisor of the maintainence and cleaning staff came in with the cleaning people of our flat - one of them is going back to Indonesia and wanted to […]

Report of a final exam

Tuesday, den 13. November 2007

I had my first final exam here at Sydney’s Wentworth Park - a greyhound racing facility but they have a huge floor which fits some hundret students. It kind of reminded me of my one exam at the Stadthalle in Vienna. BUT there were some differences too ;)

Celebrating every day :)

Tuesday, den 13. November 2007

Yesterday Steffi and I cooked Schnitzel for Steffi’s flatmates - they really liked it (of course I’d say! :D)… but we bought so many schnitzels, that we had some left overs. So I cooked them again for some of my flatmates today, Faris made a nice salad (powered by lettuce from Kat) and Caroline was […]

Swimming at Australian beaches - not a good idea?

Sunday, den 11. November 2007

See, thid is kind of a tough question. You always hear things about salties and freshies (saltwater and freshwater crocodiles), sharks and jellyfish when it comes to swimming. Of course, there are dozens of other very dangerous things out there, for example in the rain forest where you have plants where one little sting […]

Uni is over, exams are coming up and official farewell from UTS

Saturday, den 10. November 2007

On Thursday I had my last class and while I was heading back home, literally exiting UTS (through their automatically opening doors!! we have to intorduce that at WU too!!) it came to my mind: This was my UTS experience - no more uni, no more classes no more UTS. The official farewall party […]

Hunter Valley and only two weeks left in Sydney :-(

Tuesday, den 6. November 2007

Hey everyone!
I survived the Hunter Valley tour - actually it was a lot of fun despite drinking shots at 10am :D
If you want to find out more, please take a look at the image gallery!
This week is actually a sad one - I am having my last lectures and tutorials, actually I already said […]

Chinese Garden of Friendship & Cronulla

Saturday, den 3. November 2007

I totally forgot to upload the photos of Cronulla and the Chinese Garden of Friendship. Sorry for the delay - the photos are now online!