Grounded; Down to Earth

Trip Start Feb 17, 2010

Trip End Jun 26, 2010

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Flag of Australia Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Friday, February 19, 2010

The flight to Bathurst was really cool. There was only about 10 people on the plane. They flew very low so I was able to look out the window the whole time and look at the landscape. The plane ride was only 20 minutes, but seemed more like 10.

A guy named Michael from CSU greeted me at the airport. He had already picked up two other exchange students from China. They were waiting in the van.

Once I got my baggage and got everything put in the van, we headed to the supermarket to get some food to last us the weekend. When Michael drove into the parkcade, the roof of the university's van hit one of those clearance bars that hang from the ceiling. I was laughing--he wasn't. I don't know what the Chinese kids thought, they didn't really say anything

Mount Panarama

. It was funny though.

Finding food in the grocery store wasn't too hard. The biggest difference was mostly that the brands weren't the same as Canada, so I really had to look for anything I wanted to find. For the most part stuff was a little more expensive than Canada.

The Chinese students had a hard time finding anything because they not only had different brands, but they barley knew English, and most of the English equivalent for the names of food in China was different than what they call it here.

I got to my residence at about 8:00pm. I was the only one here at the time, but I could tell one other person had moved in already. He came back later on that night.

Tomorrow: explore.

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