Registered!

All of my paperwork for Australia is pretty much done now.
I've got my visa.
Its just working out the banking. Loans, power of attorney, opening a bank in Australia, currency exchanges... that kind of stuff.

Also! I'm registered for the four classes I wanted to take!
I'm taking...

Introduction to Indigenous Australia
Forests, Carbon, and Climate (has a two day field trip!)
Australia Wildlife (has a four day field trip!)
Rural and Regional Sustainability

And I have no classes Mondays or Thursdays! So I have three day weekend and a break in the middle of the school week (after a very busy day on Wednesday with classes from 10 to 6 with no break! Yikes!)

Australia

Australia is coming more of a reality everyday!
I now have my plane tickets, an acceptance to University of the Sunshine Coast, and an apartment in Australia!

Still a lot to do!

-Suz

Happy Earth Day!

"Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. by virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one." - Aldo Leopold

Happy Earth Day!

Planting Trees!

It's Earth Day Time!

We are planting 30+ fruit trees in our fields. Plums, Applies, Cherries, Pears, and Peaches.
I pulled on my boots, gripped the shovel, and breathed life into their quivering limbs.

Saturday I'm planting Chestnut trees with the conservancy. I can barely contain my excitement.

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther King Jr."

-Suz

P.S. I whistled today! I shall master it! I shall!

I'm an Aunt!

I now have six nieces and nephews.
To be exact
2 nephews.
4 Nieces.

Happy Birthday!
Charles Darwin & Abraham Lincoln!

Also... tons of snow, but more on that to come later.

Passport

I got my passport today!
AUSTRALIA!
Here I come!