Today is my last day here with my friends on the Sunshine Coast. I'm headed off tomorrow morning for Melbourne and Tasmania. I was hoping to spend my last day at the Hippy Festival/Market soaking up the sun on the beach. However, it appeared to be another rainy day here on the inaccurately named "Sunshine" Coast. It hasn't really hit me yet that I won't be seeing these people again and that my time here is really over. I'm going to miss all the wonderful friends I've made here. It's going to be strange going back home and I am anxious and excited for the events that are going to occur in the next two weeks.
That's right, In two weeks to the day, I will back home in the U.S.A. Yesterday, I had a bit of a panic moment when I called the airlines about something out of place in my itinerary and was informed that I did not have a flight scheduled for December 4th. Luckily, Liz came to the rescue and had better luck navigating through the tricky web of customer service. However it does turn out that I will be arriving on Sunday December 5th, 12 hours later than expected. Those 12 hours will be spent twiddling my thumbs in the Los Angeles airport. So perhaps some of you (I have no idea who reads this blog) will be getting phone calls from a sleep deprived, travel weary, bored Suzanne on Saturday December 4th. But 42 hours after stepping out of my apartment in Australia, I will be back in the Promised Land.
But this past week I've spent studying for my exams, which went as well as exams usually go, I think I should be getting decent marks. Yesterday, I made thanksgiving dinner for some friends, while we had chicken instead of turkey, and cranberries were no where to be found, the meal was complete with stuffing, corn, and homemade pumpkin pies.
The picture is of the wild tomatoes Ida and I harvested the other day. I noticed some wild tomatoes plants the second day I arrived in Australia. I tried one, and hoped it wasn't some strange poisonous Australia look a like. When I survived, I decided to check back on them. In the past month they have really reached their peak and there are tomatoes everywhere!
See you all soon!
Lots of love,
-Suz
