As you may have noticed, my adventures have slowed down a bit. Not to mean that I'm enjoying my time any less, but I've been focusing on what I'm meant to be doing here: studying. Last week was a quiet week in Melbourne, which was very nice. I even made it out on a bike ride (one of my friends let me borrow his bike). But this week I ended up going to the town of Bendigo. Two hours north of Melbourne by train, it's home for many of my friends at St. Mary's.
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| Sacred Heart Cathedral, iconic to the one and only Bendigo |
I went with my friend Em and met up with my friends Seamus, Anne and Xavier. I went to a friend of a friend's going away party (going on her gap year, I'll explain in a second) and got a grand tour of Bendigo. Much like Ballarat, Bendigo is a gold rush town with much of its wealth coming from the mines. A couple years ago, Bendigo reached international news because forest fires burned a chunk of the town due to intense drought that Australia had been experiencing.
Gap years are something that we don't have in America. At least not the way that Australians have them. Many students decide to take a gap year to travel, work and generally relax before diving back into higher education. It also seems to be a British phenomenon as well.
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| Wrong kind of gap |
It was good to see yet another part of Victoria. As Easter Break approaches, so does my trip along the eastern seaboard! That's right, by Thursday I will be in Sydney, onto Cairns and Frasier Island near Brisbane. I'm getting pumped. More on that for sure.
Cheers,
Paul
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