Fiji or New Zealand?

Either we are finally getting settled and adjusted to the University of Sydney life or we are just taking a couple days off from extensive activities. I think it might be both actually. The last couple of days have been spent either planning/researching for Spring Break or spent in the classroom. We had our Outdoor Education class first thing in the morning and the oldest lecture hall at the University of Sydney was packed! There was only supposed to be 90 students enrolled in the unit but there was a mishap in the administration and somehow 115 students were able to enrol. Riley thinks it’s just another way for the school to get more money since every student has to pay an extra $100 for all the excursions that we go on throughout the class. But, instead of turning people away they decided to just create another class lecture and tutorial for the unit. This new class would be on Tuesday night from 5-7 with only about 30 people instead of the 90 people that we are currently dealing with. That would also mean that we would have all of Tuesday and explore to do whatever we wanted. So we volunteered to change our class time to free up our spots for someone else! We both like the idea of a smaller class size since it meant we could form better friendships with the people in the class. Our first field trip for that class will be on Saturday when we go to the Royal National Park, which is actually the first park to ever become a National Park! After class we went to enjoy our packed lunch on the lawns since it was a nice, sunny day. We had plans to devote the remainder of the day to figuring out what we wanted to do for Spring Break. We had briefly talked about what we wanted to do: I wanted to go to New Zealand since it would still be warm weather there, Riley had his hopes set on Fiji. We stepped into STA travel mainly looking at New Zealand but it didn’t take us long to realize that was probably one of the most expensive options out there since everyone wanted to go there. We then started looking through a pamphlet that showed all the Fiji group trips. The prices were a lot more reasonable and seemed to be more flexible with what you could and couldn’t do verses the New Zealand trips. There were days when we could decide to swim with the mana rays or go a tribe visit. The lady quoted us a total price of $1645 including air fare (which was $560). We then went to the computer lab knowing that we could find a better price on the airfare. Riley with his great skills of internet surfing was able to find tickets for $365 which was a lot more in our price range. With that being such a high amount of money we decided to think about it for the reminder of the night and come back tomorrow to decide. We made our way back to heat up leftovers from the night before and then made plans to return to Kings Cross to hopefully pick up a bike light, zip ties for our basket, and bolt for the scooter. The trip was a lot shorter on a shooter and bike. However, when we got to the hardware store at 5:59 the guy was shutting his door so we weren’t able to get the bolt for the scooter. That unfortunately means another trip back to Kings Cross at some point. We made it back to this cheap souvenir shop to pick up the zip ties and light though! We made it back in enough time that we were able to hit up the library again and complete some of our reflections about the Nippers Competition that we weren’t able to see as well as the Rugby Union game that we were able to see! A 400 word reflection with two quotes from outside resources is actually a lot harder than you thought. But we’re not complaining, still not as bad as our home university assignments.