last night

so, tonight is my final night in the wonderful city of sydney.
what a bittersweet feeling.
it is extremely hard to explain how i'm really feeling but, it has put me in a trance all day. i feel like this is the end of it all but then i think of home & i get so excited to see everyone back at home.
this has been an unbelievably amazing adventure and i'm so blessed & thankful.
i don't suppose you would be able to understand the feelings i'm feeling unless you have just spent 5months in Australia after wanting to live there for abt 13 years. i don't suppose you would understand unless you were in Australia with 60 of the most amazing, crazy, honest, annoying, fabulously funny, geniune, goofy, ridiculous people ever from all over the US. i don't suppose you would understand unless you spent 5months in Australia during the first half of the year 2009 experiencing the world through young, eager eyes.
i skydived.
i scuba dived.
i hiked over 30 kilometers in rainforests, cannons, mountains..
i learned to surf.
i slept in a swag under the stars in 2 degree weather.
i drove on the "wrong" side of the road.
i turned 21.
i saw an AFL game.
i saw a rugby union game.
i saw a dugong.
i spent an endless amount of hours talking to my roommates.
i spent an endless amoung of hours talking with my AIFSers.
i visited 4 out of the 7 states in oz.
i will be back.

over and out from the wonderful land of oz.
xoxo
dustialynn.