I will say that I was impressed by our students ability to keep a positive attitude and outlook despite many of them having travelled for 30+ hours. We only had two minor inconveniences. Luckily one of them happened to me. I had trouble flying out of Greensboro and as a result had to do some standby flying to make it to LA in time to make our flight to Auckland and Sydney. I somehow made it, but my bag did not. I hope to be reunited with it tomorrow, but we will see. The other inconvenience happened when a student misplaced the paper ticket for their flight from Auckland to Sydney. After some work the student was able to pay to replace the ticket, so all is good.
After arriving to our hotel, Mallory and I had a short meeting with the students to go over some details pertaining to the course and then we gave them the rest of the day as a free day to explore Sydney all that it has. Some of the students explored the City Centre, some explored the harbours and Opera House, while others went to the beach.
Mallory and I chose to explore the Rocks area around Sydney Harbour and the Opera House. Plus we went to the the Botanical Gardens. Tomorrow is our first group activity, stay posted for our journeys.
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Welcome to the 2008 Elon University Australia Ecotourism blog. Hello this Dr. Eric Hall writing. Mallory Anderson and I will be leading this course of 30 students to Australia. Our journey will take us to the east coast of Australia for 3 weeks. Feel free to stop by and see what we are doing and post any messages you want others to see. Hope you enjoy.
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