Ms. Terry's Blog

I am twenty days out from flying to Philadelphia for staging. I'm incredibly excited, and I'm working to get through my to-do list before the day arrives. In addition, I've been doing some reading on Rwanda. Right now, I'm reading Remaking Rwanda and Rwanda, Inc. Both focus on Rwanda after the genocide, and how the devastated country became the nation on-the-brink of something important it is today. The two books have different viewpoints about the country's post-genocide development, and it will be interesting see the country up close.

Old Melbourne Gaol Camel Ride in Alice Springs Exploring the West MacDonnell Ranges Uluru Luna Park in Melbourne Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef with a new friend! Billabong Sanctuary Banjo the Koala at Billabong Sanctuary Cruising Whitsunday Island National Park BridgeClimb in Sydney Sydney Harbour Surf's Up! Aboriginal Art Show on the Sydney Opera House Lord of the Rings Tour in Queenstown Milford Sound Maori Performance before our Hangi Feast Hobbiton Waiheke Island SkyJump in Auckland

For my third EF trip, I chose the Australia and New Zealand Adventure in July 2017. Like with my Europe trip, I chose to travel on my own before I met up with the group in Melbourne, AU. Now, like my other trips, this one was incredible, but I do have a few notes before I get into the awesomeness, and they mainly concern the itinerary.  On my past EF trips, I felt the schedule really did make the most of the time and hit the places it needed to hit. For this trip however, I felt we spent too much time doing beach like activities on the coast of Australia when we could have been exploring the Outback or spending more time in New Zealand. That's why I went early, to go to the Outback region and see Uluru. And that being said, EF was very helpful when organizing my earlier flights. In addition, some of beach time was taken up with activities that were listed as optional excursions (a cruise of Whitsunday Island and a rainforest tour), but if you didn't do them you were basically...