Eastern Victoria : Full of Adventure

Throughout the next few weeks, I will be describing the different places we are going to in Australia and also I will try to put a few pictures up of the region or specific spot I am describing. I know that I certainly love to look at pictures. First and foremost I would like to go a little deeper and try to talk to you a little about Eastern Victoria. This region was assigned as one of my chapter assignments to read and blog about. So lets get started eh?

Eastern Victoria is a region of very different beautiful sites, much of which are attraction sites for many different visitors. As you travel within the Eastern Victoria region visitors that have visited have said that there are many historic 19th- century towns. Along with historic towns there are also many ski resorts and attractions along the Victoria alps. According to my Australia travel book , most of the mountains, ski resorts, and inland farm valleys are better accessed from the northeast state. To see these beautiful sites many visitors take bus tours, trains, or the best way of exploring in my opinion would be by car, but that's just my opinion which could change after being in Australia and exploring new adventures.

Another beautiful attraction in Eastern Victoria is the vineyards. There are beautiful valleys reaching in any different range. The mountains are near making it the perfect scenery for visitors. As I close I wish I could go on and on about the different features of Eastern Victoria but I can't because my blog would be very long! In that case everyone should book their plane tickets for Eastern Victoria in Australia. Although I will be traveling around this area, I am afraid I will not get to see all the beautiful sights. I know one thing for sure, and that is to book another flight to Australia to see more ! Hope everyone learned a little more about a different region of Australia.

See ya next time mates !

*Kara

The Beautiful Geography of Australia

Hello everyone !


As I have progressively gone to class every week. I learn more and more about wonderful Australia ! I can't believe that I will be going there in about 2 months ! I'm getting very excited as you can tell ! First off I would like to fill in everyone a little bit about the geography of Australia. I was assigned this chapter in my class to do a presentation, now I can't wait to fill you all in about what my partner and I presented in class. So here it goes !

Territories and States of Australia

To start things off, Australia has three island territories in the Pacific they are the Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, and Cocos Island. Did you know that Australia is the only nation to occupy an entire continent? I thought that was very interesting. Australia is the sixth largest nation ! Australia is the flattest and ( after Antarctica) driest of all continents. Many people tell me its exactly like Kansas very dry. I think I would have to disagree, but who knows once I get to Australia I might change my mind. Australia is not like the United States where we have 50 states, Australia has only 6 states, and 2 territories. Those six states are New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, and South Australia. The two territories are the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory. You can see where each is located on the map of Australia above.

Beautiful Canberra

Most would think that the capital of Australia is Sydney, but think again, it is Canberra! Canberra is located in the Australian Capital Territory. My partner and I tried to look up why it was only located in that certain territory, but we could not find one straight answer! So if any of you know that would be awesome to figure out, if not I guess I will just save it for when we go to the land down under ! :) Look at the picture to the right, it is a picture of Canberra, Australia's Capital. This looks so beautiful !

Night sky of Sydney

Now that I have filled your brains with the geography of Australia, I hope you will be able to follow where our class is heading to and which states and territories we will be in. Whether it is out in the outback, or the city of Sydney , I know I will be able to follow a lot easier now that I have had the opportunity to learn about the wonderful geographical parts of beautiful Australia.


Have a good afternoon mates !
-Kara

This Is A Start

Hello Everybody !


How exciting this is my first ever blog ! So get excited you all are one of the very first people to read it ! To begin things off I really had no clue what I was getting into when we were required to set up a blog. I thought to myself what on earth is a freaking blog? It all started on February 28th 2012. It was a typical day at Weber Hall at Kansas State University, many students were going to and from classes, where there was one class that was meeting in the computer lab. I think we all know what they were doing? Can ya guess? Oh yea that's right that was me and 19 other students trying to understand how to set up a blog and run it. To start off the set up of the blog many students did not have a gmail account or already did . My issue was I could not remember my password to save my life. Well after about fifteen minutes of going through my mind and books of passwords, I figured it out ! YAY! Go me ! :) Step 2 was setting up a name for everyone to read, the problem is we only found one creative person to help us through this tough thinking process , and that was Mishelle ! Let me mention she has amazing creativity! She gave me the idea to put for my heading "Bleeding Purple In Australia" I like it, but who knows with my mind I could change it if I come up with some crazy idea. Step 3 was saving the part labeled , "About Me" this is where the class started having trouble ! I think by like the second time well third time for me everyone finally got their section saved on their blog. It was about time to leave the computer lab because well the class was done for the day and second of all both Elizabeth and my stomach was growling , that meant food time for us. I hope you all enjoyed listening to my process of setting up a blog, actually it is pretty easy. I hope you all continue to follow me with updates from our class that is going to Australia for our study abroad ! The blogs shall be fun and interesting ! 


So long mates, 
* Kara