Shayla vs. The World

So I found some photos from earlier in the year that apparently didn't make the blog. I'm not entirely sure why. Thought I'd share them now (mainly for my own purposes). Andy and Tanya... from a random night out. Shahin got in the picture this time... Meeting other Exchange students for double happy hour... Stefan, Kim and Martin Prab at a the start of O-Week My first night at the Sheaf. Marty, random girl, Todd, Joe and Lucy. Lucy again :)

I just started tearing up while reading my sister's blog post when I realized I go home in a week. 1 week!!!!! I don't think I've ever been so excited for anything in my entire life. But first, it's been a while since I've posted what I've been up to lately. That partly because I haven't really been up to much. Things got pretty hectic as uni finished up. It's now time for exams but I have finished everything and patiently await for all of my friends to do the same. I haven't been up to much lately, just hanging out. First we celebrated the birthdays of Pranoy, Vikas, and Ollie. I was supposed to work in the evening but was told it was dead at the restaurant so I didn't need to come in, so I got to enjoy happy hour with everyone. Abby made an insanely delicious cake. And then we all headed to Soho. Cassie, Alexa and Lana Her name is Alexa, we find it amusing I have a niece with the same name. The night was pretty hectic so I didn...

In 13 days I will be boarding a plane and traveling a total of over 9000 miles to eventually arrive home to good ol' DeWitt, Iowa. This trip has turned out to be quite different than originally planned though, because only 21 days after that I will be boarding another plane and making the same trip backwards. In the blink of an eye my entire life changed, and I could not be more excited about what the next few years have in store for me. From the very first day I arrived in Sydney I knew I wanted to stay. About two months ago my parents and I started seriously discussing the idea. A possibility. The amount of happiness this gave me is indescribable. Even if I ended up going home, I knew I had at least tried and therefore if it didn't workout I knew home is where I'm meant to be. It still would have been very hard to leave. About a week before I announced I was staying at UNSW I was almost 100% convinced I was going home. I was waiting to hear from admissions if enough cre...

Sydney has an annual lights and music festival. It goes on for about 2 weeks and I finally managed to make it into the city to check it out tonight on the last day. I took heaps of pictures. I apologize for how long this post is, I'll try to keep words to a minimum. First we started off in Darling Harbour to see the light show which is done to music... Waiting in Darling Harbour for the light show to start Light show starting  Once the light show was over we walked to Circular Quay to check out all of the attractions there... The lights followed where you walked It changed color where you touched it. There's SeeSaws!!!! I'm on the left and that's Sesh on the right. They had a light show projected on the Opera House as well and the Harbour bridge was lit up but it was getting really foggy and we couldn't see either of the...