Guest Blogger #1!

Nadine has asked me to be a guest blogger, so I'm going to add to what she already has. She's not lying the currency is made of plastic! My sister and I (this is Bouwman by the way) travelled all the way down here to Sydney a couple of days ago for spring break to visit with Nadine and see the sights. We seem to be doing more of the latter (she likes to make it seem like she's a busy person with 'school' and all) haha just kidding. The city is amazing, clean, friendly and fun. The weather is also amazing, I didn't expect it to be so nice and warm down here! Being a visitor to Nadine's place is quite interesting. The building she lives in has a lot of protocol to enter the building. This is the first time I have ever seen an elevator which requires a tag that you have to use and it only lets you go to the floor the tag indicates?! I'm still wondering if you can walk to other floors via the stairs...you'd have to be able to right, so what's the point of the tags? I'm sure she knows the answer, I just haven't asked.

We have seen most of the sights in the city and most of the beaches! It really is an awesome place. Tomorrow we head off to the Blue Mountains on a tour outside the city. I'm looking forward to this a lot, I've heard good things. Nadine should be done with classes by Wednesday so maybe then I'll have more interesting stories to tell. The only embarassing story thus far- going into a department store and the clerk asks me what my dress shirt size is...I tell him 16 neck 34/35...he gives me a weird look and tells me he'll have to measure, measures me and tells me I'm a 40 centimeter neck with an 84 centimeter length sleeve. Haha, I felt like an idiot. Until there's some crazy news, no worries mate (sorry, but I've been wanting to say that)!