I came to a Land Down Under

So today is day 2 for my study attempts in Australia! I am currently in Cairns in north west Australia aka Queensland aka the Sunny State! It's the most beautiful place here. The city is surrounded by the most gorgeous hills.

 The plane ride over was really long. I did get the most amazing picture of a rainbow on the Pacific.

So we're staying at this hostel named Gilligan's.

It's a pretty amazing place. They have a huge pool in the back lagoon style. 

This is the view from my window. 

We had our first meeting in the upstairs bar called the Attic. This place has a lot of sweet stuff just shoved everywhere and it just occurred to me the significance now. 

We had another meeting later that was a learning session to help break us into Australian culture and life here. We got prizes for answering questions or saying something smartassy. I got a kola for explaining constitutional monarchy. 

We did a walk around Cairns the second day, it was really really pretty. 

The water is the public pool called the lagoon. They have to swim there cause there's too many jelly fish in the water. They call them Stingers. 

That's all for now, but more as my time goes on!