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Monday, March 17th, 2025

Graney- Week 9 in Australia

Well this is not the country I expected to be writing this blog in. I’ll touch on it once I get to that part of the week, but I am unexpectedly still find myself in Sydney at this time, awaiting the chance to head to Auckland. While this has not been the most enjoyable process, the first few days of last week made for an amazing end to my major Australian adventures. Monday was spent traveling around the Atherton Tablelands, hiking around the rainforests instead of out in the middle of the ocean. We first stopped at a trail where […]

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Monday, March 10th, 2025

Graney- Week 8 in Australia

And just like that, it is time to say goodbye to Sydney. I truly cannot understand where the last 8 weeks went but I’m very excited for what is ahead. At this point, I’ve received most of my grades back and am very happy with what I have gotten back so far. Other than wrapping up my classes, I did not get up to very much during the course of the week, knowing the following week would be full of adventure. On Saturday, we checked out of the hotel and spent most of the day traveling to Cairns. Once we […]

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Monday, March 3rd, 2025

Graney- Week 7 in Australia

And just like that, I’m in the last week of my time in Sydney. When I reflect on the past few weeks, I feel that this time as a whole has passed much quicker than it did last summer when I was in Dublin and I can’t believe how little time I have left here. As a result, I decided to make the most of my final weekend, checking off some of my final Australia bucket list items. After a relatively normal week (for Sydney standards by including a few afternoon trips to the beach), I entered the weekend very […]

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Monday, February 24th, 2025

Graney- Week 6 in Australia

My 6th week in Australia emphasized the study element of a study abroad program. This week, I began a group project about the Japanese Yen, aced my international marketing quiz, and began to prepare for my international finance midterm.  The most significant story from the week came from Wednesday night when the clouds helped to make a very nice sunset. After looking at it in the apartment for a few minutes, Tomy invited me to go on a walk to try and catch a better look at the evening sky. This walk quickly became a run and while we covered […]

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Monday, February 17th, 2025

Graney- Week 5 in Australia

Week 5 brought me my second set of classes, a few funny failures, and a great experience touring the Sydney Opera House During this block, I am taking international finance and international marketing. So far, I have been enjoying both classes but can already tell that they will be closer to the rigorous courses I have back on campus than the lighter workload of the first four weeks. In international finance, I definitely feel somewhat out of my element being one of two non-finance or accounting majors in the class. Thankfully, since most of my apartment is in the class, […]

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Monday, February 10th, 2025

Graney- Week 4 in Australia

Wow, I can’t believe I’m already halfway through my time in Sydney. To realize that I embarked on this journey only a month ago is almost incomprehensible and is making me look through what bucket list items are still left to complete. During the proper week, I spent much of my time wrapping up assignments for my classes. In my global management course, my group and I presented how Lego adapted its brand strategies to appeal to the Chinese market. I really enjoyed doing the research for this presentation due to how it combined my two majors alongside a product […]

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