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Monday, March 17th, 2025

Week 9 In Cairns – Jonah Pachman

This week, we wrapped up our spring break adventure in Cairns, Australia. This week was amazing, and provided me with an opportunity to experience the Great Barrier Reef, something I had wanted to see my entire life. Additionally, the city of Cairns was incredible, and I was not expecting the vast number of stores and restaurants it had to offer. Spring Break Starting off on Tuesday, we had the opportunity to visit Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures, where we got to see a variety of different animals. It was super cool to see the professionals feed the Crocodiles and see the Koalas […]

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Monday, March 10th, 2025

Week 8 Abroad: Last Week in Sydney

This week, we wrapped up our final week in Sydney. Since arriving here, we have all experienced so many new and amazing things that I would never have thought possible at such an early point in my life. First of all, I would like to reflect on some of my favorite memories from the past eight weeks. The first is the wildlife park, which happened the first week we were there. Being up so close to the Kangaroos was incredible. Second, generally speaking experiencing all the beaches in Sydney was amazing. It it truly a unique concept that a city […]

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Monday, March 3rd, 2025

Week 7: New Zealand Trip

This week was incredible, probably the best week since we arrived in Sydney. On Friday, Matt, John, and I flew to Christchurch, New Zealand for the weekend. After a long week of classes, it was nice to go on a trip and see a new country. I flew Air New Zealand, which was an airline I had not previously flown before, and I was very impressed. However, we got in very late Friday night and went to bed right after we got to our Airbnb.  Christchurch Gondola and Sumner Beach Saturday morning, we started our day by grabbing lunch at […]

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Monday, February 24th, 2025

Week 6 In Sydney – Jonah Pachman

This week, we wrapped up our second week of classes for the second block of the program. During Australian Life and Culture, I learned an immense amount about the history of the relationship between the United States and Australia, and the common perception of the Australian man. It was incredibly interesting to learn about how the world views Australia, and the common stereotypes that are associated with being Australian, most of which I did not know existed.  On Thursday evening after class, I had the opportunity to meet up with one of my close friends from high school who moved […]

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Monday, February 17th, 2025

Week 5 in Sydney – Jonah

This week, we all wrapped up our first week of classes for block two. I really enjoyed both of my classes and am very excited to learn more about contemporary politics and Australian life and culture. However, the most interesting and captivating experiences from this week certainly came from beaches, specifically Milk Beach and Gordon’s Bay. These were some of the most picturesque and incredible beaches I have ever been to, and being there during the later summer months made it even better. Milk Beach To start, I want to talk about Milk Beach. This beach is located towards the […]

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Monday, February 10th, 2025

Week 4 In Australia – Jonah

This week we were able to venture outside Sydney for the first time since arriving almost a month ago. First off, however, I would like to reflect on the first four weeks of class since our first block wrapped up this past week. I learned an immense amount of new material that will help me in my professional career in two classes, the first being Financial Decision Modeling and the second being Business Law. I found Business Law to be very interesting, and contain a lot of important information that I had not previously learned about. This new information will […]

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