Hello one and all, or as they say "in the land down under" G'day mate! My name is Zach and this blog will act as a compendium, an online journal, a medium of some sort to document and remember my travels and experiences studying abroad in Australia this spring. I go to university up in Oregon, and will be living, studying, working and playing at Flinder's University down in Adelaide, in Southern Australia for the next roughly four months give or take. I'm an Environmental Science with an Emphasis in Sustainable Design major, hoping to get into eco-architecture, LEED certification, natural building, etc as a career. I'm a third generation artist in my family, my great grandfather on my mother's side was an architect in Chicago, my grandmother on my mother's side was a sculptor, and my mother is an interior designer working at the Design Center in San Francisco, so it only seemed natural to go into this major. It also ties perfectly into my studies in Australia, the only continent that is also a country, one that to quote Bill Bryson in his book In a Sunburned Country: "exists in an abundance that seems incompatible with the harshness of the environment. Australia is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated , infertile, and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents." (7) So naturally Aussie's have to be forward-thinking, sustainable, eco-friendly and ingenious when it comes to surviving and living in such a harsh environment, which I hope will reflect in some of the buildings/ architecture there, be it in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, the capitol Canberra, Cairns, Perth, etc. All I can say is that it is going to be quite an adventure, and all I can do is keep an open but sharp mind, take risks, and try to experience as much as I can. I don't leave until mid February, so until then this will be the only post on here. But once I get there I will try to (as regularly as I can) post and keep it updated.
Till then,
Zach
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