I'm testing some features, so a few of the entries over the next days might be a little odd. This was a photo from the 2004 trip.
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Friday, April 22, 2005
April 22
Elmira
Sunny am, cloudy pm. rain expected.
2489 steps
Welcome to my 2005 weblog of the Australia trip. I'm putting up this short entry so that those of you who received an email message about this know you're in the right place.
This journal is an account of my trip to Australia in May of 2005. Along with two other faculty members, I am taking 36 college students on a month-long tour of Eastern Australia and the Red Centre. Our itinerary begins in Sydney, and includes Canberra in the south, Brisbane and Cairns in the north, and Alice Springs and Uluru(Ayres Rock) in the center.
This is my fourth time going, and I always look forward to this trip. You can read my other journals at my web site or at Diaryland. Before I got involved with this, I had done relatively little traveling, and almost none outside the USA. While I certainly do not think of myself as well-traveled, I see the need for more Americans to get out and hear first-hand what non-Americans think about. In this way, I like to think that this course does serve a larger purpose.
My main purpose for this post is to lay out a few ground rules about this log:
Elmira
Sunny am, cloudy pm. rain expected.
2489 steps
Welcome to my 2005 weblog of the Australia trip. I'm putting up this short entry so that those of you who received an email message about this know you're in the right place.
This journal is an account of my trip to Australia in May of 2005. Along with two other faculty members, I am taking 36 college students on a month-long tour of Eastern Australia and the Red Centre. Our itinerary begins in Sydney, and includes Canberra in the south, Brisbane and Cairns in the north, and Alice Springs and Uluru(Ayres Rock) in the center.
This is my fourth time going, and I always look forward to this trip. You can read my other journals at my web site or at Diaryland. Before I got involved with this, I had done relatively little traveling, and almost none outside the USA. While I certainly do not think of myself as well-traveled, I see the need for more Americans to get out and hear first-hand what non-Americans think about. In this way, I like to think that this course does serve a larger purpose.
My main purpose for this post is to lay out a few ground rules about this log:
- When I am writing journal entries in Australia, I am usually at an internet cafe, where I am paying for my time on the computer. I am therefore writing in a hurry, and will not catch all my misspellings, grammatical errors, typos, and the like. Please feel free to find them amusing.
- I do not discuss issues that involve individual students or faculty in this journal. You'll find that I hardly ever use names in the journal: my wife Coleen is "my lovely wife"; Larry is "my senior colleague," while Dale is "my junior colleague." Parents, if you need to discuss something about your child with me, you should email me at chjacobson@elmira.edu.
- For the time being, I will enable comments on this log. But I keep my journal as clean as I can, and I expect readers to do the same when they comment.
- The level of this journal is probably best described as "PG," as I will no doubt have occasion to discuss grown-up topics. So parents of younger children, you are warned.
- The opinions in this journal are my own. They do not reflect the policies of Elmira College, my home institution.
- This is a journal of my thoughts. Sometimes, I will only indirectly be discussing Australia. Those of you who have read my journals from other years know that I wander sometimes. Again, you are free to be amused by that.
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