Brandi's Trip
Australia


Two years ago we received a letter in the mail from The People to People Student Ambassador Program. Brandi had been chosen to come to a meeting about this program. We all thought it sounded cool. Let's go! Wow there were 100's of kids there (all together in central Ohio thousands) and this was just the first meeting of the day. Well after all the interviews and so on she was accepted to be a Student Ambassador !!

   Now for the money: Brandi wrote letters, sold candy, etc. and raised over $1500.00 Wow !! The rest came from family and friends. Oh boy she's really going, ahhh, passports, paperwork, exchange money, clothes etc, etc. Finally 1-1/2 years later the big day has arrived ! Brandi decided to share a few pictures with everyone. So I made this for her. Hope you enjoy !

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Hi everyone, hope you like these few pictures I'm going to show you ! When it was getting close to the time to fly out for three weeks. I spent the night with my best friend Natasha, and when I came home. LOOK what my parents did !
What a surprise ! It was so nice to thank everyone who had helped me this way ! Pack, nerves, and finally onto the airport. This is Cindy and I with tickets in hand That's her silly brother doing the wabbit ears, haha. Here we go. After what seemed like an eternity on the plane, and then we saw a volcano erupting and we had to circle for everaround the Bay of Islands. Then we landed on Fiji for a while then took off to circle again. This is Mt.Cook in South New Zealand. Then we landed in South New Zealand and waited till it was clear to take off and land in Auckland. One week in New Zealand we did everything possible. This is some of the country side of New Zealand. This is the gang after a few days on the bus Here is a cool rainbow we saw. In northern New Zealand there are lots of rain forests they are so beautiful. We had a lot of fun on the 90 mile Beach in New Zealand ! I even got to drive the bus !!! The driver picked ten of us to try it. What could we hit on 90 miles of beach. We spent one night with the Maori Tribe (native people of New Zealand). Also another night with another family and they had a cool horse. Then onto Australia. Sydney is the most beautiful city I have seen. This is a typical morning . It's 5am get up !! The Sydney Opera House from a distance. We got to tour the Opera House. WOW, I can't believe I was there !!! We did so much and I have so many pictures I could only pick a few :< Oh my, buses, drive, buses....yuck. We had fun anyway, this is Pete (our delegation leader, cool dude) controlling the noise at night on the bus. Can you see the Koala ? I miss it so much and I still can't believe I was there.....Here is a beautiful Australian sunset. I will remember for always. We got to do so much and see so much I can't even begin to tell all that we did and experience. But I'm so happy to share at least this much.

This is the whole group. We had so much fun !!

The End

Day-By-Day Itinerary
Day 1 -- Los Angeles to Auckland, New Zealand
Day 2 -- Travel Day
Day 3 -- Arrive Auckland
Day 4 -- Auckland to home stay
Day 5 -- Home stay to North Island activities
Day 6 -- North Island activities
Day 7 -- North Island activities
Day 8 -- North Island activities
Day 9 -- Return to Auckland
Day 10 -- Auckland to Sydney, New South Wales
Day 11 -- Sydney
Day 12 -- Sydney
Day 13 -- Sydney to Brisbane
Day 14 -- Brisbane to Moreton Island
Day 15 -- Moreton Island
Day 16 -- Moreton Island
Day 17 -- Transfer to Bundaberg
Day 18 -- Bundaberg
Day 19 -- Bundaberg to Brisbane
Day 20 -- Brisbane to Los Angeles to Home

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