Posted by alexandra_k on January 18, 2005, at 21:12:50
In reply to Re: as an exchange student?, posted by rainbowbrite on January 18, 2005, at 20:38:38
NZ is maybe about 3- 4 1/2 hours to Australia (depending on where you are going in particular). I guess it is a fairly easy trip. Cheaper to get from NZ to Australia than it is to fly from the North to South Island within NZ most of the time.
I guess where you want to go in Australia depends on what you are looking for. Sydney is big. What it is like to live there probably depends a lot on where you are living. I know Macquarie is supposed to be in a fairly industrial area so you might want to live a little away from the uni or be prepared to travel. Melborne is typically known for a more historic flavour, fashion, trams and so forth. Brisbane is by the gold coast (awesome beaches - though increasingly tourist oriented). They get hail up there. Bad hail that will smash your windscreen :-) Adelade is supposed to be nice. Then there are smaller places if you aren't so keen on cities. There are great wine trails in some regions and so on.
When I went I went to Canberra. Bout 3 hours drive to Sydney and about 4 hours drive to Melborne. Sort of the best of both worlds - but there isn't an awful lot in between (national art gallery, museum, parliament house, awesome university - but that really is about it) :-)
In NZ we don't have terribly many universities. You can pick from
Auckland
Wellington (Victoria)
Hamilton (Waikato)
Palmerston North (Massey)
Christchurch (Canterbury)
and the student town!!!
Dunedin (Otago)Maybe contact your exchange student office and find out which institutions your university offers exchanges too. You might end up with a list of only 4 or 5 or something like that. Then you can check out the cities and so on.
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