Transition

After seven months of working and traveling I begin my college career in Wilmington North Carolina at UNCW.  I spent four months working for my dad's company in PA and two months for my uncles in Australia.  When I was accepted to UNCW spring semester I decided to travel to the other side of the world. I went to stay with my uncle in the Australian rainforest in a small town on the coast three hours of dirt roads north of Cairns.  Upon arrival in Cairns my uncle Jamie, a firefighter picked me up from the airport and drove me to his place in Cairns where we watched the Phillies win game one of the World Series.  I then proceeded to go pig hunting with my cousin Quanna in Kuranda at a friends farm that afternoon.   Kuranda, a suburb of Cairns is about a thirty minute drive over mountains into the rainforest.  Pig hunting involves chasing dogs through the bush and not much of anything else but if you ever have the chance, do it, it's awesome!  After a night in Cairns my uncle and I drove up to Bloomfield where my other uncle Kim has the second largest mangosteen orchord in Australia.  Mangosteens are just one of the dozens of tropical fruit my uncle grows.  The mangosteen season was to start in about ten days which allowed us to go on a seven day fishing trip on the great barrier reef.  After a week of fishing, snorkeling, spearfishing, and having the time of my life it was back to Bloomfield for the mangosteen season.  For the next six weeks I spent most of my time picking "the queen of all fruit" the purple mangosteen.  Eating fresh seafood caught on the reef and fresh fruit picked daily it was difficult to come home.  When I boarded my flight from Sydney to LA I thought about what an incredible time I had in an amazing part of the world.  I can't wait to go back, hopefully accompanied by my cousin Jake who has been to Australia many times, been out on the reef and picked mangosteens.  Jake who is 27 and without a doubt the coolest guy I know he currently lives on the farm that I grew up on located in Pennsylvania about a minute north of the Delaware state line.  Jake has two blogs and is working on a website called the carrot project, check it out it's really sweet!  Over the past several months Jake and I have become great friends even more like brothers and his blogs inspire me to write and blog myself.