30 hrs. From the moment I said goodbye to a bunch of awesome people (you know who you are) at Perth Domestic to the moment I got into my temporary housing room. No GI-Joe on the plane, but putting the Watchmen on repeat wasn't bad at all. I slept on a bench in the lounge at Melbourne waiting for the LA flight. Met a few cool people, some going for holidays, another girl going on exchange on a soccer scholarship and a guitarist who named his daughter Layla.
First thing I see in LAX is a Burger King... and fat people. Nah I'm kidding it's not that bad. When I got to SF I went straight on the bus to Berkeley. Got into my double room and just crashed at about 1pm Cal time. Woke up next morning at 9 am :).
The room I was was for girls only, and they are huge compared to what I have now. Check out the pictures. Clean too, except living there was annoying 'cause you needed a key to get into everything - the bathroom, showers, kitchen, rec room, lounge etc. So far only a few early arrivals for the Fall Semester were living there so it was pretty quiet.
Oh you can also check out the pictures of campus that I took the next day. Or you could just google UC Berkeley. To give you an idea, the campus is about a 15-20 minute brisk walk from top (East) to bottom lengthwise. It's around twice as big as UWA in area. All the residence halls and co-ops surround the campus and the rest of Berkeley town flows out in all directions except East. Downtown Berkeley is the next street parallel to the Western Side. The whole thing sits on a hill, so you get pretty damn sweat walking back from class up to the top if you're residence hall is up there, which my temporary and permanent places are. I'd tell you more, but actually just google map it if you're interested.
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