My name's Paige and my house is usually quiet since it's just my mom & I. The two things that disrupts the silence are Cooper & Shiloh, my two 70 pound mutts. We adopted Cooper (first picture) at a Chicago Wolves game. We buy season tickets and every once in a while they have "Adopt A Dog" night, where they have a shelter that brings dogs to the games so they can find great homes. Shiloh (second picture) is not from a shelter, she's from a farm. But she's also not from a puppy mill and we take pride in that.
I signed up for this course because Australia is some where I always thought I'd like to go and this way I get to learn more about it before we go. I hope to learn what life is like any where other than America. Australia and New Zealand interest me because more than other countries because I don't have to learn a new language to go there. But the real reason they interest me is it isn't often that I hear bad things about these places (besides the recent floods) & I want to see what it is like. I think learning about where you are going before going there can improve the trip because then you can focus more on the things around you during the trip. When you learn about things before you go places there are less things you have to wonder about while there and you can focus on wondering new things :)
