Last Day

Today is my last whole day in Adelaide. Very fittingly, it has been raining on and off for the whole day. Between downpours I’ve managed to do the few errands related to closing up shop here. I originally had hoped to also go to the beach one last time, but the rain prevented that. I did take the time at one point to walk along the Torrens River for one last time.

Leaving something that I have grown familiar with (in this case not necessarily something I have loved, but become accustomed to) is usually an odd sort of feeling. Now more than ever, I am emotionally torn. More than once I had to take a break from packing when the feeling sunk in a little. It is very odd because I am both excited to go home and see my friends and family, but at the same time there is a reluctance to leave. It’s like I feel that I haven’t completed what I came to accomplish. I had hoped to travel more while here, but I think it’s more like I had expected to feel differently by the time my visit was over.

It’s hard to explain, and I don’t know if I actually know what I’m trying to explain. I’ve had fun, and I’ve seen a lot, but I guess I expected to have done more of both. I feel like I’ve missed out on a few things; nothing specific, just something.

I forgot to mention in my last post that I went to the Museum here. On Tuesday, it was too rainy to try going to the beach, so I had the museum as a back up plan. The 2 hours I spent there were pretty good. After about an hour of reading and walking through one floor of aboriginal history and artifacts, I got a bit board and only skimmed the second floor of the aboriginal gallery. They also had a large gallery of Pacific Islands (mostly Papa New Guinea, Solomon, and Fiji islands), a large gallery on minerals (telling the history and science behind the formation of minerals including fossils, ancient inland seas, the formation of crude oil), a small gallery on ancient Egypt. A gallery of the world’s mammals, and a whole floor closed for construction completed the larger-than-it-looks-from-the-outside museum. Pretty fun. It’s been too long since I spent some time looking at those glow in the dark rocks.

Well, I’m off for my last Cooper’s Ale before leaving Oz for good. I wake up at 4:30 tomorrow morning, so I won’t be out too late. See you all soon!

Cheers!