My Life is a Cliche

"No, that was wonderful. I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype."
-Allison

It's a quote from one of my favorite movies. Woody Allen's Annie Hall.

My friend showed me this article titled "5 Most Cliche Study Abroad Pictures (Australia Version)". I read it, and I agreed. I had four out of the five mentioned pictures on my computer already, and I only needed one more to make my collection complete: a picture at Brighton beach.

So today was a very important day. Today, 20/05/2012 or 05/20/2012, is the day I have made my life here into a complete and total cliche. That's right, I went to Brighton Beach and I proudly took that picture in front of the adorable, and might I add colorful, beach huts :)

Cliche #1: Picture in front of a (Geelong) Beach

Cliche #2: Picture in front of the beach huts @ Brighton Beach

Cliche #3: Feeding Kangaroos

Cliche #4: Picture in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. (Thought it would be the Opera House)

Cliche #5: Picture holding a Koala.

I met up with some of my friends who I've been traveling with and we made a short trip down to the beach on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. I often feel isolated out here in the burbs because everyone else lives in the city, and so it was so fun to meet up with these girls again :) (Sara and Iana, we missed you guys!)

Anyways. Yes, we are the traveling cliche Australian tourists! And yes, I have just reduced myself to a (cultural?) stereotype.

But I am ok with that because frankly put, people study abroad/visit other countries to do the cliche things.  We try things that other people come back and talk about, and look for the famous landmarks we know. People don't fly halfway around the world to "stick it to the man", "fight against the system", "hang out in dark alleyways that nobody knows about", yaddayaddayadda.

So here's to being cliche.

I am so very content with being your run-of-the-mill Australian study abroad student :)