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April Deibert
A Military Coup, a Cyclone, Conservation Work and a Wonderful Job
Adelaide, Australia, July 16 -- "Why can't you?" A simple question from an Australian friend helped me decide that it was at last my turn to move overseas. I had made many close friends over the years while living in International House and working as an adventure counselor at a ranch in Northern California. Adelaide, in South Australia, seemed like the perfect place to land - not only did I have friends there but it was 180 degrees different from my hometown of San Diego.
Little did I know that studying abroad would take me on the adventure of a lifetime - experiencing everything from wine tasting in the Barossa vineyards, Australia's best-known wine region, to doing conservation work in the Outback, to being flooded in by a cyclone near the Great Barrier Reef, to witnessing a military coup in Fiji.
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In the past six months, April Deibert got caught up in a flood during a cyclone on Australia's east coast, was offered a job as a ranch hand in northern Queensland, took part in a conservation project for the South Australian government in the Outback and interacted daily with local Aboriginals. She works for Senator Natasha Stott Despoja in Adelaide. Deibert also studies international relations as an exchange student at the University of South Australia. She has been in the country since January. When she is not hard at work, she practices the motor sport of drifting. She also helped herd sheep by motorcycle once. |
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