Thursday 22 October 2009

host parents
us at the australian outback spectacular

beach............


me at dreamworld
some idea of the fun i had :-)

beach at surfers


view from our apartment



my house again :D




My Place and the view


hey guys

just to prove how in australia things just plan themselves i thought i might mention that the same day tat i wrote that i dont have any plans right now a guy from rotary came to me and offered me a trip to nelsons bay with him....we are leaving friday night until sunday.thats the sort of thing that happens alot over here and you just have to get used to it :)

pictures will follow soon by the way

Monday 19 October 2009

hey everyone

today is the first day of school and thats where i am right now...back to normal its pretty tough getting up at 7.30 haha
my holidays were great and i was home for a bout two days in two weeks which is just about hte best thing that can happen to you...on thursday i went to surfers paradise with my host family which was great...on the way up we stoped at a place called Balina which is about 2.5 hours out of surfers...so we stayed at a motel for the night and next morning we were off to downtown surfers paradise...the coast is very pretty and it was a nice atmosphere....in the afternoon we went to our apartment at a place called main beach...yeah its called main beach its not the main beach.we had a nice apartment with a nice view over the harbour.i will upload some pictures later on....that night we went to a show called the australian outback spectacular which was about an australian army built up by horse riders...it was a pretty important part of australian history and it was very well done with lots of actual horse riding but also a huge wall which was a screen for animations and video clips...as you were watching dinner was served and it was a very nice 3 course meal.

then on saturday we went to dreamworld which was only about 15 minutes away. dreamworld is one of the theme parks at surfers paradise and its sort of like the europapark that we have in germany. it was good fun although the weather got pretty bad at some points of the day. so that day was full of crazy rides and other entertainment like an imax cinema and a show with siberian tigers.
the next day we went to seaworld which is another theme park at surfers. there were obviously lots of sea animals like heaps of fish,dolphns,sharks polar bears and heaps of others...we went to see a dolphin show which was pretty good and there were other activities like feeding sting rays and feeding penguins...
then on monday morning which was a beautiful morning of course we left and drove down to coffs harbour where i went to vini's for the week until saturday. we chilled alot and went to the beach and caught up with some other exchange students that were camping in coffs....also we went camping by a river for a few days.vini's host family had organised that we all could go rafting at a campsite by the nymboida river...or something similar to that...the river didnt have much water though so the tubes got stuck alot and all we did was lie in them and chill :D

anyways now its back to school and tonight is rotary again...i havent got too many plans coming up but there's usually something coming up that you didnt expect so thats ok...

i will upload some pictures today or then latest wednesday...hope yous are all good in freezing switzerland!here its geting warm again :)

Wednesday 7 October 2009

holidays

Hello my Swiss friends!

Well all my exams are now done and I finally got holidays...good feeling!

In these holidays I have a lot planed which is pretty much the best thing that can happen to you. first I am going to surfers paradise where my host family and I will be enjoying some of the parks there like dream world and others…I don’t really know what to expect but I know that the area is beautiful and then I will tell you how the parks were when I am back. I am staying at surfers from Thursday until Monday and then on the Monday we are heading home although they are dropping me off in Coffs harbour, which is where vini is hosted so that I can spend a few days with him. I am pretty sure that we are going camping with his host family so that should be fun

Then towards the end of the week I head home and then school starts again.

My current host family is really nice and the location is just beautiful right on the water in Tuncurry. My host dad takes me golfing a lot and I get along really well with both of them but also with my host brothers that are 28. they are twins and they both live in Forster. I am pretty sure that this is my third last host family because I will be moving to my next one after the year 12 HSC courses are done which is in the middle of November. Then I move to a guy called John Daniel and he’s a locksmith in Forster. He and his family are going to Adelaide over Christmas and they offered me to go with them. But I chose not to because I would rather spend my holidays with all my friends in Forster also because after Christmas I have about two weeks until I leave Australia. right now I still cant really imagine what it will be like to go back home....
So last I will go back to my first host family to the McGarrigle’s.

now i wanted to upload some pictures of my new house and the street etc but the computer doesnt recognise my micro card thingy so i will try later on before i go to surfers....