My time in adelaide and then back in forster

hey everyone!!

the last two weeks have been really great for me and i enjoyed them heaps!as i already told u i went to adelaide and now i am back in forster since sarurday night.

in my second half of the stay in adelaide i went to the flinders rangers which is a chain of hills that go through a few parts of south australia. i dont know exactly how long the chain of hills is but it was pretty big and it was very nice. there was a hill called magnetic hill where you have to turn off the engine of your car and put it in neutral and then loosen the brakes. at this stage you expect to roll backwards but really you roll forwards so it looks like your rolling up. i didnt think it was going up much but it was definitely flat and the car was rolling too fast for the surface being flat.....so that was interesting.

after we went to alligator gorge where we walked on some paths that took us through the gorge. this was very beautiful since there was also water flowing through the gorge.

also we went to a place on the coast south of port pirie called wallaroo. a very nice little village where we had a cabin in a resort. the weather wasnt too great but mainly windy and also it rained from time to time...first night some friends of the arnolds came over that also live in port pirie and also stayed in wallaroo for a few nights. they brought their son hugo and two english guys about my age that were on holiday in australia with them for 4 months. we had a good barbeque and then had an international monopoly tournament which britain won.

the next day we met the same people again that we had had over for dinner and we played poker. i can proudly say that i dominated and brought the win home for switzerland. also we went fishing in the morning but it was very windy and chilly so that peter who is one of the two arnolds i stayed with took me for a drive to see some small places around. this was good but later in the afternoon i was so tired that i slept for three hours and almost ended up not going to visit the english for a revenge in monopoly. but once again britain struck another important win in this financial crisis....i ended up giving my remaining money to sam who was one of the two british guys so that he could finish off the job and not let australia claim a win over europe.

the next morning it was already time to say goodbye to wallaroo and since dianne had to see a doctor in adelaide i decided to join her and go shopping in one of adelaids biggest shopping centers....was pretty good and i got some things to give the arnolds to take to switzerland when they visit georgia at the end of september..

other than that not much more happened after that because only few days were remaining. and after all that midnight monopoly i was more than happy with a day off. the last evening some friends came over and we played pool and watched the aussies play cricket although they werent doing any good at all....

then on saturday it was time to say goodbye and drive down to adelaide again. i had a good flight to melbourne and then off to newcastle where my host family the dwyers picked me up.

then the next day on sunday a girl from denmark that had just arrived on saturday in australia and that is staying near my place in gloucester which is about 40 minutes away from forster. it was a beauty of a day so the water was very pretty and it was nice and warm. we checked out most of forster and then she went back to gloucester with her hosts.
then i spent some time playing picionnary with gillian, who is the dwyer's daughter, and her three kids asleigh (11) giorgi (9) and cameron (7).

since i have one more week of holidays left i spent monday in tuncurry with ben who is a great mate of mine. we played some golf and went for a drive around forster.....in the evening i went to rotary and i spoke about my experience in adelaide and they presented a nice badge shaped like the border of australia, this will look great on my blazer!
now today i went for a drive with terry and he showed me some places near forster that i hadnt been to. since it was a very nice day the looks were beautiful....

so thats pretty much it and now i still have heaps of program for a while...here's whats comin up:

soon i will go deep sea fishing with noel from my rotary club
going to sydney to visit my host sister
going to the blue mountains with my hosts
going on district tour for 9 days...

and all that in august haha lookin good ay??

cheers