Friday, 13 November 2009
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Nelsons Bay etc
Hey everyone
sorry for the wait :)
Nelsons bay was really good and i had a very good time with Steve and Sue who took me down. they're kids also came which was great and we all had a good time going to the beach and going to some great lookout spots. there's also some dunes that start at nelsons bay and then go 40 kilometers south to newcastle which is pretty anazing. it looked more like a dessert to me...
Then last weekend i went to Seal Rocks with my host parents which is a nice spot just 45 minutes south of forster where we have a picnic and went for a walk to the lighthouse.
the last few days the weather has been great and i have enjoyed swimming in the pool every day. now the weather changed but still the water is nice and warm so thats not going to stop me :-)
for the coming weekend i dont have much planned yet but probably just go to the beach and stuff like that....
anyways i hope yous all are having a good time and enjoy the quiet time because in just 70 days i will be back to bug everyone :-)
sorry for the wait :)
Nelsons bay was really good and i had a very good time with Steve and Sue who took me down. they're kids also came which was great and we all had a good time going to the beach and going to some great lookout spots. there's also some dunes that start at nelsons bay and then go 40 kilometers south to newcastle which is pretty anazing. it looked more like a dessert to me...
Then last weekend i went to Seal Rocks with my host parents which is a nice spot just 45 minutes south of forster where we have a picnic and went for a walk to the lighthouse.
the last few days the weather has been great and i have enjoyed swimming in the pool every day. now the weather changed but still the water is nice and warm so thats not going to stop me :-)
for the coming weekend i dont have much planned yet but probably just go to the beach and stuff like that....
anyways i hope yous all are having a good time and enjoy the quiet time because in just 70 days i will be back to bug everyone :-)
Thursday, 22 October 2009
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
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 :)
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....
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....
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
what i've been up to
hello everyone
sorry thats its been so long since i last blogged. i guess u could call it lazyness but lets not talk about that...
anyways district tour....was great!!
we started off in a small place called uralla where all the new exchange students and vini and i got together and quickly became friends and we had a briefing there where the new exchangies were all introduced to the system.
the next day we went off to gunnedah which is even further west and on the way there we stopped at an animal park where there were koalas kangaroos and many other ozi animals.
sorry thats its been so long since i last blogged. i guess u could call it lazyness but lets not talk about that...
anyways district tour....was great!!
we started off in a small place called uralla where all the new exchange students and vini and i got together and quickly became friends and we had a briefing there where the new exchangies were all introduced to the system.
the next day we went off to gunnedah which is even further west and on the way there we stopped at an animal park where there were koalas kangaroos and many other ozi animals.
we stayed in gunnedah for the night where we were hosted by local rotarians.the next morning we headed off to bingara for horse riding which was something i had never done before and i think my horse that i called emma didnt really like me but it was alright anyways :)
from there we went on to inverell the same day. in inverell there are lots of mines where people look for saphires. we also got the chance to do that and found plenty.
from there we went on to wollgoolga that most aussies just call woopi. this was the first stop on the coast and it was beautiful!we stayed there for two nights just like in inverell. the second day we went out on a boat which was great because it was a great day for it. we went snorkeling and saw lots of fish near a reef and also did that thing where u tie an air ring behind the boat and then the boat drags u over the water,,,was great fun anyways.
in the evening we went to a bonfire that the local rotary club organised.
next morning we headed off to kempsey. there we didnt get up to too much except being hosted for the night which was special enough for me coz i was hosted by a guy that had moved to australia from switzerland so i spoke swiss german all night and trust me i didnt like it :)
from kempsey we were off to port macquarie which was our last stop and we stayed for three nights. on the way three we stopped at a porpoise pool where they had dolphins,seals and penguins and also some fish. in port we did all sorts of stuff like go kayaking and go surfing.
surfing was good fun but the water was freeeezzzzing. we stayed at a big house just outside the main street of port which was great because we had a lot of space for footy, bonfires and even a pool. also an aboriginal came to speak to us and explained some oh the culture and their habits.
from port everyone went home which was sad because everyone had become such good friends.
after that i have been in school working very hard and had two trips with rotarians to sydney and also to newcastle. both of them i really enjoyed.
in sydney we stayed in nowra for the first two nights which is about 1.5 hours south of sydney. we visited kangaroo valley which almost looked like switzerland....well a bit...green hills sorta thing.
the second day we went to cockatoo island which is an island in sydney harbour. there's a prison there that was built by the prisoners themselves :)
the last night which was sunday night we stayed near kings cross right in sydney. last day was monday and we went to watsons bay which is the south end of the entrance to sydney harbour so there were alot of cannons and other defencive military things there...overall i had seen lots of new stuff in and near sydney which was great.
then last weekend i was in newcastle for one night. on friday i went down with my ex host family the dwyers. we stayed at their sons place which was very well located so they showed me some areas of newcastle because i had never been anywhere else than the airport :) newcastle was good but not the most exciting ever...
so here i am now the exams have started and i had my first one yesterday...it was english and it was quite hard but not only for me so that was alrite :)
thats about all for the moment and i will try to move my lazy ass a bit more regularly so that this blog doesnt die completely :)
cya mate xoxo
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Whats been hapenin....
i havent blogged in ages and but here i go trying to tell yous whats been going on...
well after the holidays had ended i started school again which was okay to see what everyone had got up to but after a very short time i missed the getting up late..on friday after the holidays i went to gloucester to visit my host family's son anthony who took me to his work place. he is a manager of a coal mine called gloucester coal. i have never been to a coal mine so it was quite interesting to see whats happening. the area was huge and so was the coal piling up on a huge hill waiting to be transported away to newcastle where it is further processed.
we stayed at his place for the night and the next day he showed me all the cattle that he has. he doesnt have a lot and most australians would call him a hobby farmer.
on sunday i played soccer against one of the top teams called taree. we lost 1-0 which was sort of unnecessary but we didnt take it too seriously.
then the weekend after i was supposed to go to sydney to visit my host sister nicole but she had to go to canberra so i didn't go. i played soccer again and sadly another defeat which burried our hopes for making the finals. the good thing about that is that we then just started muckin around in soccer.
now this last weekend i just spent in the blue mountains where we stayed with my host father's sister who lives in blaxland. about an hour out of sydney. on friday arvo we went down and then on saturday we went to an enagement party of my hosts nephew. in the evening we then went to the panthers club to have dinner with some friends. the panthers club is great and huge. the panters are a footy team called the penrith panthers. then sunday we went to visit some of the "mountains". its rather just driving up a hill and then looking down and saying yeah we are pretty high up. but instead of mountains on top of the hill the hill is the mountain.
then yesterday i went to rotary which was a pretty special one. first they told me that they had bought four paves that will be part of a pathway leading to one of the beaches and that they would like to ingrave my name in them. i decided to put my name,hometown,dates that i was here and the logo of rotary youth exchange on them. this is a very nice gesture from my rotary club that will make me stay a part of forster even when i leave.then there was also a part i didnt really like that much but i almost expected it. they told me that i could not go visit my host sister by myself in sydney. which is fair enough because she is only 19 and lives with her boyfriend alone in sydney. i obviously didnt like it but knew that they of course had a point for not letting me go. another member then offered to take me down to sydney the same weekend i was going to go in september. this wont be the same but of course i appreciate the offer and said yes. i will now just catch up with my host sister when she comes up to forster again.
so this is pretty much everything that happened lately in a few words....my plans now are going on my district tour for about 10 days from saturday on. this will be great and i finally get to meet all the new exchangies. then a few days after i move to my new host family from which i only know brian lidbury my host dad so far but i know it will be good. thats about all for the moment. i will definately blog more often again from now on. the only thing that kept me from bloging was that i couldnt use the internet very often.
cheers
well after the holidays had ended i started school again which was okay to see what everyone had got up to but after a very short time i missed the getting up late..on friday after the holidays i went to gloucester to visit my host family's son anthony who took me to his work place. he is a manager of a coal mine called gloucester coal. i have never been to a coal mine so it was quite interesting to see whats happening. the area was huge and so was the coal piling up on a huge hill waiting to be transported away to newcastle where it is further processed.
we stayed at his place for the night and the next day he showed me all the cattle that he has. he doesnt have a lot and most australians would call him a hobby farmer.
on sunday i played soccer against one of the top teams called taree. we lost 1-0 which was sort of unnecessary but we didnt take it too seriously.
then the weekend after i was supposed to go to sydney to visit my host sister nicole but she had to go to canberra so i didn't go. i played soccer again and sadly another defeat which burried our hopes for making the finals. the good thing about that is that we then just started muckin around in soccer.
now this last weekend i just spent in the blue mountains where we stayed with my host father's sister who lives in blaxland. about an hour out of sydney. on friday arvo we went down and then on saturday we went to an enagement party of my hosts nephew. in the evening we then went to the panthers club to have dinner with some friends. the panthers club is great and huge. the panters are a footy team called the penrith panthers. then sunday we went to visit some of the "mountains". its rather just driving up a hill and then looking down and saying yeah we are pretty high up. but instead of mountains on top of the hill the hill is the mountain.
then yesterday i went to rotary which was a pretty special one. first they told me that they had bought four paves that will be part of a pathway leading to one of the beaches and that they would like to ingrave my name in them. i decided to put my name,hometown,dates that i was here and the logo of rotary youth exchange on them. this is a very nice gesture from my rotary club that will make me stay a part of forster even when i leave.then there was also a part i didnt really like that much but i almost expected it. they told me that i could not go visit my host sister by myself in sydney. which is fair enough because she is only 19 and lives with her boyfriend alone in sydney. i obviously didnt like it but knew that they of course had a point for not letting me go. another member then offered to take me down to sydney the same weekend i was going to go in september. this wont be the same but of course i appreciate the offer and said yes. i will now just catch up with my host sister when she comes up to forster again.
so this is pretty much everything that happened lately in a few words....my plans now are going on my district tour for about 10 days from saturday on. this will be great and i finally get to meet all the new exchangies. then a few days after i move to my new host family from which i only know brian lidbury my host dad so far but i know it will be good. thats about all for the moment. i will definately blog more often again from now on. the only thing that kept me from bloging was that i couldnt use the internet very often.
cheers
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
here's the international monopoly tournament and below me on magnetic hill
for some reason i cant put this close to the pictures which really annoyes me but yeah....anyways theres pete and i at alligator gorge and also some wallabies that we saw on a walk on some hill that i cant remember the name...
i hope thats enough for right now cause i am sooo tired and going to bed now....have a good one!
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
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
Friday, 17 July 2009
hey everyone
alot has happened since i last blogged and soon i am leaving adelaide :(
i dont really have time to blog right now but tomorrow i am flying back and then sometime soon after that i will refresh my blog with the happenings from adelaide and also upload some pictures...i noticed that i have been horrible with uploading pictures...it just takes a while to do it so yeah but i will upload some!
alot has happened since i last blogged and soon i am leaving adelaide :(
i dont really have time to blog right now but tomorrow i am flying back and then sometime soon after that i will refresh my blog with the happenings from adelaide and also upload some pictures...i noticed that i have been horrible with uploading pictures...it just takes a while to do it so yeah but i will upload some!
Saturday, 11 July 2009
MAFOTWTCBAILEIIMSW
so here i go with my aussie feature of the week...
its THE ASHES
this is a cricket tournament that is currently played in cardiff, england.
ages and ages ago the aussies played england and australia won. because england had always been the best team in the world the aussies burnt the wickets which lie on top of the stumps. the ashes were then put in an urne and this is ever since a tradition and every three years australia plays england and the winner gets the cup. this tournament means alot to everyone and its quite popular on tv aswell. its a best of 3 series and every game lasts 5(!!!) days with each team bowling and batting twice.
so there u go!
this was "my aussie feature of the week that can be anything i like even if it might seem weird" hope u enjoyed it!
its THE ASHES
this is a cricket tournament that is currently played in cardiff, england.
ages and ages ago the aussies played england and australia won. because england had always been the best team in the world the aussies burnt the wickets which lie on top of the stumps. the ashes were then put in an urne and this is ever since a tradition and every three years australia plays england and the winner gets the cup. this tournament means alot to everyone and its quite popular on tv aswell. its a best of 3 series and every game lasts 5(!!!) days with each team bowling and batting twice.
so there u go!
this was "my aussie feature of the week that can be anything i like even if it might seem weird" hope u enjoyed it!
adelaide
hello everyone
so here as promised what i have been up to in the last few days....
last friday i went to armidale for a rotary meeting where all the aussies were briefed and i was just there to tell them some things about what will expect them on their exchange and so on...it was a very good meeting with lots of talking to a group of exchangies going to europe and their parents....some people from rotary asked me to do a short talk infront of them and ended up being a 45 minute lecture caused by the curiousness of everyone....i of course would have been the same.
then on monday i came home and felt really bad so i didnt go to school or do anythin except sleep and pack and get ready for adelaide.....
then on tuesday morning i caught the bus to newcastle and then got on my plane to melbourne...on the plane my ears really hurt because over the weekend i had caught a very bad cold and was a bit sick still...so in melbourne my ears were buzzing and i couldnt hear a thing :D
then when i finally got on my plane and flew to adelaide it got really bad with my ears and it still is a today...it doesnt hurt when i am not in the air but i just cant hear very well sometimes but this will clear soon otherwise i will go to a doctor on monday..also i have limited voice due to extremely sore throat...
anyways in adelaide i met dianne and pete and they told me that we were staying in adelaide for a few days first so we went to a house that belongs to some friends of theirs but they were camping somewhere so the house was empty. it was really nice to stay there although a bit cold still nothing like it was in armidale...
in the evening we went to a nice pizza place where i met the son of the arnold's josh and his mate patrick and also his girlfriend...it was a very nice evening.
next day we decided to head south to victor harbor (not harbour but dont ask me why...) and there we saw some whales but they were far off the coast and u could barely see them by bare eye but still we saw some....then we went into town and also visited an animal park where i fed some roos out of my hand and also some emus....i saw many different aussie animals like wombats and some crocs and all other sorts....i even got up close to a koala and patted him that was very nice..
later in the evening we went to granite island where we went on a penguin tour and we saw some that were just coming in from the sea...
then thursday so yesterday we went into town and i saw some of the main streets of adelaide and met georgia's best friend who then later in the evening came to port pirie with us...we arrived in pirie around 8.30 in the evening and dropped issy off at her place and then i got a tour around the house and yeah watched some cricket and then went to bed.
today pete and di showed me around pirie and took me to their bakery...i am planning on showing them how to make some swiss zopf and other stuff...
so here i am know and the plans for the next few days are made but i wouldnt have a clue anymore...
so here as promised what i have been up to in the last few days....
last friday i went to armidale for a rotary meeting where all the aussies were briefed and i was just there to tell them some things about what will expect them on their exchange and so on...it was a very good meeting with lots of talking to a group of exchangies going to europe and their parents....some people from rotary asked me to do a short talk infront of them and ended up being a 45 minute lecture caused by the curiousness of everyone....i of course would have been the same.
then on monday i came home and felt really bad so i didnt go to school or do anythin except sleep and pack and get ready for adelaide.....
then on tuesday morning i caught the bus to newcastle and then got on my plane to melbourne...on the plane my ears really hurt because over the weekend i had caught a very bad cold and was a bit sick still...so in melbourne my ears were buzzing and i couldnt hear a thing :D
then when i finally got on my plane and flew to adelaide it got really bad with my ears and it still is a today...it doesnt hurt when i am not in the air but i just cant hear very well sometimes but this will clear soon otherwise i will go to a doctor on monday..also i have limited voice due to extremely sore throat...
anyways in adelaide i met dianne and pete and they told me that we were staying in adelaide for a few days first so we went to a house that belongs to some friends of theirs but they were camping somewhere so the house was empty. it was really nice to stay there although a bit cold still nothing like it was in armidale...
in the evening we went to a nice pizza place where i met the son of the arnold's josh and his mate patrick and also his girlfriend...it was a very nice evening.
next day we decided to head south to victor harbor (not harbour but dont ask me why...) and there we saw some whales but they were far off the coast and u could barely see them by bare eye but still we saw some....then we went into town and also visited an animal park where i fed some roos out of my hand and also some emus....i saw many different aussie animals like wombats and some crocs and all other sorts....i even got up close to a koala and patted him that was very nice..
later in the evening we went to granite island where we went on a penguin tour and we saw some that were just coming in from the sea...
then thursday so yesterday we went into town and i saw some of the main streets of adelaide and met georgia's best friend who then later in the evening came to port pirie with us...we arrived in pirie around 8.30 in the evening and dropped issy off at her place and then i got a tour around the house and yeah watched some cricket and then went to bed.
today pete and di showed me around pirie and took me to their bakery...i am planning on showing them how to make some swiss zopf and other stuff...
so here i am know and the plans for the next few days are made but i wouldnt have a clue anymore...
Friday, 10 July 2009
hey everyone
sorry that i havent been active lately....i am in south australia since tuesday night and spent a few days in adelaide and since yesterday night i am in port pirie....today i am going to explore port pirie and in the evening i will tell you what i did in adelaide....i can tell you i have seen some great animals from really close!!
catch ya later!
sorry that i havent been active lately....i am in south australia since tuesday night and spent a few days in adelaide and since yesterday night i am in port pirie....today i am going to explore port pirie and in the evening i will tell you what i did in adelaide....i can tell you i have seen some great animals from really close!!
catch ya later!
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
MAFOTWTCBAILEIIMSW
my aussie feature is aqua golfing...
in tuncurry we have a place where u can go aqua golfing. its heaps of fun thats for sure!!
what u do is u buy a bucket of balls, bring your own golf club and then you have a green mat with a tee on it. in front of you there are signs in the water that you can hit. these signs have different meanings. two say hit me! so when you hit them you get a coupon "2 for 1"....there really is no such thing as a free lunch ay....
there are other targets where you can win a golf lesson or a ride on the amaroo cruise boat or then the jackpot of 200 dollars which is basically impossible to hit....
anyways it's great fun and my aussie feature of the week!
in tuncurry we have a place where u can go aqua golfing. its heaps of fun thats for sure!!
what u do is u buy a bucket of balls, bring your own golf club and then you have a green mat with a tee on it. in front of you there are signs in the water that you can hit. these signs have different meanings. two say hit me! so when you hit them you get a coupon "2 for 1"....there really is no such thing as a free lunch ay....
there are other targets where you can win a golf lesson or a ride on the amaroo cruise boat or then the jackpot of 200 dollars which is basically impossible to hit....
anyways it's great fun and my aussie feature of the week!
Safari part two!!
Hello everyone!
sorry that it has been so long sice my last post but i have been fairely busy and it doesn't get too quite until the middle of july.....last weekend i played soccer for tuncurry in tunners (tuncurry) and we were versing forster so it was a fair bit of rivalery....the game began quite bad for us with our goal keeper getting sent off for swering and also forster being rewarded a penalty. so with 10 men left and the score being 0-1 against us we really started playing....in the first half we were able to score once. my very good mate jack jenkins was able to “nutty” the opponents goalkeeper...so his shot went inbetween the keepers legs. second half we were dominating and scored one more and in the end we won an intense game 2-1...thanks to this we are still 4th in the league which would lead us into the semis at the end of august which is definitely what we are heading for....
later on i went to ben's house and stayed there for a bonfire where a few others came aswell and then i slept at ben's....sunday i was meant to go surfing but obviously it didn't work out because my mate jake robertson had to do his business speach...bloody hell...
anyways so ben, shannon, cody,who is the guy who got sent off for swearing, shane and i went golfing in forster and then aqua golfing in tuncurry. more about aqua golfing in an other post...
since monday i havent been up to too much but school and preparing my trips to armidale and adelaide coming up in the next 6 days. on friday i am leaving for a meeting in armidale where a few aussie exchangies leaving in january for all sorts of places and vini and i get together to catch up and meet each other..there will be another few meetings like this one.
now another episode of my safari adventures....again if u have any questiones to the places i visited or anything...go ahead and ask!
Day 7
early as always we got up and made our way from bed to the showers to breky and into our seats on the bus where we fell asleep again....we had some more than just spectacular views of the 12 apostels which are cliffs about 100 meters offshore....i have never seen anything like it so i will have to upload some pictures for you guys. in the evening we arrived in warrnambool where some people went for a 2 minute swim at the beach but the people living on the coast didn't even bother thinking “it's not that cold” because yes it was “that cold!”....in the evening we went to see a show where we were taken through a rebuilt village of the 17th century where they believe everything had been exactly like that and a boar had sunk due to hitting the cliffs of warrnambool....must be very frustrating when you come all the way from england and then as soon as you reach your destination you sink...i would have gone troppo i know that!!
Day 8
this day was so boring. just driving all day and then arriving in mildura. where there is nothing what so ever which meant self entertainment like music, bonfire and everyone singing songs from they're own country....the next day our “very capable” tour leader yvonne said that there everyone had been talking too much in their native language by the bonfire...dear yvonne....this is what happens if everyone sings native songs from their countries...she was quite upset with us and we were upset with her....suprisingly....
Day 9
another day of pure driving. we stopped in port augusta which was the closest to adelaide i have been so far until tuesday anyways....we were meant to stay there for the night but it was raining really badly so we decided to go on to coober pedy straight away. this was a great thing that the leaders arranged for us because in cooer pedy we stayed in one big room inside where it was 22° instead of rain and 5 °....we arrived in coober pedy around 11.30 at night so we didn't get up to too much that night....
Day 10
coober pedy was very different from everything else...we saw that very soon after getting up. we had a tour guide from coober pedy on our bus who told us about everything. we visited a grave yard that was more international than most others. because in coober pedy opal is found there are people from all over the world coming and trying to find the fortune they are hoping for. there was a very special grave there aswell. a cat everyone had loved had a grave with a nice and big grave stone. quite funny was that the owner of the cat had a much more plaiin grave...
then we went on to the golf course. yes there is a golf course in coober pedy. it works different than all other golf courses of the world though. because the surface is all sand in coober pedy they took very fine dirt to make the brown “greens” and then to tee off you have a patch of gras that you take with you in the beginning. after that you carry it around with you and whenever you want to hit the ball you pick it up and place it on your patch of gras...how cool is that!!
later that day we went “noodling” which is looking for your own opals in an area that was dug out so that everyone that wants to can try their luck. almost everyone found some sort of opal but nobody had any breakthrough sort of opals....a few went to an opal shop to see if they could get any money for their opals...the owner just laughed....a nice souvenir still! also we went to a museum that showed how people live underground in coober pedy and how locals dig for opals...
Day 11
next day was all driving until we reached our destination: bush camp....well actually you could get the wrong image of it so let's give it an easier name: bush!
nothing there but 3 fire places. during the day we had loaded heaps of wood on top of the trailer so we didn't have to look for too much when we got there. that night we wrote our safari song and sang lots of others aswell before sleeping only in your sleeping bag under the free sky!it gets quite cold i can tell you that!!
Day 12
after sleeping in the bush we were all quite happy to get into the comfortable bus seats and sleep some more since the night had been rather unusual and some people were keeping others awake with their rather loud snoring....in the afternoon we arrived in yulara ayers rock resort. we built up our tents and then went to see uluru/ayers rock in the sunset. it was very pretty and i will also have to upload some pictures from this.
Day 13
the day had arrived where we were going to climb ayers rock. after having seen it in the sunset we agreed it does look like a steep climb but there was nothing like it when you were standing at the bottom of uluru and looking up the track that you were supposed to go on. it was very steep and in the beginning there was a metal chain that you can grab so that you were more stable and trust me you needed it...the steepest points were almost at a 45° angle!that is steep!i am not quite sure about the exact angle but its one of the steepest things i've climbed that's for sure....uluru is also very special because it's one piece of rock. it's the second largest monolith in the world...the largest can be found somewhere in western australia. anyways the climb was fantastic and there were groups going the same pace because it was very different how people reacted not only with the exersise but also with the height. it was very scary at some points!!when i reached the top together with vini, carlos, jp and tillmann we were the first up so there was nobody other than us on the top of the rock. it was very impressive!!after about 40 minutes of enjoying the view from the rock everyone had arrived and after several group photos we climbed down again which was not less scary than goin up!
Day 14
after climbing uluru we headed for the next natural sensation which was kings creek. we stayed at kings creek resort which is a horse and camel station. yes there are camels in australia and there are more than you would think. we arrived in kings creek before lunch time and left for kings canyon after lunch. we decided to do the rim walk which took us about 3 hours but it was so worth it!!we walked on the edge of the canyon looking down through and onto the canyon. it was amazing!!again pictures will be added to the blog! that night we went to see a camel show at the resort where they told us about camels in australia and how they are caught in the wild and some other things....
Day 15
after enjoying a hot chocolate and marshmallows after the camel show we went on the next day to alice springs...this drive took us a fair while but on the way we stopped to have lunch and there we did something rather special. we had the opportunity to ride camels. just a 2 minute ride but still it was pretty cool!
arriving in alice in the evening we went to a didgeridoo concert. that was awesome! one of the best didg players in the world accompanied by a drummer and another musician, they were great! one song they invited everyone to join in and play a simple instrument like sticks or a shake instrument...it was great!
so here you go another big part of my trip!!the last part will follow before i go to adelaide i hope!
sorry that it has been so long sice my last post but i have been fairely busy and it doesn't get too quite until the middle of july.....last weekend i played soccer for tuncurry in tunners (tuncurry) and we were versing forster so it was a fair bit of rivalery....the game began quite bad for us with our goal keeper getting sent off for swering and also forster being rewarded a penalty. so with 10 men left and the score being 0-1 against us we really started playing....in the first half we were able to score once. my very good mate jack jenkins was able to “nutty” the opponents goalkeeper...so his shot went inbetween the keepers legs. second half we were dominating and scored one more and in the end we won an intense game 2-1...thanks to this we are still 4th in the league which would lead us into the semis at the end of august which is definitely what we are heading for....
later on i went to ben's house and stayed there for a bonfire where a few others came aswell and then i slept at ben's....sunday i was meant to go surfing but obviously it didn't work out because my mate jake robertson had to do his business speach...bloody hell...
anyways so ben, shannon, cody,who is the guy who got sent off for swearing, shane and i went golfing in forster and then aqua golfing in tuncurry. more about aqua golfing in an other post...
since monday i havent been up to too much but school and preparing my trips to armidale and adelaide coming up in the next 6 days. on friday i am leaving for a meeting in armidale where a few aussie exchangies leaving in january for all sorts of places and vini and i get together to catch up and meet each other..there will be another few meetings like this one.
now another episode of my safari adventures....again if u have any questiones to the places i visited or anything...go ahead and ask!
Day 7
early as always we got up and made our way from bed to the showers to breky and into our seats on the bus where we fell asleep again....we had some more than just spectacular views of the 12 apostels which are cliffs about 100 meters offshore....i have never seen anything like it so i will have to upload some pictures for you guys. in the evening we arrived in warrnambool where some people went for a 2 minute swim at the beach but the people living on the coast didn't even bother thinking “it's not that cold” because yes it was “that cold!”....in the evening we went to see a show where we were taken through a rebuilt village of the 17th century where they believe everything had been exactly like that and a boar had sunk due to hitting the cliffs of warrnambool....must be very frustrating when you come all the way from england and then as soon as you reach your destination you sink...i would have gone troppo i know that!!
Day 8
this day was so boring. just driving all day and then arriving in mildura. where there is nothing what so ever which meant self entertainment like music, bonfire and everyone singing songs from they're own country....the next day our “very capable” tour leader yvonne said that there everyone had been talking too much in their native language by the bonfire...dear yvonne....this is what happens if everyone sings native songs from their countries...she was quite upset with us and we were upset with her....suprisingly....
Day 9
another day of pure driving. we stopped in port augusta which was the closest to adelaide i have been so far until tuesday anyways....we were meant to stay there for the night but it was raining really badly so we decided to go on to coober pedy straight away. this was a great thing that the leaders arranged for us because in cooer pedy we stayed in one big room inside where it was 22° instead of rain and 5 °....we arrived in coober pedy around 11.30 at night so we didn't get up to too much that night....
Day 10
coober pedy was very different from everything else...we saw that very soon after getting up. we had a tour guide from coober pedy on our bus who told us about everything. we visited a grave yard that was more international than most others. because in coober pedy opal is found there are people from all over the world coming and trying to find the fortune they are hoping for. there was a very special grave there aswell. a cat everyone had loved had a grave with a nice and big grave stone. quite funny was that the owner of the cat had a much more plaiin grave...
then we went on to the golf course. yes there is a golf course in coober pedy. it works different than all other golf courses of the world though. because the surface is all sand in coober pedy they took very fine dirt to make the brown “greens” and then to tee off you have a patch of gras that you take with you in the beginning. after that you carry it around with you and whenever you want to hit the ball you pick it up and place it on your patch of gras...how cool is that!!
later that day we went “noodling” which is looking for your own opals in an area that was dug out so that everyone that wants to can try their luck. almost everyone found some sort of opal but nobody had any breakthrough sort of opals....a few went to an opal shop to see if they could get any money for their opals...the owner just laughed....a nice souvenir still! also we went to a museum that showed how people live underground in coober pedy and how locals dig for opals...
Day 11
next day was all driving until we reached our destination: bush camp....well actually you could get the wrong image of it so let's give it an easier name: bush!
nothing there but 3 fire places. during the day we had loaded heaps of wood on top of the trailer so we didn't have to look for too much when we got there. that night we wrote our safari song and sang lots of others aswell before sleeping only in your sleeping bag under the free sky!it gets quite cold i can tell you that!!
Day 12
after sleeping in the bush we were all quite happy to get into the comfortable bus seats and sleep some more since the night had been rather unusual and some people were keeping others awake with their rather loud snoring....in the afternoon we arrived in yulara ayers rock resort. we built up our tents and then went to see uluru/ayers rock in the sunset. it was very pretty and i will also have to upload some pictures from this.
Day 13
the day had arrived where we were going to climb ayers rock. after having seen it in the sunset we agreed it does look like a steep climb but there was nothing like it when you were standing at the bottom of uluru and looking up the track that you were supposed to go on. it was very steep and in the beginning there was a metal chain that you can grab so that you were more stable and trust me you needed it...the steepest points were almost at a 45° angle!that is steep!i am not quite sure about the exact angle but its one of the steepest things i've climbed that's for sure....uluru is also very special because it's one piece of rock. it's the second largest monolith in the world...the largest can be found somewhere in western australia. anyways the climb was fantastic and there were groups going the same pace because it was very different how people reacted not only with the exersise but also with the height. it was very scary at some points!!when i reached the top together with vini, carlos, jp and tillmann we were the first up so there was nobody other than us on the top of the rock. it was very impressive!!after about 40 minutes of enjoying the view from the rock everyone had arrived and after several group photos we climbed down again which was not less scary than goin up!
Day 14
after climbing uluru we headed for the next natural sensation which was kings creek. we stayed at kings creek resort which is a horse and camel station. yes there are camels in australia and there are more than you would think. we arrived in kings creek before lunch time and left for kings canyon after lunch. we decided to do the rim walk which took us about 3 hours but it was so worth it!!we walked on the edge of the canyon looking down through and onto the canyon. it was amazing!!again pictures will be added to the blog! that night we went to see a camel show at the resort where they told us about camels in australia and how they are caught in the wild and some other things....
Day 15
after enjoying a hot chocolate and marshmallows after the camel show we went on the next day to alice springs...this drive took us a fair while but on the way we stopped to have lunch and there we did something rather special. we had the opportunity to ride camels. just a 2 minute ride but still it was pretty cool!
arriving in alice in the evening we went to a didgeridoo concert. that was awesome! one of the best didg players in the world accompanied by a drummer and another musician, they were great! one song they invited everyone to join in and play a simple instrument like sticks or a shake instrument...it was great!
so here you go another big part of my trip!!the last part will follow before i go to adelaide i hope!
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