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
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