The packing and delayed flights

Hei everyone!
This is my very last Australian post.
I went well with the scrapbook, I worked my butt of on Monday and Tuesday until Levi came Tuesday night to pick me up as a surprise. and he cooked me dinner and we had a good night together.  It was something relaxing and reallynice after all that scrapbooking and a good surprise too. x) Anyway, I even worked Wednesday on the book at Levi's place until I had to go home I was that short on time.
This night, Wednesday night, I had my second official Good-bye dinner with my hostfamily. There were more people than the first time and it was actually pretty good. It definitely helped me to say good-bye to my world in Australia a little more and it was also the last time I saw Gemma and Adrian.

ALL my good-bye presnts. (The reason for the extra parcel)

I saved my whole day on Thursday to pack and get everything sorted out. First I had to finish Levi's God-bye present (I can't write here what it is, because he reads the posts as well and it's a surprise! :P ) which took me forever. Then the family asked me to come with and to load some rocks in the truck for our driveway. Wade is fixing it a little bit. Well, that took around 3 hours so we were just back for late lunch.
Then I had to finish the scrapbook but my black niko pen died half way through the book, so I had to wait until Levi would come over to bring me another one. Well, I started to sort all my stuff out and to slowly pack all my stuff. In the end, it ended up not to fit into the suitcase, but luckily I had asked Antonia a couple of days before to get ma a postage box, so I could post any stuff I had too much. I only put things in that box that I won't need anymore in the next 4 months, because that is how long it will take to come to Germany with the sea mail. (:
Well, in the end I had a big and definitely FULL suitacse of 23 kg, a definitely full parcel of 7,7 kg, three bag filled with stuff that I can't take with me and that I gave to Levi and Good-bye presents. I also had a camerabag extra, my backpack as carry-on luggage, two jumpers, a big pillow and myself, dressed in my new big Australian boots and jeans and T-shirt. That's a lot of stuff. Ô.o

Carry-on luggage (:

Al that is supposed to go...

I spent the Friday with my friends to distract myself from all the worries and stress about my flight and the Good-byes. I dropped the scrapalbum at Levi's place off and said good-bye to his parents, I sent the parcel, I went to the movies with my girldfriends and Levi and later on for lunch and to the icecream shop. :P Than Levi and I got picked up by Antonia who drove us to the airport.

...in here. Ô.o

Well, when I checked in, the lady could only hand me one ticket because my first flght to Brisbane was delayed 1,5 hours and she didn't know if I could still catch my next flight to Dubai. So I just took that ans waited maybe 1,5 hours until Levi and I decided to go back tothe lady to figure out what was happening now. And well, after a phonecall,she told me that I have to catch the next Dubai fight on Saturday. There was no other one before Saturday at 9 pm. So my flight to Brisbane got changed to Saturday at 1.30 pm and I just catch all my flight like planned, just 24 hours later. And I will be home 24 hours later. And I can't fly with my other exchange student friend, I am on my own now. But that will be alright and I think it was the best solution in that situation. (:
So I spent another night at my hostfamiliy's house and hopefully everything will work out today. Ô.o Otherwise I have to stay there another night. Ô.O :P

It is 7 am here in the morning adn i can't sleep anymore, so I am writing this post. I will write another one when I am back in Germany, just to tell you how everything went and what is going on then, but practiclly, this is the end now. The end of my Australain exchange year and the end of this blog. I really hope you enjoyed it, because I did. (:

Talk when I am back in Germany! (:

PS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ImCpNqbJw

Second last week

Hei everybody,
First of all: I put some puppy photos into my last post. So have a look there. (:
And then: My second last week here in Australia is already over :'(

That &morenhas still to go...

That is already in the suitcase..

On Tuesday, I just worked on my good-bye presents and somehow the day went over pretty quickly. Wednesday I woke up ealry and caught the school bus into town, I was meeting Annabelle in school. I stayed at her place for the day and scrapbooked there and in general, just had fun with her. (: It was her Good-bye dinner at nighttime which was really yum and nice Ô.o Yumyumyum! (:
I stayed over at her place bacsue the next day was a school day anyway and helped her packing all her stuff together. She had waaaaaay too much and ended up sending another parcel with stuff over to Germany. There wasn't much of an alternative.

On the way home (:

The band is playing just for me <3

&everyone is listening.

The girls <3

Anyway, Thursday, the next day I went to a dream job seminar  that my school offered and I listened the whole day long to a lady talking about how you know what your dream job is and how to get it. We did some exersices in a book to that topic and I actually helped me sorting out all my thoughts and ideas in my head and I know now what my new step is: going on workexperience. Anyway, that was good and then there was teh Friday which was even better. It was my last day of school ever so I took my camera with me andtook heaps of photos of the people and teh school. Or well, of all the people that were there. All together, we were 26 Grad 12 students in the whole school. Everyone else couldn't have been bothered to show up, and the same thing happened in most of the other grades as well. Sometimes I was even the only student in my class! Anyway, classes got mixed together to have at least 5 or 6 people there, I watched two movies, played internet games and helped carrying tables and sorting out the boat trailer. It was great, I wish we could have that more often. :P

Alf&Bev

Levi needs to help me with my cake <3

The twins were coming with levi and I on the bus and we all went straight to Levi's place where my Good-bye/Birthdayparty was happening that night. We blew up a million balloons and then we sorted sopme other stuff out before all the guest came: my friends, the whole Cameron family, the band and then there was my hostfamily which came only for a tiny little bit only because I got upset when they texted me they wouldnt come.
Anyway, it was a great night, we all had self-made pizza and the band was playing a couple of songs and I got heeeeeeeeeeeeaps of AMAZING presents, I love em all, and I talked to all the people and we played pool and it was just a great night. (:
A HUUUUGE thank you to the Cameron-family which made all that possible! <3

yumyumyum!

2 of the 5 Cameron's cars..

I spent the rest of the weekend at Levi's place and we relaxed the whole Saturday. Sunday, we first went to a carshow where the Camerons put 5 cars in (3 of them won a price which is PRETTY good) and then Levi and I went to a Sugar Mill Tour on our own. It was literally only the guide and us. (: BUt it was very interessting and I am glad we did it.

Well, now it is Monday and my last four and a half days here began. I finished my first scrapbook and now I have to get the second one done in three days, today, tomorrow and Wednesday. On Wednesday night I go for dinner with my hostfamily. I saved teh whole Thursday for packing (I might have to send another parcel now as well, when I got all them presents!! ^.^) and then on Friday I am going to do somefun stuff with my friends. My planes goes at 4.45 pm and I am back in Germany on Saturday at 1 pm. (:

I am not quiet sure how I feel about all that saying-good-bye stuff. I try not to think about it because my head makes it always worse than it actually is. I am going quiet well in terms of tears and horrible emotions. However, I think it is time for me to go home and to finish this exchange year. I am aussie enough :P

See you soon people!
Talk soon! <3

Examblock and fishing

Hey everyone!
This one will probably one of my last posts in this block.. :'(
Anyway, my exams went all good, I had Homeec during normal school, then English and Marine Studies on Tuesday, Maths on Wednesday and Chemistry on Friday. Thursday was show day and everyone had a day off. Such a cool country: you have a day off to go to the show. Anyway, I didnt go because it REALLY expensive but not even that different to the German shows.
On Friday, as I only had my Chemistry exam, I was done after half a day so I went spontaneously with Levi and Thuy to the movies. We watched the brand-new movie 'How to train a dragon 2' and it was HILARIOUS. I just loved it! So if you get the chance, go and watch it. (:
I slept over at Levi's place and Saturday and Sunday was just very relaxed. Actually, we both worked a lot on our tasks, me on my good-bye presents and he on his music gear, but it was relaxed and fun. (:
On Sunday we went to Shayna's place to have another monopoly battle against her and Liam. It was very good, even if I didn't win this time. :P
That night, Levi came with me to my place after everything. He came because the next day, Monday, today, we went whale watching and we left real early in the morning. Anyway, we came home and Lexi, our bitch, had her puppies since one day!!! She got 8!!! (Ô.o) and they are all cute and healthy and really soft and lovely to touch. ^.^ That was a really big surprise because I didn't think of that anymore and then they were just there. Thihi!
This morning we left at 5 am with the boat and everything. It was Pete, Wade, Bianka, Levi and I and it was a great day on the boat! The boat ride was very nice and just amazing actually, and even if it wasn't really whale watching and more a fishing trip with some whales on the side, it was good fun. I caught a few fish, eatable ones in a decent size included and I saw a few whales, a sea snakes and turtles and dolphins and a shark and heaps of fish of course. (:
We were home at around 4 and then still had to clean the gear and stuff, so we couldnt go to my god-bye dinner with my hostfamily at 6pm in the schnitzel-house. So we ended up going at 7 pm to the Leap pup and had a meal there. I got my first little presents and we talked a lot.. We'll go next week to the Schnitzel-house now. (:
Now I am really tired and so ready for bed. The next two days are school free and I'll concentrate completly on the good-bye presents. Then I'll have the last two days of school with my official good-bye/birthday party at Friday night. (:
Looking forward to that!
Hear soon from you! Love xoxo

In the last three weeks...

Heyy people!

The birthday 'girl'

I apologiye for this late post. I really don't know where the time went and what I've done so long, but yeah, somehow I forgot to write a new post.
Well, the weekend two weeks ago, I went to Bundaberg  with Levi's band. To keep it short: it was a lot of driving and a lot of fun but little sleep and really really cold. It was probably the first time I was actually really cold. They played on a birthday party and I was tired, so I slept in the trailer. It was fuck*** freezing. Ô.o

Wade is cooking

However, it was really good fun. (:

The weekend after, I stayed home until Saturday afternoon working on my projects and then I went to the movies with Shayna, Liam and Levi to watch 'The other woman'. The movie was better than expected and I enjoyed it. (: I stayed the rest of the weekend at Levi's place.

Pyjama buddies! :P

This weekend was a very big one for me. On Friday I had my last Marine Trip for ever. We woke up at 3.30 am because we left at school at 5 am. However, it was really really good. I was talking to heaps of people and we went to two islands a little north. Both of teh islands are just  stunning. Hamilton is really touristy but very clean and instead of cars, they only have electric buggies. ^.^ However, most of the island is still covered in forest and the water around it is light blue and very clean. No wonder thatthey have a huge Marina and coral reef close to it. (: We got this working book and we were supposed to fill it out, but we didnt have to and nobody controlled it. So that was not really the most important thing during freetime. :D

Hamilton island, the bird is native 

On the boat.. :P

After a huge and yummy dinner in the tavern, we drove to the next island: Whitehaven beach. On this island, there is only a couple of kilometers on the beach open to the public, the rest is fully protected. It is in the top 10 list of teh most beautiful beaches in the world and WOW, it is amazing! Really clean, fine, white sand and beautiful blue water. Just magical! Ô.o And I saw the biggest spider EVER in the forest on the way to the toilets. It was just as big as my hand, maybe even bigger. And really scary Ô.o But I survived it quiet well. :P

We were home late and I had dinner with my whole hostfamily in the Leap pub.

I made that (:

Whitehaven beach.. isnt it beautiful?

Saturdy was teh big day: the birthday party for my hostum's 50th. I woke up at around 7.30 and after a quick breakfast I was just busy. I helped everyone that needed my help and I put balloons outside and swept  everywhere and vacumed and put signs up and cut 6 kg of onions and 4 kg of tomatoe and made little caramel tarts and and and.. the list seems to be endless. Levi came over at around 4 pm and helped a little bit. We got ready in time and put our awesome pyjamas on and at 5 pm, everone started to arrive. I was really really tired by then already by the way. :P The party was good but, I had heps of fun! Levi and I BOTHhad pyjama-buddies! That was sooo cool, and the best thing about it: they were a couple as well! How awesome! :D I went to bed quiet early: 11 pm. I was just so tired and stuffed, I really had to sleep. Levi went to bed a little later, he was allowed to sleep over but not in my room. Anyway, Sunday was the big tyding-up day. Levi and I started to clean the kitchen on our own before I was bored and I knew someone had to do it anyway. It was a big mess and with all the things from outside as well, a HUGE pile to wash up. We did quiet well I reckon. (: However, both of us got picked up by Levi's mum at around 1 pm. And we spent some relaxing and recovering time at his place. I even slept over, because Monday was the Queen's birthday and we didn't have to go to school.

Today is Tuesday and my last week of proper school. I also have my first exam tomorrow: Homeeconomics. Next week is Exam Block and I have to go to school on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The week after I only have Thursday and Friday to go to school. And then that's it for me here. No more school in Australia anymore. :'(

Talk soon people!

The BIG spider Ô.o

PS: Rachel, Levi's mum, professional sewer, sewed three little suits for elephant because his old clothes were already ripping. They are finally finished and SOO cute! <3 Thank you so much!

The knitted cat, boating trips and Moranbah

Hallo!
The week after the pig on the spit was just normal. Normal Monday, normal Tuesday, normal Wednesday and even normal Thursday.
Well, actually that's not true. On Thursday, I went with Levi shopping. First, we brought my heavy 9 kg parcel with stuff in it to the post. I sent it alreay over to Germany to hopefully avoid overluggage in the  plane. Then we went just normal shopping and bought a few things, including a really cute and fluffy pyjama for Antonia's 50th birthday party with the motto pyjama party. Levi found a really cool one as well, it definitely suits him. :D

With Levi and Rachel on the road..

I also finished my big Homeec assignment. Finally. I finihed my backpack which I had to sew and my written report to it and I am really really proud of myself. It looks alright and I am well in time. (:

We stayed here..

On Friday, Levi came to my place after school and he even stayed the night. That was the first event ever of this sort. (Y) Well, we both had big assignments really urgently to do, so we actually worked the majority of the time on the assignments. However, working together on assignments is still better than working alone on assignments. (: We also made brownies and had a really fun dinner with my hostparents.
We continued the whole assignment thing the next day until about lunch time. Then we got picked up by Levi's mum and we both went to the Cameron's place.

The boats on the trailer

After a short packing everything up and having lunch and getting ready, we made our way to Moranbah, where Norm (Levi's dad) is working at the moment. The reasln for this 2-hour drive west? To be with Norma and to have a BBQ with all his mates, with Levi playing the guitar. It was good, I learnt how to peel prawns properly and I had the probably best steamed chicken in my life there. Yumyumyum!
We slept in a Motel, and the next morning, after an early waking up, we were heading home again.

Lunchbreak

For the rest of the day, Levi and I, we mainly worked a little longer on our assignments and I finished my Maths one, yuuhuuu! We also went for a walk and I cooked a pretty yummy Spinach and Tomatoe Quiche for dinner. In the meanwhile, Rachel sewed the first little new pants/overall for my softtoy elephant! He wears pants since his first day, but the old ones are worn out and started to rip open. The damage was unrepearable Rachel, the professional sewer, said and offered to make him new little pants. So I went the other day, and bought three different fabrics for this purpose. The first one is also turned into little pants now. However, it's not quiet finished yet, and some straps, fake-buttons and embellishments are still missing. It so CUTE though!

I was there. :D

I also started to knit. I bought this set ages ago that deliveres all the equipment to knit a little black cat. I had no idea how to knit, but I half thought it myself, half rachel helped me with it, and it already looked really really good. (:
Monday, I slept over at Annabelle's place, because on Tuesday, we had our first day of the boating trip. We had a quiet fun night, I kept knitting for my kitten, we tried to watch a movie which didn't load and we talked a lot. It was good. My sleep but, wasn't good at all. It was one of the worst I had in a long time.

The instruction

However, nect day, boating trip. It was actually the trip of the  non-OP-Marine-Studies-class, but because we are international, we got invited anyway.
First, we had to carry the boats and all teh gear down the boating ramp. There were 6 boats, I was in one with Annabelle and Jakob, the singer from Levi's band. It was really fun, we actually drove the boat on our own and we had to practise to drive eights and how to stop completly at a certain point (just like parking the boast) and how to rescue people who might have fallen over board. Beside of that, we had lunch, fun and a lot of driving. After everything, we had to carry everything up the boat ramp again. :P

What I knitted

No, it was really good, I got lightly sunburned but I was at school in time again, to catch the normal school bus home. Afterwards, I finished my knitting for the cat completly.


Today after school (I handed my Homec assignment finsihed and fixed up in), I built the whole kitten together. It looks a little dodgy, not quiet how it is supposed to be on the instruction sheet, but still quiet cute and I put so much time and effort into it. Ô.o

Bildunterschrift hinzufügen

Tomorrow, Levi and I will go out for dinner together to celebrate our 4th month anniversary a little. :P I'll give the kitten to him as a present, he reckons it's still okay, even if it's not beautiful. :P

So much happened here! :O
Talk soon people!

Pig-on-a-spit week or the story about the maths assignment

Hello! (: It's quiet a while already since my last post..
Shayna came over last weekend and we went to a gig of Levi's band on Friday night. The following Saturday we went with a couple of friends to a football game of another friend. It was alright, we did everything but watching the game. :P Afterwards, I went for a quick shop with Levi and we got some stuff for school and new fabric for my softtoy. His pants will get changed soon, they are unfixable ripped.. and because softtoy pants are usually not available in shops, they have to be homemade. I bought three different fabrics: a really fluffly and soft darkblue one with white dots, a darkblue one with white little pigs on it and a darkblue one, with shiney dots on it.. that's the Michael Jackson pants, only for the days, elephant wants to be famous. (x

:D

Sunday, Levi came over and we did some stuff I had to do. It was fun and I really enjoyed it. (: I also tought him his first complete verb: sein/ (to) be. He also stayed for dinner at my place, for the first time ever. It was really really good. (: And that was also the first day in a loooooooooooooooooooooong time, that it was actually COLD at nighttime. When I walked Levi outside where he got picked up, I was freezing. HOW much I enjoyed that! Unfortunally, the cold stayed only for a couple of days. It is a lot cooler already than it was in summer, but I am sometimes still sweating.. :/ I can't wait for the German winter, when the weather knows what it wants and everything is completly frozen in the morning..

Levi after a German lesson.

The week was average. Nothing really exiting happened. I work hard (more or less), had my english exam on Thursday and Friday and don't even care what I'll get in it. Stupid exam. -.-" I got my fourth and hopefully last assignment for this term, in Maths. It should be alright but. (:
Fridy after school, I went shopping with Shayna and Levi. I bought some stuff for my good-bye books and a big parcel-box. I filled it with stuff already, post cards and letters I got while I was here, notbooks for school I already used, soft toys, clothing... just stuff I surely know I wont need anymore while I am here. I got 9 kg together and will send it over on a ahip. I will hopefully prevent any overluggage in the plane (which is ridiculously expensive!) and make my trip home nice and comfortable. I will still have a lot of stuff to bring home though :D And the parcel isn't sent yet. It is still sitting here in my room. So nothing is for sure yet. :P

The pretty dead pig.

Tired but full warrior, at home the next day

However, we met Liam (Levi's drummer) in the shopping center and walked all together back to Shayna's place. We placed Monoploy for HOURS but in the end I won and got all the money while everyone else had to morgage their properties all the time. :P YES! I came home with Levi in the morning and we stayed at his place for a little while. Levi was mowing the lawn and I started my maths assignment before we both went to my place. We had a party to go that night, with my hostfamily. My hostfamily's friends had a pig on a spit night. The family has a bog country property and chicken and cows and pigs and dogs and ducks and heaps of trees and plants and and and... anyway, they killed a pig on Friday, did with it whatever you have to do with a dead pig and then grilled it over a fire for a whole day long. It was really really yum and the party was good fun. (: Levi made a BIG difference for me, I had someone to be with and to talk to. (:

Mother's day present 

We slept outside, so actually, we camped. I never thought I would do that again, but it was good, even if I didn't sleep too well actually.

Just having fun :D

This morning, after coming home, Levi stayed a little longer and we celebrated mother's  day. It's quiet a big thing here and I'm kind of glad that I survived it well. (Y) (: I bought Antonia a soap, a card and a cup. (: An average present, but that was seriously the only thing I could have  thought of. However, Levi left early afternoon and I spent the rest of the day finishing the first half of my maths assignment as well as possible. It's nearly done already, what is really good. (Y)
I had a quick and quiet dinner with my hostfamily and went to do some more jobs before I go to bed now.

Good night everyone!
There is a BIG week coming! (:

Report card and late easter present

Hello everyone!
Just a very short, very quick update. (: I got my report card on Monday. Yeah, it's quiet alright. :P
I also went with Levi to Mount Pleasant on Monday to go shopping. I bought another million photos for the scratch book as Goodbye-presents. But to be honest, I still haven't started yet. :O
I bought a little mothersday present and that's about it I think. Oh, no, I bought two organes for me, as a afternoon snack. I actually ate quiet a lot fruit the last week. I'm such a good girl. :P
Anyway. I did a lot of extra work in school during the breaks on my homeeconimc project and my artwork. So I stay on track and I'm finished with the due date. Levi comes always with me and does not complain at all.. not one single word. Thank you so much bub! :*
Wednesday, I went to Canelands after school to finish my shopping. Levi had guitar lesson and said he coud pick me up on his way home. But then his mum had to work overtime and wasn't finished till 8 pm. Unfortunally, we had the birthday dinner for Adrian's dad at our place and I really didn't want to be too late for that. So I went and asked Gemma if she could maybe take me and Levi with her after work (she works in Canelands). So yeah, that was probably the first time in these 10 months she and I had a long and proper talk. I really enjoyed it and it definitely showed me another side of her.. the diner was alright, nothing really special to be honest.
I also received a litte parcel yesterday! Thank you so much, Iris, for that really cute (and YUMMY) easter present! I am really looking forward to that book! (: :* (And I already ate all the little KINDER-chocholates.. yumyumYUM! ) (:

I think that's about it.
Ah, no! Since Sunday night, I got a red patch in my face. It's between my lip and my nose on my left side and I have no idea what it is or why it is there. It could be a cold sore, but no one really knows and it doesn't look that dangerous that I think I need to go to a doctor and it doesn't hurt anymore either. So I should be right, it just looks funny. :D

Tomorrow, Friday, Shayna will come over to my place and spend the night here as well. What I am going to do after that, I don't know yet. (:Talk soon people!