Anglesea Part 1

Hey guys,

So two weeks, I headed off on the bus to Anglesea with the grade 7s for a week.  I was keen as for it because it wold be the first time I was away from the school for a while like properly.  Due to me being the only female gappie there I got my own room with a double bed (score)!  I was put in the same block as some of the year 7 boys and next door to two of the male gappies.  I also shared a bathroom with the two boys, which wasn't as bad as it sounds haha.   

On the first day my group was down for body boarding.  It was nice and hot so it was good to get into the water, but man were the waves dumpy.  It was fun but I almost took a couple of kids out because there were just shit tonnes of them in the water.  There was about five different surf/body boarding classes out in the surf that afternoon.  

Wednesday my group (Group A) was down for "mountain biking" (it was more of a casual ride around Anglesea) and an initiative course full of problem solving activities for the kids.  On Wednesday night us gappies held a social for the kids.

Thursday Group A did some activities on the beach and made sand castles and we also went surfing.  Oh my surfing was hard for me.  I'm such a spud that I kept falling off and getting dumped and thrown around in the surf.  Oh such fun.  

Friday the kids did kayaking, I didn't feel like doing it so I just stayed on shore and took photos.  They were doing a lap around this little island in the centre of the lake, which was gonna take them like half an hour so I walked to the shops and got a coffee; a real coffee.  I enjoyed staying dry and taking photos.  

All up the camp was amazing and I would happily do it again if I got the chance.  

xx

       

It's been a while...

Hey guys,

So it's been a while again... Soz mate, what can I say? I'm just really busy.  Anyway so on Saturday I took the train into Melbourne for the day to see my brother.  It was the first time I had seen him in about two and a half months.  We didn't get up to much, we kinda just chilled at his college at went into Central for a bit.  It was nice to see him and have a good catch up.  It was interesting though but when we went to catch a tram into the CBD for dinner there we literally no way we got fit in one.  Tyson and I tried to get on three trams but they were so full due to the White Night Festival that was in town.  I had't realised this festival was on until we were walking through China Town with hundreds of people surrounding me.   

The lights were amazing but it was a pain in the ass to walk through everyone to get to Southern Cross to catch my train home.

As it was family day on Sunday, Tyson got on a train (after missing the first one) to Corio.  It was good to show him around the school that I'm working/living at and for him to meet some of my new friends.

All up it was a good weekend with lots of walking.  Oh excitingness, I'm going ice-skating in Melbourne tomorrow!  I'm going with some of the boarders here at the school which is going to be so much fun.  Oh I'm also going on grade seven outdoor ed camp to Anglesea on Tuesday! So stay tuned for more in the next week or so.

Laters xx

WOW

Hey guys,

So wow, I have been so busy lately.  So I hope everyone is well relaxed and has been having a great holiday!

So my family and I went camping for a couple of days around christmas up at Waterhouse which is near Bridport on the North coast.  I wasn't too keen on camping but it actually was a lot of fun and it was good to get out of the house and away from the internet ;) It got up nearly 30 degrees where we were which is good considering it's Tasmania!  It was so good; no clouds and barely any wind.  On the first day after we set up, my little sister and I went for a walk to explore our surroundings.  Jordan and I found these massive sand dunes on the topside of the bushes along the hills.  It was the most random thing ever.  We climbed up the vertical wall of sand and tree roots to get to the top.  It was a struggle but the view was amazing!  We ended up exploring the sand dunes and this beach on the other side for two hours!  

My family had christmas day up at our camp site with eggs and bacon under the sun.  It was probably the best camping experience I've ever had (school camp was horrible!), but four days of camping was enough for me so I decided to come home on boxing day.

So since camping I got my nose pierced (!!), set up my new phone, had new years with my friends and visited other friends that live out of town.  It's been so crazy and it's hard to sum it up without going into too much detail because yeah you know why ;) My friends and I went out for dinner last Thursday and had an adventure that resulted in me only sleeping for an hour that night!  I'm not purposefully trying to be vague but I don't really wanna go into much detail about some of the events from the last couple of days haha sorry guys. 

I've been in contact with Geelong Grammar about my position as a gap assist lately in regards to when I'm moving over.  I was originally going to go in the 10th then the 20th then the 24th and now it has been pushed back to the 31st!  I'm actually so happy that I am leaving later because now I can see from friends that were originally away when I was going to leave.  So I couldn't be more happier and it also gives me more time to pack hahaha.

I was really sad (secretly still am) about the fact that I didn't go to falls.  I didn't go because I wasn't organised and one of the friends I wanted to go with was on crutches so she couldn't come with me.  So we cried (not really) on the phone together.  But this year is my year for Falls!  But instead I did my friends hair watched them get ready for going out.  I'm not 18 yet so I get to stay home and go on the internet while they go out.  Yay for me, not.  

It's been hard for me to let go of last year but now I think it can only get better!  So I hope everyone has been having a good year so far with no regrets and lots of good memories already!

Road Trip!!

Hey Hey!

So my friends and I organised a road trip down the east coast of Tasmania to go camping at a place named Friendly's Beach.  Me not being a massive fan of the outdoors I wasn't too keen on going but looking back, I will probably remember the last three days for the rest of my life.  

  After everyone turned up to my house to pack the car, my friend got a call from her boyfriend to say that he was on his way to my house.  More the merrier we said but then realised that there were six people standing in my drive when he arrived and we were trying to get into a five seat car...  and here was the first obstacle.  We then realised that there was no possible way that any of our gear would fit into the car as well.  After packing the car enough that Megan could now not get out of the car we headed off to get lunch.  After wanting frozen cokes, we drove to the other side of town to get them from Hungry Jacks we then went to McDonalds back near my house to get cheeseburgers.  Then off we headed down the highway to the east coast.      

Friendly's Beach was such a lovely place that none of us wanted to leave.  Our little camp site was on the other side of the bushes from the beach and surrounded by more bushes.  There was only one spot were we could all get proper cell reception, which was about 1km up the road from our camp site.  After setting up our tent etc. we then noticed that the boys were yeah yet, and it had been almost 3 hours since we last saw them...  After about seven phones calls just from my phone we just excepted that they had died. They finally decided to show up at 8:30 that night, almost five hours after we got there.  We made them cook us dinner though cause we set the tent up so it was alright.

It took them close to two hours to finally cook us dinner but as the boys were really hungry they ate all but three out of 24, leaving the three for us girls.  They also ate the two loaves of bread that first night too.  

The second day we went to the beach and just chilled.  We ended up having a group nap session during lunch time for almost four hours.  That night we made pasta and played Bullshit and told stories.  I ended staying awake until about 3am talking with one of my friends.  That my dears was a good day.  

We sadly had to leave the next day though.  After packing up everything we then realised again that we had a problem.  We had way to much stuff and people for my friend's little five seater, two door car.  After packing the boot full we still had the people and all our bags and sleeping gear.  Convincing, well, making the boys get in the back, we packed all their bags, sleeping gear and my other friend on top of them I got in the car.  I got in the front seat and got my friend who owned the car to pack stuff around me and then drive out as quickly as possible.  There was no way in hell that we could make this two hour drive back to Launceston with the amount of stuff and people in the car without getting pulled over.  So we called our friend who lived in Bicheno and told them to meet us at his work so we could give him some of our stuff.  

We pretty much emptied our car straight into his car and decided that we could make it with four people in the backseat.  After pulling my puppy eyes on my friend, he said that he would be the one to stay.  So we left him in Bicheno with half of our stuff and our other friend for the afternoon   

Megan and I got almost halfway back to get him and our stuff when we get a call from our friend down in Bicheno saying that he can bring all our stuff and our friend back tomorrow.  We were annoyed that we had wasted petrol on getting to Campbell Town but then relieved that we didn't have to all the way down there.  So we just sat in the car at Campbell Town and ate hot chips and relaxed for a bit before heading home.    

The whole trip was just good to get away from everything and to be together with friends and just relax.  This trip was probably the funnest thing I have done in a while so thanks peeps that came with us! 

Good Night xx