Excursion #1

Hey guys

Last Friday I had the chance to tag along with the Grade 2s and 3s for their excursion to Ceres Park.  Ceres Park is a community garden in Brunswick, Melbourne.  Leaving the school at 9am we arrived at the park roughly at 10:30.  As both classes had a small amount of children in them the giant bus had only about fifteen seats taken up all together out of about fifty two.  

Their excursion was for them to see and listen about native Australian plants and patterns in nature.  It was a very informative excursion with most of the kids enjoying it.  When we stopped for lunch, I headed off to the cafe there to buy myself lunch.  Can I just say that it was exactly what I expected for a community garden.  Pretty much all the food was vegan, home made and over priced.  The only thing that looked semi fulling and least expensive was a sausage roll.  Yes I know, how boring but man it tasted good hahaha.  I don't quite know what was in it but it tasted good as.  

All up with was a pretty relaxing day just listening and wondering around the gardens.  It was a pretty nice day as well which was a plus.  It was nice to get away from school and to get out of the routine, so I enjoyed it.

Laters xx  

Anglesea Part 2

Hey guys,

After camp I went back down to Anglesea for the long weekend.  I stayed with my mentor's family in their little bungalow type thing.  Their shack was awesome.  As my mentor is an art teacher I imagined nothing less than how she styled their place.  All I can say is wow, it was awesome.  Her and her husband have two young children who are absolutely adorable and they are obsessed with Harry Potter at the moment so I love them even more.  I think I watched about three Potter movies over the weekend which was great.  

We went to Lorne on Saturday to look at the Lorne Sculpture Festival, which was awesome.  The weather was temperamental which was annoying but I had fun.  Even though it the weather was shit there were still tonnes of people everywhere which surprised me. The kids also asked if we all could go to this book shop, which was certainly fine by me.  It was such a cute little shop with wooden shelves filled with books that reached right up to the ceiling.  There were so many people inside though.  It was a struggle for me to walk around inside with my backpack on without knocking over books or a small child.  I found some good books in there which i ended up spending my food money on, oops. I ended up buying five different books;

Tape by Steven Camden

Lonely Planet's Best Ever Photography Tips by Lonely Planet

Around The World In 80 Raves by Marcus Barnes    

Beauty by Lauren Conrad

The Rules of Photography And When To Break Them by Haje Jan Kamps

So money well spent in my opinion. 

We went to the beach in Anglesea on Sunday as it was surprisingly hot after the day before.  Oh my lord were there loads of people.  Not only on the sand but also in the water.  You couldn't stand in one place to long without having to try and dodge a surfer, a swimmer or even try not to get caught in a rip.  It was fun though.  It was so hot that I actually put sunscreen on for the first time in ages(everyone should put sunscreen on anyway, I just always forget or can't be bothered but you always should).  

The last day was just spent packing and cleaning up the house.  So all up it was a nice and relaxing weekend spent in Anglesea.  I definitely plan on going back some time in the future.

Laters 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!

Old friends and new adventures!

Hey hey!

So yesterday I went with some old school friends to the Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm for lunch.  But first, getting up at 7am this morning to get ready in time to get to town by 9 was a massive struggle.  Meg and I put our names down to volunteer some time with the Leukaemia Foundation to do christmas gift wrapping with Myer.  Having the bus be ten minutes late made me twenty minutes late wasn't a good start for today.  It didn't matter in the end because we didn't get any customers until the last half an hour, when three people all turned up at once with multiple things to have wrapped.  It was a hectic last stretch of our shift but we made it.  After being relieved of our positions we went and got something to eat and had a cute little morning tea break. 

For lunch I had one of their homemade beef burgers with a really thick fresh raspberry smoothie.  This burger was huge and the only way I could actually eat it was by cutting it up and eating it with a knife and fork.  After lunch we went into Deloraine for a look around and to plan where we were headed next.  Obviously there wasn't much to see and do in D-City so we to Liffey Falls for an adventure.       

So my friend, Amelia, her car is a tiny two door old thing.  So imagine that driving down a narrow gravel road that hugs the side of a mountain.  On the way down we were following an older couple that were going no faster than I could walk; just to be safe of course.  After finally parking at the top of the walking trails, we jumped out of the car to get to the toilets.  You can't go to Liffey Falls without going to the Big Tree, so that's were we then headed, on our one minute walk to the tree.  The fifty meter tall tree towers over it's surrounding neighbour trees with such beauty.  It was probably the third time I had seen the tree but it is still just as awesome as the first time.  

Anyway, off we then headed towards the actual falls bit in Liffey Falls.  The walk was a forty minute return trip so it would be nothing compared to our school's cross country course considering we were walking. Every five minutes or so Britt would have a little spasm due to the bugs attacking her causing her to scream, jump and throw her sunglasses.  It was quite funny to watch and it never got old.  After reaching the first look out, I decided to take a different path that would take me down on the the rocks next to the water.  It was cute, we did some climbing over logs and along the river bank and over rocks, we felt like adventurers.  

It was such a hot day and we managed to make ourselves even hotter by walking and climbing all over the Liffey Falls walking trails.  On the way home we stopped in D-City and got ice-cream and drove the long way home through the back country towns.  

That night Megan came and picked me up and we went and met up with a friend that was back in the state for a week after moving interstate. We met some friends of friends that we had heard about for a long time but had actually not met them yet, so that was nice.  All together it was a hectic, hot, fun and well spent day. 

Good Night xx

P.S.  I don't really intend to always post so late a night but it seems as of lately that I can only really concentrate very late at night.  I'm also trying to publish them as closely as I can to the day that it has actually happened, but as you can tell a lot of this has happened around the same time.  But thank you, whoever is reading this, for being patient. Lots of love and stay gold :)