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| Kings beach |
Hayyy there my dearests!
I knooooooow
that it's been ages since I wrote a story on my blog, and there is so much I
have to tell you guys! I won’t even be able to tell you’s everything, for reals.
Since the
last time I wrote a blog I've had holidays. I have been doing heaps of activities and adventures
so get excited to read!
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| Roller skating |
Because, unfortunately,
I have little time left in Australia I planned a lot of things in holidays that
I still wanted to do or see before I leave. Especially the first week of
holidays was packed! On the first few days of the holidays some of my friends
had a surprise planned for me, they took me disco roller skating at a roller-drome!
Of course we’re all talented, haha, and we had a lot of fun!
It is getting
colder and colder since we’re heading to winter here in Aussie but luckily the
weather during holidays was great.
Whenever the weather is good we usually go to a specific beach ;Mooloolaba beach. Although, these holidays we decided to do other activities instead of going to that beach.
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| With the girlies at Mooloolaba beach! |
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| Rock pools |
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| Point Cartwright |
Okay, we still ended up at the beach a fair bit, but we
also went to rock pools, point Cartwright, the Eumundi markets, Noosa, creeks,
a quarry and other beaches like Kings beach and Noosa beach.
Point
Cartwright is a lookout with a lighthouse near the main beach, Mooloolaba. One
day we decided to drive up Point Cartwright and we enjoyed the fantastic views
and scenery of the East Coast. Without doubt I took another 1000 photos!
The Eumundi
markets are the biggest markets in Queensland and yaaayyy they are only half an
hour away. I am awful in making decisions so I had to come back several
times this month for souvenirs and I still need to go back… The markets are not only nice for souvenirs but there is a touristy and dainty atmosphere as well! Surrounded with
music, food, people and talented performers it's a treat to go there every time.
With Easter
we hid eggs and presents for Gracie in the backyard, it was really entertaining
to watch her looking for them as she got extremely excited. I was pretty
spoiled as well and got some yummy chocolates. Later that weekend we went down
to the beach with the host family and had a lovely time!
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| Gracie and I |
With Luke and
Amy I went to Yabba Creek, which is a creek in the middle of nowhere. We had to
drive ages to get there, ultimately because we took the pretty tourist route… The drive was full of stunning view points, it was
nice to hang out as a tourist for a bit. There were no other people at the creek,
probably because it is so far away from everything, which was super!
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| AMY! |
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| Hinterland |
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| Uni night with tane |
My weekends
are still filled with parties. I've had a few dress-ups, gatherings and
open house parties. Also I've been clubbing a few times with some good friends,
mostly on a Thursday night (Uni night). On the nights in the weekends where we didn't
have a party we had girl nights full of catching up, watching movies and eating food,
biggest treat! In one of the weekends we went down to the beach with all the
girls and had a cute little barbie/sausage sizzle. Such an Ozzie thing to
do! It’s quite common in Australia to have parties with a theme and most times
a lot of people dress up. Last week I had a great Burlesque dress up party and the costumes were fabulous!
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| barbie brekkie with the girls |
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| Girls night |
The day we
went to the quarry was quite an adventurous day. A quarry is a large, deep pit,
from which stone and other minerals have been extracted. People told us
about it and we were pretty stoked to check it out.
Unfortunately none of us actually knew how to
get there. We thought that there would be signs but nahhh not a single one. It
was a mission to find it (few hours of cruising around) but we did find it
eventually and it was absolutely worth it. There was two different parts, one
was the actual quarry and the other one was like a little lake.
The lake was full of mud up to about our waist. We had a nice day of being feral!
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| babes! Amy, Esther, Abbey, Simone |
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| Simone, Esther, Francesca, Amy |
I have been
to Noosa National Park a fair bit now. Noosa National Park is basically a
really big nature park with a boardwalk along the coast. There are amazing
views and the beaches are really pretty. I had never been there with the girls
so I convinced them to come with me. It was a long but
amusing walk (fricking 2 hours). We survived it though while still
looking like top models for the photos.
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| Cherie! |
Holidays
ended 3 weeks ago and since then I am still enjoying school and my Tuesdays off
are a good break for me from the hard study sessions at school. Lol jokes, there isn’t really any hard study sessions left because I leave before the term
finishes at school. I am still doing things at school but I don’t get marked
for them so it is more for experience. At school there’s a cool group of girls
that I hang out with. Three of those girls had their birthdays in the last couple of weeks which
meant that I had to survive two nights of extremely much eating.
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| Dance class |
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| Cross country, running through the mud at school |
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| Noosa national park |
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| Eden, Cherie, Ashleigh and not me |
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| Coolum beach |
The 25th of
April it is Anzac Day. Anzac day is a day when Australians come together and
spend time remembering the sacrifices of those who died in war protecting their
Country, along side the Kiwi people who contributed to protecting their country.
Het is soort van hoe wij doden herdenking
hebben alleen in Australie hebben ze OOK nog eens dodenherdenking. Op anzac day
gaan de mensen (die het willen) sochtends heel vroeg naar een dawn service. Het
is dan nog donker en mensen lezen gedichtjes en verhalen voor. Zodra de lezing
over is loopt iedereen in een optocht door de stad en het licht worden staat
voor het einde van de oorlog. Ik ben met een paar vrienden naar een dawn
service geweest, het was niet heel erg spectaculair maar het was wel mooi om te zien.
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| Coolum beach with Abbey! |
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| amy esther simone marissa freddy |
Now, when I
talk about ‘The girls’ I'm not just talking about some girls. Amy, Simone, Ebony, Marissa, Abbey and Francesca went to school with
me last year and in time I’ve become really close with them. There is heaps of other
great girlies where I spent enjoyable time with as well but it’ll be hard mentioning
them all. They’re probably having a little teary now because I didn’t mention
them, soz guys!
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| Abo art |
From Simone
I’ve already got my going away present, a self-made aboriginal art piece!
With Amy and
Francesca I have been to Brisbane to hang out at Southbank (man-made
beach in the middle of the city) and we went to the suitcase markets. At the suitcase
markets people sell handmade stuff or second hand clothing out of their
suitcases. We all bought a few good bargains and had heaps of fun. That weekend
we also went to the Quarry and played in the mud again.
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| Southbank |
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| Suitcase markets! |
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| Brisbane |
Last Friday
night was possibly one of the greatest nights ever. I had my going away party
themed bogan/stereotype Australian. Everyone was in the best mood and everyone
really put effort in dressing up. There were people dressed up as aboriginals,
koala’s, farmers, gangsters and what not. I’m pretty sure we all agreed that
flanno’s are VERY Australian as almost everyone was wearing one.
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| Sad to leave |
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| koala! |
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| Bogans in our flanno's |
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| Pre drinks with the girls |
Only 2 weeks
till I’ll be back home! I am not sure if I should be happy or sad at this
point. I am really excited to see you all again, obviously, but I wished I
could take my friends, the nature and the good weather with me… My host mum is very, very pregnant at
the moment and I can’t wait to meet my new little host brother!
At the moment
I am staying with my bestie; Amy, and her huge, awesome family. In the weekends I usually stay at Simone’s so
it will be weird to go home and not have them around.
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| Amy and I |
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| fake sleeping with Riley (amy's little bro) |
There is still a lot of people I have to say goodbye to and thank, so the next two weeks will be busy
and full of laughs and tears. I am going to enjoy every minute of it so if you don't mind I'm going to leg it now.. I've got exciting things to do!
XOXO
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| <3 aussie! |
The Eumundi
markets are the biggest markets in Queensland and yaaayyy they are only half an
hour away. I am awful in making decisions so I had to come back several
times this month for souvenirs and I still need to go back… The markets are not only nice for souvenirs but there is a touristy and dainty atmosphere as well! Surrounded with
music, food, people and talented performers it's a treat to go there every time.
The day we
went to the quarry was quite an adventurous day. A quarry is a large, deep pit,
from which stone and other minerals have been extracted. People told us
about it and we were pretty stoked to check it out. 
