First day in Atherton

Today, I finally flew to Cairns to my host family! We woke up pretty early (we didn’t want to miss our planes) and after breakfast, we drove to Sydney Airport by shuttle bus. We had to say goodbye to each other there because they are going to Brisbane and I’ll stay in Atherton... :(

After a three-hour flight, I landed at Cairns Airport, and there it was - my future family-for-three-months! It was great to finally meet them, they all looked so nice (my host dad just told me to write that “my adopted dad is totally awesome” and I promised it, so here it is)…

The first thing we did was going to a farmers market and some other market thing, which was pretty interesting because it was quite different from our markets back home. Then we drove to the farm (which is about 100 km away from Cairns), and really everywhere I looked was rainforest. And then there was a beware-kangaroo sign on the road! We didn’t actually see any though, but the sign was cool enough. As we went to my host family’s farm, I was surprised again by how huge it was. With huge I mean… really huge. From left to right, everything I saw was my host familiy’s property, including cattle, chooks, three guinea pigs, three horses, turkeys and a few ducks.

Tomorrow we will go for a ride in their “garden”, let’s see how big it really is!