Okay, let's get the party started...
15.04.2012
Today was Toby's birthday! We spent the whole day at Lake Tinaroo with the whole family (including one aunt, one uncle and 4 "extra kids"). Because "the uncle" owns a speedboat, we (us kids) went tubing on the lake - it's basically hanging a huge donut (plastic donut, don't worry - we'd never waste an actually edible one) with a bottom plate behind a speedboat and going really, really fast. That was so cool!
16.04.2012
This was my first day at Atherton State High School! I spent the whole morning choosing my new subjects - holy shit, never thought that could be so complicated! I ended up with Agricultural Science (I first wanted to do animal studies but that didn't fit into my schedule), PE (we're playing touch football this term), Furnishing (wood work - turned out to be my absolutely favorite subject), Hospitality (we haven't started cooking yet, all theory till now... but we'll finally start next week), Maths and English (no further explenation needed I guess). School here starts at 9:00 AM (which is paradise - Why don't German school start this late? Why?) and ends at 3:00 PM. Four subjects every day, and... 2x 40 minutes break!!! Seriously, give me one reason why I wouldn't just stay here forever! And I don't even have to do things like history and politics (hey, guess what? "Poli" in Greek is "many", and "Tics" are those blood sucking insects - Poli Tics. Many Bloodsucking insects! Ha!)!
After school Zoe and I went to karate with Toby, who's got the blue belt. It was so fun! I've always wanted to continue karate after I did it for one month in Taiwan when I was seven... Well, looks like I finally got the chance now!
19.04.2012
Today, it was a pretty special day at school: a girl and a guy told us during yearlevel parade yesterday that they would (completely) cut off their hair in public in the second break next day, and whoever wanted to watch should bring a dollar. At first I was wondering why the principle would let them do something like that, but then someone told me that they did it to raise money (they'll sell their hair, which brings up HUGE money) for cancer. And then the only thing I thought was "wow". You have to be really brave to do something like that...
Well, so today was the big day! There were lots of people in the hall when Zoe and I walked in.
Then it started: Dayna and Jacques entered the stage, and Dayna talked about her younger cousin who had cancer when he was little. Then she invited him on stage with her, and asked him to hold her hand while she got her hair (that was absolutely beautiful and even longer than mine) cut off. And then she revealed that it was his birthday! The whole school sang "happy birthday" for him...
Someone backstage started relaxing music, and then the scissors appeared in our sight - after the main part of the hair was cut off, a friend shaved off Daynas and Jacques' remaining short hair. And surprisingly, it looked really good!
I think it's really amazing that someone has the guts to do something like that for other people - respect, Dayna and Jacques!
21.04.2012
This afternoon, Zoe and I went horse riding again. Toby was on his bike, racing against us (of course, we won). After the third lap we were all sweating so much that we were practically dripping - and then we thought that we might just go swimming with the horses in the dam.
We dropped our saddles and shoes (we still had our clothes on) in the grass and then simply let the horses walk into the water while we sat on them. We got completely wet, but it was totally worth it! It wasn't even cold when we got out of the water, although we were dripping... Oh hell, I just love Australia... :)
After our swim we rode back bareback, and because none of us really felt like stepping off, I tried to open the gate while I was still on my horse. Well, mission accomplished! We successfully walked through the gate and I let it close by itself. What we didn't see was that the gate opened again (to the other side). And yep - Coco, the third horse that was still in the paddock, walked into the garden. Oh, "walked" isn't really the word - he went crazy! We had to catch him - and that was the first time that I could ever test the cowgirl in me: I was still bareback on Gem (who used to be a cattlehorse) so I tried to drive Coco back through the gate. And finally - after a few tries we got him! We quickly closed the gate behind him - that was one of the most exciting and fun afternoons I had so far :)
COMING SOON: 21/04 - 03/05
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