Sorry guys that I haven't posted
anything for two or three weeks but I have just been so busy doing
all my stuff! But now I am spending my weekend up 4 hours north from
Murray Bridge in a town of Orroroo with my host parents and lots of
old people at some uncle's 90's. → Reason why I have time. Haha,
just kidding.
During last few weeks I've done heaps
stuff! The first friday of september I went to play golf and I fell
in love with it immediately! Now I have been playing golf three times
and it is just so fun! I am not the best golf player you've ever seen
but at least I like it and I have something to aim for! I'm playing
it with one husband of a rotarian who has played golf for over 50
years.
There is annually organized 'Royal
Adelaide Show' in Adelaide which is a big event for South Australia!
It lasts for 8 days and there is just everything there can be! It's
almost like an amusement park for 8 days (there were a great amount
of amusement park rides which were SO AWESOME!) but there is also
heaps of other things like riots, farm show and many organisations
having a tent where they were advertising themselves, for example I
was there with our venturer group helping in the Scounts SA tent.
But when you are going to the Show you are not going there to save
your money. Ticket to get inside the show area costs already 20
Australian dollars and everything at the show area costs. Some of the
rides may cost over 50 bucks! But yeah, I spent there just too much
money but we had heaps fun!
Also I've been to few friends' places.
I've been many times to a French exchange student's place and she is
sooooveryvery nice and fun but unfortunately she's leaving in two
week time and it is so sad! But I just manage to be with her as much
as possible before she leaves. I've been to other friends' places too
but mostly at her place. Some people have had bonfires but they are
quite small compared to Finland's midsummer bonfires! Haha.
Last monday I was at Adelaide with my
counsellor and his wife. There is going on an event called OzAsia
Festival where has lots of Asian cultural things come to Adelaide and
there are smaller events for example we were at 'Moon Lantern
Festival' where was heaps people gathered around to see some Asian
performances at the stage and over 20 hand-made lanterns, some were
dragons, some tigers and some were what they were and they were from
all around Asia and they were very nice!
The rest of the time I've done my
schoolstuff which is compulsory for me. Here in Australia at school is more
individual assignments than in Finland. Or the homework we have is
more like projects than homework. But my studying is quite casual
here. I already selected my subjects for next year and I decided that
I'll study Drama, Photography, Art and Biology. I don't know how you
reckon but I think my later half of the year is going to be quite
casual. Or at least I hope so, haha.
In Orroroo we were supposed to have a
birthday party for 90-year-old uncle og my host dad but unfortunately
he was terribly sick and he had to be in Adelaide hospital. But we
had the party anyways without him so I saw how Aussies celebrate old
people birthdays. Most of the guests were over 55 years old but there
was no one who was anything as old as me, they were either younger
or older. But I got known to the family elders.. Orroroo was a
beautiful town! The poulation is something about 600 people and the
town was just so old fashioned by it's looks and all!
And also when we went there we saw the
landscape of South Australia and I just have to say that I am deeply
in love with it! It is so wide and different to Finland's landscapes!
I am very glad if you read this post
and you enjoyed it!
I'm sorry about the lack of photos but it takes so much time to load them here.. I'll put sometime :)
I miss you all but I'm just not saying
it out loud...... I'm the tough guy. Haha!
Take care of yourselves! That's what
I'm doing to myself :)Teppo
