Hey guys,
here is the next
post :) Time goes so fast, I know! This week we had our swimming
carnival, which was a great day! I won't tell you yet, what it is, so
read until you find it out :) Well, actually if you want to know if
before, scroll down and look on the left side, because I made a
little dictionary with explanations to some words, which I had been
asked for a while and yeah :)
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I was a bit lazy at
the weekend so I'll post the post today, one week later, haha :)
Mo, February 16th
Today was a great
normal school day, haha :) But here still some interesting and great
things that happened. The first was in the morning when I saw Makayla
and she told all about her trip to Mount Kosciusko – Australia's
highest mountain and it was very nice to have her back – I missed
her even though she only wasn't at school for one day :D
At Recess Makayla
accompanied me to the basketball court where there were some Footsel
try outs – this is indoor soccer. I am so glad Makayla came with me
and I played a little bit and Mr Lewry said that I have a chance :)
But unfortunately they don't start until the end of april, so it is
probably not going to work.. But I also put my name down for Open
Soccer and i'll try everything, haha :)
Last period was SLR
again and we did a some kind of Circuit, which was pretty hard! We
had 30 min to do it as many times as possible. There were 5 stations:
20 Squads, 10 Push ups, 40 Russian twists, 10 times throwing a very
heavy ball and running outside down and up the driveway. IT was
pretty hot outside, over 30 degrees so as you can imagine it was very
hot! I did it 7 times and I was pretty pround of me and even Mr
Rumples said it was very good ! :)
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| SLR :) |
After school I
jumped into the pool and then did some homework. I had clarinet
lesson and five which was great, because I learnt heaps of new
practising tricks and tips :)
Tu, February 17th
Today was a very
good day again :) We had only three periods and then the free
afternoon.
In SLR, which we had
third, we did yoga again, haha :) Pretty funny!
Makayla, Ebony, me
and Ben went down to Maccas after it where we stayed until 2. I had
my own lunch haha and watched them eating.. :P We talked a lot, I
don't remember about what, haha but it was pretty good!
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| Selfie at Maccas |
It took more
than 30 min to walk home, because it was soo hot!
In the afternoon I
played my clarinet, did some homework.. :)
We, February
18th
I had Maths in the
morning today again and so I got up at 6am. It was really dark and
you notice that the days are getting shorter.
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| Sunrise :) |
At school we were so
exited for the swimming carnival tomorrow, haha. And it was pretty
hot today again. In SLR our teacher was not there and so we played
basketball, packman and some kind of running game.
Wednesday is band
day and so I had band of course. We were only 2 clarinets today, but
it was still very good! We planned my farewell band party as well,
which made me a bit sad, but also happy that I have found such a good
“bunch of people!. :) we are going to to have a BBQ, play Cricket
and soccer, go ice skating, to the Schnitzelhaus for dinner and
movie. Sounds like a lot I know!
Thur, February
19th
Today was the day of
the Swimming Carnival! I have been waiting very long for this because
I had heard all these amazing stories about dressing up and stuff and
yeah, I could experience my first (and probably only) swimming
carnival in Australia! And to be honest I wasn't disappointed! It was
great!
We had to be at
Gosford Pool at 8.30am and I met Ebdogs at the gate and we went in
together. We got dressed into our skirts, tops and Hawaiian
necklaces,.. and all our stuff and started wondering around. Shortly
after we met Makayla and Sarah and we pretty much stayed together the
whole time. Lots of people were dressed up in their house coloures
and especially the year 12s were really good!
The first races were
the competitive ones like 50m Butterfly, 100m, 200m and 400m
freestyle, 200m everything (50 Butterfly, Breaststroke, Freestyle and
Backstroke). After these races the next one was the Mintie races
where everybody could participate in. You could win some Minties
(lollies) – that's were the name comes from :) We were also allowed
to take our cameras underwater – here some photos :)
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| Before we jumped it.. |
After roll call –
we were only 24 year 11 students out of 159, hahah :) - there were
the 50m competitive and social races.
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| The Pool :) |
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| Me, Sarah, Makalya and Eb <3 |
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| <3 <3 |
Social means that
everybody can do it and it is just for fun to go into the pool,
because there is no free swimming time. I did the social freestyle
and backstroke together with Eb and Makayla. For the last one which
was breaststroke I decided to participate in the competitive one. I
actually dont know how I was so brave to do it, haha , but I did it,
surprising all the teachers and some others haha :) I am not a very
fast swimmer and had never had swimming lessons before I came here (
I could win of course) but I was thinking it is once in my lifetime
and “YOLO” (You only life one, haha). And I am really glad I did
it! It was such a great experience! We got to wear caps in our house
colour (yellow) and it was like in a real race, the beep sound when
you have to jump :) I cam fourth, haha, last but I was just so happy
that I did it and got the experience. I even got a thing saying 4th
:) So proud, haha :)
A bit later, our
house captains were looking for people to to do the senior Raleigh
and they asked ME :) In the end it was Makayla, Sarah, me and an
other girl. We came 3rd out of 4 but I was pretty happy,
haha :)
In the end there was
also a teacher Raleigh race, which was pretty funny – 6 teachers
against 6 students of each house. They won, but still so good! :)
All the races and
the amount of people that participated sum up to a score and our
house, Dunk, won it in the end! Yeah! Dunk, Dunk, Dunk!!! :) It was
very, very good and I loved it how so may people dressed up and the
house spirit is just amazing!
Yes, so this is a
short summary of the swimming carnival! I love it and I think at home
in Germany we have missed out of the best days, haha :)
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Yellow and green :) |
In the afternoon Em
and I had swimming, haha. So much swimming today! I am really tired!
Unfortunately I had to do some homework and research for our English
Assesment which is due next monday.
I am sure I'll sleep
good tonight!
Fr, February 20th
We were all pretty
tired today at school, because of the swimming carnival yesterday.
But it was still a
pretty good day. We cooked this Pasta Salad with chicken and zucchini
and it was actually pretty good, haha. I even ate the zucchini ;)
In Maths we did some
of the harder maths stuff, our first real extension things and it was
pretty good, I like it!
After school we went
to a place to get x rays of Ems teeth because she is going to get
braces :P
Back at home I did some school work and started watching a movie but I didn't finish it..
Back at home I did some school work and started watching a movie but I didn't finish it..
I cooked dinner –
salmon, yum! And we watched a movie called “return to me” on a
video, haha :)
I don't know if you
have hard about “Marcia” the zyklone, but it is a pretty hard
one, it was rated the hardest level it could be – grade 5 and it is
one of the worst that has ever been here in Australia. The main zone
where it hit ground was in Yapoon in Queensland but even the north
part of NSW got heavy rain. And it was double hard, because at the
time it hit ground, it was kind tide, so the water was even higher!
Heaps of schools were close yesterday and one my friends who lives
near the boarder to QLD at the moment didn't have to go to school
either – I hope you are fine Juli!
Sa, February 21st
Today I could
finally sleep in, haha, I slept until 9 or so and stayed in bed until
10am :P When I got up Greg told me that some branches of one of the
trees of the neighbours came down. And indeed it looked pretty bad :/
We stayed outside
and talked to the neighbours for a while and came back in at about
12pm.
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| ... the tree half broken.. |
After playing my
clarinet I started looking through all my stuff I had, all my paper
stuff to see what I can scan in to take home, because I am not going
to be able to take it all home on paper and so I am starting to scan
it in because it is heaps! Clarinet notes, school notes I want to
take home,...
After lunch em and I
went for a little walk just to go outside and yeah :) it was pretty
good and it was nice to spend some with Em, because in the last few
weeks she was a bit busy doing her homework and on her computer...
We had our typical
Cheese and bickies for dinner and watched Cars 2. I wasn't that happy
when I heard we were watching it, but it wasn't too bad..
Su, February 22nd
Today in the morning
EM and I did breakfast for Greg and Robyn. We did Bacon and Egg and
it was pretty good, haha :)
At 11am Em went to
her friends house to play and I stayed at home to look through all my
stuff and prepare for my English Assignment tomorrow..
It was raining the
whole day, so I couldn't go outside and do much and so it was a day
at home.. A bit boring sometimes but yeah.
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| Some photos i took :) |
In the early
afternoon I went outside to take some photos and yeah and I was
taking some jumping photos, when I saw something moving close to my
hand – about 10 cm. I looked again, but couldn't really see
anything. But curiously as I am I looked again and jumped away!
I got my phone out
and took a video before going into the house and telling greg. He
came outside but the snake was gone. I showed him the video and he
said it was a Swamp snake, a tiny little snake. But I was still
scared haha :)
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| Skype with my family :))) I love youuu! |
Mo, February 23th
School again... I
actually did not feel like going to school today, but yeah, we kind
of have, don't we? Em and Robyn are both really sick unfortunately so
they both stayed at home today and went to the doctor. I hope they
get better soon! Their cough is really bad.. :/
At school, we had
roll call in the hall today which is getting annoying... don't ask me
why but now I can slowly understand why most of the people don't like
it..
I had Food tech
first and we got our assignment for week 7 which is really weird, but
i'll write about it another day. Next period was business which was
pretty much just writing and writing, but good! Then Chemistry and
then Maths which was really good! I just love maths so much, haha. We
did our first real extension bit today, in equations with variables
in the lower part of the fraction (forgot what this part is called,
it is Nenner in German) Oo
At recess and lunch
everybody was pretty much freaking out about the english essay we
were going to write next (5th period). It went all right
in the end but unfortunately I didn't have enoguh time to write and
was a bit disappointed by myself because I had so many great idea..
But you cant change it anymore.. Let's hope it wasn't to bad.
At lunchtime Ella
and Makayla asked me if I want to come to Tuggerah with them to hand
out some of Ella's resumes (she is looking for a job) and so I texted
Greg and he said yes, which was great! Thank youu! We caught the bus
to Tuggerah, handed her resumes out and then caught the bus back just
before 5pm. It was a pretty good arvo and I am glad I went. :)
We had a really
yummy dinner today, haha, pork medallions with baked sweet potato ,
corn and quinoa – delicious!
Tue, February
24th
Happy happy birthday
mamita! Te deseo un feliz cumpleanos y que pases un dia hermoso con
mucho amor, felicidad, sol que sea un lindo dia! Yo no puedo estar
con tigo en alemania, pero siempre tu siempre estas en mi corazon y
tu saben que yo siempre estoy con tigo! Te quiero mucho, mamita!
Feliz cumpleanos! :*
Well, as you can probably read – even I f you can't
read spanish – it is my mums birthday today :)
And it was also a
very good day for me :)
Tuesday is the short
tuesday which is really good, haha. Three periods only is pretty
good and they go over so quick :)
After the 3 periods whci were
English, SLR and Business Makayla and I went down to Maccas where we
met about 5 other girls and sat down for a while. But because I never
ear anything and I was hungry it was pretty hard to watch them eat
their food and so I decided to go home after a while. I had to do
some homework and stuff and also wanted to continue doing my scrab
book and some other things :) it was a very nice half an hour and I
still had lots of time at home, perfect!
I finished doing the
scrab book about the swimming carnival, Sydney, Australia day... I
had to glue the photos in I printed out on the the week end. I also
did lots of homework so I wont have to do as much tomorrow and read
some more of my book, actually pretty much, about 100 pages :)
We, February 25th
Omg, you don't know
what today to me! I put my alarm on 6am yesterday and checked it and
stuff and it worked all the time before! And today I woke up and was
keen for maths and stuff until I looked on my phone! IT WAS 7.07AM!!!
OMG! I was supposed to leave at about 7am!I got changed and ready to
go in 10 min and had a banana for breakfast in the car, haha. As soon
as I got up I had called bec to tell her I overslept and wouldn't
make it to school in time and ask her if she could tell the teacher,
but she said her mum could come and pick me up and so we made it to
school just in time! Lucky me!
I have never
overslept so it was the first time, but as Greg said, it can happen
to everyone! I don't know why put my alarm didn't go off or I might
not have heard it put it wasn't amy good! I hope it doesn't happen
tomorrow again!
We had double math
today so extension and first period and it was really good :)
Ebony and I
yesterday found out that we are both reading the same book and are
pretty much at about the same part of the book, which is really
funny,haha :) It is the fault in our stars, I am sure you have heard
about it – movie or book- it is an amazing book!!
We did some workout
today again in SLR and in Chemistry some prac which was really funny
because Bec, Sophie and me almost burned the plastic tube Oo. We did
some experiment about the decomposition of Magnesium carbonate and
yeah :)
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| SLR again.. :/ |
After school I
stayed back because we were going to to the Soccer try outs but
unfortunately it was raining really hard and so changed it to friday
at recess. I really hope I am good enough to make it into the team,
but we'll see. Almost every other girl plays soccer in the club and
for a long time..
After our short
meeting instead of playing I walked home but because it was raining
Greg picked me up halfway- thank youuuu!!!
I did some homework
in the afternoon and talked to Dine, a local coordinator from Sydney
and she is really nice and had band again at 6.30pm.
Thurs, February 26th
Today, I luckily got
up in time, haha :) But I had to – I set me three alarms!! :)
It was really dark
at 6am, and thats probably why I didn't wake up yesterday – the
days are getting shorter.. :/
So yeah, it all went
well, Bec picked me up half way and we arrived exactly at time for
maths :) on the way until I met Bec, I rang my mum and dad at home to
talk to them – because of your Birthday mami – and it was very
nice to talk to them. You feel so close when you are talking trough
the phone, it could just be like I am at my friends house or so :)
Love it to talk to you :) :* It made my day!!
School was pretty
good today, especially because I found out that I made it into the
school futsal team, wohooo!!! :) And maybe the basketball team, i'll
find out tomorrow :)
After school, we had
swimming straight away again, which was really good :) Like always :)
I decided to cook dinner tonight and I cooked Spaghetti Bolognese
after Robyns recipe and I love it, haha :) I wrote the recipe down
while I was cooking and I might put it on my blog as well, it is very
easy!! :)
After dinner while
we were all watching my Kitchen Rule (cooking show) I was texting my
dad, because I was buying a new phone cover – a dust proof one and
water resistant :) Why? Well one reason was I got a 20$ voucher from
ebay which expired today and I was thinking about getting a more
robust cover, but It was always to expensive.. well, no I only payed
13 dollars :)
Fr, February 27th
Last day of this
school week, yeah! Hahah, I am actually really excited for the
weekend, because I am going to try surfing tomorrow and we are going
to Newcastle on Sunday :)
I walked with Lucy
today in the morning and met Ebony just before the school, because we
had to go and see a teacher. He told me I can be the manager with him
for the basketball team, and maybe also play in some games :) Yeah!
This is really cool!
I had Food tec,
English, Chemistry, SLR and Business studies today. We had a small
test in Chemistry, but we knew we would have it and we even knew all
the questions haha :) Pretty easy, but I am still unsure about a
couple of questions.. In SLR we did Yoga again, Yoga-Friday, haha :)
At Recess we finally
had the soccer try-outs. We were about 12 or 13 girls, mainly year 11
and 12 and we had match against some year 7. It was pretty funny,
haha :)
After school, I was
really puffed out and decided to read a little bit :) I finished
reading “the fault in our stars”, which is an amazing book!!!!
LOVE IT!!
Later I skyped with
my best friend Sophia Marie in Canada and we decided to talk in
English, because it is easier, haha. Pretty funny, haah :) It was
great to talk to you and I can't wait to play Volleyball and
Basketball with you :*
Later I interviewed
Em, asked her some questions, because I am doing my food tec
assignment about her :)
Just before 7pm, I
realised I promised to cook dinner and totally forgot about it.. Oo
haha, so I had to hurry up cooking it, but it was ready about 40 min
later, Salmon of course :)
We started watching
a move – Sweet home Alabama – but stopped it after 50 min because
we were really tired.. Em slept in my bed this night, which was
really nice :)
Sa, February 28th
I got up around 7am today, because I was going to have my surfing
experience here in Australia! So exited! Taylah, she is a family
friend promised me a while a go to teach me surfing and we finally
did it today! We got to her house around 9.15am and drove around 10
min to Shelly Beach. Shelly beach is a beautiful beach :) *-* We
first waxed de surfboard a little bit and then went down to the
beach.
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| Surfing, yeah!!! *-* |
The waves were
perfect, not to big but still big enough, haha :) IT was so much fun
I stood up at almost every wave! Taylah is a great teacher! We had so
much fun, but it was really exhausting so after a while we went out
and went for a swim :) I took my underwater camera of course, but I
forgot to put a SD card in.. so angry!!! :( But we had so much fun
and sometimes it is nice not to take photos of everything. :)
Really cool, I hope
I can try surfing soon again! :) Thank you so much Taylah, it was
great!
Taylah had to go
home at around 11.30 but went to cafe before and had a Mango Banana
Smoothie, yum! When we were taking the surfboards back to the car, we
met Emily, Greg and Robyn who went to the markets before and then to
the beach :) So after Taylah left I went back to them and we stayed
at the beach for another 40 min or so, where Em and I went for a
swim. :)
When we came home, I did some homework and EM and I continued our movie, we are doing a movie, haha :)
We watched “Finding
Nemo” at night and had our traditional Cheese and Bickies. :)
Su, March 1st
Nooo!!! Summer is
over! Today is the first day of autumn... :( I cant believe SUMMER IS
OVER!!! But it is supposed to a very warm autumn, yeah! Summer
apparently was really warm this year – the avergae temperature and
lots of days were over 20 degrees even at night! But we didn't have
really hot days here this year, which everybody says is good, I would
have liked then though, haha ;)
But yeah. We all
slept until about 9am today and went to Newcastle at around
lunchtime. I thought we would go earlier but yeah.. We left at
quarter to twelve and it was so HOT when we left. Around 30 degrees
and the top was 34 or so. We drove through Swansea and saw really
nice – beautiful – beaches on the way!!! :) We had lunch at a
restaurant right at the beach at Merewether. So beautiful! I think
the beach was one of the most beautiful I have ever seen! I had a
delicious salad with prawns for lunch *-*
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| Selfie :) |
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| me and em :) |
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| I had the most delicious salad!!! |
We stayed there
until around 3pm and drove then to Newcastle. After a while Em and I
realised that there was a surf competition on and it was so much like
the competition in the movie “Soul surfer”, well to me, haha :) I
felt like I was in the movie. All the young kids surfing and hearing
the beep sound and yeah :) But it was getting darker and darker and
we could see the storm clouds coming so we didn't go out and just
drove around a little bit and then came back home at round 5pm. It
had been raining here at Lisarow, but fortunately the towels I had
hung out before we left were dry! ;)
It was a very nice
day and I loved it, especially the beach!!!
Mo, March 2nd
When I got up today
in the morning it was really nice and sunny morning but it got pretty
cold school today, haha. In SLR our teacher was't here so we got a
casual teacher and played Basketball and soccer instead of running –
pretty good I reckon :) Mrs Heaps asked me today if I want to be a
score keeper for the game on Wednesday, really cool! I hope I can do
this! It would be really cool, but I would miss
After school back at
home I did some homework and then I got a message from Makayla asking
me if I want to come to pizza in tonight for dinner. What a question
– of course! And thankfully Greg and Robyn said yes – they are
the best parents!!!:)
Greg drove me to
Clarinet Lessons as usual and on the way home he dropped me at
Makayla's house where we – Makayla, Hannah and I, waited until her
parents came home to go to the restaurant :) It was really, really
good! Ot was “all you can eat pizza” and they were coming around
offering us different pizzas – from Cheese pizza with and without
garlic, chicken, Australia pizza (bacon and egg), meat-lovers..
everything! And even dessert pizza!! This is a nougat base with
custard and icing sugar, haha, taste like a thick crepe, really good,
but I was so full, so I just tried a little bit :)
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| dessert pizza :) |
we drove back home
to Makayla's house and then a little bit later when Makayla's mum
came back they took me home and Makayla was driving, hahah, so cool!
:) She told me about “revenge” a tv series, which is supposed to
be really good! Thats wheat robyn says as well :) So cool, it is on
Monday, but we are taping it and i'll watch it tomorrow or so :)
Tue, March 3rd
Tuesday means “three
periods tuesday” yeah! :) So I had English, Business and SLR
(sport) today. We did some writing work in english, which is now
getting pretty similar to what we were doing back at home in Germany
last year – analysing and interpreting texts. Our teacher wasn't
there again in SLR and we had another teacher instead and played
basketball and some different games with the basketball :)
After school me and
my friends went down to Maccas but I didn't stay very long, because I
had some stuff to do for this afternoon and I don't get anything to
eat and yeah..
Back at home I
facetimed with my best friend Sophia Marie in Canada ( heyy :) )
which was awesome!!! <3 <3 :* I miss you so much! But facetime
is great!!
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And then did some homework and especially packed my parcel
I am going to send home soon with some stuff like books and the
junior uniform and stuff.. I have to hurry up because it takes like 4
months or so..
I also cooked dinner
– spagehtti carbonara – because that's what Robyn said yesterday
if I go out I have to cook dinner hahha ;)
So, this was the
post about week 32 and 33. :)
Love you,
Sophi
Sophi
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