#62 School again – I am a Senior girl now!! :) My first haircut in Australia, an excursion on the second day back at school, christmas presents from my mum and dad and more than 200 days! Oo :)

Hey Guys,

this week was a very special one. Do you know why? There are a couple of reasons.

First one is that school started on Wednesday and I am a Senior girl now, hahaha :)) A big girl with a different school uniform who has only 6 subject now :) But to get more information you have to read further down :P

Another reason is that it was 200 days on Wednesday. Incredible isn't it? Time goes so fast, so so fast!

But now it is time to read my review for you :)

HAVE FUN!

Tue, January 27^th

Do you know what?! 

I went for a walk today in the morning again! That was soo good! I couldn't set my alarm, because Em was sleeping with me and I would have woken her up, so when I woke up I looked on my and it was only 6am … so I laid awake until 6.30 and decided that I want to go for a walk now and it had just stopped raining – so perfect! It was so nice and peaceful and I heard all the bird singing :)

I went to the light near my school – where I have to go tomorrow again, but that is a different topic.. - and back which was a bout an one hour walk. :) when I came home Greg was awake and having breakfast. I did some more sit-ups and my 7 min workout on my phone :) Good day, I know ! ;)

After having a nice long shower I had breakfast a well and Em, Robyn and Nan woke up a little while after as well. It was raining again and really heavy so Nan had to stay a bit longer until about 1pm. I went with Robyn in the car and she dropped me at Gosford shopping centre, where I had a look in Aldo to see if they had any cheap Australia day stuff and I got thongs for $1.30, pretty good isn't it? :) I was talking to Makayla on my phone the whole time and people were looking a but funny at me, hahah :) I had some time left and didn't know what to do and so I went to Bakers delight and I was lucky Emily was working. :)) So I was talking to Emily a bit and she gave me a free Cheesemite scroll – thanks heaps!!

And did you know what, Cheesemite scroll was invented in 1994 ;) I learnt it today, hahah, it was on the back on the paperbag.. haha :)) I can't believe that I like Vegemite and Cheesemite scrolls, I am turning into an Aussie! Oo :)

Em went to her best friends house, Emily, and came back at around 4pm.

After we came back I did some folding up and wrote a little bit or a lot for my blog, hahah :)

And yes, tomorrow is school again, a new year!! year 11!! Oo Today we were able to look at our new timetables online, but mine is a bit confusing.. I think there are some things wrong.. I'll have to talk to the teachers tomorrow.

I also got a hair cut today, my first one here in Australia Oo, but don't expect too much, I just trimmed it a tiny little bit, because I want long long hair :))

When we came home I did some more work on my blog, haha and then decided to bake some bread. Yep, you got it right, I made some bread, haha :) I did it twice before and it was really nice – it is an kind of “Vollkornbrot”, a wholemeal flour bread with lots of seeds in it – yum!

Yum!

And I also decided that I want to take a quinoa, avocado, tomato spinach salad for lunch tomorrow and did this :) And then I cooked dinner, well kind of put the beer battered fish in the oven and did the salads- one for me and Robyn and a different one for Greg and Em.Yes, lots of cooking! And in the main time Robyn sewed my skirt for school tomorrow because it is way to big, haha :)

I went to bed early because I did not want to be tired for tomorrow – the first day of school! I was feeling a bit sad when I went to bed, but I think it was just one of this short downs I sometimes have..

Mo, January 28^th

I am a Senior Girl now!!

Haha, yes! As you probably now know – today was the first day of this new school year! I am year 11 now, which means that I am a senior now, haha! And that means new uniform and stuff :)

SENIOR!! Omg, the shirt is so big! Oo

I got up pretty early today – first day excitement, haha :) I was really keen to walk to school, but unfortunately it was raining really heavy and so I was driven to school. Today only year 7 and 11 and 12 had to come to school, so it was pretty empty.. Year 8, 9 and 10 have on e more day of holidays, not fair! Why? I think it is because it is something new for year 7 and 11 and so we get a chance to get used to it..

It was so nice to see al my friends again and everybody kept hugging everybody, hahah. :) IT is so weird to see everybody in the senior uniform, we look so old, haha :) 

We had to go to the common room, where we had kind of a workshop the whole day. We learnt about the Atar system, why year 11 is so important, some study tips, ect. It was interesting but a little bit boring as well. At recess Felicity and I went to see Mr Kellerman who is responsible for the subject-selection, because I had line 6 free. I now have Business studies, English, Maths Advanced and Extension, Chemistry, Hospitality and SLR (Sport). I am pretty happy with my subjects. :)

Last period after lunch was our first lesson of year 11. I had Hospitality which I was really excited about and it was one of the subjects I as looking forward the most to.. But to be honest I was a bit disappointed, because we are not going to cook until week 7 and it doesn't sound that good and is pretty expensive.. So I am now thinking about swapping to Food tech, which I had last year and it was great! :) Haha – and here a tip for future exchange students: As you can see, it is always better to not have any expectations and get positively surprised rather than be disappointed.. but hospitality is not that bad, I think it just is not perfect for just one term..

After school, when I was leaving school, I met Mrs Heaps, Mrs Bennett and Mr Angel and was talking to them a little bit, so I was a bit late when I arrived at Ems school Oo... She also got her new class and is very happy, which is great! Her best friend Emily is in her class again! :)

Because we are year 11 now, we get some free periods, we finish at 12.10pm on tuesday -hehe – and we also have our own toilets, only for year 11 and 12, which are a little bit nicer and have soap, paper towel and a mirror, haha ;))

Back at home there was a great surprise waiting for me, actually all of us!

There a pick package from home!!

thanks mani and papi!! Your are the best! :*

Love all the presents!! *-*

IT was the package my mum and dad had sent for christmas! Yep, so you'll probably think, a bit late now, more than one month after christmas.. But they had sent it on December 12^th and it just hadn't arrived.. we all thought it was lost and gone forever, but luckily not!! I was sooo happy when we got it and opened it!

New shirt - very pretty :)

There was some Lindt Chocolate for Greg and Robyn and a card, a nice bag and beautiful owl for Em and two very pretty shirts, a little wonderful angel and a little Key ring which is a photo key ring for me – very, very nice! And two lovely cards -from Alex and Mami and Papi! Everybody was so happy, thank you soo much!! And some Rittersport chocolate ;) You are the best mami and papi and Alex and Philipp!!! I love you so much <3 <3

I also had band again today in the afternoon, which was very funny as well.

What a great day today!! It was fantastic! It was not worth being sad yesterday, but after every down there is an even bigger up!

Thur, January 29^th

I went a marine Studies excursion today, which was pretty funny. :) We had to go to Roll Call as normal and we then met at the bus station where Ms Mathewson had organised a little bus and she drove it, haha :) We went to Gosford Pool where we had to swim different tasks and do you know what? Everybody passed! Some of us needed a second or third chance but everypody passes, but to be honest it was pretty easy! We had to swim 400m, dive 10m long, 25m long with 3 times to take air and stuff like this, not too hard. :) We finished at around 12 o'clock and we had Fish and Chips for lunch- well I forgot my money, hahah, so I didn't. But that was allright, because I had lots of fish and chips in the last few days and I didn't want to spend more money.. But I got some chips from Taylah which was very nice!

The Gosford Wetland :)

We came back to our school at about 1.10pm which was exactly the start of lunch, but it took me a while until I could find my friends in the senior area and I even had to call them,haha :) For the last period I had chemistry which was awesome, I love it!! We got some information about the subject and then started doing some group work, which we are going to continue tomorrow.

Because of the excursion today, I missed four other classes and I don't think that is so good, but I cant change it, so suck it up princess! I missed SLR (we are going to do a BEEP test tomorrow Oo I 've heard terrible things about this!), English (I am not sure if I am advanced or standart), Maths (we are only 7 students :)) and twice a week Wednesday and Thursday we start at 7:30 Oo) and Hospitality which I have no idea what they did...

After school I did some schoolwork for chemistry and wrote an Essay for my grandpa about the confirmation and why I want to do it (“Firmung”).

We had tacos for dinner which was very good, as always :)) I LOVE TACOS!!

Fr, January 30^th

Today was a very, vey nice and warm day. But when I walked to school in the morning it was still pretty cold and I regretted it a bit that I didn't bring my jumpa.. But it got warmer over the day.. slowly but it did ;)

I met Lucy again on the way and we walked together to school, she is year 9 and very nice!

Today was my first real school day, because on Wednesday we had more like a workshop day and yesterday I was on Excursion. 

It was a great day and I am actually really happy that school is back, because it is just so nice to spend time with my friends and stuff.. Even though we get so much homework now in year 11, it is very different to year 10!! Everything is so serious because it counts for the HSI (Abitur) now.

I had English (advanced :) ), Business students, Chemistry, SLR and a free period today. In the free period I managed to change from Hospitality to Food tec, which is great and I am really, really happy now! I am siting next to Makayla which is even better!! :)

I am sitting next to Ebony in English and Business studies and it seems like that is going to be very good! We are reading a novel called “the day of triffids” in english and it is the the same teacher as I had last year, which I am really happy about! 

Business studies seems to be hard, that is was our teacher says, but I think it is very good for the future and sounds interesting so I am glad I picked it!

In Chemistry we finished or continued our experiment we started yesterday. I think we – Will, Miles and me – did a good job, well I hope so. :) But we'll see it on monday.

In SLR which is Sport we are doing Fitness for this term and did the BEEP test today. I am not sure if you w´know what it is, here is an explanation. :) I got 7.1 which was pretty good I think, only one girl was better and she got 7.3. :PP

The beep test, also known as the bleep test, multi-stage fitness test, or shuttle run test, is used by sports coaches and trainers to estimate an athlete's maximum oxygen uptake better known as VO2 Max. The beep test is especially useful for players of sports like football, hockey, or rugby. The beep test involves running continuously between two points that are 20 meters apart (also found in 15 meters). These runs are synchronised with a pre-recorded audio tape, CD or laptop which plays beeps at set intervals. As the beep test proceeds, the interval between each successive beep reduces, forcing the athlete to increase velocity over the course of the beep test, until it is impossible to keep in sync with the recording.

We had swimming today as well but it was our last lesson on a friday because we are moving to a thursday at 3.30, because I am moving up classes :P I really, really liked my class and especially my teacher, but I want get better, so that's all right. :)

And what do you think did we had for dinner? Salmon and Salad, yeah!!! That is my absolute favourite dinner, hahah :)

Sa, January 31^st

After having breakfast I continued doing some homework.. yes, we actually get homework now and year 11 is so much harder now! Lots of homework, haha :) And I can tell this after only 3 days Oo But that's all right, I like studying and I am used to it from Germany, so no probs for me :)

After a while I went down to the pool to read a little bit and tan myself, hahah :)

When I cane back up Em and I had some lunch and then went for a bike ride to Bilo, where I wanted to post some postcards, but the Newsagent was closed already.. Well, I am unlucky haha.. But we still had something to do. We bought some apples for Robyn who is going to do a 28 juice fast, so only juicing for 28 days!!!

It was very hot today, okay not that hot.. but yes, kind of hot and we got really warm and sweaty riding our bikes so we decided to jump into the pool at home :)

We practised our under-watershow and Em shoed me different starts ( how to dive – there are 3 different options) and the different tumble turns for Breaststroke and Freestyle.

At around 5pm we went outside to catch up with our neighbours Dean and Lorraine and their two kids Jack and Luke. We stayed there until around 8 pm and it was very nice!

The sunset was just zoo beautiful!!! Really really nice!

WoW, the Colours!!

And the moon was out as well :)

Su, February 1^st

Pinch and a punch for the first of the months, slap on the bag and you can't get me back.

That's what Em always says at the first of the months :)

I stayed in bed pretty long today, and one reason was that I could not stop thinking about my earphones.. I could't find them yesterday and I just can't remember where I put them.. I hope they are somewhere at home and I didn't loose them.. But I search d everywhere and we all couldn't find them :(

Well, I had to get up anyway so I got up, had some breakfast and did some of my food tech homework. We had to write down exactly what we ate for one day (grams, calories,..) and then compare to our nutrients and energy needs and see if it is to much or little.. and then write and short essay about it.. I wrote about 1.5 pages.. :) It was pretty hard to write down exactly what I ate but very good to see it!

At around 12 o'clock we had some friends coming for lunch - John and Debbie and John Dad. John and Greg have been friends since they were 5 years and they are still very good friends.! Tehy all three are so nice! Em and I made a potato bake and I made a garden salad, while greg cooked some snags and stakes on the BBQ. But we didn't have lunch until 2.30pm because we were busy talking and eating our cheese and bikies.

It was a very nice lunch and I had heard so many stories about John and it was very nice to meet him and his wife and dad, who Greg calls Uncle. :)

Here is a photo of lisarow plaza - i thought i might just take a photo so you can see where all our shops are :)

And this is a photo of the news paper - it is thrown out of a car window :) very funny!

So, this was my week-review for now :) I am really enjoying school at the moment and happy to go back tomorrow.. but who know how it will be in a few weeks, haha :)

Love you heaps, 

Sophi

# 61 Australia Day!!!

G'day mate! :)

Today a typical Aussie – Greeting because of Australia day ;)

I got up at about 8.30am today in the morning and as usual Greg was already awake. But I am usually awake before him I just lay in my bed or read . Today as well :)

A little while later Robyn and Em were also awake and we all had breakfast – with the TV of course ;) They showed lots of Aussie things and ad some singer on as well singing Down under or Waltzing Matilda. I then decided that I have to learn the Australian Anthem and printed it out. And I think I know the first verse now :)

Em and I then got changed in our Australia – Outfits, real Aussies, haha :) I bought a shirt a couple od days ago (from Aldi ;) ), some aussie devil ears, I got a free tattoo and painted my nails in blue, red and white :) All ready for the family to come!

Yeah!! Posing for a photo :)

And of course a selfie :P

My outfit .. :)

We were hosting Australia Day this year, because we have a pool and we thought we wuld have a nice day down at the pool. It was beautiful yesterday – 35 degrees and only sun – and today?! Rain and 24 degrees.. Well, that means no pool.. But we were still sitting outside and having a BBQ. :)

The family started coming at around 1pm and we were about 20 people in the end. The little girls were really crazy today, lot more than usual and it was very hard to control them. Unfortunately they hurt Em and she was crying a bit, but it got better soon! And it got better while we were watching a barbie movie..

Chloe is so cute!!

Lunch was delicious, we had potato bake, pest – pasta salad, garden salad and sausages :)

And later we also had some dessert – we had lots! Pavlova, Anzac cookies (which Em and me did yesterday), Lamingtons and little chocolates. So much, I had 2 Anzac biscuits, which were really good :) (I know I did them, haha :) :P

Pavlova

Anzacs and Lamingtons :)

Just before dessert time, we got some more Visitors :) the Bates came. I a hope I explained who the Bates are, if not I am very sorry! They are my familys best friends and Emily's best friend is Emily, their daugher. And there is also Zoe(9years) and Alysha (12 years). Tehy are all very nice!!

@ Alysha, it is so cool, that you read my blog ;)!!

They stayed pretty long until 8 pm or so (the others left at around5pm) and we started making a movie, which was reall much fun! :) I was the cool girl Sam, Em was a spoilt rich girl Amilia, Alysha was the sporty Lexi, Zoe was a teddybar fanatic called Charlie and Emily B. was Pam the clown, ahha :))

I asked Greg and Robyn if we could take some family – Aussie – Day photos and they said yes and so we took some – they are great aren't they? :)

Happy Australia day!!

different position ;))

Nan stayed overnight and so Em “had” to sleep with me :) haha, no, it is always very nice, when she sleeps with me in my big bed :)

I had a great Australia – Day and it was very much fun, now looking back, haha :) It was a bit hard with the littlies sometimes, but they are soo cute! :)

Happy Australia Day! 26^Th January 2915

I am now always going to celebrate Australia Day! :)

Here is the National Anthem:

Advance Australia Fair

Australians all let us rejoice,

For we are young and free;

We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil;

Our home is girt by sea;

Our land abounds in nature’s gifts

Of beauty rich and rare;

In history’s page, let every stage

Advance Australia Fair.

In joyful strains then let us sing,

Advance Australia Fair.

Beneath our radiant Southern Cross

We’ll toil with hearts and hands;

To make this Commonwealth of ours

Renowned of all the lands;

For those who’ve come across the seas

We’ve boundless plains to share;

With courage let us all combine

To Advance Australia Fair.

In joyful strains then let us sing,

Advance Australia Fair.

My Aussie Collection :)

#60 Sydney (Opera House, Barbour Bridge, Madame Tussauds and Löwenbräu Haus), 2x Terrigal Beach and late Christmas present ;)

Hey guys,

I just realised that this is my 60^th post. This is a lot isn't it? :)Hahah, and heaps more to go!

This week was an amazing week, I did so much! Really, really much! I am not going to tell you anything right now, so let's start reading.

Just one photo for the start ;)

Tu, January 20^th

Today is a day I have waited really long for! We are going to Sydney!!! *-* Yes, you have read it right, we are going to SYNDEY!! And we, that is Greg, Robyn, Em and me. We are going to stay overnight and spend tomorrow as well in Sydney, which is amazing!

We left Lisarow at around 10am in the morning, and I was ready to go since 7.30 or so, haha :) So I had to wait a little while but I did some work in the house.

But when we left it was still raining and it looked really bad the weather and we were really sad.. But when we arrived in Sydney, the sky looked a lot better and it stopped raining and we had a beautiful day! We drove over the harbour bridge which was amazing! *-*

Harbor Bride!

Before we drove to the hotel we made a little Sydney -City Tour and drove past the channel 7 building and the Lindt-Cafe where the Sydney Siege happened. That was a bit creepy to see it..

Lindt Cafe, it is all shut down and there is this yellow wall..

After seeing this and the busy Sydney city we drove to a part of Sydney which is called “the Rocks”, where we were going to stay. This part of Sydney is amazing! Do you know why?

It is the part of Sydney where to Opera House and Harbour Bridge are. :)))

Our Hotel was really, really good!! We had one room with 2 double beds, but that was perfect, because we did not want to spend any time in the hotel besides sleeping. And from our room we had an amazing view over the harbour bride!

Our Hotel also had a pool on the 8^th floor from where you could see both – Harbour Bridge and Opera House.! *-* SOO cool!

Wow!!

After checking in and bringing our stuff into the room we went for a walk. We walked over the Harbour Bridge! Yes! It was a dream of mine for a long time and we did it!!

Me on the harbor Bride - A dream comes true!!

the view was amazing!!

Selfie on the bridge!!

Antoher photo!! :)

We walked back again, after taking lots and lots of photos and walked to the Opera House! Another dream of mine! We got some lunch – sandwiches – on the way, which we ate next to the Opera House. :)

Selfiee!

Opera House!

When we finished eating, we hear a women calling out for the 2pm Opera House tour and we decided very quick and spontaneous that we want to it! My mum and dad and me, we gave the Crellins (My hostfamily) a voucher for a tour for christmas – perfect!

So close, incredible!

The tour was really, really good and I think, I am sure, it was even better than going to the Opera House for a convert or so, which would have been way more expensive. And we could see different rooms and our tour guide was amazing! She told us so many interesting stories and the one hour went so quick! Everybody loved the tour, so it was a great present!! :)

the big hall!!

me inside the opera house!

Photo from the top of the Opera House

After the tour we had to rush back to the hotel, we had 5min to fresh up and then right to our next sightseeing point :) Robyn had vouchers for a Harbour Ship cruise for 1.5 hours on an old sailing boot, which was great!!! It was soo good! The view was just so great!! :)

Selife with the sail in the background! ;)

Amazing view with the sun!!

 

Family photo with the captain :)

Em and I could even climb the mast, which was incredible! Thank you so much Greg and Robyn! It was very much fun to see it all from up there :)

Climbing the mast!1

We even saw the place or building where dance academy was filmed :))) So cool!

After the cruise we went back to the hotel and got changed and then went to Circular Quay, where all the ferries arrive, because the Bates where coming over from Manly where they were for 4 days to have dinner together :)

we could see the opera House from another angle :)

We went to the “Löwenbräu Haus” which was very, very cool! All the waiters were German hahaah :) I had a Knödel with Souce and everybody loved it!! It was very, very much fun and the Bates are great!!!

<3 feeling at home!

Greg liked the beer - franziskaner! ;)

Group-photo!!

After we finished dinner at like 9.30pm - we stayed there for ages!!! - we walked with the Bates to Circular Quay because they had to take the ferry back and we got some Ice cream. :))

Gelato - what a great place to eat some Gelato :)

harbor!!!!!

The view of Sydney and the Harbour Bridge and Opera House was amazing! Totally different again!

On the way back we stopped at a souvenir shop where I bough a little pencil case and cap for me :) Which I have been looking for for ages :)

Back at the hotel we had a quick look over Sydney from the pool again and took some photos and then we went to bed. We were soooo tired after this amazing, very busy day!!!

It was about 11pm when we went to sleep. :)

View from our hotel - that is the best, isn't it??

all the Skycrapers at night *-*

I loved this day today it was amazing and we did so many things I had dreamt of and I cant believe we did it – Harbour Brides and Opera House!!! :) Thank you so much!

We, January 21^st

OMG!! The breakfast was soooo good! We had buffet and it was incredible how many different things they had! We could choose from cereal to bacon and egg and chocolate croissant to pancake and mufins and everything!! We could even do our own fresh juices :)) I had cereal with lots of fruit (yum!!), 2 fresh made juices (they were delicious), a little bit of bacon and scrambeld eggs.. *-* There was so much more I wanted to eat but I couldn't, too much! We were all so full and we did not anything else the whole day, haha. I had a little salad when we came home in the evening and Greg and Em some toast I think.

After we finished breakfast we packed all our stuff and checked out. The hotel was really, really good and I would come back for sure – If I had the money... ;)

We then drove around a little bit in the rocks and Greg showed us where his mother lived and we also saw the buildings of dance academy again. :)

The rocks - litturally ;)

But destiny today was darling harbour, which is a very famous part of Sydney as well. We bought this special ticket where you can go to 5 attractions for the price of 1.5 attractions – weird I know, but good! - and went to Madame Tussaud's and the famous Sea Life.

They were both really really good!!

Surfing!!

Taylor Swift :)

Greg and Robyn and the girl from Grease :)

Me and Obama :) Oo

Lots and lots of photos! 

I went to the Madame Tussaud's in London in year 8 when I went on Exchange for 1 week and love it! It was so cool to see some of the same wax-figures again and I had to take photos with them like Einstein, Queen or Marilyn Monroe. But also lots of new ones!

Me and Einstein :)

Me and Marilyn Monroe

Sealife was really fun and we saw lots of sharks and other animals :)) But we were getting really tired at the end and it was getting a bit late … But that's allright, we enjoyed it heaps!!!

Family <3

Shark Oo

Selife in the shark tunnel!!!

nice colors :)

Selfie "underwater" :P

We left Sydney at around 5pm or, which means we were in the middle of the big traffic but Greg is a great driver and we managed it to come home at around 7pm. :)

We all were really exhausted, but so happy, especially me!! I had two incredibly good, amazing, fantastic, best days and I am soo thankful to my aussie-family for showing me everything!! I would have never dreamt, that I can see and viit so many different places – so cool!

Thu, January 22^nd

^{Happy Birthday, Alex!! I wish you a great Birhtday my little brother !! <3 I hope you get your present soon!}

Happy, Happy Birthday!!

Today in the morning we a little sleep in after the two action days in Syndey :)

We watched the end of the movie 27 dresses we started yesterday, which is a really good movei – rom com, ahah :)

I texted Makayla in the morning if she wants to come for a swim and she said yes, cool! She came at around 12am and stayed until 2.45, when she was picked by her mum to go to work. It was really nice to catch up again and we had so much fun, talking, talking, talking! I am soo happy, that we became such good friends and we can talk for hours about nothing and everything, hahah:)

Thank you zoo much!

She also gave me a Christmas present, which was very, very cute! I got a beckham parfume and body lotion set, really, really, good! Thank you so much!

Love it!

After she lest I went back to the pool and a little bit later Em came to join me and we had heaps of fun :)

Fr, January 23^rd

I got up at 7am today in the morning. Why so early?

Because I went to the beach!! Yeah, you got it right! My second time to the beach :)) I was so excited, haha :) Yesterday at 11pm or so, Makayla texted me to ask if I want to come and I said yes, of course!

I left our house at 8.10 and met Makayla on the way and we ducked in Maccas to get a Chocolate Muffin for her :) We then took the bus at 9am and after getting the second bus at Gosford to Terrigal we arrived at the beach at around 10.30. I know it takes a while with the bus, but that is allright!:) It takes about 25 min in the car and 1.5 hours with the bus, hahah :)

The waves were so big today, haha :) We were a little bit scared, but we went in though! After lying in the sun and taning (most important, haha) we went in and had so much fun! There was this big wave which got us really hard and we swallowed a little bit of sand a water.. But yeah, haha :)

The waves were soooo big!!

But it was really much fun to jump over the waves or dive under them.

Then was tanning time again and selife time :) I actually got a bit tanned which was great! And Mami, I used suncreen of course! I put it on in the morning on my whle body, haha :) 50+ suncreen, so I did not get burned but nice and brown :)

Selfie with my bestie!!

We got some Fish and Chips for lunch which we ate at the beach again :) It was delicous!

the beach looked so beautiful!

We took the bus home at around 12.30 and Mikki's (Makayla – her new nicknem ;) ) dad picked us up from Gosford bus station.

When I came home I went pretty much straight to the pool, hahah :) A little bit later Em came as well and we had a nice time in the pool.

We had swimming lessons at 4.30 again and so we had to get changed and stuff... It was really fun, I really enjoy swimming and I am getting better every lesson. And my teacher is so nice, I don't want to change classes.. I had so much water today – beach, pool and pool! Omg, haha :)

At around 6.30 some friends came over for a bbq and swim, but I had enough water today so I watched them playing. :)

We had a nice bbq and a nice time! They stayed until a little bit after midnight – we did not notice how late it was!

Sa, January, 24^th

After the late night yesterday, we all had a long sleep in. I woke up at 6.30 but I went back to sleep undtil 7.15 and tehn again until 9 or so. I love it to see the sun in the morning and it shines in my room, which is great! But on the other side, it also wakes me up, but that is all right, I like it, haha :)

I did some computer stuff in the morning, transferring photos from my phone to my laptop and save them on the hard drive and stuff, haha :) Not very interesting, but important! I also did a backup on my laptop.

At around 1.30 we left to go to Erina fair, because we needed to buy a presenet for Scott, whose birthday party we are going today for dinner. Well, here we celebrate the adults-birthdays more like this: We come together in a restaurant, club or like today hotel and we have a nice time :) But everybody pays his own meal, so it not so expensive for the birthday-person. :)

At Erina Fair we also met Debbie and Ken for a little while, because it is their 39^th wedding anniversary today, and we had a little card for them. :)

I also bought a little Aussie-Devil thing for my hair, for Australia on Monday :))

Scotts birthday dinner was really good and I had a delicious Caesar Salad :) Ella, Kate and Lexi are soo cute! I spend lots of time doing some colouring in with them :)

We came home at around 11 pm and pretty much straight to bed. :)

Su, January 25^th

Today we had another sleep in, haha, we have to use the time before school goes back on Wednesday... ://

I did some work for my “Firmung” i'll have when I go back to Germany and then I was writing this post, hahah :)

At around 12.30 we had a family meeting, where we talk about the next and past week and so.. Haha, it went pretty long about 1.5 hours, but I liked it and I think it was really good. We are going to have it every Sunday now. :)

After this Em and I decided to make a movie and we started filming :) we did a trailer for a movie a couple of months ago and now we are going to do the movie, haha :)

At 5.30 Holly came to pick me up, because we - all my friends – decided to go out for dinner to the beach to Terrigal :) It was great!! We were 8 girls – Holly, Bec, Sarah, Makayla, Sophie (she came back from Canada on Friday), Emily, Felicity and me. 

The beach looked very nice! I wanted to go in - but i didn't have my swimmer..

We got some Fish and Chips for dinner and then some Ice cream. I had salted Caramel, which is one of my favourites, maybe even my favourite, haha :) The beach and sea looked so nice, and even though it was pretty late there were many people still swimming at 7 or 8pm.

Ut was very busy, because tomorrow is public holiday – Australia Day – and many people, especially the young ones, celebrate the whole night, hahah :)

WOW!! The sun!! <3

We also took a photo on my polaroid camera - Makayla and me :)

Sophie's mum brought me home at around 8.30pm and then it was “Skype Time”! Yeah!! I haven't really skyped with my mum and dad since 7 or 8 weeks and it was great to see them again. We had talked a little bit on the phone but it is just not the same to see them :) <3

We talked for a long time, until 11pm or so, haha :) But we had a lot to talk about, especially about my subjects for next year in Germany (Year 11 or Oberstufe) and also the “P-/W- Seminare” But I am pretty happy now, because I know almost everything now, what I want to choose. :)

And my mum had also a great idea, that I should take and exam to get a certificate of my english niveau so I am going to see which on eis the best (Cambridge, TOEFL,..)

It was great to see them again and they look soo happy! And my little brother Philipp is so cute! I cant wait to see him again! :)

I love you so much my best family and I can't wait to see you!!! <3

Sorry for the pic, it is the only on ei took, haha :) :P

So, this is the post about last week,

I hope you enjoyed it and it was a little bit shorter than the last one, haha :)

Love,

Sophi