Finally I’ve got time to update my blog again! Sorry for letting you wait so long.

My first week at school began on Monday with an Orientation Day for all the new international students. On that day we got heaps of information and shown around the school area. The school is HUGE! You have about 5 minutes to walk from one end of the school to the other because the school doesn’t look like the schools in Switzerland where they have several floors and max. 2 different buildings. The schools here only have one floor but is made up of about 10 differents blocks. Plus that the school here is a lot less modern than at home.. They’ve only got wobbly tables and chairs and the whole place looks a bit old and ripped down. Not hard to understand if the school’s almost 50 years old! Our school uniform took a little time to get used to aswell. The worst part of it are the shoes, they’re just so ugly! But at least I don’t have to stand in front of my wardrobe every morning for half an hour to decide which clothes I should wear. And now to the subjects: I got to choose my subjects myself, so I chose Music, Dance, French, English, Maths and Physics. I’m actually quite happy with my choices, especially Maths is quite easy here and fortunately don’t have many assignments to do (so far). The other students (including the other international students) are all very nice and I’ve already found a few new friends. 🙂 But the biggest difference from the schools in Switzerland to the schools in Australia is the athmosphere. Everybody takes things a lot easier here, sometimes maybe a bit too easy.. The students talk and laugh during the lessons and the teachers have much less authority here! I don’t know what my teachers in Switzerland would do if I would behave like the students behave themselve here.. But it doesn’t bother me, I actually quite like it that the whole athmosphere at school and between the students and teachers is a lot relaxeder. What I also think is quite funny is that all the students take lunch boxes to school, so at lunch time you can see all the students walking around with their little lunch and cool boxes which mostly contain sandwiches, a drink, a fruit and some chocolate, cake or cookies. And last Wednesday I played real hockey for the first time! At first I thought it would be the normal hockey which I know from at home, but when we came to the field where we were going to play against another school I was quite shocked as I saw that we were going to play on real grass with some very strange looking sticks.. Therefore it didn’t go so well for us because many of our team had never played this sort of hockey before and we lost 5:0.. Well, I think that’s pretty everything I can say about the school at the moment. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask!

Last Friday also Gesa (from Germany) and Dorien (from Belgium) arrived. They were exchange students in Australia last year and also lived with Jas and Scott. They seem very nice so far.

And to finish of the week I’m going to tell you what we did yesterday. We 6 (Jas, Scott, Dorien, Gesa, Lisa and me) drove to Hastings Point which is about an hour away from where we live. There we visited some friends of Jas and Scott’s who were camping there. There was also a beach near the camping area which we went to.. Geez, I didn’t know that such beaches which you normally only see in those travel magazines really exist! It was probably on of the most beautiful beaches I’ve seen in my life. Turquoise water, white sand and blue sky. What do you want more? But we couldn’t go swimming on that beach because it wasn’t patrolled, so we drove to another beach which was close nearby and went swimming there instead. The water was a bit cold, but I didn’t mind.

Well, that was probably my week summarized. Next week we’re heading of to Stradbroke Island (Straddie). We’ll be staying there from Monday to Saturday (Jas has taken me out of school that week) filling the days with lying on the beach, tanning, swimming, surfing, boogie boarding and enjoying the weather which will hopefully be as nice as yesterday and today!

Great, just finished blogging in time because Lisa’s coming in 10 minutes and we’ll then head off to the city. A girl from Germany has her birthday today and invited us to lunch and movies with her and a few friends.