Exchange Australia: G'day Mate!

At this very moment you’re all probably either at school, working or doing something else, which cannot possibly be as exciting as what I’m doing: WRITING THIS BLOG ON MY WAY TO AUSTRALIA! Not nearly as exciting, was I right?

So, I’m all settled: I’ve got my little pillow, my headphones on and just finished my let’s say not-too-delicious-dinner (yup, despite everything they try I can’t say the food has improved a lot, well basically, not at all), and I’m about to watch Taken 2, but before that I’ll give you a little introduction to my blog, since this will basically be a virtual diary of my exchange. I probs (Aussie slang, learnt from my exchange Bella) won’t write down everything in detail though, cause there’ll be teachers reading this too and we want them to keep thinking I’m a super hard-working, well behaving, model student, don’t we?

Anyways, so I’ll be telling you what I’ll be doing, for the most part, and things like the cultural differences I experience. As I already mentioned, my exchange is called Bella (her real name’s Isabella, but I actually think I’ve never even called her that), and she has already lived with my family and me for 9 weeks in fall/winter. During those 9 weeks we became really close, and we’re basically like sisters now, so I’m really looking forward to seeing her again and sharing stories about what we’ve been up to after she left. Bella lives in the Gold Coast, a city, obviously on the coast, beneath Brisbane. This is where I’ll be staying for the following 7,5 weeks. She has one brother, Rory, who’s 22 and goes to university in Brisbane. Her mum and dad own a restaurant/pub and her dad also works at a radio station right next to St Hildas, the school Bella goes to.

I actually left Holland a couple of days ago, because Dominique, her parents and I spent a couple of days in Singapore before Do and I went to Brisbane. Luckily, we’ve already had the longer flight (13 hours!!!), so we’ll only have to fly for another 8 hours to Australia now. We had a really good time in Singapore and the city was truly amazing! We went to universal studios, lots and lots of shopping malls, China town, Little India, we had a mani-pedi, went on a night safari and just walked around the city. I won’t go into too much detail though, because this blog is about Australia, plus, I don’t think you really care about what clothes I bought and what food I ate at which fancy restaurant, do you?

So here I am on the plane to Australia, about to see my exchange sissy again and finally experience what I’ve been looking forward to for ages (I think I even set my mind to going on exchange before I went to high school, which was about 4 years ago). Anyways, going to watch Taken 2 now, the next time I’ll post something I’ll be in the land of the Aussies!!!

Do and I at Schiphol