Jan 28, 2012 - We went to the Zoo

We biked to the Melbourne zoo with our new bike. It was really really fun. We had to go down this really steep hill. There was even warnings about it. Then we got to the zoo. We had to get our pass thingies, and then we walked in. We saw lizards, we saw snakes, frogs, giant tortoises, we saw penguins, we saw giraffes, zebras, pelicans, koalas, we saw kangaroos, a baby kangaroo, we saw red kangaroos, we saw birds from all over Australia, we saw seals. we saw meercats. My favorite was the giant tortoises because they were really neat how...

Jan 28, 2012 - my new school

Hi everybody! Sorry I could not write to you the past 3 days, I was sick! Today we saw our new school. It was called collingwood college and was very big. It had two gyms and an 600 seat auditorium. It has grades k-12 and is internationally famous! There is even a wikipedia article about it. I am very exited about it and we start school on thursday!

Jan 28, 2012 - A busy week back in Melbourne

It has been lovely to see KT and Andy and be back to a base again. It has been much warmer all week in Melbourne than it was in Tasmania but it has not reached the dizzy heights of 40 degrees as it did the first week of January before we went to Tasmania. Andy's parents arrived last weekend too so after a couple of days relaxing and getting washing sorted etc we have been busy. On Tuesday evening we all went into Melbourne for a Chinese banquet as it was the Chinese New year. It was a lovely 8 course seafood meal with entertainment. It is...

Jan 25, 2012 - My friend Augie

Yesterday I played with Augie. It was really really fun. Augie is awesome, she's really neat. She laughs a lot, she's funny. I like her. She is five and three-quarters. She lives around the corner. Her house is fun, it's kind of like a maze to me cause I'm not really used to it yet. She lives with her mom, her dad and her uncle. In the morning I went to the park with Augie, it was fun. We played on the bouncy boat, it's a wooden boat that's on springs. Then we went to my house to get lunch. After that we dropped Augie off at her house. I...

Jan 24, 2012 - The Melbourne Museum

Today we woke up and took a walk to find a tennis court. Instead we found the melbourne museum. We bought tickets and went in. The museum had exhibits on the brain, the history of melbourne and one on evolution. First we went to the exhibit on melbourne history. There were parts on old neighborhoods and parts on modern melbourne, but the most interesting part was about a famous racehorse called Phar lap. Phar lap was the greatest racehorse in all the world in the 1900s. He had beaten all the horses in Australia so he went to America and...

Jan 24, 2012 - Going to the Fitzroy Garden

We walked to Fitzroy Garden. We got lost there. We thought we would be able to go play tennis. But it turned out the place we thought we would be playing tennis at was the Australian Open place so we couldn't play. The garden was fun. We went to the conservatory, we saw lots of flowers and trees.

Jan 24, 2012 - When I went to the Melbourne Museum

We went to a park by bike. It was fun because it was effort, because we had to climb up all those hills. We found out that the Melbourne Museum was there so my mom went to the grocery store and we went to have lunch in the Melbourne Museum, then we looked around. It was really fun. I liked the outside part, it was a bunch of trees and animals. Then we went home and after we had lunch we went to my friend Augie's. She lives around the corner. And we invited Augie over for dinner, and her parents came too.

Jan 23, 2012 - a day at the beach

Today we took the train through downtown melbourne to the beach. We built sand castles and went swimming and built more sand castles. We had chinese food for dinner and went to the train station but our train was delayed 20 minutes and we finally got home at 8:30

Jan 23, 2012 - Going to the Beach

I went to the beach. It was a nice sunny day. I went swimming with my dad. And after that when we came back my brother wanted to come swimming so we went back. Then we went and got dinner at a Chinese place. We got there by train and tram. Then we were there at the beach. It was pretty, the water was blue. There was hard rocks in the sea. They really hurt your feet. We found a sand bar. It was fun.

Jan 22, 2012 - Fitzroy Gardens

Today Me and my family went to Fitzroy Gardens. We went because we wanted to play tennis. When we looked on the map we saw a tennis racket and a ball so we thought that it meant that there were public tennis courts. But when we got there we realized that it meant the Australian open. Then when we walked home we went over to frannie's new friends house

Jan 22, 2012 - Happy as a clam

Isn’t it amazing that I’ve almost been here for 4 months, yet I feel that I’m just starting out my year abroad. I’ve learnt so much about myself in these months of constant transitions, which makes me excited to know myself when my time is up overseas. Not that the start of my wanderluster adventure was negative, more so challenging which has brought to me here, living by the ocean happy as a clam. I don’t know if I mentioned this, but my new years resolution this year was to be more selfish. I realize that sometimes I’m too much of a...

Jan 20, 2012 - The Australian open

When we woke up today my parents told us that we could go to the australian open. So, we walked to the train station and bought met cards. We took the train to Jolimont station and walked to the National Tennis Center. We bought passes and watched two matches. One men's doubles match, one women's singles match. We also watched Rafael Nadal on the big screen. Then we bought way overpriced australian open souvenirs, and took the train home.