Leon T. - Day 22 (27.3.) EASTER

Today Jaydin, Leon H., Tom, me and Jaydin's brother Deren all woke up at around 11:00 o'clock. The reason for us all sleeping in the same house, is that we went for a little 3 day trip to the beach house of Jaydin's family. After waking up and slowly regaining our energy, we went down to the beach, which was only a few minutes away from their beach house and luckily not stony at all. After arriving there, just the very few of us went for a good, but very cold swim, that sadly didn't last very long, because the water was freezing cold.

After returning from our little excursion to the beach, we ate a good breakfast consisting of bacon, eggs, toast and hotcross buns with everyone. Then we proceeded to pack our things into the car, because we were about to leave the beachhouse at Ocean Grove, since we had to prepare for a nice Easter buffet dinner at the Langham Hotel in Melbourne later on with everyone we went to the beach house with, as well as with my host mother and other family members on the part of Leon H's exchange student.

At roughly 7:00 o'clock each one had arrived and we began to eat through the gorgeous Easter buffet, which had a huge variety of starters, even more main dishes and a very satisfying amount of desserts.

Just a few examples of the main dishes we got to enjoy, were a chicken curry, a cauliflower vegetarian curry, a lot of meat dishes and two things I had never tried in my life before until this day. Those two things were Peking duck, which is traditionally eaten with scallion, cucumber and sweet bean sauce with pancakes rolled around the fillings and Oysters, that were freshly cooked and refined with chopped bacon on top of it.

I think everyone greatly enjoyed the dinner and there was not a single thing that I ate which I didn't like. I reckon that almost everyone felt that way since there were no complaints at all and we all had a great time while talking and eating.

Three words I learned here in Australia:
Bottle-o: A shop that sells alcohol and is often attached to a pub.
Bloke: A really good and nice guy that everybody likes.
Fuck oath: Commonly used instead of the words "I'll say!" or "Damn straight".