Bjarne - Day 19 (24.3.) LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

Last day of school 

Today was the last school day. 

After waking up at 7:15am in the morning my exchange student and I ate breakfast. I ate like every morning some cereals, brushed my teeth and packed my bag for the school. We had to leave a little bit earlier, because we had to buy lunch for me. We left at 7:45am and picked up Tony like every school day. After that we drove to a baker and my host mother bought some bread for me, we arrived at school at 8:45am. The school day didn’t start with lessons, but with church services, at the school they call it chapel. It was split up in two church services, that split up half of the Senior School students. 

The first church services started at 8:55 am until 9:15 am and all the Germans had to sit on the stage. It was very interesting to see how they do the church services, it was led by a Reverend. A girl sang a song, another women did a preach and Bruce and an Australian student said the Lord's Prayer. It was really funny to hear it in too different languages at the same time. The second church services was the same like the first. It was a great experience.

The first lesson what we had was chemistry. It was really interesting to saw the differences between the German chemistry class and the Australian class. 

After that Bruce Jason and I had free time for 45 min. We walked through the school and explored the school property.

At 11:37 am the 3rd period began. They had math class and learned something about Quartic polynomials. 

The last period before the lunch was “active for life”. So they had to walk to each classroom what they had to day and a pedometer counted the steps.

After that, we had lunch for 50 min. I ate my sandwich and drank apple juice. It was really good. We talked too many Australian students and had fun. At the 5th and 6th period we had sport. It was really cool because we had sport outside. We were split up in four groups and played soccer and European handball. After that we played rounders, Its like baseball. The Australian student weren’t so good at soccer and handball, but in baseball. 

The school finished at 15:32 and Michael, Tony and I were pick up by Michael’s mother and we went home too ate lunch. We did not eat much, because in the evening we wanted to go to a birthday party for Luke. 

At 7:00 pm Michael’s dad brought us to the party. It was really awesome and they had a good DJ, nice food and there were so much people. The party ended at 12:00 a clock and I was really tired.

The day was really awesome but also sad. Because it was the last time, I get to see all the Australian students. But some students will visit us next year.

Reverend – Pastor 

Quartic polynomials- quadratische polynomiale

Pedometer- Schrittmesser

Leon H. - Day 14 (19.3.)

My fourteenth day here in Australia started at about 10:10 am. I woke up that late because two days before the other German exchange students and I were on the Great Ocean Road trip and I definitely didn't had enough sleep.

So then I stood up and had a glass of milk for breakfast, brushed my teeth and had a few matches against my exchange buddy Jaydin on FIFA 16. Suddenly his older sister Kara, who doesn't live at home anymore, came around for a short visit. At twelve o'clock we went into the city and had a ride on the Southern Star.

 

That took us about fifteen minutes and we had an amazing view over the whole city. After that we had an ice cream and went back home because Jaydin and I wanted to meet some other kids at the Sydenham Park Soccer Pitch. 

Playing soccer with them was great fun and after ninety minutes Roman and his exchange buddy Cameron finally arrived at the soccer pitch, by bike. We played soccer for two more hours and we had some crossbar challenges and dizzy penalties as well as a short match.
After that we went to Hungry Jack's and had something to eat. Hungry Jack's is the same like Burger King in Germany but the burgers are much better. 

Now we weren't hungry anymore and so we started to walk back home. Roman and I rode home by bike so we were much earlier there than Jaydin, his brother Deren and Cameron. When they arrived we played soccer in the street for about thirty minutes and then we went home.

It was already 5:30 pm and we wanted to go to a party in two hours so we just had one hour to play FIFA 16. Jaydin, his brother Deren, his step-brother James and I played a few matches all together and we totally forgot the time. Now we just had thirty minutes left to take a shower and to get ready for the party. I'm glad that we were ready in time.
Jaydin and I went to Cameron's house because his mother said that she will drive Roman, Cameron, Jaydin and me to the party. We met Leon T. and Kenan with their exchange buddies there and we had much fun.

The people there were very friendly and the music was also good but it was so loud that actually no conversation was possible. After four hours we had to leave because Jaydin's mom wanted to pick us up at 11:30 pm. So we said goodbye to almost everyone and left the party.
At home we watched a movie in our home cinema until 1:50 am before we went to bed. 

 

Furthermore I've learned plenty of new things and I have some words I want to explain to you:

* to scale = schwarzfahren
* ivories = Zähne
* to make tracks = die Kurve kratzen

I'm in Australia for fourteen days right now and I'm really glad to be part of this exchange. I've already seen so many interesting and fascinating things here and the exchange is not over yet so I'm probably going to see much more.
I just want to add that I really like my host-family and I think that I could accompany myself with the Australian lifestyle.