Rebecca - Day 20 (25.3.)

Today we slept into 9 o' clock after watching "Gossip Girl" last night. When we had woken up a bit, we went for a walk with the dogs in Brimbank Park. It was beautiful and there was lots of nature and I was really upset because I forgot my phone for taking pictures. 

After our 30 minutes walk we had something to eat before we drove to Luna Park in St. Kilda. 

When we got there we were really dissapointed as we had higher expectations. There were a few rides they were okay but most of them were lame...

The highlight of Luna Park was the roller coaster that went around the whole Park , but it wasn't really fast because there was an instructor standing up the whole time. Sad that this was our highlight!

After that I was really embarrassed because of Hannah screaming like a little girl and everybody heard her and started laughing when the ride ended. Even the little 6 year old boy who went on the ride before us, wasn't scared at all! :)

After all that hard work we started to get hungry.

So we got a massive stick of fairy floss. But it was way too much, so we gave the fairy floss to a cute little girl :)

Later that day we traveled in the car (I achieved again not to sit in the middle^^) Mornington Peninsula where we went to the Red Hill Show (a show which is every year on a large free field). At the show we watched a dog show where dogs had to jump/climb up a tall wall. The winning dog reached up to 2.7 metres! But my favourite Roxy didn't win :(

At the show we also saw horses, alpacas, sheep and there was also a little market with lots of little "things". 

We then went out for dinner to the Royal Hotel with Hannah's and Carsten's (Hannah's brother) grandparents and their cousins. When the adults were busy with talking to each other, Hannah, Jessie (Hannah's cousin) and I decided to go for a little walk. We were lucky Jessie's brother Tom who is already an adult offered to drive us to a frozen yogurt shop. After that he drove us to their house where we would stay over night. (The parents decided to come home later.)

At Jessie's hause we played tennis on her own tennis court (!!!) and went for a little bath into her pool :)

All in all it was a really nice day where Hannah and I had lots of fun and I got to know the other part of Hannah's family. 

Three words I learned:

fairy floss = Zuckerwatte

nauseous = übel (jemandem ist übel)

sorrow = bekümmert sein

Janna - Day 22 (27.3.) EASTER

Today I woke up at 8:30 am in the tent because we stayed at Georgia´s grandparents’ house in “Malmsbury” overnight. After we got up, Liam (my host-brother), Georgia and I had an Easter egg hunt in the backyard. It was really funny and Liam won the race. 

Then we had breakfast. Julia (Georgia´s nana) made us egg with bacon on toast which was really good.

Because we were going to have a big lunch, first we had to “walk off” breakfast. So we walked into the little town of “Malmsbury” and drunk a hot chocolate in a park on a lake. 

After returning from the park, Georgia and I watched the movie “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”.

At 3:30 pm we had a very delicious Easter lunch. Georgia´s grandparents cooked a leg of lamb, baked potatoes, some vegetables, and gravy. 

Directly after lunch we played football, and afterwards cricket, in the backyard. Andrew, my host-dad, showed me how to kick, handball and bounce the football. It looks really easy but when you try it you realize that it is actually hard to do. With a little bit of practicing I got some kicks and played with Georgia, Liam and Andrew. 

Later we tried another typical Australian sport game called cricket. We played the version “backyard cricket” in which the batter stays in front of a tree with the bat. The other players are in the whole backyard and throw the ball to the batter and, after the batter has hit the ball, try to catch the ball. It is hard to hit the ball with the bat but it is a lot of fun. Furthermore the game was really funny because we played it with the whole family, and the three dogs of Georgia´s grandparents and our dog were helping with the fielding, running all the time after the balls. The dogs would catch the ball, and then would not give it back to us. 

When we were finished playing cricket, we went back in the house and ate some Australian dessert. It is called Pavlova and looks like a cake. Inside is whipped egg whites and cream and on the top are chocolate and passion fruit and it tastes so yummy!
(Comment Mrs Otten: Try to make your own Pavlova!)
Just follow the link:
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/14966/pavlova

The last thing we did at Georgia´s grandparents` house was fly Liam´s helicopter. He really wanted to show me his helicopter and ask me after he showed me how to control it if I would like to fly it. It was the first time for me to do something like that so it was hard to do it in the beginning but after a while I got it and the helicopter was in the air. 

In the evening we left to go to our house and got back at about 8:00 pm. 

It was a nice and funny day which I really enjoyed like all the other beautiful days here in Australia. 

These are my three new words that I have learned in Australia: 

“sink“ - Spülbecken 

„geese“ - Gänse 

„spud“ – you calling someone a “spud” is when you affectionately call someone (a friend) an idiot 

Elena - Day 21 (26.3.) GOOD FRIDAY

On Good Friday we went to Anglesea to the holiday house of the family. 

We went there with Patrice's mum, aunt and grandparents. It took us two hours to go there because there was so much traffic on the streets. After that we had a rest because we were really exhausted. Then we went to the supermarket and bought stuff for dinner. For dinner her aunt made tacos. Their were really delicious. After dinner we watched the movie "The devil wears Prada". I already watched it at home but not in English.

Today I woke up at 10 am. I just went to the bathroom and then we left the house. We went to all the surf shops in Torquay but I didn't find anything. It was very nice anyway. Then we had breakfast at "The Breakfast Club". I had French toast with maple syrup and peaches and a banana smoothie. That was soo good! 

Then we drove back to the house and went with Patrice's aunt and a friend of hers to Lorne. It took us two hours because of traffic again, normally it would take you 30 minutes to go there. 

We walked along the beach and we've been to the pier. First the weather was really nice but then it became foggy. 

Then we went to the sea food restaurant at the pier. I just had chips because I don't like sea food. It was really funny when we left the restaurant a waiter said something in German to me and I was very surprised! 

And we also had a look at the shops in Lorne. We were really tired after that and drove back home. On the way home we stopped at a cafe to have coffee and cake. On the way back I slept in the car because I was so tired. We had a rest and then we drove to the golf club for dinner. It was very nice I had schnitzel. 

And we saw some kangaroos! 

It was a very lovely day. The last thing we did was watching a movie. It's called "Grease". It's an old movie but very good.

Tomorrow we will go to the Anglesea market and after that we're driving home.

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".