Family life

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here are some pics of my host family: Brendan(17), Bronagh(15) and mother Dympna Brbich have been my host family for eleven weeks.

Diving Course on Rotto

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I've just finished my "Padi Open Water Diving Course" on Rottnest Island! I'm now an Open Water Diver with certification and therefore allowed to go diving on my own. There must be awesome diving sites at Ningaloo Reef and Byron Bay and I'm looking forward to diving there.

Pictures will follow, my colleague Lukas has taken some underwater pics: Stingrays(yes, those creatures which killed Steve Irwin!) lobsters, blow fishes(they can blow their body up when feeling stress) and a lot more. To sum up, it was a great experience!

Surfweekend in Lancelin

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we had our surf trip in Lancelin last weekend. We managed to stand on our surfboard on the first day, we made a remarkable progress after just one hour in water. However, it was quite exhausting to get on your board with a so called "jump-up" for five/six hours a day. In the evening we were all sunburned.

I had an appointment with a doctor yesterday, the outcome was that I'm nearly deaf(audiogram: abnormal) but it should be OK to go scuba diving.

I've just had my speaking exam. It was terrible and I hope I will finally pass it!

Greetings and all the best
Sam

Pics

A few more impressions, especially for Timur:-)

Who knows that bloke on the last picture? Yes, it's Hagi(Philip Hagenbucher), former student at the Gymnasium Burgdorf! He studies at Phoenix Academy as well but Marina should know that too...

Australia Day 07

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last weekend, 26. January, the Australian celebrated their national day, so called "Australian Day." We were watching the 1.5 million dollar firework on the Swan River and it was absolutely worth watching!

We often have BBQ on the beach, we prefer this kind of weekend party because a beer costs about eight dollars in a bar... By the way, kangaroo meat is delicious! My host family was concerned about how on earth I could eat their national symbol on Australia Day! I didn't have a bad conscience in spite of the fact my host family has never eaten some...

Have a nice time

Greetings
Sam

First Weekend

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my first weekend was great: On Friday there was our night off in Northbridge, the most popular area for having parties in Perth. Bars and Pubs were crowded as usual. On Saturday I went to Fremantle, a lovely small harbour village in the south of Perth. It is known as the place to be for hippies and I think it won't have been the last time I was there...
On Sunday I was in Cottesloe Beach, the greatest beach I've ever seen. There are grass-green terraces upon the beach where you can have a sunbath. Also the temperature was nice, not too hot, not too cold...But this weather is likely to get sunburned because you don't feel the sun so strong and also the wind supports this feeling.

First day at school

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today was my first day in at school. It was rather easy but up to tomorrow we will have plenty of work to do, as the teacher said! It won't be the easy-going way like in the Cambridge First, so that means that I will join in an Advanced class, even though I don't know my results of the test yet.
It is raining at the moment and it wasn't so an interesting stay up to now. I have never been in the water of the Indian Ocean, never seen the Swan River yet...