Movie World

Today we were 20 friends meeting at another theme park included in the VIP pass that we bought called Movie World. It is inspired by the film company Warner Brothers, who created Batman, Superman, Scooby Doo, "Snurre Snup" and many other cartoons!

                     

The roller coasters were wild and extreme! The area where you eat and buy things was looking like  the "Main Street 1956" with American flags all over buildings, old-school music and a classic theatre - really cool.

"Bad Man" Roller Coaster

4D  cinema (theatre)

Niclas joined the girls and I afterwards for BBQ at Helena and Kirstine's place, as they were home alone again this evening. We had so much fun playing ball in the pool, cooking together and do some studying at last - as the good students that we are ;-)

Dinner: Grilled chicken and sausages, Cezar salad

Girls night in

After School we all had different plans - because of Valentin's Day. Ida went out with Anton, her boyfriend, and so Kirstine, Helena and I held a girls night in at their place, as they were home alone today - so we had it all to ourselves! First we jumped in the pool until sunset. Then we made the most delicious homemade sushi for dinner and watched love movies afterwards - pretty chill and cozy night

  

  

Dinner: Homemade sushi 

Excursion - Binna Burra Mountain Walk

Today was activity day, as we have every week. This time we were driven up to the beautiful Binna Burra Mountains to a place called Lamington National Park. 

We started at the top and took walked 5 kilometres down the mountain. The mountain was covered by a jungle of trees.




Yesterday our teachers and hostfamily warned us about the nasty insects that live in the area we will walk through. Especially leeches and ticks (Igler og flåter) :-O

- So I took no chance but wearing a long-sleeved shirt, boots and anti-insect spray form top to toe!

Afterwards Ida went to the Southport with some friends and I went home with Kirstine and Helena to their place. The sun was really shining today so we jumped in our swimwear and got some tan. Especially Kirstine has some tan to catch up on from the two first weeks she was not here.

Dinner: Fried beef, tomato/chilli sauce, salad and watermelon

Australian theme

                          

The weather was all cloudy today. But anyway it motivated us to finally starting on some of our assignments instead of basking in the sun all day. So far we have only got two assignments from school and then we have the Business Case, which our Danish teachers at home want us to finish while being in Australia, so we are ready to present when coming home.

In English class we discussed what describes the Australian identity. We divided it into history, culture and land. I notated all the words that I associate with the Australian identity from experiences and impressions - really funny task.



Sophie, Peggy and Don's daughter, came over today to have dinner with us. She is 21 and has a really bad Australian accent, so Ida and I sometimes have to listen carefully when speaking with her. And vice verse she thinks we have a really American accent and use "American" terms that she does not know.


Dinner: Deep-fried chicken, potato chips, chili dressing and salad

Peggy, Don and Sophie

                                                   

Harbour Town

In the early morning Ida and I ate breakfast outside. And thank god I randomly brought my camera with me 'cause out of the blue a very significant parrot came across and sat down in a tree in the garden. Afterwards we googled it - the bird is called Pale-headed Rosella.

Today Ida planned to go visiting her boyfriend, Anton, at his home stay. So I invited Kana (Japanese student) to come with Helena, Kirstine and I to Harbour Town.










Harbour Town is a huge place with outlet stores, fruit markets and eating places - such a lovely place to hang out and go shopping for good prices on brands like Nike and Tommy Hilfiger.










When finishing lunch and having seen it all we went to Harbour Town's cinema. We saw the new movie with Leonardo DiCaprio called The Wolf of Wall Street - amazing film but it has a very heavy use of swearing, sex and drugs all of the time.

A movie ticket in Australia only costs about $8 - it is nearly DKK 40! Compared to Denmark that is a very good price - almost half the price we pay in DK.

When we all got home in the evening, Peggy and Don were about to go out with some friends for dinner. So we girls had the whole house to ourselves and therefore secretly invited all our friends over for party and alcohol - no of course we didn't... We cooked our own dinner, played card and just listened to some music. But it was nice just walking around the house without the "parents" being home ;-)

Dinner - Meat pies, boiled eggs, scraps of chicken left from yesterday and salad