I'm HOME!!!

So I'm home now! YAY~ I had a nice flight with Riley to LA and it was an ok flight back home.
I'm so excited, I hope I get to see everyone soon!

Mansfield weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first weekend in march was a long weekend because on the monday was labor day so we had the day off of school! That weekend was a VERY busy but fun weekend! On the friday after school i went over to my friend Serena's house. Later Kara and Aj came over, the 4 of us were suppose to meet more people at the towns rodeo, but it was Raining Buckets! NO JOKE! that we didnt go to the rodeo, but instead played video games and hung out at her house for the night. So i spent the night there with them, and then the next morning i was picked up and went strait to mansfield. There were 2 of the exchange students who were having a combine birthday party. It was for Lara from france, and Anabel from Germany. I believe the final count was 16 there, so sadly not everyone showed up but most did, and we got to meet our 2 newest members to our 'family.' our last Brazilians left us Mid Jan, and the two new ones came so it'll be fun. Well that weekend we were suppose to be sleeping out in tents, and really what happened it was like 8 of us in the small one, and 8 in the big one. didnt make sense, but whatever. Anyways it Poured so much and thundered it was insane, we had to sleep inside. But luckily it was fine weather for the satuday when the pool party was planned. So that was fun, and we were swimming all day and good portion of the night. Plus we were dancing by the pool, We learned a bunch of brazilian dances, and between everyone we showed each others countries dances and such. Sooo many laughs out of that it was insane! On the sunday, the plans to climb up mount buller fell through because of the weather, but instead we hung out at the house, and then went to the park after it cleared up, and it ended up being a really hot day. After that we went swimming.... of course(we did basically anytime we could.) Then later that night we went to the movies and saw Alice in Wonderland 3D. Itw as fun going, didnt exactly love the movie, it was okayyy. but anyways. We got back and as you can guess we went swimming. :) Then on monday morning we just hung out and had fun, but pepole were leaving throughout the day, so nothing was really planned. But it was still raining that day. Over that weekend there were 70 + mls of rain. There was actually a tornadoe in Shepparton (which is close-ish to where i normally am, but i wasn't there during the tornado. BUt there were huge winds of 157+kms and it tore up a bunch of houses, trees, parking lots, lots of things were destroyed, but no one got hurt luckily. Well overall was A LOT of fun!

Swimming Sports

On the 18th of February at my school we had the school swimming sports. At the sports each student has been put into a house. And I've been asked so many times like in harry potter?!?! yes in a way, we get put into a house and the four are green,yellow,blue and red. We don't have names like in harry potter, some schools do, or anything else, but we have colours. During the swimming sports, we go down to the kyabram pool, and everyone is dressed up pretty crazy in they're house's coulors. All my friends and i painted ourselves in our colours and 5 showers later i stil have green on me. It was completley worth it though. During the day they have different races going on. I participated in the 50metre breast stroke and the boat races. I came 1st in the breast stroke, and in the baot races you work as a team of 8. You have 4 guys and 4 girls on a team. One person's in the boat, and the other's behind it and pushing it. Each pair paddles 25 metres. As a team we technically came 4th, however since one of the other teams were disqualified we ended up coming 3rd. Which worked well since the 3rd ribbon is green, and we were the green team! This day was a lot of fun! and quite warm! Wish we did this back in NY!

2 Birthday parties, and footy game - 1 weekend

This past weekend has been pretty busy. It was lots of fun though. On Saturday morning/early afternoon, i managed to keep myself busy skyping with my family, and some friends, and getting ready for the night. Around 5 i went over to my friend Kara's house. Our other friend Serena was already there and we just were waiting out our other friend Aj. After she came we got ready for the parties, and then went to the Kyabram Club for the first birthday party. It was for our friend Ebony who had flown down to visit her dad, from Queensland. That was lots of fun, but then the time came and we went to our other friends party. Kara's mum drove the 4 of us to Scott's house for his birthday. Was very loud, is basically how i can sum it up. We had fun though. After his party, the 4 of us went back to Kara's house for the night. We got about 6 hours of sleep that night, and then i was going to Melbourne afterwords. When i got picked up, we stopped back at the house to get some stuff to bring with us, and then we went to Melbourne. Had lunch, and then a Starbucks. then went to the footy! it was sooo much fun! except sadly Geelong lost, but they didn't play they're greatest. they really only had 1 quarter where they were they're full potential, but they also have had the shortest time between seasons since they won the grand final. The team they played against (north Melbourne) had lots of time between the seasons, and were a lot more prepared for this game. After the game we came back home, got home around 10, watched house for a bit. and then around 12 i finally got to bed. I'm still very tired and during school today i kept falling asleep.

Dookie Weekend

On the 13th of feb we had a dookie day which was for the rebounds and inbounds. It was more for the rebounds to get back to see everyone and such, but all of us inbounds came and we talked more about our rock to reef trip. Which is by the way in less than 6 weeks! It was a great day, sadly it wasn't an overnight one, but we did get to see the exchange students we had met back in our home countries. Sicne it was mostly for rebounds all the inbouunds we got to hang out and just talk most of the time. and truthfully all we ever want to do is just talk and hang out.