Fruit Salad and Mixed Veg

Last night I had a farewell party in a park in the city. I wasn't going to have a farewell, but I thought I should to prove that I can organise soemthing and that I'm not lazy


We packed an esky; it has wheels!!!


The weather didn't look too good as we drove there, but then the sun started shining and luckily, it didn't rain at the party

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Standing around the BBQ


My sister knows how to cut up mangoes, so she did a demonstration


There you go


The wheeled esky also doubles up as a seat


Yay I'm not the only one with an old phone!

That's all for now

One week until I leave Adelaide!!! It's 3 degrees in Germany at the moment! I was complaining when it was 15 degrees here last week.

I have lots of stuff to do: do exam, get passport photos, get bank statement stuff, buy presents for people, go to dentist, write to my uni, go to my farewell party, attend to a houseparty, attend to my sister's birthday party, buy jeans, buy battery charger, buy memory card reader, get a student card, print stuff, clean room, pack bag ...and more!

I had my last exam yesterday I'd prefer not to discuss it as if I did, I'd require counselling

Ugh the Australian dollar only buys 49 Euro cents! I should have bought Euros in October...I guess I hsould buy them now before the Australian dollar loses MORE value. All students going on exchange to Europe were hoping the Euro would go down in value. Well, it did...but the Australian dollar went down even more in value. So, I have lost more than 1000 Euro!!!!

Fridge
Does anyone remember the photo of my fridge that I put on here? It was covered with paper and magnets and more paper and about 3 calendars!


I got back from work last Sunday morning....walked into the kitchen and thought I was in another house. Someone had cleaned the fridge!!

For my parents, cleaning the fridge on a Saturday night is great fun!

Light
In Australia, if you have children, the government will give you a 'family contribution' (or something). It's a payment so that you can look after your kids. In previous years, the government gave my family a $130 payment! WOAH! Big money Unfortunately, we're now classified as 'too rich' to get this payment.

We calculated, that as a result of our economic standing we'd be able to get some things fixed. We got an original 1967 toilet fitting changed! On Saturday morning we got a new kitchen light fitting!


The original was from the 80s, broken and hanging off the ceiling...

The 'changing of the light fitting' was such a monumental event on our family's 2008 calendar that we took a photo of the electrician!

Other

South Australia from the sky


Curly butter! It's the simple things that amaze me...

Some things that have happened lately:

• I got sick at work on Saturday night. I wasn't feeling well so I drank a lot of water. I still didn't feel well. Then everything started getting darker...and I got dizzy...my skin felt like it had ants crawling over it... Sat down for a while and still felt horrible, so I went home. I feel better now though
  
  
• On Friday, I was at a masked ball (although I didn't wear a mask). I learnt that it's really hard to walk in high shoes if you have tights on, because they make the shoes slippery.
  
  
• This Friday, there is a BIG party at a mansion in Adelaide (100+ people). The theme is 'dress as something beginning with F'. I was going to go as a fax machine...but I changed my mind and will now be a fairy.
  
  
• I'm still doing exercise WOAH!! I can now run without getting puffed out after 1 minute
  
  
• I have been accepted to a German university as an exchange student *jump jump*
  
  
• In 1 month, I'll be in Germany
  
  
• I have exams in 2 weeks...I've started learning but it's going to be hard because all my subjects are FINAL YEAR subjects and I'm not in my final year
  

That's all for today. Take care of yourselves and make sure to read 'use by' labels