Carlen's Blog
We went to Oberon and had a great time. We stayed in Bathurst and drove out to the mountains to have a hike. We were with a bunch of people that are also on exchange and we hiked all day but the best part…
On March 16th there was a festival in Coonabarabran called the Coona show. It is where lots of people come to watch animal races, go on rides and enter contests. There are so many rides that are very different like the Airmaxx 360 that…
This weekend we were driving out to Sydney for a teacher exchange meeting and all the “tag alongs” went on a walk but on the way to Sydney we saw a wombat eating on the side of the road! On the walk, we went…
Well, it isn’t the kind of food fight you are thinking about. I mean a food fight of names. At the store, we saw some items that we sort of recognized except the characters looked a little different and the names were different. Rice…
My first day back at school was pretty cool seeing I wasn’t the only one in a school uniform. I think that it is pretty cool that in the morning we just wait outside for school to start. My uniform is a blue polo…
We drove such a long time on the Great Ocean Highway and on the way we saw LOTS of beaches. We saw waves of all sizes: big, medium, and small. Also on the drive, we saw a bunch of cockatoos. We reached our destination…
On the 16th we went to the Melbourne aquarium and saw lots of neat fish, scorpions, and scarab beetles! In the end, we saw PENGUINS swimming and waddling around! It was feeding time and you could go underwater and watch the swimming ones catch…
We arrived home and it was SO COOL! There was an Xbox with tons of games and a Wii with even more games! Best of all there was a HUGE TV with speakers everywhere around the room! At home, there are palm trees in…
When we first arrived in Sydney we got picked up by Mr. and Mrs. Moore and we noticed that cars drive on the left side of the road and the driving wheel is on the right side as opposed to Canada where you drive…
In the morning we went for breakfast and I had beans, toast, an omelet, and bacon. Then we went to Tiananmen Square and saw lots of soldiers and the Great Hall of the people and then we walked to the Forbidden City. All of…