We all know that this blog was for my Australia exchange experience, so I won't be writing every day any longer! However I still have 2 videos to share in this blog, so when I am done with editing all of that I will post them...Maybe between this week and the next one! Thank you so much to everybody who read this blog, I really hope you liked it. For everybody who reads it from school, I will be doing a presentation of the whole experience next week probably, so all your questions will be answered and I hope that I can transmit to all of you how amazing this experience has been for me. I want to thank the Leskiw family for being the best hosts possible. My trip wouldn't have been as good without them. They took care of me as if I was their own daughter and always made sure I was feeling okay. Finally thank you so much to the school who gave me this opportunity and trusted me to be the first student from St. Hilda's to venture on a trip like this. I will never forget it.
My flag signed by everybody!
I'll talk to you later and keep tuned for my two videos: 'Argentinian in Australia' and 'Argentinian tries Australian food'!
So I am back home! My flight landed around 6:30 PM on the 6/3, which was quite weird, because I boarded my Sydney - Buenos Aires flight around 7:30 PM on the same day! How confusing is that? haha...My dad and my boyfriend were waiting for me on the other side as soon as I got out out customs so I was really excited to see both of them! Minutes later mum and my sister Julia came and picked me and my boyfriend up and we all had dinner at home! I am so jet lagged I am not sure I will be able to sleep, but I will go tomorrow in the afternoon to school to say hello to everybody, because I am saving the day so as to recover and sleep a bit!
Hey there! So today was my flight! At 2:05 I was in the air flying to Sydney. Montana went to school and we we picked her up around 11 so that she came to say goodbye. It was such an emotional goodbye...I cried my eyes out, but it was time to leave. I am now in the Sydney airport waiting for my 13 hours and 15 minutes flight to Buenos Aires. I did some shopping and now i'm at the gate, waiting. I'm tired already! Talk to you tomorrow! Actually...today? Time differences are confusing haha. I'll just say, I will talk to you later!
I was certainly not looking forward for this day. In the first period we had music and Mrs. Kelly got me an Australian magnet for me to take home, which I thought was really nice of her and totally unexpected! I loved this music class, I learnt so much and met lots of people who I wouldn't have met if I wasn't enrolled in this class, specially because I knew nobody when I first got in it. To Georgia, Peta, Lydia, Sabrina, Nikki, Lana, Kay, Mrs. Kelly, I am going to miss you so much! Thank you for being so welcoming and made this little part of my experience even better. At the end of the class we all took a photo together which is attached.
Whole School Assembly
The second period was a whole school chapel, which was about Ash Wednesday. It lasted an hour and twenty minutes and later we had morning tea, my last one. The people who hadn't signed my flag did and I sad goodbye to the some who I wasn't going to see later, so goodbyes started pretty early. However, they are going to end pretty late today because we are going to QG Swimming, which is a swimming competition between some girl schools in the Gold Coast.
Third period was English! I walked over there with Loulotte and Imogen, the exchanges from Holland. I am gonna miss them so much! They have around two more weeks here in Australia, so I hope that they have the best time! Mrs. Nash surprised me with a bag of Australian food for me to take back home! We actually studied "What it means to be an Australian" these few weeks, and we saw a video about Americans trying Australian food, and everything mentioned in it is my bag! I will attach the video here so that all of you can see it. I was so surprised by her present! I found it adorable! :)
After English we had lunch and then we had Modern and I walked there with Jontie. My last period was Drama, an amazing way to end the day haha...
After school we went to some buses and left for QG Swimming. I will soon be uploading a video I did during my time here, so stay tuned for that!
2 days left of school! Today I switched uniforms with Montana because it is one of their school traditions, and it reminded me how much I love our uniform! Hahaha... I can't believe that I am actually saying goodbye tomorrow...It was a pretty normal day, nothing new except for the uniform haha...Everybody signed my flag, which is also another tradition from the school. You basically get an Australian flag and people write nice messages on it! I will ad a picture of it too! I said goodbye to Lana today. She is in my music class and I love her. She has a plaster cast because she fell and broke a bone in her leg, so she was in the Health Center and I went to visit her! I am not sure if I am going to see her again, but she signed my flag and we said goodbye. She's by far one of the nicest girls I have met in the school...I am really sad to say goodbye!
Below I will also post a picture of Montana and me with our uniforms on.
We just had dinner with all the family and I am now going to bed. Talk to you later!
Hey there! Last days in Australia :( I actually only have 2 more days of school, which is quite sads. Goodbyes are really hard, I met amazing people in here who I really wished I didn't have to say goodbye to. Today I brought my flag and everybody started signing it. They all left really cute messages which will be a really cool way to remember them! I cried quite a bit today, I hate goodbyes, but I'm trying not to think about it. In PC class everybody brought food to make me a sort of farewell which I thought was really cute! In music class Mrs. Kelly filmed me playing the piano with other students so that I can take it home with me and remember them! It was really nice!
I am now waiting for Montana to finish with her Modern History tutorial so that we go back home! I am starting to pack up today so that I don't forget anything! I can`t believe I am leaving this Thursday...It is crazy to think that I have been living on the other side of the world, with another family, with different friends, going to a different school...it is surreal. Anyway I really miss home, so I think leaving is what I have to do, but I will come back. Talk to you later!
Today we woke up around 10. Tegan came over from boarding and we went to the beach at Burleigh beach after some croissants. We had an amazing time! Later we went back home, had some toasties and started getting ready for dinner. Montana planned dinner with some friends from St.Hilda's as a 'farewell dinner'. We went to Vapianos at Surfers Paradise with the girlsand had pasta! It was really good! We went to dessert at Mc. Donald's and had a Mc. Flurry. We hanged at Surfers Paradise for a while and later headed back home! Talk to you later! Last three days of school tomorrow!
Hey! So, today I woke up around 9 AM and since Montana was at Softball we decided to go shopping! I got heaps of stuff and later we picked up Tana from her game. We drove home after getting some groceries and had some wraps. It was pretty hot today so we decided to go to the pool for a bit and an hour later we left to Surfers Paradise. The objective was getting an Australian flag so that people can sign it before I leave, but we also did some shopping. We got Starbucks and headed home! Talk to you later!
