Blogs from Melville, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania

Voilà, l'aventure commence avec une première semaine chargée. Pendant cette première semaine, j'ai pu rencontrée plein de monde avec les nombreuses activités et repas organisés par le village étudiant ou l'université. L'université où je suis s'appelle Murdoch University, c'est l'université australienne qui possède le plus grand campus de l'Australie. Wikipedia en fait la présentation suivante : L'Université de Murdoch (anglais : Murdoch University) est une université australienne avec environ 14 200 étudiants dont 2 000 étrangers. C'est une université publique qui possède son campus à Murdoch, un quartier de Perth en Australie-Occidentale à 13 km au sud du centre-ville. Elle a été créée en 1973 et a reçu ses premiers étudiants en 1975. Le campus a une superficie de 2,27 km² car il accueille la seule école vétérinaire de l'État ... read more

So, this is it. After a few minutes of considering what to write Mat gave me a big cuddle and said "I'm scared" to which I responded "me too". Traveling has been our way of life for the last six months; unpredictable, encapsulating, educational. We've had so many highs and some lows in there too, which we have learnt are just character building. There have been some national tragedies along the way which, at times, seemed to be following us. I said to my Dad last night "we've been pretty unlucky" to which he replied "no, you are the lucky ones." He is so right of course. People said you will come back changed people and I was dubious, they were right too. It will be very hard for us when we return to not always ... read more

Hi All, We arrived safe and sound yesterday at around 10am UK time, but it was 5pm here. Pretty bumpy flight but easy to get through really with the amount of movies you can chose from, and it was lovely to be met with a big hug at Perth airport from Auntie Marie and Uncle Terry. We were really tired though as we only managed about 2 hours sleep each on the journey - leading us to sleep in until 12.30 on our first night - that was after having woke up at 3am and being wide awake for 2 hours though! Seems it might take a bit of getting used to... So after our late start we decided to stay local to Auntie Marie and Uncle Terry's house in the Bateman suburb of Perth, where ... read more

Saturday 26th July... Not a great night. Gav's sore throat resulted in awful snoring. I ended up in bed with Jack again. Woke up 6.40am to Joe calling 'Jack'. Jack asked Joe if he wanted him to get him out of his sleeping bag, which Jack usually obliges, but got distracted so I did it. Gav slept till 8, but he does feel a lot better today. This morning we went to Heathcote Park, to a fantastic Pirate Ship playground (which cost about £1m to build). Jack was SO excited when he saw it, he could hardly contain himself. His eyes were alight with the fun to be had. The kids ran amok for ages. We admired the beautiful setting of this park on the banks of the Swan River with views to the skyscrapers of ... read more

Travelblog “Friendship isn’t just one thing. It’s a lot of little things” I have realized both through reading some of the weekly journals I send to my teacher and old blogs (one of which I want to apologize for- it was meant to be private because it was just me griping.) that I have become irritable. I used to be laid back and easy-going. Not too much annoyed me. Once my brother and I grew up, I feel like I started letting more things go and stopped letting petty things bother me. But over the past several months (before I came here until now), I feel like I’m reverting back to that. I don’t want to be that person again. You have to trust me. I was such an unpleasant, moody person and I can’t believe ... read more