Catching up the last few days!

AUSTRALIA ZOO!!!!! - fabulous and i can only explain with pictures.











All of these except for the one with the pineapple are from the zoo. The koala is cuddly like a teddy bear and the roos were just so sweet.. only one was annoyed that people were there and swatted my hand away :(

It was fabulous, they had a big tribute to steve irwin and his kids look very much like him. We saw the crocodile show, with birds in it as well. We also saw elephants, tigers, emus (in aussie they are pronounced Em-yu) and many birds.

Friday was our last day of Orientation at QUT and we discussed how life was going at home. We also got to meet our cooperating teacher for the next 4 weeks. My teacher is very nice, working in the grade 5, with 7 girls and 10 boys. Rowdy class. It should be interesting.

On saturday, we had a barbie on Bribee Island with the other people on my trip and their host family. It was nice and our host was actually in a good mood (a real miracle). I was taught and played cricket... which is okay but not too exciting. After being on the one side, she took us over to the surf side. The sand was as soft as a teddy bear!!! We marked that as a spot to return.

Sunday we went shopping on Queens Street mall, and bought some very touristy stuff that we were both excited about! :) and postcards to come. We also went to a big mall but they had many stores that we had at home and also were tres expensive.

Today was my first day at school. I helped with a small group for math and they seemed very excited about working with me for 3 and 4 digit addition. Then during lunch i sat with some of the girls and they taught me how to play handball. I had the opportunity to sit in on their music and japanese classes as well which was a treat. Australians have 3 breaks during the day: one fruit break in mid morning, lunch and play for 30 mins later on and around 2 there is an hour of small snack and lots of play. There is so much to do its a miracle they learn things with all their breaks!

Corinne's bank card hasnt been working which has been making things more difficult, especially with my host who thinks she knows everything about the situation. IE: "oh well those 6 atms didnt work lets try another" or "go ask that all australian bank if they can take out your money" or "well did you enter your pin? enter your pin. oh you did? yeah you gotta enter your pin" or "call the number on the back of the card...oh its not morning there? oh.. well the automated message should be able to get you your money" or my personal favorite "ill call my friend sandra and see what she has to say even though she doesnt know what is wrong with your card " (and could have no possible way of knowing the answer. ) PURE GENUIS. sorry, had to get that out. The best is that she'll keep going on and on about it which makes Corinne more mad, and left with me trying to change the subject. or stare at my food. Or both. All in all today was fantastic, since her advice is surely from a non-travelers point of view. Or crazy.

Anyways. Off to watch a movie with Corinne in hopes of making dumb jokes to lighten the mood.

Cheers