So this is my last week in Melbourne! When I left England and was travelling through America I would have got on the next plane home if someone had offerec me a ticket because I was so homesick, and I was sure that I would not make it to Australia. So I am so proud that I have now been living in Australia for almost two months! I have loved living Melbourne for the past 1.5 months. I arrived in this city knowing no one and I will be leaving this city with a lovel...

So I have now been in Melbourne for almost a month and it has been great fun! Over the last few weeks I have visited the Australain Centre for the moving image, we were like small children running around and getting involved in every interactive activity there was from making flip books of ourselves to getting a 360 degree video of us spinning around! I have visited St Kilda beach a few times, but still yet to see the penguins! We went to St kilda beach yesterday...

So the last few days have been great fun! I did manage to get to the beach and the beach was beautiful, the sea was a little chilly but we still went in! When I got to the CBd that afternoon I sat in federation sq and watched the world go by for a few hours! The following day I explored the docklands area, to save me from getting lost I asked a last what direction the docklands were in, she told me and then proceeded to walk with me chatting the whole way. She h...

So yesterday I left New Zealand after spending a great day with uncle Chris and Carol. We went to a place called Piha which had a beach with black sand and a volcanic formation which was called lions head. Chris and I went for a walk through the bush at kitikiti, near Glenesk, it was called Glenesk because the first man who bought and leased the land was Scottish and named the area after his place of birth. The walk lead us to kitikiti falls, during the walk we s...