This time I might write this post only in English because writing Finnish is just too hard... I still know how to speak it and everything but my sentences just don't make any sense anymore so yeah :)
Last time when I wrote here it was the last day of term 1 and so much has happened after that. On those holidays I went to Brisbane to see my Finnish friend Daniela in Brisbane for a week :) I got to go surfing for the first time, we went to Whitewater World (water park on the Gold Coast), Daniela turned 18 so we went for dinner in Southbank and we also went to Gold Coast to the beach for one day :)
After that week I had another week of holidays and then I turned 18!! :) On the 12th of April (my actual birthday) I went to Dream World (amusement park) with Chloe, my host-borther Adam and one of his friends Luke. We had so much fun and I got to go to some just amazing rides. Normally I would have not probably gone to any of them but the people I was with kinda made me to go to almost everything... I don't have almost any pictures from that day as we were on the rides all the time. In the evening when we got back home we went for a dinner to an Asian restaurant with my whole host-family. I got my first legal drink and the food was sooooo goooood! My host family gave me a Pandora bracelet and I just love it! Then on the 13th I went to see the movie Warm Bodies with my closest friends and after that we went for a dinner. I got some beautiful presents and that night was just amazing. I will miss all my friends so much...
Then my last term here in St. Saviour's started and I had still 46 days to go. It didn't seem to be much but now that I have only 1 day left, 46 seems like forever... But during the term we had our cross country competition (so just a running race around the Queens park) but as I hate running with a passion, I just walked the race with Emily hehee... I also got to see an Australian university graduation as my host-sister's husband graduated. They had all the graduation robes and the caps and everything. The next day I went to Whitewater World again but this time I went there with Chloe and Emily. It was so much fun and even though this was the second time I was there, it felt like I was there for the first time once again. Everything was a little bit different with new people.
Then all the asignments started to build up and I didn't do so much anymore on my spare time. Every now and then I met up with some friends and even Cherine came to Toowoomba for a visit. For my drama assignment we went to see Animal Farm to the Empire theatre with my drama class and I can't even remember when was the last time I went to see a play..? Oh well, I enjoyed my time and the play was really good too :)
On the 15th of May I had a visa appointment in Brisbane (for changing my visa from a student's visa to a visitor's one for my family holiday) and I had been scared of that for so long... I just have a fear of interviews and security checks and all things like that... :D I had so much paperwork to do for it and I started to do all of that like a month before and my application forms and all the documents were ready on the 13th of May... But anyway, as my student visa was going to expire on the 31st of May, I needed to change my visa to a visitor's visa as I wanted to stay here down under until the 12th of June for the family holiday we have planned to have with my family. I got the visa so now everything is all sorted :)
And on Sunday the19th I went to Maryborough (Cherine lives there) until the 22nd (Wednesday). On sunday I just travelled basically the whole day and on tuesday I got to go to Cherine's school for one day. It was so different compared to my school but I really loved her school and the people I met there were amazing. On tuesday we went to FRASER ISLAND!! It was so beautiful! We saw so many dingoes in wild, we went flying over the island in a small airplane so that we saw the whole island from the air and we also saw sharks in the sea. The Island is only made of sand and it is the biggest sand Island on Earth.
On the 24th (so last friday) I had my final assembly at school and I had my farewell speech. I just couldn't believe that my year is coming to an end... I'll post that speech hopefully tomorrow.
Last weekend we went with my host mom, her friend and Adam to Seaworld and we stayed in the Seaworld Resort for the night. Next day we started the day with pancakes and then we went to Movie World for the day. It's also a theme park and all the rides are connected to the Warner Bros movies. It was so much fun again but then again.. I realised that it was my last weekend with my host-family... Next Saturday my own parents and little brother are arriving to Australia at 5:15am.
And then.... It's over. My exchange year. I just don't understand that soon I will be living my everyday life in Finland once again. And I have to admit, I am more scared than ever. What if my life will never be what it used to be?
Going to an exchange is the easy part.
Returning home is the hardest.