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I now officially be leaving Darwin, and will actually sitting on a plane heading for Cairns for a few weeks, to spend christmas with my dad i am so looking forward to it, then of course heading off to Townsville to begin another awesome adventure in a new place that i have never actually been before :).

Managed to get Christmas  presents sent of back to New Zealand,  have also been helping out with cleaning up the house over the last few days, since on Monday we will be at a hotel for a few days before i catch my plane on thursday night, and also the host family will be driving down to Townsville on the friday.

the monday just gone i went and got my hair cut and coloured, i love it, looks totally awesome now :), my host mum liked it, she could not stop saying how lovely it looked.

So before i leave for Cairns i am hoping to catch up with my great friend Dilan :)

i will miss Darwin, but so looking forward to Townsville.

Art work from miss rosa

Art from Rosa, the wee girl i looked after in Berlin

Part Two

So time to explain a few many exciting adventures that i have been on :)

So firstly on the 12th November with my host mum we decided to have a full day of sightseeing around Darwin, so after we dropped little J off at day care and got all ready to head out after making a mapped plan of all the places that we would like to get done,

We headed off to our first stop which was done at Lee Point, along the Casurina Reserve, walked along the beach for a little bit, and searched for crabs and also little the beach was huge, went on for ages, and looked out towards the Arafura sea, was a lovely start to the day, afterwards we headed in the car to another part of the Casurina Coastal Reserve, to have another look.


By then it was lunch time so we went and stopped at the Coolspot in Fannie Bay, for lunch, the meals were huge, i had a very delicious Chicken Schnitzel, it was soo good,.
After lunch we headed across the road to the Fannie Bay Gaol, and we looked around there for about an hour, it was very interesting to look around,, the day was starting to get pretty hot by the time we headed to the car.
After the Gaol we headed to Myilly Point Heritage Precint, to look at the oldest remaiming houses in Darwin, that was pretty cool, those houses have managed to survive the Darwin bombings as well as Cyclone Tracy, even though the Burnett house was closed it was still nice to see them :), next we went to check out Lyons cottage which was used as a british telegraph office, was a lovely looking building, sadly it was closed though, but that was ok, next we checked out the Chinese Temple that was in Darwin, it was very lovely, we lit some inscense and placed them in certian areas within the temple,
It was a lovely looking temple, the man that was very friendly and happilly talked about the temple which .

Lastly after getting some ice cream from kaccas, we headed to our last stop  the Australian Aviation Centre
Now i had been looking forward to going to this place for ages so was happy when we got there, we so mqny fantastic looking planes, incluing some wreckages from the Darwin bombings, japanese planes as well,

The biggest plane that they had there was a B-52 Stratofortress, it was so huge you couldnt take a photo of the whole plane just the length, .


That was such an awesome and busy day but quite a lot of fun :) ♡♡♥♡

New Update part one

So it has now been nearly 3 months since i have been with this pretty awesome family :)

what an exciting month November has been so far :),
I have hung out with a few more Au Pairs again, meet a new au pair called Sandra who is from Germany, we went to the water front for lunch, had a pretty large burger that ended up being just far to much to eat, afterwards we walked a little bit along the waterfront checking out the fridge festival that was going on, which was pretty interesting,

the fridge festival was just pretty much, art work done with fridges that no one uses anymore, which was pretty cool, there was a doctor who one of the police box.

After looking at the fridge festival, we walked along the esplanade for a little bit, chatting away, afterwards headed back home.

over the next few days i spent studying and looking after Jonathan,  i also managed to sit my exams as well, so now i have officially finished studying for the year which is just great, so now i can do more sightseeing around Darwin and also read a few more books :).

I have also caught with my friend from Italy Vale, we went to Crocudylus park, which was pretty good, tried crocodile meat for the first time, it really only tasted like fish, but it was yummy, also had the chance to hold a baby crocodile,
there were so many other animals there as well which was great, there were some lovely White lions, dingo puppies as well as beautiful Timor ponies :)

The next day i went and hung out with my other great friend Dilan at the Palmerston shopping centre, we first had coffee and chatted, looked around then ended up having lunch, that was a lot of fun :)

that is the end for part one at the moment, part two is full of Adventure

Hello

So since my last post,

Jonathan had his first birthday which was just great, his grandma (esmee's mum) and come all the way from melbroune although she was only just back from the states, on the day after she had arrived we went out for lunch at Findlay's store, i had a very tasty pasta dish that actually ended up being far too big for me to even eat :). over the next few days we set up decorations for the party, and also one of Jonathan's Aunties came for his party as well, so there was a pretty full house.

The party was pretty good as well, although not very many did show up, the party was great anyhow, the day of the party though i did end up with getting a cold which ended up being stuck with me for over  a week which was just not fun at all, for a few days all i had wanted to do was sleep, the cold had just made me sleepy as :)

So over the week, whilst i hadn't done all that much other than doing some work and also studying as well,

although because it was a free entry day, i did go along with the Family to the territory wildlife park which was pretty cool, it was a hot day, and also very busy, didn't see to many animals, but will be going back again another day to have a look around at other animals.

so i now have a few days to yourself, going to get a lot of study done and also catch up with a few friends which i am looking forward too :)



PS i must so it is just amazing watching a child develop and being there during their milestones, especially with Jonathan who when i started was just crawling at moving around objects, and now he is full on walking, and slowly beginning to talk which is just fantastic