June 1-3
Location: Dubbo New South Whales
On June 1st Madison and I got the bus to Surfers which took about two hours and then got our rental car. We spent the next 12 hours driving to Dubbo. I drove the entire way while Madison played DJ, snack provider and most importantly, navigator. We stopped only 3 times, for lunch, and twice for petrol, we skipped dinner even!
Our first full day in Dubbo we went to the zoo with Michael, my host brother (who had been in Hungary when I was living with his family). We saw more types of animals than we had seen at the Australia Zoo and because it’s an open plains zoo (which means that the enclosures are huge and are quite natural environments) we could drive through the zoo instead of walking the entire thing.
That night we went for dinner at a pub with my whole host family, mom Jenny, Dad Peter, sister Louise and brother Michael.
The next day I went to school for a few hours with Louise who is a teacher and I answered questions about Canada for 2 of her classes. Some students had some pretty silly questions such as “Do you have Saturdays and Sundays in Canada?”
That night the four of us (Madison, Michael, Louise and I) went to the Rotary meeting for the club that sponsored us to all go on exchange, Louise went to Poland, Michael to Hungary and then me there. I was informed that I was to give a speech as we walked in which made me a little bit nervous but they all seemed very keen to hear what I have been up to since I left Australia 5 years ago.
Favorite Moments:
Sara- The zoo and seeing my host family and rotary people again.
Madison- Showering without flip flops on and the zoo.
Location: Dubbo New South Whales
On June 1st Madison and I got the bus to Surfers which took about two hours and then got our rental car. We spent the next 12 hours driving to Dubbo. I drove the entire way while Madison played DJ, snack provider and most importantly, navigator. We stopped only 3 times, for lunch, and twice for petrol, we skipped dinner even!
Our first full day in Dubbo we went to the zoo with Michael, my host brother (who had been in Hungary when I was living with his family). We saw more types of animals than we had seen at the Australia Zoo and because it’s an open plains zoo (which means that the enclosures are huge and are quite natural environments) we could drive through the zoo instead of walking the entire thing.
That night we went for dinner at a pub with my whole host family, mom Jenny, Dad Peter, sister Louise and brother Michael.
The next day I went to school for a few hours with Louise who is a teacher and I answered questions about Canada for 2 of her classes. Some students had some pretty silly questions such as “Do you have Saturdays and Sundays in Canada?”
That night the four of us (Madison, Michael, Louise and I) went to the Rotary meeting for the club that sponsored us to all go on exchange, Louise went to Poland, Michael to Hungary and then me there. I was informed that I was to give a speech as we walked in which made me a little bit nervous but they all seemed very keen to hear what I have been up to since I left Australia 5 years ago.
Favorite Moments:
Sara- The zoo and seeing my host family and rotary people again.
Madison- Showering without flip flops on and the zoo.
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