Wednesday, February 2, 2011

The update on life in Australia!

We all live in small cabins that have a kitchen, living room, front porch, two bed rooms, and a bathroom...there are four of us that live together. The cabins are so nice...however, we do not have airconditioning so our days are usually spent on the beach or in lake cooling off and the evenings are slightly cooler with a light breeze :)

My Home for the next three months! Cabin 8

My room :)...sorry its a little messy
Living room and Kitchen!

The cool thing about Lake Ainsworth is that it is surrounded by tea trees that turn the water a brown color and enrich the water with all the nutrience tea has. It is suppose to be good for your hair and skin!

wild life :)

Lake Ainsworth

My first dip in Lake Ainsworth

My view from in Lake Ainsworth

Tea Trees

Tasting the Tea leaves!!! Yummmm

The beach is a white beach that is literally two min away from our front door! My roomates and I have already walked along the beach and took many pictures of the amazing views that we get to enjoy for the next three months! It is still sureal to us all and is hard to fathom still being here in a week! The animals and wild life here is also very crazy and new to us, we have seen jellyfish, crabs, frogs, bearded dragons, geicos, lots of different birds and my least favorite...snakes.
roomies on the beach!

beautiful waves

The first crab of the trip! This crab was literally running in circles...all we wanted was a picture and then the crab was swept away with the tide

JELLY FISH!!!! no worries the tentacles were already gone...the ones we have to stay away from are the blue ones and we see those a lot as well!
We also made a trip to the grocery store for the first time and spent almost $300 AUD for the four of us...but the trip was fun and next week we will only have to pick up a few essentials.



On a different note...classes start on Monday and I only have classes on Monday and Thursday! for the first five weeks at least...looks like ill have a lot of time to surf and dive!!! We are also looking into weekend trips such as rock climbing and hang gliding...along with our class trips and group weekend trips to places such as Sydney!