•Like a dream•

I’ve been in Australia for two days now. I haven’t had any time to blog at all, I’ve had so much fun. Yesterday was a day full of sightseeing and shopping. I walked in Westfield shopping center for almost six hours before I decided to eat lunch and rest for a bit. The time difference is really big but I’ve been able to handle it pretty good anyway. 

Today I’ve spent the whole day on the beach. I tried surfing and trust me when I say that it’s much harder than it looks! At first I tried to do it by myself, I just rented a surfing board and threw myself out in the waves. It was not a very good idea, I fell off all the time and efter a while I just got irritated. Just when I was about to give up, a guy in my age passed by and asked if I wanted help. He helped me and after an hour I could stand on the board without falling off, I even surfed on a small wave. I surfed in about two hours before the very nice (and very good looking) guy named Nathan had to leave. 

I made it!!

I was way to tired to walk across Sydney and do more sightseeing so I laid down on the beach and enjoyed the warm weather and the sound of the waves. It was so relaxing and I really wish we had this kind of weather in Sweden. It will be very cold when I come home to the snow, instead of lying on the warm sand on the beach. 

When I had eaten lunch, I decided to go back to the beach and find some Australian youths. I really wanted to get to know some Australians and see how they are compared to us in Sweden. I found a couple of youths who seemed to be in my age playing beach volleyball and I joined them. They were really nice and after the game they asked me if I wanted to take a swim with them. I talked a lot with them and when they heard that I was from Sweden their first question was how snow is. They really couldn’t understand how I manage to live in such a cold land as Sweden.

I learned a lot from them too. They love sports and rugby is something most boys tried when they were younger. I also learned they go to school just like us, from Monday to Friday every week. They also told me that they’re going in a very chill school if you compare it to some of the others in the area. In a lot of schools in Australia, you need to wear a school uniform and some schools even seperate girls and boys. I’m really happy that I don’t need to wear any uniform and go in a class full of girls!

I hanged out with my new friends the whole day, we went to dinner and then they took me out on the Harbour bridge late at night. They told me that it was a much cooler sight if you looked out at Sydney in the dark. I stood there for a long time and just watched the beautiful city being light up, no picture in the world can describe how cool and beautiful it looks. 

Sydney by night

After walking around a bit more in Sydney, I decided that I needed to go back to my hotel room. I changed number with Aiden and Chloe and hopefully we’ll keep contact, that would be really awesome!

Me, Aiden and Chloe 

I’ll go to bed now, I have some more sightseeing to do tomorrow. I’ll also go to a musical in Sydney Opera House tomorrow night! The musical is called The comedy of errors, I think it’ll be great!

Sleep well and the next time you’ll hear from me I’ll probably be in the outback in Alice Springs which is my second destination.

//My