So maybe you've realized, mr. Blog, that there doesn't seem to be any 'next time'.
Well, you're right.
The end. The ridiculous, devastating, sanity-draining, heart-breaking end.
Don't ask, ok?
Just don't.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
day 5, 6, 7 & the beginning of 8.
Ok so I haven't been able to blog for a while, I'll try to sum it up quickly.
Pauline and Breck's church was tiny. But they had a special service on that day, where a band called... yeah I forget its name. But the band consisted of three middle-aged men who were amazing on guitars as well as vocals.
They had great music.
We then went sightseeing around Adelaide. We went for a long walk around a big lake thing, I took photos of course. Then we found our way into the busiest part of the city and I was on the hunt for more jeans. Because I literally had only one pair, a grey pair that had paint stains on it. It was depressing.
After going through too many stores with everything I wanted but jeans, I reluctantly settled for some cheap ones at JayJays.
I hate going to JayJays, especially on holidays. Anything that reminds me of Sale is bad lol.
So we waited about half an hour for the credit cards to work, but they just didn't. The eftpos machines were down and out. That sucked a lot. But in the end, I got one pair of pants for free because the guy (could not stand his ridiculous nasely voice) 'felt awkward'. But hey, I can't complain, can I?
We then went walkies a bit more, found a boost store because as well as salad, I've been craving fresh juice as well.
We then basically went back to Pauline's, and I did homework. Yay.
Day 6, we headed off from Adelaide on a day with clear blue skies. It was tormenting to be shut inside a car all day while outside was perfect. And while I was staring longingly outside my car window, I noticed a lot of the ground turning to red earthy colours. That got me excited. And the strange thing was, those earthy colours had effect on the lakes there. A lot of lakes we passed were tinges of pink! It was so strange.
We finally arrived in Cowell. It was a small-ish town, but it was beautiful. The caravan park we stayed at was right next to a large bay. We went walking along a jetty at sunset and it was just perfect.
Day 7, we left early again and didn't drive for very long, since mum has been having a really sore back :( Dad's and my job that day was to look after mum in any way possible. We stopped for some brunch at Tumby Bay - a small but perfect town, and sat in a small café directly next to the ocean. Mum needed the backseat, or backseats rather, to lie down, so I hopped in the front the rest of the way to Port Lincoln. That wasn't very long at all.
But Port Lincoln is absolutely beautiful. The caravan park we're staying at is right on the shoreline of Boston Bay. As soon as we arrived, I jumped out of the car with my camera and ran down to the water. There are three different jetties along the edge, and one of them has been taken over entirely by seagulls. I'm serious. They went berserk when I walked along it.
I then set up mum's new fold-out chair that not only folds out, but folds OUT as well. (as in, a lounge chair, with a foot rest and it leans back and everything. Just like that add with the whole "...nice chair.") I relaxed in the sun, reading my book and listening to summer music. Perfect.
The sunset was also perfect, so I took a lot more photos yet again.
Then we had dinner - fresh fish from the seafood capital of Australia - and the salad I made myself :)
It was delicious, and perfect again. I normally dislike fish. Not this time. It seems like where we are heading, you have to like seafood. I don't really. But I've kinda been surrounded by it.
When we stayed in Cowell, I had salt and pepper calamari. And it was actually delicious, so long as I didn't think about what I was eating.
Mum and I watched 'Indescribable' with Loui Giglio, and after that I re-watched 'Furious Love', a DVD documentary thing Tom Munn gave me for my birthday. It's so full on about how far love will go into the darkness. But I love it, so thankyou Tom :)
And now, this is the morning of Day 8!
We're staying another day in Port Lincoln, partly because we want mum to be rested, partly because IT'S JUST SO BEAUTIFUL.
I got to sleep in :D
Well... my sleep-ins are now limited to 8:30am according to my stupid out-of-whack body clock.
Mum and dad have gone for a walk along the bay I think. Well, either way, they're not here in the caravan. It's just me and you, Blogger.
This day will be very relaxed, I'm sure of it. And I'm very glad of that too. I'll most likely be spending it lazing by the bay, maybe even swimming in it? Who knows. I even get to wear shorts and a singlet - or better yet - a summer dress! Because that's the kind of weather it is here, I love it. And it's only going to be getting hotter from now on.
Anyway, I'm off to have some breakfast of whatever I can find in the caravan. Maybe the mangoes are ready? heh :3
Until next time!
Pauline and Breck's church was tiny. But they had a special service on that day, where a band called... yeah I forget its name. But the band consisted of three middle-aged men who were amazing on guitars as well as vocals.
They had great music.
We then went sightseeing around Adelaide. We went for a long walk around a big lake thing, I took photos of course. Then we found our way into the busiest part of the city and I was on the hunt for more jeans. Because I literally had only one pair, a grey pair that had paint stains on it. It was depressing.
After going through too many stores with everything I wanted but jeans, I reluctantly settled for some cheap ones at JayJays.
I hate going to JayJays, especially on holidays. Anything that reminds me of Sale is bad lol.
So we waited about half an hour for the credit cards to work, but they just didn't. The eftpos machines were down and out. That sucked a lot. But in the end, I got one pair of pants for free because the guy (could not stand his ridiculous nasely voice) 'felt awkward'. But hey, I can't complain, can I?
We then went walkies a bit more, found a boost store because as well as salad, I've been craving fresh juice as well.
We then basically went back to Pauline's, and I did homework. Yay.
Day 6, we headed off from Adelaide on a day with clear blue skies. It was tormenting to be shut inside a car all day while outside was perfect. And while I was staring longingly outside my car window, I noticed a lot of the ground turning to red earthy colours. That got me excited. And the strange thing was, those earthy colours had effect on the lakes there. A lot of lakes we passed were tinges of pink! It was so strange.
We finally arrived in Cowell. It was a small-ish town, but it was beautiful. The caravan park we stayed at was right next to a large bay. We went walking along a jetty at sunset and it was just perfect.
Day 7, we left early again and didn't drive for very long, since mum has been having a really sore back :( Dad's and my job that day was to look after mum in any way possible. We stopped for some brunch at Tumby Bay - a small but perfect town, and sat in a small café directly next to the ocean. Mum needed the backseat, or backseats rather, to lie down, so I hopped in the front the rest of the way to Port Lincoln. That wasn't very long at all.
But Port Lincoln is absolutely beautiful. The caravan park we're staying at is right on the shoreline of Boston Bay. As soon as we arrived, I jumped out of the car with my camera and ran down to the water. There are three different jetties along the edge, and one of them has been taken over entirely by seagulls. I'm serious. They went berserk when I walked along it.
I then set up mum's new fold-out chair that not only folds out, but folds OUT as well. (as in, a lounge chair, with a foot rest and it leans back and everything. Just like that add with the whole "...nice chair.") I relaxed in the sun, reading my book and listening to summer music. Perfect.
The sunset was also perfect, so I took a lot more photos yet again.
Then we had dinner - fresh fish from the seafood capital of Australia - and the salad I made myself :)
It was delicious, and perfect again. I normally dislike fish. Not this time. It seems like where we are heading, you have to like seafood. I don't really. But I've kinda been surrounded by it.
When we stayed in Cowell, I had salt and pepper calamari. And it was actually delicious, so long as I didn't think about what I was eating.
Mum and I watched 'Indescribable' with Loui Giglio, and after that I re-watched 'Furious Love', a DVD documentary thing Tom Munn gave me for my birthday. It's so full on about how far love will go into the darkness. But I love it, so thankyou Tom :)
And now, this is the morning of Day 8!
We're staying another day in Port Lincoln, partly because we want mum to be rested, partly because IT'S JUST SO BEAUTIFUL.
I got to sleep in :D
Well... my sleep-ins are now limited to 8:30am according to my stupid out-of-whack body clock.
Mum and dad have gone for a walk along the bay I think. Well, either way, they're not here in the caravan. It's just me and you, Blogger.
This day will be very relaxed, I'm sure of it. And I'm very glad of that too. I'll most likely be spending it lazing by the bay, maybe even swimming in it? Who knows. I even get to wear shorts and a singlet - or better yet - a summer dress! Because that's the kind of weather it is here, I love it. And it's only going to be getting hotter from now on.
Anyway, I'm off to have some breakfast of whatever I can find in the caravan. Maybe the mangoes are ready? heh :3
Until next time!
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Day 4 & 1/2.
Yesterday, I slept in 'til 10. That is a big achievement for this family holiday. Mum and dad however, got to experience the pleasure of an early morning beach walk - the only part of the day that was blue sky and sunshine.
But never mind that, the rest of the day was great regardless of the weather. The town of Robe is pretty small - at least the shopping part. It's simply one very long street full of quaint little shops and cafés, mostly made from sandstone. I bought things, mum bought things. $320 spent in a flash.
I was anticipating the 'Memory Lane' shop all day - how convenient that it was the last place we visited. But there were amazing shops there. And my personal favourite, called Holiday, was perfect for me. Well, almost. The price was very much out of my range. But then, as if I even have a 'range'. Dad paid for the whole day. Heh heh.
The holiday shop had a range from posh-looking lace dresses, to contemporary books about life and adventures, to tropical smelling handcreme and bars of soap that literally smelt like the ocean (the good part. No seaweed scent or fishy smells).
Literally apart from the lace dresses, everything in the shop was my paradise. There were real shells and not-so-real starfish hung up on thin pieces of rope that you hang on the wall. There was an immense amount of jewellery, with stones in my favourite blue colour that's just too hard to describe. I've already got frangipani hairclips and everything.
Anyway, enough of that shop.
After shopping, we went home, ordered fish and chips for tea. We ate them. We watched home-renovating shows on tv, and I went to bed to read.
My nights haven't been too interesting lately.
Today, we woke up at 7am. No sleep-in for poor Cassie.
We headed off straight away, drove for a half hour, and stopped at a little café for breakfast where I had croissants with cheese, and a caramel machiatto. In my opinion, it's just a caramel latte, but it seems more american saying 'machiatto'. The café even served our hot beverages with little mentos packets on the saucers. I think they were hinting about bad breath or something.
We continued on our way, and only stopped in some town I can't pronounce for lunch. I had a salad. A big one. Have I mentioned earlier that I've been absolutely CRAVING salad this whole trip? I could go for one right now. Well, it'll be tea time soon. Pretty sure I know what I'm having already. They have the best salads in South Australia.
Anyway, we continued on our way to- ACTUALLY, no. Stop. Sorry, I left out one little detail. The town we stopped at was somewhere dad had been to as a kid. Before we ate lunch, he was determined to show us his friend, the 'bunyip'. There was this stone bridge - in the middle of the concrete, so not really leading anywhere - that held a little surprise underneath. There was a dark place under the bridge that resembled a swamp. If you put a dollar into a little slot machine next to the swamp (dad would not rest until he had a dollar to show us. We all had to scrummage through our pockets until finally, I found one.), dad's friend comes out to visit. Except he didn't sound like he was very hospitable. A giant mechanical Bunyip monster would suddenly rise up out of the merky water and roar really loudly.. and kind of creepily. It was not a scary noise, not even slightly alarming. But it did sound weird, and yes, creepy. We thought it was going to come up once... well, it came up four times.
We let a few other tourists make use out of my dollar coin.
ANYWAY, for real this time, now that I have that part done and dusted, I am here now, in Adelaide.
We arrived at around 2:30pm I think. Maybe not, I could be totally making this up. Oh well. We're staying with Pauline and Breck Tonkin, mum's good friends. After chatting over some more hot beverages, the mature adult figures went for a lovely stroll around the neighbourhood. I was going to go with them, but being the slightly (a lot) less mature, more childish figure, I decided against it. In other words, they went for a walk, I was tired, so I stayed back. And decided to blog. :)
So here I am. The adult figures are back now, back to chatting. I'm still here. Using James Tonkins room as my temporary bedroom. How weird :S
The exhaustion of this trip is piling up on me. It's so heavy, it's weighing my eyelids down, so I can't help but nanna nap. You'd think I'd be well rested after being able to sleep heaps in the car while travelling. But it's not much help.
Anyway, talking about being sleepy is making me even more sleepy, resulting in me actually typing with my eyes closed because they can't stay open. I'm not sure if I've spelt all these words correctly, but eh.
Perhaps I should open my eyes now and just publish this ridiculously long post. They've all become long posts. Sorry about that. But as if anyone is reading anyway, so I'll just apologise to my fingers for putting in so much effort. Good job fingers.
OK OK, now I need to open my eys.
Wow. All perfect spelling as well as correct grammar, EXCEPT for the very last word I wrote. Ridiculous.
That is in fact, *eyes. My apologies.
Tomorrow we'll be sight seeing through Adelaide, and attending Pauline and Breck's church. I was silently hoping to go to Paradise church, but oh well.
I'll leave you alone now, blog.
Until, whenever.
Goodbye.
But never mind that, the rest of the day was great regardless of the weather. The town of Robe is pretty small - at least the shopping part. It's simply one very long street full of quaint little shops and cafés, mostly made from sandstone. I bought things, mum bought things. $320 spent in a flash.
I was anticipating the 'Memory Lane' shop all day - how convenient that it was the last place we visited. But there were amazing shops there. And my personal favourite, called Holiday, was perfect for me. Well, almost. The price was very much out of my range. But then, as if I even have a 'range'. Dad paid for the whole day. Heh heh.
The holiday shop had a range from posh-looking lace dresses, to contemporary books about life and adventures, to tropical smelling handcreme and bars of soap that literally smelt like the ocean (the good part. No seaweed scent or fishy smells).
Literally apart from the lace dresses, everything in the shop was my paradise. There were real shells and not-so-real starfish hung up on thin pieces of rope that you hang on the wall. There was an immense amount of jewellery, with stones in my favourite blue colour that's just too hard to describe. I've already got frangipani hairclips and everything.
Anyway, enough of that shop.
After shopping, we went home, ordered fish and chips for tea. We ate them. We watched home-renovating shows on tv, and I went to bed to read.
My nights haven't been too interesting lately.
Today, we woke up at 7am. No sleep-in for poor Cassie.
We headed off straight away, drove for a half hour, and stopped at a little café for breakfast where I had croissants with cheese, and a caramel machiatto. In my opinion, it's just a caramel latte, but it seems more american saying 'machiatto'. The café even served our hot beverages with little mentos packets on the saucers. I think they were hinting about bad breath or something.
We continued on our way, and only stopped in some town I can't pronounce for lunch. I had a salad. A big one. Have I mentioned earlier that I've been absolutely CRAVING salad this whole trip? I could go for one right now. Well, it'll be tea time soon. Pretty sure I know what I'm having already. They have the best salads in South Australia.
Anyway, we continued on our way to- ACTUALLY, no. Stop. Sorry, I left out one little detail. The town we stopped at was somewhere dad had been to as a kid. Before we ate lunch, he was determined to show us his friend, the 'bunyip'. There was this stone bridge - in the middle of the concrete, so not really leading anywhere - that held a little surprise underneath. There was a dark place under the bridge that resembled a swamp. If you put a dollar into a little slot machine next to the swamp (dad would not rest until he had a dollar to show us. We all had to scrummage through our pockets until finally, I found one.), dad's friend comes out to visit. Except he didn't sound like he was very hospitable. A giant mechanical Bunyip monster would suddenly rise up out of the merky water and roar really loudly.. and kind of creepily. It was not a scary noise, not even slightly alarming. But it did sound weird, and yes, creepy. We thought it was going to come up once... well, it came up four times.
We let a few other tourists make use out of my dollar coin.
ANYWAY, for real this time, now that I have that part done and dusted, I am here now, in Adelaide.
We arrived at around 2:30pm I think. Maybe not, I could be totally making this up. Oh well. We're staying with Pauline and Breck Tonkin, mum's good friends. After chatting over some more hot beverages, the mature adult figures went for a lovely stroll around the neighbourhood. I was going to go with them, but being the slightly (a lot) less mature, more childish figure, I decided against it. In other words, they went for a walk, I was tired, so I stayed back. And decided to blog. :)
So here I am. The adult figures are back now, back to chatting. I'm still here. Using James Tonkins room as my temporary bedroom. How weird :S
The exhaustion of this trip is piling up on me. It's so heavy, it's weighing my eyelids down, so I can't help but nanna nap. You'd think I'd be well rested after being able to sleep heaps in the car while travelling. But it's not much help.
Anyway, talking about being sleepy is making me even more sleepy, resulting in me actually typing with my eyes closed because they can't stay open. I'm not sure if I've spelt all these words correctly, but eh.
Perhaps I should open my eyes now and just publish this ridiculously long post. They've all become long posts. Sorry about that. But as if anyone is reading anyway, so I'll just apologise to my fingers for putting in so much effort. Good job fingers.
OK OK, now I need to open my eys.
Wow. All perfect spelling as well as correct grammar, EXCEPT for the very last word I wrote. Ridiculous.
That is in fact, *eyes. My apologies.
Tomorrow we'll be sight seeing through Adelaide, and attending Pauline and Breck's church. I was silently hoping to go to Paradise church, but oh well.
I'll leave you alone now, blog.
Until, whenever.
Goodbye.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Day 2 & 3.
Day 1 ended in Warrnambool, after a long and windy, but incredibly beautiful drive along the Great Ocean Road. The weather along the road was perfect, blue skies and sunshine and everything. But Warrnambool was unfortunately not so perfect :( It ended up being rainy and windy all night, which didn't help my already out-of-whack sleeping pattern.
We stayed in Warrnambool for 2 nights. The next day, Wednesday, the raining had stopped. And even by the end of the day, blue sky decided to grace us with its presence.
We went to a Cheese factory and became delicious taste-testers, and bought lots of organic chocolate, biscuits, pasta sauce and too much organic cheese.
Later on, we went to Stingray Bay (formerly named "Stink"ray Bay by mum the night before, when we drove by it and it smelt like sewerage. This time however, didn't smell bad at all) where we walked along a short boardwalk that bridged over a bay thing and went along large rock.. things. It was beautiful.
We then went back to our caravan and cooked pasta with some of the organic sauce we bought and had it for a delicious dinner.
That night was also rainy and windy :(
Today we woke up early, and picked up our travels. I slept a fair bit of the way, and suddenly we were in South Australia. It was freezing cold, wet and windy still.
Mum, like the patriot she is, commanded the weather to be sunny. And it became sunny.
But unfortunately not for very long. The sun peaked in and out of the clouds the rest of the day.
We arrived in Robe, found a caravan park, and after reminding dad of the wind and how hard it is to sleep in the caravan with it, we opted for a small cabin. We are now staying in a 2 bedroom (what a luxury - after sleeping in a caravan, even for just 2 nights. Agh.) cabin. I had a hard time choosing which bed I should sleep in, as the room I'm in has 2 bunks, therefore 4 choices. Normally I'd choose the one next to the window. They all had windows.
We were thinking it would be about 1:30pm or something at this point, but realised because we were now in SA, it would be half an hour earlier. We went back in time ;)
So with a little time spare, we went swimming in the indoor heated pool. Soon, very soon, that indoor & heated pool will become an outdoor, cool and refreshing oasis of blue, perfect for cooling off in a hot and sunny Perth. For now though, that's just in my head.
After swimming for a bit, we drove around town and took photos of the different ocean views. I got some good photos. We found a blowhole, but it terrified me. It wasn't even high tide, but I've seen too many movies about them.
We relaxed in the cabin for a bit, then went out for tea. We found a pizzeria place, and ate some pretty nice food there. I'm pretty sure the waiter who served me thought I was engaged, because he kept looking down at my promise ring on my left hand. I guess it would be odd, as if I'd look old enough.
:S
Right now, I'm back in the cabin, facebooking and blogging, now that I've discovered dad's laptop won't let me press the 'publish post' button, on my mum's laptop. I'm tired. I'm missing home already, I'm hoping it's not lasting. Not this early in the trip.
I'm stressing about getting all this homework I have done before I get back - it feels like I don't actually have 6 weeks. I can't quite wrap my mind around that just yet.
Tomorrow, we're going to look around the town in a little more detail. The buildings are beautiful - they're all really old styles, and any new buildings are made of sandstone, which I love.
We've passed heaps of antique stores, and one called 'Memory Lane' has caught my eye. I'm keen to look inside and be inspired and stuff.
I like that we're going from town to town, just looking through places and going anywhere we feel like going that looks interesting. It's very adventurous and I love it - but I think that's what is making me miss Sale so quickly. I feel very much a stranger, and not at all at home. I like it but I kinda don't. Maybe it's just when I'm tired that I dislike it. Hopefully tomorrow I'm not tired, that way I'll be in an exploring mood again.
I guess for that to happen though, I better be signing off and going to bed.
So, goodnight whoever happens to be reading :)
Sweet dreams.
We stayed in Warrnambool for 2 nights. The next day, Wednesday, the raining had stopped. And even by the end of the day, blue sky decided to grace us with its presence.
We went to a Cheese factory and became delicious taste-testers, and bought lots of organic chocolate, biscuits, pasta sauce and too much organic cheese.
Later on, we went to Stingray Bay (formerly named "Stink"ray Bay by mum the night before, when we drove by it and it smelt like sewerage. This time however, didn't smell bad at all) where we walked along a short boardwalk that bridged over a bay thing and went along large rock.. things. It was beautiful.
We then went back to our caravan and cooked pasta with some of the organic sauce we bought and had it for a delicious dinner.
That night was also rainy and windy :(
Today we woke up early, and picked up our travels. I slept a fair bit of the way, and suddenly we were in South Australia. It was freezing cold, wet and windy still.
Mum, like the patriot she is, commanded the weather to be sunny. And it became sunny.
But unfortunately not for very long. The sun peaked in and out of the clouds the rest of the day.
We arrived in Robe, found a caravan park, and after reminding dad of the wind and how hard it is to sleep in the caravan with it, we opted for a small cabin. We are now staying in a 2 bedroom (what a luxury - after sleeping in a caravan, even for just 2 nights. Agh.) cabin. I had a hard time choosing which bed I should sleep in, as the room I'm in has 2 bunks, therefore 4 choices. Normally I'd choose the one next to the window. They all had windows.
We were thinking it would be about 1:30pm or something at this point, but realised because we were now in SA, it would be half an hour earlier. We went back in time ;)
So with a little time spare, we went swimming in the indoor heated pool. Soon, very soon, that indoor & heated pool will become an outdoor, cool and refreshing oasis of blue, perfect for cooling off in a hot and sunny Perth. For now though, that's just in my head.
After swimming for a bit, we drove around town and took photos of the different ocean views. I got some good photos. We found a blowhole, but it terrified me. It wasn't even high tide, but I've seen too many movies about them.
We relaxed in the cabin for a bit, then went out for tea. We found a pizzeria place, and ate some pretty nice food there. I'm pretty sure the waiter who served me thought I was engaged, because he kept looking down at my promise ring on my left hand. I guess it would be odd, as if I'd look old enough.
:S
Right now, I'm back in the cabin, facebooking and blogging, now that I've discovered dad's laptop won't let me press the 'publish post' button, on my mum's laptop. I'm tired. I'm missing home already, I'm hoping it's not lasting. Not this early in the trip.
I'm stressing about getting all this homework I have done before I get back - it feels like I don't actually have 6 weeks. I can't quite wrap my mind around that just yet.
Tomorrow, we're going to look around the town in a little more detail. The buildings are beautiful - they're all really old styles, and any new buildings are made of sandstone, which I love.
We've passed heaps of antique stores, and one called 'Memory Lane' has caught my eye. I'm keen to look inside and be inspired and stuff.
I like that we're going from town to town, just looking through places and going anywhere we feel like going that looks interesting. It's very adventurous and I love it - but I think that's what is making me miss Sale so quickly. I feel very much a stranger, and not at all at home. I like it but I kinda don't. Maybe it's just when I'm tired that I dislike it. Hopefully tomorrow I'm not tired, that way I'll be in an exploring mood again.
I guess for that to happen though, I better be signing off and going to bed.
So, goodnight whoever happens to be reading :)
Sweet dreams.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Day 1: The Beginning of my New Life.
I love that this day is just a normal day for everyone else. The 16th of August, 2011 is a generic Tuesday, lived out working or being at school. But for me, not this time.
This time is something different, that I have been dreaming of for so so long. Now, it's happening and I don't believe that it is. Each time I breathe I hold my breath for a little longer, as if to catch some kind of reality in the air. I wonder if I'll ever really believe it.
I'm in the car right now, driving out of Melbourne with the laptop resting on my legs.
I look to my left and I can see the sign saying the Great Ocean Road. The sun is peaking through white wispy clouds, pretty much just there to tease me. But I'll catch the sunshine soon.
Mum and I stopped at a small fruit market next to a petrol station just outside of Melbourne, and bought mangoes. This is already very exciting, and I'm imagining the kind of mangoes I'll be eating in Perth soon.
I'm listening to Snow Patrol's 'You could be happy' as well as 'Let go' by Frou-Frou. I wonder if I can upload a video of the song from Youtube?
I'm feeling pretty mellow right now. I don't really know what to expect from this trip but I think that's a good way to be.
I'm wearing the daggiest clothes, a hoodie and grey trackies that have elastic on the bottom. But I'm very comfortable.
Hopefully I can blog almost every day.
Well I'm guessing I should be paying attention to the Great Oean Road now. I'll blog later on, tonight or tomorrow.
Bye :)
This time is something different, that I have been dreaming of for so so long. Now, it's happening and I don't believe that it is. Each time I breathe I hold my breath for a little longer, as if to catch some kind of reality in the air. I wonder if I'll ever really believe it.
I'm in the car right now, driving out of Melbourne with the laptop resting on my legs.
I look to my left and I can see the sign saying the Great Ocean Road. The sun is peaking through white wispy clouds, pretty much just there to tease me. But I'll catch the sunshine soon.
Mum and I stopped at a small fruit market next to a petrol station just outside of Melbourne, and bought mangoes. This is already very exciting, and I'm imagining the kind of mangoes I'll be eating in Perth soon.
I'm listening to Snow Patrol's 'You could be happy' as well as 'Let go' by Frou-Frou. I wonder if I can upload a video of the song from Youtube?
I'm feeling pretty mellow right now. I don't really know what to expect from this trip but I think that's a good way to be.
I'm wearing the daggiest clothes, a hoodie and grey trackies that have elastic on the bottom. But I'm very comfortable.
Hopefully I can blog almost every day.
Well I'm guessing I should be paying attention to the Great Oean Road now. I'll blog later on, tonight or tomorrow.
Bye :)
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Good morning, Blog.
And in just a few days time, I'll be embarking on a new adventure.
But right now, as hard as it may be, I must focus on 3 things:
1 - Alice in Wonderland. It was the opening night last night. And although the play is such a kid's play, the adult audience seemed to love it :) The only unproductive audience members were the teenagers, thinking they were 'too cool' for it all. But that's a bit normal for teenagers these days. Tonight is the second performance, and then tomorrow is the Sunday matinee.
2 - My studio art class artwork. Due in on Monday. Not that I'm going to be attending school then, just dropping it in, hopefully completed. Otherwise I fail. Not good for a year 12 subject.
3 - My friends. Sunday night after the matinee performance, I'm having friends come over for dinner. Pizza :)
I feel like it's essential that I get to spend time with these people before I leave for a very very long time. I'm going to miss them so so much.
Then, once all that is done and dusted, I'll be packing, then leaving!
I'll be sure to blog about my adventures as much as possible.
But right now, I must eat my breakfast - at midday. ;)
First time I've been able to sleep in for about a month. Have a good day, Blog.
But right now, as hard as it may be, I must focus on 3 things:
1 - Alice in Wonderland. It was the opening night last night. And although the play is such a kid's play, the adult audience seemed to love it :) The only unproductive audience members were the teenagers, thinking they were 'too cool' for it all. But that's a bit normal for teenagers these days. Tonight is the second performance, and then tomorrow is the Sunday matinee.
2 - My studio art class artwork. Due in on Monday. Not that I'm going to be attending school then, just dropping it in, hopefully completed. Otherwise I fail. Not good for a year 12 subject.
3 - My friends. Sunday night after the matinee performance, I'm having friends come over for dinner. Pizza :)
I feel like it's essential that I get to spend time with these people before I leave for a very very long time. I'm going to miss them so so much.
Then, once all that is done and dusted, I'll be packing, then leaving!
I'll be sure to blog about my adventures as much as possible.
But right now, I must eat my breakfast - at midday. ;)
First time I've been able to sleep in for about a month. Have a good day, Blog.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
"All you do is close your eyes, and you're in Wonderland."
I find it amusing and coincidental - maybe even some kind of fate - that I am playing the role of Alice, going through Wonderland.
It describes all that I am going through. Definitely must have been typecasted.
The only difference, aside from the ridiculously puffy sleeves, is the use of the word 'Wonderland'. My confusion is not so wonderful, though it is definitely 'wonder'some. Hmm.
The jail doors were wide open. This was their chance for freedom. But none of the prisoners tried to escape. Because there was something else, another freedom. A different freedom. The freedom in the hearts of those worshipping God - in the middle of their cell, in the middle of the night.
I feel like a prisoner who can hear the voices raised in worship from the people beside me. And while everyone is mesmerised by the freedom in the worshipping hearts, I'm confused. I feel like a traitor. Is it supposed to be this hard, to determine which is the right freedom?
Help me, God.
I feel like a prisoner who can hear the voices raised in worship from the people beside me. And while everyone is mesmerised by the freedom in the worshipping hearts, I'm confused. I feel like a traitor. Is it supposed to be this hard, to determine which is the right freedom?
Help me, God.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Show me Your glory.
I long to look on the face of the one that I love, long to stay in Your presence, it's where I belong.
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