Roundup part 3: Great ocean road

DARY!

anyways, welcome back!

So in this part I will tell you what we did during Emmys last day in Melbourne! Late the Sunday night, after the diving, Emmy decided that we should drive along the great ocean road on the day after. Said and done Melanie was kind enough to drive us and show us around. It started out as an early morning, I was pretty much the only one who had some sleep that night, at 7am and we drove off to campus to pick up Lauren.

As you can see in the pictures we were very excited to go :)

We drove off and took a quick visit to Melanies hometown, can't remember the name of it now but it's just outside of Melbourne.. I think

Very pretty little town, we arrived just as it woke up and had us some breakkie and coffee. We drove around for a bit and headed off for the great ocean road!

As we only had time to do a one-day trip we decided to go to Lourne and the waterfall park near there.

The view from the car on the way there was very nice, it's so weird that we haven't that much outside of Melbourne. At especially Andy and Emmy!

Maybe not the best picture of it, but still ;)

When we arrived to Lourne we (mostly me) made a lot of puns because Lauren was with us (Lourne ≈ Lauren) such as "look at all those kids, playing in Lauren/Lourne" you know.. :)
We stayed for a quick toilet visit and a stretch of legs, and then we gathered our strengths and took on the challenge of getting to the waterfall!

Lauren and Emmy in Lourne, a Laurnception if you will!


Not as dramatic as I suggested it was, just some steep hills that the precious Volvo didn't really want to climb but it did anyways! Good Volvo!

You would think that we actually read this sign, we didn't so I know nothing about the place more than I saw when I was there.


It was an astonishing nature and very beautiful indeed, some tourists but not that many more than us.
So here's some pictures of it:

isn't this misspelled?

A word that if I remember correctly is about falling trees or something..?

The gang!

WATERFALL!!

The non-separable girls

Andy is excited

Trying to look normal

oh no you don't we're not done yet!

We started walking along the creek instead of heading to another place, very adventurous of us :)

I miss this crazy old woman (she's two days older than me) already!

Obviously the swedes were in the front of the trekking..

After we decided to go back, Andy mistook water for ground, we went back to Lourne and went out on a pier and just watched the sea for a bit. Then we headed back home so we would have time for a goodbye dinner with Lauren and Emmy. I drove back because Melanie was sleepy and I offered myself to drive, I love driving. 

when finally back in Melbourne we made ourselves ready and headed down to Stollies for dinner, had a few drinks in Fitzroy and headed home. 

It was a great day with many laughs and a lot of adventure, kind of a pre-taste of our road trip that is just around the corner!

HUGS!

Roundup part 2: Last diving with the club

Hey gents and gals!

I decided in the last minute of last thursday, the 17th if I remember correctly, to go diving one last time with the club (at least for now). They were going to do an advance course and had some space open for other divers as well! Lucky me!

So me and Tadd went down a bit later than planned, apparently the drivers were going to be late. We arrived at 11.30 am, the others got there by 2 pm which is when we had planned to start diving. But there's no need to cry about that, so we just dealt with it, packed in the gear and went off ASAP.

We arrived in Rye around 5pm and me and Danish Dennis decided to just do the night dive due to few tanks and the others were doing the course so we went for a beer run and chilled out for a bit, helped out. Had a beer and some food and so on ;)

The night dive was really nice, warm water, lots to see (for me that is, the dane got the crappy torch). We saw some octopus, squid, stings, globe fish and what not. We turned off our torches at some points just to experience the dark around us, it was amazing! I can't remember what it is but when we moved in the dark we could see some glowing dots in the water following our motions, pretty cool! We were in there for an hour but had to end the dive because we needed to pee...


Afterwards we packed our stuff and headed back to Toms cabin for a few drinks, food and a good time! A nice evening indeed!


The day after we were going for a boat dive, unfortunately we missed the tidings (don't ask me how it works because I have no idea... only certain hours of the day makes the reef out there diveable) so we did a drift dive instead! For me that was actually more interesting because I've never done that! It was definitely a cool experience, depth changed a lot during that dive, saw a really big and strange ray (it had some sort of nose?) and mostly crabs. But the fun part of these dives is that you pretty much just let the stream take you forward. We were all hanging on to a rope that was attached to a boyo on the surface so that the boat could find us during the dive. The most astonishing part of this dive was the incredible visibility, around 30m+!!

All in all I only did two dives that weekend, but they were both really good! Can't wait to finally get do dive with my wonderful Carolina! It's going to be LEGEND.... wait for it....

Roundup part 1: Exams

Hey there fellas!

I haven't written in a long time, sorry about that! Been busy... ish

Today is the final day of the exam period, although I have been done with my exams since the 18th. I had some troubles to what to study on in most courses, since it was very unclear. But I got the hang of it on most courses. Hopefully I did well on them all! All I need is a pass anyways, A's won't transfer to the Swedish system anyways so it doesn't really matter what grade I get as long as I pass!

The exams themselves are different here than in sweden, they are all forced into about two weeks and with four different courses in that amount of time to do exams on... It gets confusing to say the least!

In any case they're done now, so it doesn't really matter anymore, nothing can be done by now! It's all in the teachers hands.

We celebrated by going out that very night, ended up in different places in the city. Sadly we didn't find a good club/bar but I had a good time anyways, all you need is good friends you know.

These times are the sad times at Uni, all new friends I've made here are going home or starting their travels. Most of them I will probably never see again, sad times indeed!

BUT! I have great times ahead to, in two weeks or so my sweetheart finally arrives! I've missed her so much.. And we get to start our travels together, and with other friends as well. The only problem now is to try and save some money for the trip... and with some money, I mean save all the money I have!

I hate that money always stands in the way for living.

Anyway, I'll write some more later, letting you know what I've been doing instead of writing in the blog ;)

kiss and this and that and what?

;)