Well now lets see whats been going on..?

Hi there! 

Last time I wrote I had just been diving and spring was right around the corner (if not already there..?)

anyways, the following week after that was pretty much studies and just hanging around, not doing much. I even remember the weekend as being without adventure. But I could be wrong, check out Andy on the other side of the world and see there (he blogs a lot more than I do).

The weekend after that though was VERY exciting, guess what: I'm now a certified advanced open water diver! Congratulations to me, thank you. The weather for that weekend was good, the forecast had promised better weather but what the heck, especially on sunday. The first day we did a underwater naturalist dive, basically an ordinary dive were you're pretty much just reminded not to mess up the nature down there. The second dive was a deep dive so we hade to go out by boat, took about 20-30 minutes to hit our destination. It was a bit windy and some waves that stirred up water making the sight very low, we had about two meters maybe three when we hit the bottom. We, guided by instructor Pete, descended to first 12 meters and then we followed the reef wall down to 26,9 meters depth. We did some exorcises there just to see if we were nitrogen narced, I wasn't *sad panda*. But anyway we ascended up to seven meters made a stop and then 5 meters and a stop for three minutes. At the surface we met up with the boat again and headed back to land :). The deep dive was actually, in my opinion, a bit scary, mostly because the lack of sight, two meters gets kind of creepy as when you look up and cant see the surface!

Anyway the following day had a lot better conditions, very clear sight, nice warm weather and good company of divers. This day we just did practical exorcises, navigation, peak performance bouyancy and search and recover, a long day of fun diving! Can't wait till next time and to go diving with my darling Carolina who's still back home, *sad panda*. Anyway all the dives went great and now I'm certified to go to deep depths if I want to and so on.

Didn't take any pictures of this trip, but again Andy did, check out his blog if you want to see how awesome it was ;).

The week after that (this one) was really dull, the weather was awesome, but I had to do assignments (still do) wich didn't go as good as I wanted but I feel that I should still pass. Oh and by the way, got my first A on a presentation that Sarah Fitzgibbons and I did, nailed it and got 95% (= A). Good job Sarah and me!

But the friday was awesome, we went on a field trip with the wine class to Yarra Valley, one of the largest winery areas here in Victoria (right?) well close to Melbourne in any case. Pretty famous area. Great nature, beautiful scenery and very VERY nice wines. I let the pictures talk for themselves for a bit :)

as you can see we had a great time (we drank a lot of wine, maybe like two or three bottles each ;)) 

Yesterday me and Andy walked to the shopping center, arrived before the bus we were thinking of taking there. We got some groceries and then got home. Exciting huh?

That evening we ate a family dinner here in the house, very nice :) we should do that more often!

Today I can only think of my love back home, miss you babe. She was the one who talked me into start writing here again :)

Anyway, thats all for now, take care and I'll try to write more often.

Lots of love

//Dennis

Diving and that stuff!

what be happenin' brah?

I went diving in the weekend that past, have been waiting for that for so long and finally we (the reef club) went out on Mornington Peninsula for some nice saturday diving!

I met up with Jono at the club here at LaTrobe at 7 in the morning, which felt weird on a saturday, and packed the car with equipment. Later on me, Jono, Camel (Camilla from denmark) headed out towards Rye to meet up with the other divers. It was a sunny day and I saw a bit more of this country, it's beautiful on the country side ;). When we arrived we noticed it was quite rough water so we decided to dive close to the pier. I had some troubles the first dive as I didn't have enough weight on me and kept floating... Luckily Nat helped me out and went for some more weights for me so I could enjoy the dive a little bit more! We saw some seahorses, crabs and a small stingray (or the like, might have been another similar fish...) on this spot, even though we only had about 2 meters vision. A little bit frustrated over the weight issue, I couldn't wait for the next dive!

Before we went to the second dive spot we needed to refill our tanks and our stomachs.. we had some food in Rye, first time I tried a sausage roll... It was OK...
Afterwards we went to the second diving spot which was in Flinders. When we finally got in I got stunned by how far I could see down there! Felt like I could see everything, REALLY clear water. At this sight I saw some goatfish, seaweed dragons and some sunken parts of a ship or something... and quite a lot of fishing hooks and other garbage... 

Nat let the people who wanted to dive on sunday as well to stay in his grandmas house, of course I couldn't decline that offer!

We ended up drinking some beers around a fire, talking shit and having a good time ;)

On Sunday morning Nat made pancakes for breakfast... they were... OK.. but nice of him nonetheless!

We headed out to the southern side of the Mornington Peninsula, looking for some sharks. However the sea was quite rough so it took some time to get out to where we wanted to start our dive. When we finally got down there you could really feel the waves swaying us down there, pretty awesome! We swam around some corals and rocks, saw some small sharks, one purple and one yellow. But it was mainly the currents down there that was really cool about this dive. Getting up from there was a pain though. The waves pushed us around on the beach like silly and I got really sandy from it. Plus that there was a LONG uphill walk from there, and the equipment is pretty heavy... still, a very beautiful sight!

Before the last dive of the weekend, we refilled our tanks and got a little snack in our stomachs, we chose to dive a little further north of the first day of saturday. The anticipation could have been better, but the weather wasn't that good on sunday.. Anyway we chose to check out a "wreck" (an old small boat on the bottom...) and then check out if we could spot any big stingrays under the pier. The wreck was a bit disappointing, not much to see there and not that very clear in the water... a lot of sand and stuff floating around... But when we headed back towards the pier we met some really cocky crabs (easy to piss- and scare off) I sight hard to forget :) Under the pier we spotted crabs and seahorses everywhere, not to mention all the sea stars. Then finally I saw a stingray swimming under the pier, soo cool! It was way bigger than I thought it would be and it scared the living shit out of danish Dennis (also in the reef club) as it swam underneath him while he least expected it! (He was looking closely at a small sea star). We spotted it again as it swam back out to sea.

So even though I had low expectations of this dive, it was probably the funniest of them and a good one!

After that one we went home, I was beat and dead tired! 

In other news, spring is here some days and when it looks like this:

from our bedroom window, it's very nice ;)

Now I gotta get some stuff done... 

See y'all!

two bottles of $20 red wine is better than one bottle of $20 wine...

Hey guys!

Yesterday was S A T U R D A Y!, and that meant: "fuck partying, I gotta rest!"...
The thing is, this friday I had wine class with red wine tasting and afterwards me. Tadd, Alyse and Lauren went to st. Kilda to meet my roommates. We got some expensive nice wine leftovers from wine tasting class, (from $20 and up in retail stores), to drink at st. Kilda. Sadly things took more time than expected and when we got there, the sun was going down and it had gotten pretty cold.. *sad pandas* went back to the city, had some food and a beer then we went back to our place and had some more wine. We played some drinking games and some of us got very drunk. We had a good time though! but in conclusion, yesterday was resting day! watched some movies just chilling out ya know;)!

Right now I'm in our backyard trying to get a tan, gotta love the sun in this country, It can warm the coolest heart!



Tadd told me the other day that the reef-club are arranging advance diving certificate courses in the next weeks or so, so thats on my schedule! Cheap course and a lot of fun diving, including wreck diving, night dive etc. should be great practice for our trip to cairns at the end of this semester. Looking forward to this!

Life in Australia is great, but I miss a lot of the people back home. Don't think I would be able to move here permanently.. but on the other hand I will miss a lot of the people here, but then again most of them are going to their home countries after this semester.. Melancholy already?

Anyways, gotta live in the moment right?

If anybody from home would like to talk to me, my skype is denitz87, and if you need help installing skype - ask a friend or something (it's not that hard!)

I guess that's all for now folks!

take care and I'll write soon!
XO

It's sunny, but I'm cold...

It's been a week since last i posted something here and there has been some stuff going on!

School is pretty slow at the moment, got a few things to do, but nothing that takes alot of time... I know this pisses Emmy off, but it's not my fault.
 Feels like spring finally has arrived here in Melbourne, it's great! Although I feel a cold coming on I'm still happy.

Last friday I met up with a friend at the Eagle bar, had a few cold ones and then there was some sort of postgraduate thing going on. Meant free food for me and meeting interesting people of different academic specialities. Very nice evening!

The next day, me and the gang went to the Melbourne zoo! The man to thank for this is Grant who drove us there and showed us around, Thank you Grant!
I don't know much to write about this though, some animals, alot of birds and billions of annoying kids! If there was a forbidding sign of any kind, of course a kid would be there! But enough complaints about that, in the evening our good Italian friends cooked us dinner and we had a great time eating and drinking together. Then we ended up in the city! Went clubbing and late in the morning I got home and got some good earned sleep.

Sunday passed without any adventures, Monday as well.

I might get an international drivers license this week and do some practise driving, but we'll see. On friday it's red wine tasting, should be great...

Anyways toodeloo I've got some studies to do...

See Y'allz

Spring anytime soon?

*insert cool greeting here*

SO whats been going on down here..?

Last week went by VERY fast, so fast I hardly remember it by now!

It was mostly being in school doing school stuff until thursday, eagle bar as usual on thursdays, kind of a mellow night actually.. Friday started with a hangover that sucked, went to class and felt sick for a bit and afterwards I ate breakfast at Subway here on campus, took an hour to get the food down my throat... But in that afternoon we had our first wine tasting tutorial, so after about two glasses of wine the hangover was cured. At the end of the tutorial, me and some of the other wine tasters were a bit tipsy so we got over to eagle bar to get some beers... (maybe this blog should be named "dennis drinking in the world upside down"...?) anyways, some friends joined us in the house later that evening for some pre-drinking and later still we went to a club. Had a blast! 

On saturday we were tired and just watched movies, some friends joined, Thank you xandra for the delicious pizzas! 

Sunday went by fast and we celebrated Bjoern for his 22nd birthday, had a blast, maybe I had just a little bit too much wine (wasn't feeling that good yesterday)

anyways, I'll try to do more fun stuff to write about!

See y'all! 

School starts foh realz!

Hey there, I'll try to keep this interesting...

So since last time there has been a bit of socializing, in thursday we ended at chrisholm for some pre drinking and later on eagle bar, was it good? Yes I think so, can't remember much of the night. Although I didn't get that "drunk" until I got home and me and Andy thought it would be a good idea to drink some whisky before bedtime. We were wrong... The next day I had class at 9:30 (got to bed about 2:30), and the hangover wasn't merciful. I felt sick during the class and I was late. But it was my class in Wine tourism and marketing so... I mean it's not that bad ;) Had tutorial in the same afternoon, at 2pm, Got introduced to what the tutorials are going to be like. Let's just say that I think this unit will be my favorite this semester. For instance next week we are going to learn "how to taste wine", and we all know that it refers to "getting tipsy in school", ergo - awesome ;)

That evening we were suposed to celebrate Jules and Katrinas birthdays at Menzies college, but me and Andy were a bit late and we met up with the party people at the tram station on our way to the city. We got to a place called "Wah Wah Lounge" and even though the place was a bit small (got crowded easily) I had a good time, haven't danced so much in ages! Thanks girls for bringing us!

We took the "night rider" to get home at first, but there was a crazy lady sitting behind me trying to do "wet willy's" on me. She scared the crap out of me when I saw her approaching in the periferi view(?) and I hit my head n the ceiling when I jumped up... Luckily Jacinta was very nice and gave me and Andy a ride home, meaning I hopefully will never see this crazy asshole of a woman again!

Yesterday (saturday) we were hungover and it was raining outside so not much happened, for the evening our german friends Björn and Marc joined for some football (soccer) Inter Vs Milan, good game, Swedish player Zlatan made a goal for Milan and the game ended with Milan winning with 2 goals against 1. Since I don't really follow any sport I was happy, Andy on the other hand who supports Inter was a bit disappointed... Nice night though, thanks guys!

Today I have to study, got an (rather small but still) assignment due to wednesday and it contains quite a lot of reading so gotta get started, hence the title... Shouldn't be too hard though! I mean I'm pretty awesome ;)

Think that's about it for this time! 

Cheers guys! 

Ps. I'm too lazy today to check the spelling...

Pics from where I am atm...