History and other interesting things about down under

von Simone

Hi there, it's me again. And I'm back with another amazing week I can tell about. Before I start, I want to give Doreen best regards from Nicola (stay sassy Dori). At first I want to say, I wasn't as bad at the swimming carnival, as I expected. I achieved second place in breaststroke and I was really happy about it.

At the end of the last week, Lucy (Tessa's sister) and I went shopping in Wangaratta after Tess and I had a nice tennis lesson in the morning. We bought some amazing stuff and I was surprised how cheap clothes are over here. Food however is really expensive. The next day, we drove to Beechworth. Beechworth is an old town, which had a prison for a long time and played a big role of the gold rush in the 1850s.


First we walked along a path which told us some interesting things about the Aborigines and after this we visited a Lolly shop and I bought Pop Tarts there (Originally an American candy which I really love).

Today we went Kayaking and it was really fun, because we paddled down a faster part of the Ovens river, than we did the week before. The weather here is really crazy, last week there was a tiny bit of snow on the top of the mountains (Snow! In summer!? In Australia!!?), and this week, it's 30 degrees again.  Enjoy the last piece of winter Germans,

Simone