TOURING WESTERN AUSTRALIA FOR 10 DAYS !
With a hot weekend behind us we enjoyed daily life in Cecilie's and Nikos' house from Monday and onwards. Cecilie had been very nice to take holidays during our full stay, so she was looking very well after us all the time. Nikos and the girls had to go to work each day. We joined Cecilie some of the days, when she went to the school to pick Anna Maria and Zoe up at 15.05. School started in the morning at 08.45. And on Friday morning I had the pleasure to join in at the school's weekly ASSEMBLY, where all 300 students meet and one of the classes has to do the performance. That day it was Anna Maria's class. A very interesting and clever performance on the stage. Anna Maria was one of the active trees in the play - and dressed like that. It is also during this weekly Assembly that students get their yellow certificates for extra good work and nice behaviour. Anna Maria and Zoe did not get any at this occasion. But they have received many at previous assemblies :-)
Summer holidays are approaching in Perth. They start on December 14 and last until February 1. And both girls have to start in a new school after the holidays. Anna Maria will start in Ardross Senior High School, where she can continue until she gets her high school diploma. And Zoe will join a class in another school just next to Anna Maria's. Both schools have very high marks. And they are just up the road from the family's house. So it will become much easier for everybody.
As Cecilie and Nikos have their research work at the university to look after a very nice 18 year old Australian student called Grace is looking after the girls three afternoons every week.
While the girls were sweating in their school Cecilie took us to different and very interesting places such as the wonderful Swan Valley with all its vinyards, bushlands and quietness. We had to look out for the very dangerous snakes and spiders in the area. But we all survived, also the animals. She also took us to very nice area right at the Indian Ocean - north of Fremantle. You almost saw the 35.000 whales pass by - though they seemed to be anderswo engagiert that day. And on the day before our departure we visited the very well known Caversham Wildlife Park east of Perth. We have been there twice before, so we came to say hello to our old friends, the koalas, the wombats, the Emu, the Tasmanian devils, the crocodiles - and the often naughty kangaroos, of course.
Towards the end of our stay we invited the family to a two-day stay in a very well known holiday resort called Dunsborough. It is about 260 km south of Perth and right at the Indian Ocean. Fantastic place, fantastic house. And very nice weather. The more south you go in Australia, the more human the weather gets - normally. During our stay the girls each tried to drive an electrical car ( great success!) and afterwards to ride a horse for an hour into the bush, all the time surrounded by jumping kangaroos. Also a huge success!
Everything comes to an end. Our great visit to the family did too. Before leaving we gave each of the girls some Australian money. At first Zoe said: No, I don't want it. It is YOUR money! When we insisted, she picked up her purse, already full of Australian bank notes. When she put our small present into the purse, she said with a firm voice: I promise not to use it for anything stupid! Anna Maria said right away that she would put the money into her bank account, where she is saving money for her university studies later on!
At our departure we were all happy to agree that we will meet again next summer in Kos in Greece for a week. And again around Christmas and New Year 2018-19, when our "Australians" will come to Europe for holidays again. Warm thanks to all for make our visit so delightful !
Summer holidays are approaching in Perth. They start on December 14 and last until February 1. And both girls have to start in a new school after the holidays. Anna Maria will start in Ardross Senior High School, where she can continue until she gets her high school diploma. And Zoe will join a class in another school just next to Anna Maria's. Both schools have very high marks. And they are just up the road from the family's house. So it will become much easier for everybody.
As Cecilie and Nikos have their research work at the university to look after a very nice 18 year old Australian student called Grace is looking after the girls three afternoons every week.
While the girls were sweating in their school Cecilie took us to different and very interesting places such as the wonderful Swan Valley with all its vinyards, bushlands and quietness. We had to look out for the very dangerous snakes and spiders in the area. But we all survived, also the animals. She also took us to very nice area right at the Indian Ocean - north of Fremantle. You almost saw the 35.000 whales pass by - though they seemed to be anderswo engagiert that day. And on the day before our departure we visited the very well known Caversham Wildlife Park east of Perth. We have been there twice before, so we came to say hello to our old friends, the koalas, the wombats, the Emu, the Tasmanian devils, the crocodiles - and the often naughty kangaroos, of course.
Towards the end of our stay we invited the family to a two-day stay in a very well known holiday resort called Dunsborough. It is about 260 km south of Perth and right at the Indian Ocean. Fantastic place, fantastic house. And very nice weather. The more south you go in Australia, the more human the weather gets - normally. During our stay the girls each tried to drive an electrical car ( great success!) and afterwards to ride a horse for an hour into the bush, all the time surrounded by jumping kangaroos. Also a huge success!
Everything comes to an end. Our great visit to the family did too. Before leaving we gave each of the girls some Australian money. At first Zoe said: No, I don't want it. It is YOUR money! When we insisted, she picked up her purse, already full of Australian bank notes. When she put our small present into the purse, she said with a firm voice: I promise not to use it for anything stupid! Anna Maria said right away that she would put the money into her bank account, where she is saving money for her university studies later on!
At our departure we were all happy to agree that we will meet again next summer in Kos in Greece for a week. And again around Christmas and New Year 2018-19, when our "Australians" will come to Europe for holidays again. Warm thanks to all for make our visit so delightful !
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