My SL Australia Study Visit : Day 2 - Melbourne (6th of June 2007)

Music: Lead – Baby Cuz U

The next day,

we went to Melbourne High School for a school exchange in the morning.

When we arrived at Melbourne High,

we were arranged into groups and I was grouped with Yan Ting, Heather, Lynn and Lestina; and my group’s facilitators were Yuji and Scott.

Both facilitators introduced more about their school and brought us to look around at the school.

Melbourne High allows their students to have a choice to select their own subjects except that English is compulsory.

Also,

the school has an interesting tradition called the Milk Run whereby the students had to race with each other around the school and when they got exhausted, they would have to drink bottles of milk and run again.

During different seasons,

they have different sets of uniform to wear.

The school has music, art and sports lessons.

The music students can borrow many musical instruments for their lessons and the sports students can book their sessions in the gym, courts, fields, swimming complex in the school.

The swimming complex in the school is also used by the Olympics competitors.　すごいね!

We attended to Yuji’s Mathematics and Japanese lessons.

I had a great experience! ♪

During lunch time, once again, we had Subway for lunch!

(Chicken and Vegetarian this time round!)

We also exchanged words, took some group photos and play games with our facilitators and other students from Melbourne High.

Later on,

we went to their school hall and all the facilitators who were from Chorale played and sang for us various songs.　楽しいかた～

Next off, we went to Philip Island!

Ahhhhhh!!!

I had been looking forward for this. : D

It was extremely chilly in there~　（＞＿＜）

I was so excited to see the Koalas!

Most of the Koalas were spending their time on the tree.

Hah hah : D

At the park, I also learnt a lot more about Koalas.

Heh heh : D

We left Koalas’ Park quickly and we went to Philip Island’s Penguins’ Parade.

We were at the Penguins Information Centre first to know more about the Penguins then, it was about time to watch the Penguins’ Parade.

The Penguins of Philip Island are the smallest species of the Penguins and

they have been the residence of for over a thousand of years.

When the sky has gotten dark,

the Penguins started to return from their hunt in the sea to their own burrows.

They are usually in groups and when they reached the shore,

they waited for everyone in the group to reach the shore first,

before heading back to their burrows.

There was one Penguin which kept going back to the sea after its efforts on getting to the shore.

At first, I thought that it got lost but it turned out that it arrived much earlier at the shore than its other group mates. Later on, its group mates started to arrive and they waited and looked for all of their group mates before heading back to their burrows.

The penguins are あぁぁぁ！めちゃかわいい！❤ ❤ ❤ (●´Д｀●)

We had dinner at the restaurant and shopped for souvenirs.

Philip Island! 最高だ！

Back in the hotel, we got to eat Krispy Kreme’s doughnuts which Nisa’s aunt has bought for us.

The doughnut tastes so good! うまい！

After eating, some of us went to the nearby seven-eleven store to buy some snacks to eat.

It was our last night staying in . ~ (T_T)

Called back home too ~

I missed my family!!! : D

Not feeling well on that day too. (>_<)

At night, Lynn, Heather and Yan Ting came to my hotel room to chat. : D

Veri fun! ❤

Wardah went to the computer room with her friends.

After that,

Lynn and Heather went back to their rooms to sleep but Yan Ting stayed up with me. ~

ありがと！

Actually,

we planned not to sleep at all as we decided to have our rest in the next day’s ten hours bus trip to Birrigai and Canberra instead.

Then we watched the television programs,

(MTV and news to see the temperature for Canberra– 1~2 Degrees Celsius!) and chat.

It was veri fun!

Laughed throughout the night. : D

But in the end,

やぱりだめだ！

I cannot take it and slept around 4 plus.

Hah hah : D