Surfer Girl

Hello all I am back from surf camp, safe and sound from any sharks.  It was actually a realllly great time, met a lot of people and even stood up on a surfboard! (Pretty big deal if you have any idea of how unathletic I am) Anyways like I said it was a really good time I met a lot of people, but is really weird meeting a whole new group of people and trying to figure out where you fit in and what not. It is like high school or something finding a whole new group of friends and deciding what kind of people you want to be around. But over all everyone was super nice and I met people from all over the world, which is very cool. The instructors were very nice and not bad looking either haha. I met people who were from Russia, France, Netherlands, and Sweden. It was quite interesting. Also my advisor went on the surf camp with us and she is very cool I got along with her very well and think I am really going enjoy having her as my advisor. Its funny because for the most part I don’t become super close with my teachers but I really think I will go visit her in her office just to chat which will be nice to have over here.

 Oh almost forgot to talk about my photo I think it is pretty self explanatory, that is the group I was with over there and the beach we surfed on. So you are probably wondering if I will start surfing here and I would like to think I would once it warms up. It was freezing we went and rained one day. After my first lesson all of my toes were numb and the bottoms of my feet and me being the smart person I am I didn’t bring flip flops and only brought one pair of winter boots, so I had to walk bare foot to the beach and back everyday. I did have a few times where I almost skipped out on a lesson because it was in the 60s but I forced myself to do it anyways. Looking back I'm really glad I did, I think that is one thing that I hope I take away from this trip is to never miss out on an opportunity. Once I again if you know me at all you know I love my sleep but I'm going to try and make sure that doesn’t stop me from doing anything over here because I know I will never get a chance like this again. Anyways that was pretty much my weekend it was a great time and am very glad I went, I do have to say I miss you all very much back home! Hope you are enjoying my life story haha

PS: I finally got my charger in the mail so I can start taking real pictures!

XOXOX

Carlee Jean

Yummy

Okay so today is going to be a short entry since I have to leave in 15 min for my surf camp but I thought I would write a little something because I know how much my parents will appreciate it. Still don’t have my camera charger so I am taking pictures with my phone still. Today picture is of the first real meal I have made here. I made zucchini fries, which were pretty decent but need some kind of dipping sauce. All I did to make those is dipped in egg then bread crumbs and cooked for 20 min at 250 some got a little burnt but hey it was my first try. Then just had some pasta with tomato sauce and added canned mushrooms, very tasty if I do say so myself. Also I am having my very first diet coke over here! Taste a lot like the diet coke back home which is a very pleasant. The reason I decide to make this my blog for today is I am thinking about having a cooking blog on the side but I am not sure yet. We will see how that goes considering I just found out there is no oven here.

Oh well anyways I will not be posting these next two days because I officially decided to go the surf camp. I’m not as worried about it as I was before because one of my roommates is going too so now I don’t have travel they’re by myself! I’m looking forward to it now; I'm just hoping a shark doesn’t eat me! So make sure to say a prayer for me!  I also am looking forward to finally meeting some people; I have been kind of cooped up in my room lately! But I have to go I will be back in a day or so

A Jail Cell

So since I still haven’t really decided what I want this blog to be, I will continue to use it as a daily journal. Today I have decided to show why I need to decorate my room so badly and so hopefully I can use these pictures for my before and afters. Sorry the pictures aren’t that great I forgot the charger to my nice camera at home so I had use my iphone and yes I made my bed just for this picture hah. Anyway, as you can see it really is like a jail cell in here, which hasn’t been but I'm sure will become very depressing as time goes on. There is a very big challenge to decorating this room though. That problem is I'm only going to be here 5 months and I most likely won't be able to bring anything that I use around the room back home with me. I kind of like this though because it is forcing be to think out of my box to try and decorate this room in a cheap way.  So I have the idea to use the old magazines I bought yesterday to somehow brighten up the walls, but after that I was stumped. The obvious place to turn then was pinterest. I found a few ideas that I liked on there, especially one that evolves a old painting of some sort (don’t want to give away what I’m going do with the old painting just yet, so you will just have to wait and see what I do with it.) Since I'm trying to make this all of this decorating cheap I found myself back at Vinnie’s today, really loving that place. I discovered some great old pictures to use and for only $15. Doing all of this decorating really makes me realize how much I enjoy living in my own place. I think the thing I like most about finally living in my "own" place is that I am really getting the opportunity to force myself to be creative with my room, cooking, and stuff along those lines. Even this blog is channeling a whole new type of creativity for me and surprisingly enough I'm enjoying way more than I imagined. It was funny today I found myself thinking about what I was going to blog about today. It oddly enough is forcing me to do things out of my box just so I can write about them haha. I will hopefully be posting tomorrow but I am going to my surf camp tomorrow, and don't if I will have time! 

Clown Man

So I should probably decide what exactly what I want to do with this blog I'm still not sure what do yet, what I do know is that I'm going to try and post in it everyday or at the very least every other day. Today was definitely a lazy day for me still trying to get used to the time zone. I went got a new phone and watched the Bachelorette Men tell all, very exciting. I also finally finished unpacking today. I went to this awesome little bookstore and got magazines that I plan on using to decorate my room some how (I’m sure I will show what I ended up doing with them in a later post). But anyway on my way back from getting my phone I found what I think is Australia's version of Goodwill, Vinnie's. Vinnie's is where I found this little guy! Once I saw him it instantly reminded me of my dad and my papa so I had to get him. It's nice to have something that reminds me of both of them around, he sits on my desk and watches over me (a little creepy). I think this Vinnie's place may become my new favorite store, I don't if its because I'm from the US or what but all the old clothes, scarves, pictures, and dishes were pretty awesome in my opinion. Over all it was good lazy day, I did get a little sad but was able to keep my mind preoccupied. I will post to you all tomorrow, hopefully!!

I Hope You Dance

Today I officially got to Sydney, Australia and it was by far one if the most scary days of my life. I had to travel by all by myself around the world. I have never traveled by myself today and then to top it off I had to meet my two roommates who were complete strangers. When I walked in the place was mess and I was so scared to find out the people who were living behind those closed doors. That was hardest moment of my day was getting through that. I eventually met one of my roommates, Melinda. She seems to be very nice and has been living for a couple of years. She is from Australia the place with the big red rock? Not exactly sure where that is. My other roommate has not left room and I have not met him so I will have to wait and see how that goes.

Anyways on to my picture, this is a book that my mom secretly sent with me in one of my folders. I found it earlier tonight and found my mom and dad had written me a bunch of little notes next to motivational quotes on every single page. I couldn’t help but crying when I read how proud of me she was and how she couldn't believe how fast I had grown up. I even seem to be tearing up now when writing this but not sure if that is because of the lack of sleep I have had. I can't lie though I am pretty proud of myself also for getting through these first 48 they were not easy. But anyways I have only gotten a few pages into the book but thought I would save the other pages for days when I am feeling home sick. This experience already is showing me how lucky I am and how I really do have the best family in the world! As Winnie the pooh said "How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." I am a bit scared of being here by myself and not sure what tomorrow holds, I Have this book to help me through the hard times and remind of how lucky I really am :) 

Please excuse any spelling or grammar errors; english class was never my best class