HongKong! 1st Week

Hey guys! So I haven'e been able to write for quite a while. hmm. Shopping everyday is too much. Well can't help it when the 'mega shopping centre' is like right downstairs...

My feet hurt so much by the end of each day.And I have only attempted to do work once in the past week. Going to shang hai and other places on friday~ excited for more food and shopping ^^

I actually enjoy being a tourist in my homeland. taking photos of things i use to see everyday. Coming back this time felt SO different. like really reallly different. At first I was like wow, so many tall buildings. then wooooww why are there so many people?!then wooooooooow shopping is awesome here. yep totally like a tourist first time being in hong kong...shame i know my friend says I'm AUSTRALIANISED. XD

to be honest, i feel like i have been living in a hole for the past 5 years. oops no offence i like australia but seriously it's so inconvenient. like my friend says she just CAN'T imagine walking 3 steps and not seeing a convenience store. so far bought 3 pairs of pants, a tommy hilfiger bag :), like 4 tops. hmm really nothing more to say so, photo time!

wait nearly forgot to say i finally bought headphones! yesh! they are so useful in blocking annoying parent conversations and pretending not to hear, and thus, no need to reply la~ hehe

oh yes nearly forgot an interesting incident. there were my parents, grandma and me so 4 people.But there was only one fish on the dinner table. and knowing the asian culture, the fish ended up being tragically torn apart. like literally an unbearable scene.mum gave fish to dad. he gave it to grandma. she gave it to me, and I gave it to mum. and so the cycle continues on. EXTREMELY tiring. no kidding. so today mum bought two small fish and one big fish to share between 4.

that nearly didnt work out. dad was like the size of the fish is different. so cant be shared equally. i went crazy. we decided on buying 4 pieces of fish of approximately same size in the future.

phew. so that was the fish story...NOW photo time :)

coming back home

well my first impression when i stepped out of the airport, is why is everything so GREEEEEEN.
really loved autumn in germany, and to be honest, the cold was much more bearable than the heat here...felt like im being pan fried walking under the sun

anyway it has only been 2 months but it feels so odd to be back in my room again, sleeping on my own bed, and well, the feeling that i going back to school again. it's just weird if you know what i mean. it's not like I have changed, but i just think a bit differently.

need a bit time to prepare myself for school again, get my thoughts organised, coz i have experienced so much to be honest, I'm surprised myself how much i have seen and learnt.

definitely became way more independent, well after travelling to so many places on my own, from planning train trips, to the sightseeing destinations and how much i spend and so on...

you won't believe all the thoughts are passing through my head right now while I'm typing, how much I feel about the last 2 months. To be sure, I will be back in germany hopefully in 2 years time :)

Wonderful sunny weather + awesome shopping place

love the clothes brands here! so far my favourites:S.oliver, H&M, Maison Scotch, Mango, Hollister

and the shoes shops!!! omg completely different to the ones in australia,so much more to choose from here!

beautiful place- karlsruhe

last saturday i so desperately wanted to sleep in, i told myself i can sleep all i want when i come back to australia but right now every minute here is precious to me :)

so woke up at 7 and came up at 7pm, karlsruhe is such a beautiful city and i love the shape of the city, it's practically like a fan, with exactly 32 streets extending from the Schloss (Castle/palace) in the centre: how cool is that??

went to an art gallery first, then made a spontansous decision to go into the football statdium and watch a football match (after all it is Germany).

autumn here is so beautiful! the leaves ACTUALLY change colour, not like in Australia, always green. they are so pretty the yellow, orange and red trees.

story with a great moral

Here's a story with a great moral for you guys:

One day, a girl went shopping and found out there is a huge sales on in a clothes shop X. She walked around the whole shop at least 3 times until she finally found a blazer that she really likes.Unfortunately, the only sizes available are either too small or too big. At first, she thought 'oh well there are still so many shops along the street. perhaps I will see something I like.'

However after 2 hours shopping around, she still wish she could have the blazer and so she went to a 2nd shop of shop X but couldn't find the same blazer. The girl walked back to the 1st shop with hope(since it takes a while for the clothes to be hung back after the people try them on). Still nothing. So she asked the counter if there is her size in another shop. Outside the sun already set and since it takes 1 hour home the girl hesistated if she should go to the 3rd shop of shop X.

finally she got there, hoping desperately THIS time it will be there. and GUESS WHAT! there is just that one blazer remaining and it's her size!! And so the girl went home happily with her long-sought blazer with a huge sense of satisfaction.


so the moral IS: never give up your hope, always persist what you want and it's largely possible you will succeed!

see? an ordinary story about an ordinary girl can convey a great moral! hehe
well yes my story-writing skills are soooo good you probably didn't realise the girl is me :D

comeback from my 2 wks holis

i counted. i have been to 24 cities so far!

here's a list:) coz i feel like typing it up...


1. Bad Durkheim- Wurstmarkt
2. Hardenburg
3. Lugwigshafen
4. Mannheim
5. Heidelberg
6. Speyer
7. Munderkingen
8. Marbach
9. Schwabisch Alb
10. Biebrach
11. Bussen
12. Schwangau- Neuschwanstein
13. Ulm
14. Munchen
15. Schwäbisch Hall
16. Schöntat
17. Frochenberg
18. Heilbronn
19. Tubingen
20. Heidelberg (mit Emma)
21. Öhrringen
22. Stuttgart
23. Koln
24. Bonn

so yeah 18GB of photos is not a surprise considering how beautiful every one of these cities is.
so sad im going to leave here soon >.< want it to be a 1-year exchange

oh well cant be too greedy, and to summarise what i have done so far:

" I climbed the tallest church tower in the world(the most tiring thing in the world), went to Neuschwanstein Castle- Walt Disney's inspiration for the castles in his fairy tales, one of the largest previous concentration camps in Germany,and took a 'romantic' ship ride along the Rhein,saw the breathtaking Dom in Koln (i thnk i took like more than 50 photos of just that Dom), went to Beethoven's birthplace(and nearly bought a head sculpture of him) and if I'm going to continue this list, u would have to read till tomorrow morning..."

and my internet is gonna get cut in a few min, should post this fast!

adventure begins!

today was last day of school YEASHHHH!!! gosh how i HATE waking every day at 6 in the morning and falling asleep in some classes, but on a brighter note, i i understood the chemistry test and even got some of the right!!! so proud of myself :)

and also the biology test, i think i searched nearly every second word in each sentence for its meaning in my lifesavef- THE DICTIONARY!! yes, it has become my best friend during all this time.

there were 4 tests this week, man they go on forever, like 3 hrs.

anyway tomorrow going to my host dad's parents house to stay for a week, it's a small town in south germany, and i saw the photo of the house. it. is. MASSIVE. part of the house used to house cows, but now it's rented out. but man, i think i wouldn't be able to find my room ...

but obviously there is a disadvantage, i gather from what i saw on the edges of the photo, that it's really quite remote, and if i want to visit Ulm (a nearby major city) i would have to wake up early (again! arrghh) and 2. wear out my shoes completely perhaps simply by walking to the train station .

then on friday, going to stay a few days with another exchange student from brisbane and her host family XD

gonna be so fun, and hopefully get to travel lots around the region!

but apparently her host family has 3 sons, i think our age and older. that could be awkward.
i swear studying in a girls school makes me completely at loss of how to speak to boys....

oh and just before i go vacuuming my bathroom and the internet limit used up, i have something to announce!

in 2 weeks time, i will actually be going to a german disco/club. god i can't believe why im forced into this. i said nah i will stay home. but my host mum was like, why??? there are young people, music, you dance or you can look at people dance.

ehh awkward, and it will be SUPER awkward as i don't like either propositions...it's for i think for the last year of high school i.e. year 13 and so only 18 or above, and since my older host ister is 19 they are dragging me with them....

plus my younger host sister (Kim) is going to the ' Loft' (what the club is called) later with a guy and coming back at 2am...

i find it especially weird that she is like the perfect model student and always get the top mark in tests and so on, but still can go to discos and possibly have a boyfriend...

i would not be able to manage that.

anyways, I'm writing such a long post since i don't know when i will be able to access internet again, got perhaps i will need to go to an internet cafe, i just happen to not be able to survive more than 1 week without internet..