My Happy :) Happy : ) Face In Melbourne

Smile everytime….. Happy every seconds…. ^-^

I just had the greates holiday ever…. Thanks to my hostfam for that awesome holiday !!!! Well… few weeks ago, it was Easter School Holiday. Finally it’s Holiday… yay !!!!

Anyway… i spent a week of holiday at home..being a nice kid…Hahaha..not really though. i frustated about all of my holiday assignment, but thank God i finished it before i FLEW to Melbourne. i just wanna shout MELBOURNE HERE I COME !!!!

Sunday, 23rd of April…We flew to Avalon Airport, melbourne. we got there at midnight, and my hostmum’s parents picked us up, n off we went to Camperdown. It’s a gorgeous small city in Victoria, about 2.5 hours from melbourne. i spent about a week at the farm. n if u think i got bored…Nah…not at all !!!! i enjoyed every seconds. U know…at the first day i was there, i did lots of new stuff. Can’t mention it in order, but i’ll try…

I did Chasing cows (usually i do chasing sheep), that was heaps of fun. this time i didn’t do it on the back of the ute, i did it on nice 4WD. chasing the cows is harder than chasing sheep. they r bigger n too stubborn i s’pose. we have to change direction n found further way to make them in to the ram, as soon as they were in, we started calving them. and also…i milked the cows…at 1 morning, when i woke up, i saw Pop was about ready to get the milk bucket n all of the sudden, my host mum said "C’mon….we r gonna milk the cows". n i went out with them, mind u, i went there with Pop, Mum, Indi, Oli n Aaron. n pop started to milk the cows, and we took a turn to do it. "Nhira’s turn" Mum said. And i did….Hahahaha… So Cool ….. n after we finished that, Pop took the bucket, and nana filtered the milk so we can drink it as soon as possible. n it tasted different, still nice but. for a moment i remember my memory when Papa used to bring the fresh milk home when i was a kid… Gosh….i still remember what my expression was when i saw papa brought those milk for me. What a wonderfull childhood !!!!(as far as i’m concerned). And What a wonderful Teenager life i have ….

Hmm…what else did i do ???? 1 day we went for chasing cows again. But this one wasn’t the hard one, we just made sure that all of the cows were in the right place, fed them or moved them to the other part of the farm…a bit of chasing for the naughty cows. we all sat on the back of the ute. i do mean WE ALL. Mum was driving the ute with Aaron’s beside her, and on the back of the ute. Hahahaha…tons of people. well…all right maybe not really tons but heaps of people. i was onthe back of the ute with Sam, Stew, Indi, Oli, Maree n Baby Charla, not only that… we were surrounded by the hay bails. we sat on the hay bails and drove around the farm. sometimes, we threw the hay bails to make the cows followed us to the gate n off course the kids loved it. they threw it everywhere, didn’t care whether that bails got to the ground successfully or just flew to their sides n stuck on my clothes n my hairs. Pinched rob’s statement " Bloody Kids !!!" LOL ^-^

After that fun chasing cows, before we started it we saw lots of mushrooms, so we decided to picked them n brought them back to home, and ate it. as soon as we got to that place, we all hopped off from the ute n started wondering around, looked for the mushroom. that wasn’t useless try, we got lots of fresh mushy…Yay…we have Mushy for Tea tonite…..

Live in the farm is just great…. we can smell the fresh air everyday…and also eat the fresh vedgies everyday. Nana n Pop are vegetarian. they don’t eat meat at all… So our tea’s theme every night (if we don’t go out for tea) are everything about vedgies. i never try to do the vegan life style n never think about it, but for those 5 nights i survived. Actually mum has warned me before about that, n it didn’t as hard as i thought before. she reckoned me n stew r gonna have a trouble with that, but we didn’t. me personally was quite enjoyed it. In this holiday…Starving is never EVER cross over your mind. i do mean it… Nana n Pop always provide us Food…Food n Food… we always have nice Tea n dessert n also sweet. Mind u, although we always have vedgies, i don’t mind at all, cos the food were beautiful. at the first night i was there we went out for dinner at caltex so i still can eat meat, n the next night when we did the hard work (chasing n calving cows) Mum cooked stewed Carrot n green beans, mash potato n vedgies fritata. n the next night Maree cooked Vedgies lasagna (made from the fresh vedgies from her garden n nana’s garden) n fresh Mushy n also sweet. we always have dessert every night. Nana is sort of old fashioned mum who always have dessert every night. We always have home made dessert, such as ice cream, lots of home made cake with cream n even fruit salad. Yummy…Yummy…Yummy ……^-^ . The next night we ate home made pizza. Maree cooked it, we put heaps of stuff on it, even strange stuffs such as egg plant n the eggs all over it…a bit bizarre but it tasted nice…. n the next night we ate Stir Fry vedgies with RICE. Yoohoo…..Pop said " Wow, it looks like nasi goreng, doesn’t it???"

After those beautiful Tea n dessert, the spoils haven’t finished yet. when all of the kids went to bath n slept, all of the adults sat in the lounge room either watched tv programme or watched the video about Sam n Maree’s childhood. Hahaha…that was sooo funny… they r so alike with their children. Well…Fruits don’t fall really far from its trees, do they? n while we made our self relax, Nana asked us "Wanna have something to drink?" n we started ordering what we wanted. Milo was the most favourite i s’pose, n believe me it wasn’t just a drink, we always have the snack, such as Chocolate, Tim-Tam, Bici, even icing Buns. Gosh…..Really really nice…. n not only tea darl…the lunch were beautiful as well. we ate at 1 local bakery, and it was sooo beautiful. i ate the most delicious sausage Roll ever… and also have chocolate donuts for the sweet. and the other day Mum took me to 1 of fish n chips shop, this shop sells HALAL hamburger….Well…the food tasted more delicious than ever….

Off course my life in camperdown wasn’t just all about FOOD (Well…i admit it….most of it. Satisfy ???? ). At the third day i was there, Me, sam Stew, Oli n Indi went for a drive to Great Ocean Road (about 30 mins- 1 hour from camperdown). it’s a tourism place in victoria, if u read a book australia, u must be seen "12 Apostles" on the list of The place to go… It’s really stunning place… The ocean’s in front of us with the Apostles on the middle of it. Well…it’s not 12 Apostles anymore, it’s just about 7 or 8 apostles left. What a shame !!!! we took lots of pictures, me n the kids is my favourite picture. Indi n oli are such a gorgeous kids…. lucky Sam n Stew… I love them n probably they feel the same too… we had heaps of fun together, didn’t we Indi n Oli??? after wondering around the Great Ocean Road, we drove further to Loch ard Gorge. we went to the Look out, did the steps, took heaps of pictures, back to the car n we went to Port campbell for lunch. had fish n chips while we sat on the edge of the beach…How Nice !!!!! after that we did the touristy things, Got off n got on the car to see lots of Tourism place. we went to London bridge, The Grotto (it’s sort of a rocks hole n it has a little pool under the hole. look really peaceful, felt like i wanna jumped on it), and we went to bay of island (saw the Apostles again). and after that we drove back to camperdown. if u think today’s adventure has finished, u r wrong…it’s still on mate !!! About 3kms from camperdown, we drove to the pathway to Lake Bullen Merri. It’s such a big lake stew said they don’t know how deep it is. it’s a volcanic lake, it’s shallow on the edge even u can walk, but if u keep walking suddenly u just fall cos the rocks that u step suddenly turn into deep hole. Careful if u swim there….. we didn’t got off from the car this time, we drove again to the city, n we went to the lake look out, so we can see the whole lot of the lake. Nice lake n absolutelly gorgeous…. after we took couple pictures, we drove to the city, went shopping n went to the last stop. Mt. Leura…the highest point in camperdown…. See all of camperdown, even i could see Pop’s shed.

Sunday Night…Me, Mum, Maree, Aaron n Charla drove back to melbourne. When i saw Melbourne at the first time, there were couple bits of melbourne which made me remember about Jakarta. There were couple places which were really Jakarta. even i said "We r not in melbourne..we r in Jakarta" Mum n Maree were just laughing. We arrived at melbourne at 10 o’clock, n straight away went to Josie’s. Had a chat with Garry for a bit, n knew that eagles won the game, n after that i went to sleep. Try to recharge my energy for tomorrow… Tomorrow is a big day….

Sunday….Big day All right !!!! At 8.15 am, we were ready to go. Josie dropped us off to the station, buy the Sunday save ticket (Murah banget bow….cuma $ 2.50) and off we went. spent a bit of time on the Train. and when we arrived at Flinders street station, all of the sudden i saw The Real melbourne. We were walking around the street to catch the tram to Queen Victoria market (Big Market), n we did. when we arrived at the big Market…i was just shocking…This is HUGE….. we could get everything there…n i started shopping. they sell lots of souvenirs n they r pretty cheap too. i bought lots of souvenir…but thank God i wasn’t as bad as i thought, i still used my mind for shopping, not being the Shopping freak. bought a hat for my dad, n also a koala bag for my sissy. See…i’m still a good sister.. Hahahaha….LOL

That day wasn’t really nice. it was raining when we’re wondering around the market. the plab was we’re gonna go to Rialto, but the cloud was really thick. we thought we wouldn’t be able to see a thing up there, so we decided that we would game n go there at Tuesday. n we just went back to Flinders st, n catch the Free tram to see around melbourne. That was awesome…i could see everything. melbourne aquarium centre, Telstra Dome, 7 news studio, parliament house, Government house, Melbourne park,Rod Laver arena and etc. and finally we got off the tram at the Russell st, caught the train to MCG. WE WERE READY TO THE FOOTY GAME MATE !!!!!! Yap….we’re gonna watch the footy game at MCG. Hawthorn vs Essendon. Mum bought me Essendon scarf n that meant i was the Bombers’ supporters, while mum wore her hawk’s scarf n she was the hawk’s supporters. we sat on the perfect seat. Garry got us the perfect seat, under the roof so we didn’t get wet until we left and it was behind the goal posts.Beside that, we sat among the real bombers n hawks’ fans. They suddenly became Umpire…shouted everytime they could, jumped n moved the team’s flag when their team made the goal. Soooo Funny….. especially at the last minute, when essendon tried to make the goal. the ball was sooo close to the 6 points goal post, we were jumping n shouting loudly, thought that they’ve made the goal, but in fact they didn’t. the ball flew too far… That was soo funny when cried the disappointed koor n all of hawks’ fans among us were laughing at us. The atmosphere was just great…made me really get into it. i was shouting loudly too…who cares about what everyone’s thinking. i don’t know them n considering the fact that, this game probably become the first n last game for me to watch it LIVE. actually essendon was in the front by 5 points, and at the last minute the Hawks made the 6 pints goal, n all of the hawks fans shouted "Where’s the sirene????" they wanna finished the game as soon as possible, but Essendon’s player tried hard to make it (at least) draw, but they couldn’t. the score was really close…they all tried to do their best. but it was hathorn’s day…they just won by 1 point. 84-83….. Wow…what a game…..

Finally we left the stadium with hawks song on the background…walked to the station with thousand of people. mind u there were 40.179 people at mcg n most of them were on the station at the smae time. How crowded was that !!!! Tried to get on the train, but the train was always almost full when it arrived because there was a different footy game on the other stadium. What a exciting day i had….Thanks MUm !!!!!

and at Monday..we just spent the day by meeting the other’s Mum’s sister. they were all nice…suddenly i remember my family when we’re all together. at the farm few days ago, there was a moment when i saw Pop did something, i suddenly remember my Grandpa…remember what he usually did when he’s alive… They r so alike…Miss u Grandpa !!!!! and at Tuesday…we left josie’s house to back to melbourne city centre. said goodbye to her n baby alyssa… n we went to Rialto Tower, had a lunch there n i could see all of melbourne, miles n miles away…even a bit of tasmania. bought some souvenirs n also i got my singing koala…. Yay……… and after that, we went around melbourne. went to the casino…absolutelly stunning….saw lots of things which i only could see on telly before… Dreams come true ……What a live…..n after that we went to southern cross station, caught the bus to airport n went to Motel n met Stoneys there. that was cozy little motel. They provide us very beautiful food. after we had dinner, we couldn’t move at all. Sooo Yummy n not really expensive. Normal price…. i was really full so i ate my chips while i watched tv n i didn’t look really well. stew said "Nhira…u look struggling to eat your food" " OOhh…yeah " that’s all i could say.

watched telly until we went to sleeep n we woke up at 4 o’clock on the next morning. First flight to Perth…got to perth at 8 o’clock n drove back to Albany…

Home Sweet Home…Back to My Lovelly Bed…

How Nice

Back to school again……

Miss my friends heaps…..but not all of the school stuff.

What a Great Holiday !!!!!!!!!!!