great ocean road. =D<3

Great ocean road. part one.=]<3
I went down the great ocean road. The weather is ever changing just like the ocean she has many moods and they change quite often and work wonders together(the ocean and the weather). Their moods changed from sunny inviting, then dark cloudy and rainy, with a few breaths it was windy (which it stayed that way the rest of the day) , then sunny but yet still windy and cold to the bone. My first glimpse of one of God’s most beautiful area’s. I want to paint a picture in your minds but its not that easy this view is well you’d have to see for urself. As I walked up the bushy path that I could barely see over. There was a mist that was carried by the winds coming of the ocean. I could smell the salt, inviting but caucuses at the same time. The mist, the view, the weather all of it added up together it put me in a daze that I’m not really sure im out of. It was all breath taking and it sure as (excess me but..,)hell knocked the wind and all the vocabulary out of me. I had no words, no thoughts I had to keep reminding myself breath. and it took me awhile to convince myself that wat I was really seeing was real. I think it was the quietist I’ve ever been in my life and longest too. =] Can u say unbelievable, glories , spectacular, amazing, breath taking, mesmerizing, picture prefect. Then again no of those words seem to even come close to or fit describing the sincere that I saw today. No picture could even show the beauty of the place I walked through and experienced. In order to get a full grip on the feelings, thoughts, or even what I seen you have to see it for yourself. Or be able to reminds=] Then again it could be different from what I felt and seen myself. as soon as we got to the coast and seen the first view I couldn’t even speak, I had no words in my vocabulary to even come close to this spectacular view that was set here before me. All I could say minutes later was wow, look!, and aww.. I didn’t know where to point my camera first I just started snapping photos. But not one photo suffices the views I seen today and experienced myself. photos can be beautiful but they don’t really capture the full beauty of it all. The expressions on your face the way it all makes you feel as your taking it all in for the first time. For me it was like I had never seen the beach, felt the wind on my face, the spray of the ocean carried by the wind as it rapped itself around you until you where capture in this scene never to be released. The wind in fact took my soul and heart with it, showed me what being free was really like and the true beauty of god’s wonderful creations like I had never seen anything before well at least not clearly. Everything seems new and clearer. So much out there that I need to see but so little time, I found that I love life more than most people allow themselves to ever do so in a life time. Maybe it’s because I know first hand that it can all be taken away from you at any moment. So why not follow your heart no matter how crazy it may seem. God works in mysteries ways, right?? Even if you live until your 100 years old do you truly do all you want to in life? 100 years may seem like a long time but it really does slip by you like a blink of any eye. Something that happens, so quick and so natural that you don’t seem to notice until after it has pasted and happened again. Each moment gone with out a real thought about it, how scary it that.? don’t get me wrong though I love my family and where I come from. it has all made me who I am today. All of it will always be a part of me a part of what makes me who I am. How can anyone forget that and put that behind them, and I know I don’t ever want to. =] but life blinks by to fast, gone and past you before you’ve had time to realize it or truly experiences it. But if ur lucky something like wats happened to me will knock you back and make you realize that time truly is precious so soak it up, take with both hands and your heart. And see what God has given you and make everything you can out of it and then some. Don’t waste it, do everything no matter how little it is. Looking back the little things will be the things you look back on and cherish most. Just as simple as a view of the ocean or a road trip could change your life. So take chances. Live a little laugh until your sore, and cherish every moment God has given you/ <3 thats it for now. so peace, love and sweet dreams=D




my 2nd and 1st veiws of the great ocean coast line<3(its backwards i know 2nd, then 1st)=D

12 apostles(well now theres only 7)=] and don't comment on this picture it was windy:P

flat out like a lizard drinkin'=D

g'day!
well i've been here a month! and even though i dnt have much trouble with the language i love it and every exchange student i've met has to! Rotary is the way to go people. =] and the camps are the 2nd best part of it so then u get to meet all the exchange students (inbound and out). and u connect with them on another level and u make friends that are like family b4 the 1st day has even ended.. but i'm really glad that i listened to everyone at home before i left. well almost everyone =]. the best thing to do on ur exchange is do as much as you can.! learn as much as u can, try as much new foods as ur belly will allow over the year and work =D. because trust me it doesn't matter where u go as soon as u step off that plane they think humm.. they need to eat! and the food will be never ending! but its good i've even tried a baby octopus ( i ate the WHOLE thing) it was actually good tasted just like chicken. haha. anyways i promised in my last entry i would tell y'all some of the slang around here. so as many of u no they use g'day. flat out like a lizard drinkin', good' onya(girl) which is my fav. one =D. sweet as, NO worries (also another fav.!) mate, cheers, bloody hell. thats just a few of the Ozzie sayings. and i like to use them as often as i can. =D anyways i love it here and i've only been here a month and everyone knows me already for having the gift 2 gab. but u have to be open, positive, out going, and open to others opinions. i now know for sure that i want to travel the world and i now have people i can visit around the world while doing so.! thanks rotary once again.

rotary! =]

ROTARY.
right now I'm on an exchange in Australia! Which i love.! =]
I have so many to thank for this. Rotary mostly and my mom.
Without Rotary i wouldn't be here and it wouldn't not have been this great of an exchange. everyone that is involved with rotary is touched and you never forget that person that took you to you 1st rotary meeting and helped you along with all the paper work!
Rotary is like a big family no matter how far a part they are always there waiting and willing to give a helping hand. =] I am here to be an Ambassador for Rotary and my country. I'm glad i went through with this Rotary will open your eyes to more than just an exchange and languages. But people and place that feel and are more like home than you could have thought possible. I've only been here a month and i love this place, the rotary club(which i go to every Thursday night). mostly i can't explain to you how i feel if i could let u into my head and so u could some what put your finger on what this exchange has and will do for me. =]
the next pist i'll fill you in on more about the school, my host family, my rotary camp(this weekend), my likes and dislikes, and there sayings =]

g'day=]

hello! =]
Being here in Australia has already started to change me. Fast I know and i can't believe it either but i have. I didn't relize this until my host dad"Kenny-boy" =] pointed it out to me..

It has made me look at my home, my country, my way of life and up bringing so much more than i thought possiable. in the interviews for applying for rotary i was asked how i would handle things like being questioned about religion, my way of thinking, how i would reacted to people asking, questioning and maybe even disapproving of my way of being and living.
I knew i could handle things like this. i fell that people have every right to their own oppions and it was there right to make them known. I wasn't worried about it and i still not worried about it. I have my own oppions about things here.
I've been amazed at how unrelgious they are here. In my philosophy class I felt like i was fighting for who i was. There where 3 people in my class of 20 that believed in god. and i wasn't scared to put my hand up in fact i was the 1st one to do so. but I guess for starters I come for America a country that is based on religion.. (kind of that could be debated at some points..) And also living in a small southern country town.. Although i dont go to church i still have my belifies, morals, and out look on life. And i'm sure a lot of people in my town would disagree with my thoughts and out looks on this subject. But i'm still dumbfound that there are so many people that believe there is no god of any kind. they think so different. i love to listen to their outtake on things.
i might be from a small town and southern but im not narrow minded or stupided.. And i'm a very opened minded person about most things.
But by being in another country here and looking at things from there out look. It's amazing feeling the way i do.