First lesson

I had my first lesson at La Trobe. It's an Java programming course. The lesson was only 1 hour long! It was however a introduction lesson.
I'll tell you something about Australian schools. They love papers! I already got mountains of papers.. Back home everything is digitized.
The teacher seems really good though so im pretty exited to get started :)

Aussie football

Yesterday me, Emmy and Dennis had a great time at the common room. Played a little bit pool and drinking a little wine and people playing guitar in the background. Before all that a great dude that we have got to know his name is Matt had cooked some dinner for us. It was delicious!

Today we're going to see our first Australian football game. It is called AFL. For us it looks like rugby but you can pass the ball forward but we'll see soon enough :)

In our time here we've seen a couple of strange animals. One of the strangest animals yet is a Possum. We see them all the time climbing in the tree's and on the electric wires.

This is a Possum:

Party with some Aussies!

Finally the aussie students are back from holiday. We met some nice australians today and later to night a party is waiting. Me and Dennis are bit worried because the bar we're going to later is a Gay bar and we've never been anything close to that so.. But we're hoping for free drinks before we tell them that we're not gay :D

They have nice play room at the campus were you can play pool, ping pong, air hockey and fussball.

I think we will have alot of fun in that room in a close future :)

Finally Broadband!

Today we got our broadband so now i can update the blog a little more spontanious :)

So here's some updates of what i've been doing lately:

Friday: I was at a Toga party (which means that you dress up like Ceasar)

Saturday: The Amazing race competition between all the international students was held in Melbourne. If you don't know what amazing race is, watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxA6a4IHm4U , So how did it end? Well, me and Dennis ended up in SECOND PLACE! The price for 1st place was a ticket to Phillipine Islands for each member! Bummer that we didn't won..
The prices for second place was tickets to the Eureka tower and VIP tickets to the Melbourne aquarium.

Yesterday we went to a nice bar in Melbourne city, the bar was called Brown Couches and yes it was as it sounded (brown couches everywhere). It was a great evening and I got to drink my first whiskey since i arrived :)

I'll keep you guys updated!

Time to party!

Hi everyone!

Unfortunitly we have'nt got our broadband yet but hopefully it will come soon.

In other news the weather here is kinda nice now about 15 degrees celcius and the sun is shining. Our school have thrown in a good welcome week for us international students this week. Full of entertaining lectures (for example: Learning OZ, Learn to drive on the wrong side of the road)and free amazingly good lunches every day so we are living the dream at the moment.

Yesterday we were at a welcome cruise as i said in the last thread. It was nice. A big disco boat with alcohol and snacks in it :) Met alot of new interesting people from different cultures from all over the world. For instance i met people from Ecuador, Mexico, Saudi-Arabia, USA, Kanada, Germany, Denmark, Norway and so forth.

Today there is a toga party near the school and after that it moves on to the student pub on campus called THE EAGLE. You will probably hear me mention this pub alot in my time here.

Catch ya later!

La trobe

Yesterday I got registered at La trobe, everything was super easy. Tomorrow is the introduction. That's when they show us around the school so we hopefully can find everything when we need it.
We just bought a ticket for the welcome cruise on Thursday. We're gonna ride with a cruise boat thats gonna show us around Melbourne. A band will play on the boat and snacks will be served, also to buy drinks will be possible. Looking forward to that.

Me, Emmy and Dennis has been really paranoid about seeing deadly spiders here but for now we haven't seen any insect at all. Yesterday we saw a flock of parrots flying by really loud.
As for the world upside down Australia takes the price. Traffic on the wrong side of the road and a half moon that lies upside down.

Called the broadband company today and it seems that we have to get a regular phone so we can call a number and then get a number that the company needs to give us internet.

So hopefully i can post some pictures soon.

Have a good one mates!

Living in da house!

We have finally after two awfully cold nights in a hostel got our house. It is even better than we could have imagine. We will as soon as we get are broadband post a video showing our house and also some pictures we've taken the past couple of days. Last night we had a cool night at a sports bar. We socialised with alot of funny Australian and dutch folks.

By the way, the first night at the hostel I woke up and totally froze. Not because of the cold but because a man was standing right beside Dennis bed. He had a white hood that covered his face. He was looking at Dennis and at the same time bending his knees up and down over and over again. But then I realised after blinking a couple of times that it was just me hallucinating because of the jetlag and the sudden awaken and also the light from the window got my eyes confused. A funny story even if Dennis disagrees :)

First day check!

The flight was harder than I thought, at least 24h flight time. The food was sometimes great and sometimes awful. We had an unexpected stop in Shanghai and had to go trough the airport to later find out that it was still the same plane.. i wonder why they did that? After we arrived in Melbourne we were really really jetlagged so we took the nearest taxi to a hostel and rested. After we woke up we went to take a beer at a sportsbar and then went right back to bed. And now we're totally rest out.

Today the plan is to get sim-card for my phone and call Paul about our house and finally on the evening we're going to see the football (Soccer) game in which the swedish ladies are gonna meet Australia :)

Pictures will come probably tommorowt back to bed. And now we're totally rest out :)

The big day

Today is the big day. I'm flying to Australia tonight.. Will be a long flight since i ain't arriving until saturday.

Yesterday i got some gifts from my Parents and both my sisters families. I am so greatful and happy :)

Next time i will be writing from Melbourne ;)

Note to self

Good to have for home trip in January. So i don't leave anything behind.
My packing list:

1. Macbook+Charger+Sleeve
2. Passport
3. Plane ticket
4. Bank socket
5. 7 t-shirts incl tank tops
6. 3 pair of pants
7. 3 pair of shorts
8. 1 cap
9. 1 thicker shirt
10. 2 shirts
11. Underwear and socks
12. 2 towels
13. School bag
14. Bathroom stuff incl toothbrush, deo, shaver, parfym and contact lenses
15. Kamera
16. School papers
17. Iphone + borrowed phone + chargers
18. Converter
19. 2 pair of shoes + 1 pair of flip flops

4 days to goodbye Sweden and Hallo Australia!

Now i'm packing my stuff.. Not really sure about what i'm going to pack down..
So i guess my readers kan help me out.

Here is some of the stuff i'm gonna take with me:

- Important papers like: passport, visa, exchange student papers, plane ticket
- 2 Towels
- Alot of underwear and socks
- A School bag
- 4 t-shirts
- 1 or 2 pair pants
- 2 pair of shorts
- A hat and a cap
- a jack and a converter
- a bank socket
- sunglasses
- my Macbook
- my Iphone
- bathroom stuff

please help me if i forgot anything important by commenting this post :)