Last weeks Melbourne - a combi of everything!

And than suddenly there's only a few days left, you are selling your dear guitar, thinking what to send home, what to take, what to leave, making exams, finishing papers, being ill, organizing cars, hostels, a wwoof farm, vaccinations; saying goodbye to friends and attending a whole range of interesting activities linked to Reconciliation Week...crazy!
The past weeks have indeed been quite crazy, but apart from me having quite a bad flu/cold and feeling a little stressed about organizing the coming months, I did really nice stuff!
For example, I went with Sterre and Julie to Wilson's Promontory, a national park, 2,5 hours drive from Melbourne. Incredibly beautiful! The weather was really nice, and we did a few nice short hikes, climbed a hill top, went to squeaky beach (were the white sand (quartz) makes a squeaking noise under you feet) and saw a whole bunch of kangaroos! It was really good to be away from the city and from all the uni work for a day!
And then, last week was Reconciliation Week and on friday Sterre and I went to a hip-hop thing, with three bands, all young people rapping about reconciliation, racism, and the sort! One of the bands was really good, with the guys doing incredible beat-box, dance, freestyle, etc, it was quite amazing! And monday we went to a poetry evening, with poets, singers, theater writers and our poetry-slam-performing tutor (from the indigenous course at uni). I heard beautiful things there, very powerful language, almost a bit confronting at times, but I guess that's the point of it all...I love Melbourne precisely for that, for the fact that if you feel like doing something, the only thing you have to do is look around, there's always something going on!
And well, friday my laptop goes on a journey home, three months before I follow him. It's going to be weird...we have never been apart for such a long time since we met! Hopefully our relationship will survive the separation :) But I'm going to mis him for sure...and that means that it will also be harder for me to keep in touch with you! I will try to keep my blogs going, but email/skype/facebook are going to be on low activity levels...
Well, I guess this is where the real adventure begins!!!

Cheers
Sara

P.S. Here are some pictures from Wilson's Promontory National Park


View from the hill top



Julie, Sterre and Sara enjoying the view



The hill top



This really looked like a fairy forest, because the bushes looked like trees and were around 1,5 meters high, I could practically see the fairies dancing around there :)


Squeaky Beach jump


Kangaroo family!


CUTE