Adelaide day 2, damn jetlag!!!! :-)

Hi everyone!

Damn, i have big problems from my jetlag! This afternoon I was walking with a girl from Germany and I was telling here that I really felt tired and dizzy. It looked like I drunked a lot, having a hangover! My head is all the time making noice J, she had the same J
Who off you had the same experiences? Very ennoying!!

I’m sleeping in a room with 6 girls. Two are from French, one from Scotland (she’s so funny J, her accent is really strange and I don’t understand her all the time.
It’s like the Australiën people, damn, there worst then people from London (haha, sorry Robert ;) )then there is a Dutch girl, a girl from Canada and me J
Very nice, tomorrow we all leave different ways, some off them are going to the ocean read, me I’m leaving to Kangeroo Island.

Only the weather really sucks, it’s has been raining practical whole day! Cold, very cold!
I had a really busy day today, I booked all my tours for this month, my hostels, plain and buses.

The tour I’m going to make I amazing, really.Well,, I have a friend who’s going to travel with me, Marijke. She’s coming probably from Melbourne on the 7th.
We’re leaving in Adelaide 8th of august with the bus to Cooper Pedy, there we have one day. We are going to sleep in a dorm, a hostel build in the rocks, under the ground. Then we travel to Alice spring. We are going to visit the heart of Australië, Urulu. It’s a trip of 7 day with guide and we’re going to sleep in tents and under the stars. J
We’re making the way up to Darwin.Visiting Kings Canyon, Kakadu National park (they have crocodiles there ;-) ) Aboriginal rock art, ….
In Darwin the temperature are now 31degrees, so lovely, when we arrived we have booked for 2 nights in Darwin. Then we are taking a plane to Cairns. It’s the great barrier rief, we are going to visit the rainforest, taking the boat and go to an island for one night, go diving for one day in Great Barrier reef! Really cool, I asked the person of the travel agency “what about the sharks?”.Well, with a big smile she told me that I don’t have to be afraid, every 4 km away there can be swimming a shark but the guides, they know where to go and how to handle it….mmmmm ;-)

Anyway after that I take the bus back to Brisbane, it’s a ride of 22hours and then I fly back home. The tile will fly!
Tomorrow morning I leave at 6.30 for the Kangeroo Island, I’m veru curieus.

Today I went also to the Botanique gardens, very nice! But so strange to see palm trees in this weather, you can imagine, but it’s really not so warm here. We’ visit a museum with different plants from the rainforest, I’m so exciting, because when I’m in Cairns , I really gone walk there. 75procent from the rainforest are despaired here! They make room for houses and stuff like that really terrible.

Ok!! I’m going to make my back for leaving tomorrow, see ya all!

Big hug!

O yeah, school is still running here, it’s very funny because everyone is wearing uniforms. They have a big holiday during Christmas, when it’s summertime over here!

Arrival in Adelaide

Hi everyone!!!

It’s the first time for me i’m writing the blog in english :-) !

Finally the blog is alive again :-), now i’m somewhere above the Bay of Bengal, already been flying for almost 10hours, 11277 meters high!. I left in Brussels around 5.15pm to Frankfurt where I had to wait for ore then 5 hours.
The trip from Brussels to Frankfurt was amazing. I get in to the airplane and I had seats in the front, a lot off leg place and view on the pilots. I was looking them and thinking by myself that they where very young, they had to be the same age as me!
Then I looked better and I recognised the pilot. Like 6 years ago we played softball in the same club!!!I went to the steward and asked if I could put my head into to the cabine to say hello. Peter recognised me and he asked me if I wanted to stay whole trip – landing, and leaving – to join them! This was the most best experience I ever had. I have been flying already a lot but this was amazing, especially the part of landing, the view we had in the front and the systems how pilots works. They are all the time checking everything, the breaks, it’s everything on , off…luckly ;-)

When I arrived in Franfurt I had to wait 4hours. The line for Sydney was so big when we had to check-in . The plane can take easly 400 people. Peter told me that a normal charter plane can take 48000kg (I hope I’m right ;-) ). Can you imagine how much this plane can take.

The time difference is very strange. I left Frankfurt at midnight and arrived in Singapore about 7pm, I have been flying for 10hours! Luckly I didn’t slept the night before and for almost the whole trip I have been sleeping, before I knew I arrived in Singapore.
I had to get out here for 30minutes and then we left for Sydney. This trip takes 6hours and 30minutes. When I arrived in Sydney the tile was 5am.So that means I lost one day! Right?
I have been flying for almost 20hours!!
Oh yes Robert, for you I have been writing some distance: look

Brisbane to Los Angeles : 11531 km!!!!
Frankfurt to Singapore: 10281km!!damn!!! 10hours flying
Singapore to Sydney : 6289 km !!6hours flight

After Sydney I had to take for the 4th time and other plane to Adelaide. So now I’m in the youthhostel, really nice and clean. I can get internetconnection on my computer for 4 dollar.
Adelaide is really not so big. If you see in whole Australie it’s the 4th biggest city.

Everyone told me that Australien people are really very nice , I have to admitted this! It is true. From the airport in Adelaide I took a local bus to the YHS and two kindly ladies from Brisbane started to talk with me.
They gave me there coordinates and when I’m in Brisbane (I’m leaving here back belguim) I did have to call them!

So!What are the plans.
I stay in Adelaide for 4 days, today I’m going to settle myself, going to get some foods, cooking (you have different kitchens here where you can cook! So nice! All young people togheter, love it!)
Tommorow I’m going into the city for the whole day!

I have booked 2 nights here in the YHS and I’m going to book a trip to an island. Kangeroo Island. It’s a guide trip with young people and you stay here one night. You go by ferry, to the little Sahara, walking with the Sea lions, looking to little penguins, sightseeing….
I’m leaving on this trip on saterdaymorning and coming back on Sunday evening.Then I will leave to Melbourne. Marijke, my friend from Belguim is arriving there 2 august and I’m staying there with some friends of here. Then we’re planning to leave for Canberra, Sydney and flight to the North where it’s more warmer. Because you know that I’ts winter now here. It’s about 15degrees and sunny. They expect rain tomorrow and the locals are very happy with this!haha
Because the river is all dry!
Okey I think it’s all for today folks!
Big hug!
PS

Robert, do you know facebook? If you don't know this, (i can't imagine that you don't because it's something real american) but if you have time, make an account, some pictures from Greece are standing on the page!

Greece!!!

Well, Petros, this is for you, like i promise ;-)
I didn't make a lot of pictures!
See you 13 july!!
Hug

Memories!

Fun fun fun

Tiistai 1 huhtikuu (1april) almost going home

De voorlaatste dag, tijd vliegt zo snel.

Gisterenavond ben ik met enkele vriendinnen waar ik me in de klas heb gezeten gaan eten in Santa Fe. Een mexicaans restaurant waar ik gedurende mijn verblijf in Finland zo graag naar toe ging. Dit restaurant is gelegen in een kelder vol kaarsen.

Hiervoor had ik nog even een afspraak met de voorzitster van de tolkenvereniging in Finland. Ik was zelf eens heel nieuwsgierig hoe de situatie juist in elkaar zat. Zoals ik al had gezegd, in Finland -vooral in de steden dan, op het platteland heb je dan weer een ander systeem heb je enorm veel concurrentie. Echt als voltijds free-lancer kan je niet beginnen. Je zou al echt een bedrijfje moeten opstarten. En er zijn werkelijk tolken die een éénmansbedrijf opstarten.

Moest je echt nieuwsgierig zijn, ik heb er een klein verslagje over geschreven. Ik kan het altijd doormailen.

Vandaag was het schitterend weer in Helsinki, 10 graden en zalige zon.

Ik heb de kans dan ook gegrepen om richting Suomenlinna te gaan. Suomenlinna is een vesting(blijkbaar op 6 verschillende eilanden gebouwd, iets dat ik niet wist). Suomenlinna ligt voor de haven van Helsinki en met de boot ben je daar op 10 min. Vanaf 1973 was de militaire periode van Soumenlinna voorbij.

Het is enorm rustig daar en je kan er uren wandelen, ik zelf heb een wandeling gemaakt van 1,5uur langst het water...

Op het eiland zelf wonen zo'n 850 mensen, ik kan je verzekeren als ik hier een huis zou kunnen kopen, ik verhuis mijn boeltje direct ;-)

Hier een link voor de nieuwsgierigen: :-)

Je vindt hier wat informatie over de geschiedenis. Want Finland is zowel onder de macht van Zweden geweest en hierna Rusland. Het kerkje dat in het midden van het eiland staat heeft een Russische bouwstijl.

(Voor ons mimi - mijn cybergrootmoeder, jaja - gewoon op klikken, je gaat vanzelf een webpagina krijgen op je computer ;-)

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomenlinna

De officiele website van Soumenlinna of Sveaborg (in het Zweeds)

http://www.suomenlinna.fi/index.php?menuid=3&lang=eng

En hier heb de je website

Enkele foto's:

De kerk in Russische stijl

De bibliotheek van Helsinki is hier ook gelegen

Soumenlinna in de verte

Helsinki in de verte

Typisch Fins, die eilandjes met daarop de mökki (vakantiehuisjes of weekendhuisjes)

In geval van nood ;-)

Woonst van de presidente, Tarja Halonen...een vrouw, de max toch ;-)

Hierna had ik met Sven afgesproken, weer even aanpassen om van Fins over te schakelen naar Vlaamse Gebarentaal! Maar zo leuk om eventjes te kunnen bij gebaren!!! ;-)

S'avonds had ik een afspraak met de directrice van de dovenschool in Oulu. Oulu ligt zowat in het midden van Finland, zo'n 600km van Helsinki naar het noorden. Ergens in mei komen zo op een uitwisseling naar België!

Ziezo!

Morgen is de laatste dag en er staat wel wat op het programma, 's morgens gaan joggen (hopelijk wat goed weer) en dan ga ik proberen een echte traditionele Finse sauna te doen. Hier juist om de hoek heb je een sauna op hout :-)

In de namiddag en de avond ga ik nog 3 vriendinnen ontmoeten voor ik terug naar België vertrek!

Tot donderdag!!!!!