2008.6.25

After the day I arrived Australia, I went to see many new houses. Peter's mom was searching for a new house and she asked me whether I have interests to go with them and I said ''Ok!!!'' because I really wanted to see what would other house look like inside. We went to Parramatta and other places at that day but I can't remember them. We visit four houses within one day. The first one is at the corner of the road and the road is kind of steep so half of the house is underground. The second one is quite big and beautiful but the rooms are too small and which impressed me was that the house owner's TV is really big and he also hung Chinese calligraphy painting in his living room. The third one was wide but not really deep. I can see their backyard when I went in the house but the living rooms and rooms are beautiful. I also remember the house owner made a lot of earrings, necklaces, and bracelets by herself and they are really beautiful. The forth one was really far but their garden is big but the house is not that big but it's also lovely. After visiting so many houses, Peter have no comments on which one should they buy. He just hoped the whole thing could settle down as soon as possible. This interests me because if I were him I would feel really excited. But it's also not difficult to understand why he had that notion because he is the busiest one about the house stuff. However, they finally find one which is really close to my cousin's house. The houses in Australia are all beautiful and elegant it makes me want to become a designer.

Plain Wednesday

Today is a very very plain day. I woke up at 8:30, prepared to go to school. After three hours, I went back home and cook for my lunch. It's good to have such a simple life. I have plenty of time to read, think, paint, do housework, cook for myself, and get bored. HAHA!!! That's really part of my life. Sometimes, when I feel bad, bored unhappy and in a bad mood, I call my mom and chat with her. I would tell her that I was in a bad mood and also told her the reason why I was not happy. She comforted me and told me something about her own experience. I love my mom but once I got lost in the big city, in material things, in my dreams, and forgot the one who really cares about me. I was used to wondering '' Is there really someone who will really love me and care about me forever?'' That's a silly thought and it surprised me that I spent so much time to realize such a simple truth. I guess I am the most stupid girl in the world, always spending my time chasing something not belong to me and ignored everything I got. I hope she can be the happiest woman in the world for she really deserves that. So many things happened between her and me and I am really glad that everything went back to normal !!!!!!

P.S. I love my mom!!!

Happiness

Today, I just realize that no matter how sad I had ever been, I can always be happy again because of my lovely family, friends, and everything I owned.

My Unit, My life

After I became a sophomore, I move out to this lovely unit. I love my unit so much whenever I feel tired, this is the first place I want to go. After a exhausting day at school, spending the endless hours ( It seems to be like endless hours!!! HAHAHA!! ) sitting on the chair, I go back to my lovely unit. I live with two of my dear friends who really treat me well and try their best to keep our unit clean. (Of course I also try my best!!)

In our unit, we have TV, sofa, refrigerator, kitchen, and everything we need in the daily life and they were all left by the house owner. I will cook at home on Wednesday, Friday and weekend. It makes me feel this is really my home. After a busy day at school, I will go home cooking something to eat or just eat fruits and watch TV for a little while. After taking a shower, I will go back to my lovely room and do my homework, reading or listen to the music. My room makes me feel very relaxed and when I was in a bad mood, I know there is a place belongs to me and I can cry to my heart's content and feel good again. It is a place I can decide what i want to do and won't be interfered by other people or bother anyone.

Every Wednesday, after the novel class, I will go home and clean my room because that is my habit and I like to keep my room clean and tidy. I also believe that doing some housework can make people happier and a regular life can help people know what they are doing. I love a regular life and everything is done according to plan but I also like crazy things which happen unexpectedly as long as they are good things.

It is good to wake up by sun shine everyday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Showing appreciations to my window and the sun. HAHAHAHA!!!!

2008.7.7

Today we went to drink coffee, Terry, Peter, Joey, Candy, and me. That was late at night and it was cold but we went to the coffee shop anyway and order some different drinks from Taiwan. I remebered what I ordered was a bottle of Italian soda water. It is really special, just like the normal soda water without sugar but I prefer the one with sugar in it. Ha!! Ha!! We chatted and talked about things in Taiwan and the differences between Taiwan and Australia. That was really a happy night although we went back home late!!!!!!! (Memories are the sweetest and bitterest things in the world!! How strange!! )

2008.7.6

Joey came yesterday. Today we went to a beach which called Cronolla Beach, we drove there and it had to thanks Terry again because he was the driver. We first went to Peter's place and they were busy in cleaning the holy house so we helped after that we went to the beach and so did Terry's brother. We first went to the wrong place because it is a bay and not a beach. We got out of the car and found out that the ''Beach'' was not like one so we asked a man who took a walk with his dogs and he told us that it is a ''Bay'' not a beach. Therefore, we went back to the car and when we were on the way back to the car, I walked happily, then Peter asked Terry '' Are you sure she is nineteen years old? ''(I told you I remember everything~~~ ). I laughed and turned. Everything is so vivid. For me, it's just like memories from yesterday. It was nightfall when we arrived there. Although it is not a beach, the sunset there was still very beautiful.

When we finally got there, it is night time. We walked on the sand beach, Joey, Terry, Peter and me. We took pictures and see the beautiful light around the beach. After a while, when we got bored we went to a restaurant where the meal there was delicious to me. Terry and I order a meal together. Well.. I can tell what food everyone ate that night but haha.. I don't think I have to. We went to the beach again after the meals and this time I walked far away thinking about something I can't remember what it is now. Terry was behind me just in case I will run into some troubles. (Appreciate!!!!!! HAAAA!!) We stood neat the water and finally the water kissed my feet when I was in a absent mind and they turned out to be wet.....

It was not a special day for me at that time but now it really is because that's the only time I went to the beach when I was in Australia, only at night time... And after the water kissed my feet, we went home.

It is really a very plain day but I am surprised that everything is so vivid in my mind!! I miss Australia~~~

2008.6.29

Next few days my cousins, Terry, take me to buy food. Everything there is much more expensive than Taiwan. A bottle of Coke there can buy three same one in Taiwan.

Since I don't like Australia very much in the beginning, everything there is not that attracting to me. However, by and by, I really fall in love with it.

The sky there is really different from Taiwan. It is so wide and beautiful. The clouds there

dancing and changing everyday. The sky stretches to the end of the world without boundaries. It is such a happy time to look at it, think nothing and let the imagination run wildly. Terry and I we all think the cloud there look so beautiful that it isn't like the real one and we make fun of it.

We say that it might be controlled by the president. He decides the shapes of the clouds everyday depends on his mood. Of course it is a joke. And that just make me wonder whether the president there today is in a good mood or not.

I also fond of the rainy day there because when the rain is falling down there, it is so silent and so quiet. I remember when the first time I see the rainy day there; it surprise me so much and I go out to listen to the sound of rain falling and turn out to hear nothing. The rain just come

quietly.

2008.6.29 Today I meet many people. I meet Le, Thang, Peter, Candy, Angela, Peter's mom, Linda's Mom and many other aunts and children because I went to have a lunch with them in a place which is far away from home, and it takes some time for us to drive there(which I should appreciate Terry because he drives Peter, me and my another cousin there.) That is a shiny day, too, so the views there are also pretty pretty. That's a beautiful day.

For the following days, I mostly stay at home and wait for another person, Joey, who is my cousin's friend and after he comes we can decide what to do then. He goes there around 7.5 I guess and after that Terry, Joey, Peter, Le, Thang, Nina, Candy, and me we have much good time together.

2008.6.23

Today is a dizzy day and I can't concentrate on my composition so I decide to let my brain write what she wants to.
Today is the 27th day after I came back from Australia. Most of my friends in Taiwan don't know what happened to me when I was in Australia. well....... no matter if you are interested in it, I am going to write down everything I remember in this blog just in case that someday when I become a old old lady I will forget them. That's the most beautiful journey in my life and it is also a journey which changes my whole life.
(I don't use past tense cus I DON'T want. Don't ask me why. The reason is really obvious.)
The first day I set out to Australia is very miserable. It is 23th June 2008 I arrive in the airport and take a plane to HK first and when I arrive in HK , the plane to Australia changes to 24th, so I take another. When I arrive the airport in Australia, no one picks me up because I take the different plane from the original one. To my surprise, my luggage is missing, too. Well..
That really makes happy!!(Of course not !!! I am almost scared to death. This is the first time I take a plane.) At least, I don't have to take so many things with me.
Where are we now? Oh! Yeah! I said that no one pick me up (maybe because they hate me so much.), so I make a phone call back to Taiwan and ask my aunt to call his son(my cousin) to pick me up. So I wait and wait..... Here he comes!!! Haahaha!! I am so happy and I tell him I just want to go home taking a shower and then sleep. How sad that he tells me we can't because we have to go to Liverpool to book ticket and that's the first time I met Peter and Linda.
That is my first day in Australia. I get in the car and I see Peter, Linda and Australia. They speak good English and it really impresses me. Peter and Linda are both born in Taiwan so they can also speak good Chinese,too. They say Hello to me and so do I. They take me to a shopping center in Liverpool. I see many shops there which are really special to me. Everything is so organized and beautiful. I remember it clearly that it is a sunny day and everyone look so leisurely. The first thing surprises me is the way to cross the road. People have to push a button so that the light for people to cross the road will turn green. When I find that, I tell Peter if I were alone I will stand and wait just like a idiot. Ha! We walk and walk, trying to find the agent to book thr tickets to Melbourne (I don't go and I regret it.). We find it and also find that we can book it on the Internet. Haaaaaa!!!!!!
So we send Peter back to the holy house and send Linda to meet her friends. After that, I go home with my cousin and talk about everything.......
This is the first day when i go to Australia I remember it clearly... The weather there is really comfortable. People say it is cold but I don't think so. It is just like we turn on the air conditioner and never turn it off because there is no wind. It makes me feel so comfortable that I won't even feel cold. I love the winter days in Australia.
There is one thing I have to mention. Actually,....... when I first arrive there I don't like Australia that much and I really miss Taiwan a lot.