Beach day!

Finally, I have seen the famous beach Surfers Paradise. It takes about 15 minutes with the bus from the uni village to Surfers. Here is also a lot of shopping, restaurants and bars. You just have to love it!

My first day in Aus

I was up early today, still yetlag. So was my room mate, so I got to know him :) An hour later a boy from Norway comes over, and we decided to go shopping because the apartment is EMPTY!

The first breakfast, mmm healty!

The boys are picking out linens and pilows. Here we bought sheets, towels, washing powder, forks and knives, some basic food and stuff like that :) we even bought tupperware products, thats new for me.

And something for schoolwork

I got my enrolement pack, including my student ID.

After the shopping we went down to the pool and just hang out there for the day, meeting some of the other students living here at uni village.

I got a new mobilephone today including a new australian number:
0412179556. I'm not sure what you in Norway have to dial, but this is the number when you live here, so just try it out or ask me later when I have figured it out :)

The university village - my home

Here is my home for at least the next 6 months. I live at campus, or university village as they call it. Here we are 5 people living together, both girls and boys. For now it's only me and a canadian guy who also arrived today, but I think the rest of them will arrive in the weekend, so that will be exciting!

The kitchen and diningtable
 

My room

My shelf with memories from home

The very SMALL bathroom that 5 people share!

I must say that this is a very nice place, but the bathroom could have been bigger and there could have been a cleaning lady here maybe once a week or something since we are so many peple, but no such luck, we have to clean everything for ourself the next months, I have to say I'm getting pretty good at housework already :)

My travel route

Here is my travel route. I went on tuesday and I'm here now, finally!
Oslo- Brussels (2hr)
Brussel- Abu dhabi (6hr 30min)
Abu dhabi- Singapore (7hr 30min)
Singapore- Brisbane (7hr 45min)

So you can see that this was a long trip! Fortunately, I met some other norwegians and the time went pretty fast. Here is a picture from the airport in Singapore

And when the plane took of from Norway I opened a gift I had recived, it was pretty sweet :)

The time difference is: Gmt +10, so that means I am 9 hours in front of Norway. When the clock is 12.00 at your place it's 09.00 here.

Look at all the wonderful gifts!

I have recived so many nice greetings, that I have no words for how grateful I am. I just have to show off all the great things. Thank you all for supporting me :)

 

 

Here are some of the pages from the fantastic scrapbook Martine made for me; I think it is so nice that I just have to show it of! This girl is gifted :)

Saying goodbye to my friends

I have spent the past days to say goodbye to my friends.
On wednesday I met this sweet girl, Marianne :)

On thursday I was at the indian restaurant Mirchi with Sofie, Robert, Aleksander and Malin.

 

 

 

I'm speechless, I have the best friends EVER!

This is my last weekend in Norway and I was surprised by my friends with a huge farewell party. First, Martine and Bettina took me to an italian restaurant, then suddenly a hummer limousine was outside and drove us home to my place. When I stepped out there was 20 girls screaming and jumping up and down. I was so surprised and overwhelmed, that I felt the tears coming. Outside the house there was a large poster with a picture of me and "good luck in Australia". As if that was not enough the evening was full of surprises. The girls had made a movie with photos and greetings, I could not have wished for anything better. THANK YOU!

 

 

 

A small piece of Norway

I will definitely miss this about Norway.

Surfers Paradise

Here are some more pictures from Gold Coast. I will probably spend much time here at Surfers Paradise:

Surfers Paradise

A map of Australia

Gold Coast, Queensland

This is going to be my home for the next three years. Gold Coast City is situated in the southeast corner of Queensland, to the south of Brisbane, the state capital




















Gold Coast during the day

and Gold Coast by night.

Heidi's last night in Norway

My sister is flying back to England tomorrow, so this is our last girls night out in a loooong time. First we went to Yaya's and then we went to Jacob Aall. I will miss her a lot! <3