To whoever reads this..

Time sure does fly when you're having fun..or not.. But anyway, Time has been flying by, and I've only got around 3 months till I'm back down under. I'm already starting to prepare for it and I'm quite amazed by how a year in another country can make you feel. One minute you are jumping up and down with joy and the next you are crying your eyes out. Sometimes there is this feeling of being scared about going home, especially now in the last few months and then this feeling of not being completly comfortable where I am. I think it will be a relief to go home and do everything normal again. But then it will be weird that no-one will know the people I met this y

ear or the places I saw. I would love to say this year was a breeze and the best year of my life, but I don't know if it was, it defintely wasn't easy. The last few months have gone very fast, I can't believe it's now September. I'm now on Short Term Exchange in Sarawak(East Malaysia), after a 1 and half hour painful flight due to having a cold. So, I'm here in Kuching(which translates as 'cat') for 2 weeks, no school :D. Just got my flight details to back to Melbourne in December, it's 2 days earlier than I expected so, I'm actually disapointed about that. Just recently I came back from two trips, one the AFS optional trip to Taman Negera(the national park in Penisular Malaysia) and the other to Redang Island. Taman Negera was quite different to the national parks in Tassie, especially since everytime we come and go from the park, we have to take a boat. Redang Island was the most perfect place I've been to in Malaysia. The sand is so white, the water so so blue and the food was damn good. I really want to go back, it's sucks it closes from October to March because of Monsoon season. Well, since I lasted posted I guess a lot has happened, bad and good. In this order: The new batch arrived, Kuantan has 4 Germans and a Greenlandic girl. We got one of the new exchange students at my school from Germany, he is very popular and very enthusiatic just like I was at the start. My school friends threw me a suprise birthday party. I turned 17. I celebrated my birthday in Kuala Lumpur with the other exchange students and some Malaysians from AFS the day after my real birthday. Ann-Marie(the community service AFSer from Germany) went home. I went to the AFS Gala dinner in KL with my host brother. I had Subway(the sandwich) for the first time in Malaysia, kinda disapointing. The Falls Festival line-up was announced :D. I was banned from travelling alone by AFS. I went on a school camp, very muddy. We had a week's school holiday. One of the AFS chapter leaders pretty much told me I was a failure of an exchange student. Malaysia celebrated it's 49th Independance day. My host brother left for College in KL. I went to Redang Island for 3 days. I went to Taman Negera for 3 days. I went to school for a few days, then had one night in KL before I flew to Sarawak, where I am now.

The photos are: All the new exchange students in Kuantan, Yoko from Japan, some Malaysians and I on a beach near Kuantan. Kar mun(returnee from Tassie), Arthur(returnee from California), me and my host brother(also a returnee from USA) at the AFS Gala dinner in KL. Arthur and I in KL for my birthday. Me, Ann-Marie and Robert in KL for my birthday.