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Bonfire

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Great weekend !

First off Adam & I went to take a little road trip together, I’ll post the pictures from it as soon as WordPress stops giving me a hard time. Amazing how worked up I can get when something with technology stops working, I can lose my temper completely within 10 minutes !

In the night I got a call from some girls at work asking me to go to a bonfire, so after having spent 45 minutes looking for the car keys (because Adam lost them) I finally went there. Really cozy, sitting outside in the middle of nowhere with a bonfire and a million stars above you.

Pictures from the fire; (click them to make them bigger)

The way up to the camping site was really dodgy and at times I thought our little pink lightning wouldn’t make it, but when I finally got there it was all so nice, beers, timtams and just talking until we were about to pass out. Even going to the toilet was an experience, they literally had a toilet and toilet paper hanger just in the middle of nowhere and to flush you would have to take a bucket and fill it with water from some river and pour that in the tank to flush haha!

Later in the night when I came home my darling had used his free time well and cleaned the apartment, haha how lucky am I?

-Kat

Penguin Obsession

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Today I had my first attempt in feeding my little darlings!

Penguins are so easily stressed that any tiny change in their environment, such as a new person feeding them will make them nervous and even lead to hyperventilation… adorable right?!

At first I guess the curiosity took over since as I went on their side of the fence they were waddling around me like crazy, then of course they had to realize that I’m a stranger so they took off… two of them however, stayed, Aaron and Maddy if I remember correctly (Im still getting a hang of knowing one penguin from another) they tried to eat from me but were to tense so they never stayed for long enough to get a good grip and swallow the fish 😦

Obviously I’ll have to go in there every time I’m working to make them get used to me and hope that soon they will accept me and let me feed them. They better not take too much time because my life won’t be complete until I get loved by a penguin, that’s for sure.

not the best video, but alice is just soo cute when she waddles like that, Ill have to take some other videos when there aren’t a billion people around me

oh my darlings!

well, hello there

We recently had a brake-up in the center, Nellie broke up with charlie and moved in with Aaron, now charlie spends everyday outside their burrow waiting for her to come back, heartbreaking to see him there!

In this picture you can see how tiny they are in comparison to the legs; when they’re full sized they are 30 cm and only 1,2 kg!

ow, so alone!

Once, a visitor at the Center dropped a bottle cap over the fence, a little penguin ran towards it and put it in its mouth, then she took it back to her burrow and she and her boyfriend would take turns sitting on the cap waiting for it to clutch

the rest of the workday I spent with a little bearded dragon on my shirt and we had a little photo shoot together!

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hahah how cute!

aaah!! well now I have a backup plan if Adam gets tired of me,

If only you could have penguins as pets, then I’d grow old alone in my house filled with penguins and everyone would know me as crazy penguin-lady…. My head is just so full of penguin knowledge I think if I wouldn’t be talking about them endlessly at the penguin center I’d burst!

The penguins that we have at the Rehabilitation Center are so happy there, a few years ago there was a break in at the center and two penguins were stolen, the penguin-nappers however decided to let the penguins go and a few days later when a volunteer was coming to work the two penguins were just waiting outside the entrance waiting to be let back in.

Its wonderful being a part of keeping them safe, when I get rich I’m gonna give them a lot of money to get in more penguins and start a breeding program (now we are sadly not allowed to breed)

well, enough about penguins for now! hahaha next time I’m gonna take some pictures when Im inside with the penguins

-Kat

Where’s that accent from?

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Every single day at work I get asked around 20 times, and I‘m not joking, the same question. „Where‘s that accent from?“ or occasionally „Where are you from?“ Am I really making it THAT obvious? Hahaha of course it never ends there, when I answer „Iceland“ I can just see on their faces 30 new questions lining up. It amazes me how random their next questions are.

Many times I‘ve had a group of people on tables sigh when I tell them where im from, thats when they‘re making bets within the table who can guess the right country. Obviously no one ever wins. Today a table of girls had all agreed on that I just had to be Austrian, can‘t really imagine what they got that on, but they were really sure.
Usually though people guess that I‘m Irish (don‘t know though if thats based on the actuall accent or the red hair and freckles), scandinavian or german so they‘re usually not that far off.

I guess when your the only one different from everyone else somewhere after some weeks/months you just feel like your one of them and not different at all… I remember when I lived in Italy and people asked me where I was from before I even said a word I always got so shocked how they could possibly know I wasn’t Italian. Because in my eyes, I was just like them.

gorgeous sunset here in goolwa

Adam Scissor-hands, haha!

this cutie was with me yesterday when I was writing letters home

too much brick laying Adam? he tried to pick up an egg and this is what happened

-Kat

road trip

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I would LOVE getting a hippie van like this, painting it in some crazy colors, throw a mattress in the back and take a road trip through OZ, NZ or USA…. mmmm! ❤

We have a plan to take a road trip in Australia and New Zealand before we go back home to Europe and I really can’t wait for it! The plan so far is driving up from South Australia to the Northern Territory/Queensland and then driving down the east coast ending up in Melbourne.

something like this;

way one, which is with seeing the ayers rock… (7228 km)

way two, which is without the ayers rock. (5778 km)

now we’ll have to decide if that big red rock is worth 1500 km driving! hahaha!

the trip in general is so extremely long though, no matter what we’ll be driving like 6 thousand km, in Australia alone… holy! we’ll have to make sure we have enough time ahead of us before we go

the last 5 hours I have spent being stuck to the computer screen searching every information I could think we would possibly need, I can still imagine I have around 25 hours to go before everything will be set…

besides the basic opera house, harbor bridge and so on we also we would also love to go to;

Great Barrier Reef

Byron Bay

Great Ocean Road

Whitsunday Island

Still don’t know enough about NZ to be able to know what kind of route we want, but then again, some hours on google and I’ll have a pretty good idea, also we know some people who are living or lived in NZ. If anyone knows any more tips that will be very well appreciated also! 🙂

Now since I have hard work tomorrow morning serving coffees I’m gonna need my 8 hours, its also really hard focusing on this while Adam is laying on my chest so peacefully asleep, makes me wanna lay down as well

Good night

-Kat

March

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The sky is always so amazing !

I saw “Reykjavík Rotterdam” on the TV one night and my national pride just went through the roof! hahah 🙂

on our way back from Victor Harbor

ok, where does anyone get the imagination to build a house like this?! I’d really like to meet that person haha!

We had this wonderful pool in the backyard where we were staying in Victor, so nice! there were also kangaroos in the backyard

one night there was thunder and lightning, it was so intense and being from Iceland I thought it was really amazing! :$

The lightning lid up the whole town like this, see how you can still see the lights in the town even though it seems bright outside

one of the best buys of our stays here, INTERNET!  you never realize how much your life revolves around it until you dont have it anymore

can anyone please explain to me why boys have to constantly bite their nails?! drives me insane!

-Kat