Sources!

http://www.csu.edu.au/australia/flag.html

http://www.australiazoo.com.au/

The photographs are private.

Going Home!

Right now I'm bloging from the airport. In a couple of hours, we will be sitting on the plane, on our way back to Norway. For three weeks I have been seeing a totally different wildlife, snorkling, and learned a little about australian culture as well. It has been the best three weeks of my life! As i wrote in the last post, I have been in Sydney. The city didn't seem very big, but it was a very modern city. It is actually one of the most multicultural citys in the whole world. Despite that there are so many different nationalities, I got the impression that they are very patriotic. Patriotic to the city, but most to the country. So I'm going to present some facts about the australian flag:  

The Australian flag is blue with the Union Jack which is the flag of the United Kingdom.Denoting Australia's historical links with Great Britain. It also has a large white seven-pointed star, known as the Commonwealth star. It has seven points symbolizes the six states and the combined territories of the Commonwealth of Australia.
The last part of the flag is the Southern Cross. It Concists of five stars in a kite-like pattern. The constellation of the Southern Cross is a significant navigational feature of the southern hemisphere. It strongly places Australia geographically and has been associated with the continent since its earliest days.

You can't be in Sydney without having seen the opera house. The building is huge! It has about one thousand rooms. It's one of the most famous buildings in the whole world. It reminds of several white sailing ships, which it is a lot of in the port in Sydney. When we were in Sydney we didn't stay by the opera all the time. Of course we did other things as well. We were on Bondi Beach two times, which is one of the most famous beaches in the world. There is also a TV-show from this beach. The show is about Surf Life Saving Australia who patrols the beach, and controls that everything is ok. Every day the beach was full of people, surfing and bathing.

So Sydney, and Australia was beautiful. I would recommend Australia to everyone! All the tings that I've seen has been fantastic! The country and its nature is a sight worth seeing. All of the people are so friendly as well. They smile at you everywhere, and they are so helpful! I will definitely come back some time.
Hopefully it won't be to long;)  

My first week!

I have been here for one week now, and I have already experienced some of the coolest things you can ever imagine. As you know, I have been to the Australian Zoo, and that was awesome! I enjoyed seeing animals that I haven't seen before. Like kangaroos, koalas and of course the big crocodiles. I didn't know that they could be this big!
Here are some pictures:

That's not the only thing I have been doing. When you are in Australia you have to see The Great Barrier Reef. It's the world's largest reef system, which is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia. We snorkled almost the whole day. I have seen fish and plants in all the colours of the rainbow. It so far from snorkeling in Norway, that words can't describe it. When you're in Norway, you are lucky if you get to see a fish or two, but in Australia you see hundreds of fish and other creatures everywhere. Just turn your head a little and you'll see twenty new animals. It's Amazing! It's also very clear that the Australians care about the coral reef. The beaches around were extremely clean. I think that's because Australias wildlife is so different fromother countries. So they want to take care of the typical things that we associate Australia with. Every year it comes a lot of tourists to see this things and places, so if the tourists should continue coming, it better be nice and clean. I'm tired after all the snorkling today, so I better go to bed now. In a couple of days we are going to Sydney to see the famous opera house, but I'll catch up with you later!
See you;) 

In Australia!

Finally I'm here! After the longest flight in my entire life, I'm now at the Brisbane airport, which is in the eastern Australia. For months I have been looking forward to this journey, and now it has begun. I'm here with my family to discover a country, that we don't know to much about. Now we are going to take a taxi, or the bus to the appartment that we have rented, so we can sleep and rest, after an extremely long flight, which made me exhausted

Tomorrow we are going to visit the Australia Zoo. That's the Zoo Steve Irwin or "The Crocodile Hunter" opened with his wife. Steve Irwin is famous all over the world for his TV shows about australian wildlife, especially the crocodiles. Unfortunately he died in a accident while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, a couple of years ago.

So I'm looking forward to a fun day tomorrow. Hopefully we get to come close to some of the animals, and how cool would'nt it be if we get to feed them? Now I have to go to bed, so I can be refreshed when I'm walking around giant crocodiles.
Good night :)

Tavler

Tavler har gjennom tidene blitt framstilt i ulike materialer - stein, tre, leire, metall, glass og plast. Tidligere kunne tavler brukes til å bevare skrift permanent, i våre dager er tavler mest brukt til å presentere informasjon i klasserom og konferanserom.

Der henger den, som støpt på veggen, og glor på oss. Har den ikke noe bedre å gjøre? Er det virkelig ikke noe annet og gjøre enn å henge der hele dagen? Den irriterer meg mere og mere.Blikket jeg får når jeg ikke forstår noe læreren nettopp har forklart? Det onde, ekle, tomme blikket. Men det har egentlig ikke noe å si, for det er bare ei stygg gammel tavle...