Leaving...!

Yep, it time to go...
I'm gonna spare you all with the usual "oh my god, time just flew by and I can't believe it's been 3 months already..." But that's exactly what it feels like.

Even though I'm kinda excited about what's gonna happen in the UK I really don't wanna leave. I really enjoyed the time here, met awesome people, made great friends and actually felt very much at home here in Adelaide. But hey, I'm definitely coming back here so I should see them all very soon. In fact, Peter and Trudy are planning to move back to the UK in July and Jaan and Alice are gonna go travelling at the beginning of next year so we only have to organise where and when we catch up again...:)

Anyway, what's been happening....a hell of a lot again.

About two weeks ago Holly, a friend of Jaans who is a very successful musician as well as a wicked person, had a gig at her home town Warooka in the Yorke Peninsula as they had a concert to "lift the farmer spirits" again cos of the drought. Jaan, who accompanies Holly on the guitar and holly were playing on the footy oval, on the back of a semi-trailor...hehe, can't get much more rural, can it..?! Alice, Lisa, Ben (Holly's boyfriend who's a photographer)and I went along and stayed at Holly's parents' farm and it was great! So relaxed and chilled out and so in the middle of nowhere...it was great for a coupla days with a car and stuff but I dunno if I'd wanna be a teenager living there without a license...:)

Last tuesday I went to the Royad Adelaide Hospital to get a lung function before leaving and thanks to nurse Rosie ( I introduced myself to her went i first arrived) that was no problem at all and I didn't even have to pay anything. I had an FEV of 52% which is ok considering that I was at 46% when I left Germany in January, feeling quite shite after the sinus surgery and all. Also I have been working here and even though i do exercise I don't spend much time on my therapy exept for nebulising and a bit of AD. So physically I'm doing well and I'm hoping for it to stay that way in the Uk. But I'm optimistic since they're going into their summer and I heard the weather is pretty sunny in germany so in London it should be similar.

Wednesday was ANZAC day and since Peter's birthday is on may 3rd we planned to have a joined birthday party. I mean, we planned to have it sometime in may but because I'm leaving earlier (and I have to admit I was a bit disappointed to be in London all by myself on my 25th birthday...heheh)we decided to have a pre-birthday party at Corilole Winery which is Alice's mum's place.Now even for a PRE-birthday party you need a birthday cake and even though I'm absolutely useless in the kitchen I felt pretty confident about the challenge of making a cake. Then I made the mistake of calling Peter and asking what kinda cake he wanted....ok, any Aussie probably has at least heard of chocolate mud cake but for me the concept of eatinga cake that's completely raw on the inside is just...gutwrenching. heheh, nah, it was all good but I think I really did mess up that cake. Hell, everyone else thought it was ok...:)
It was an absolutely absolutely great day, we rented a family car which was huge and even had bottle holding thingies on the seats so Trudy and I killed a bottle of wine (the Villa Maria Estate from NZ...sooo god!!) on the way up there. As you all can see in the pics is an absolutely gorgeous place and even though it was supposed to rain that night we had an awesome day with good food, tasty wine and it was just more than I could ever expect for a birthday party. I even got some prezzies which came totally unexpected so by the time I got home I was in tears about having to leave all of these people.

oh man, Alic is picking me up for dinner and then we're meeting up with the rest of them at the Elephant walk for coffee and dessert...will write from the UK next time.
take care you all!

xxx