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Thursday, 29. January 2009, 20:09:38
One reason why I like Germany: the weather is nice and 'cool', which is not the case in Adelaide:
Adelaide is even featured in a Spiegel video!.
Adelaide is even featured in a Spiegel video!.
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5 Days
Friday, 28. November 2008, 00:07:01
Last night I had a farewell party in a park in the city. I wasn't going to have a farewell, but I thought I should to prove that I can organise soemthing and that I'm not lazy 
We packed an esky; it has wheels!!!
The weather didn't look too good as we drove there, but then the sun started shining and luckily, it didn't rain at the party
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Standing around the BBQ
My sister knows how to cut up mangoes, so she did a demonstration
There you go
The wheeled esky also doubles up as a seat
Yay I'm not the only one with an old phone!
That's all for now
We packed an esky; it has wheels!!!
The weather didn't look too good as we drove there, but then the sun started shining and luckily, it didn't rain at the party
]Standing around the BBQ
My sister knows how to cut up mangoes, so she did a demonstration
There you go
The wheeled esky also doubles up as a seat
Yay I'm not the only one with an old phone!
That's all for now
One Weeek!!!
Monday, 24. November 2008, 22:47:53
One week until I leave Adelaide!!! It's 3 degrees in Germany at the moment! 
I was complaining when it was 15 degrees here last week.
I have lots of stuff to do:do exam, get passport photos, get bank statement stuff, buy presents for people, go to dentist, write to my uni, go to my farewell party, attend to a houseparty, attend to my sister's birthday party, buy jeans, buy battery charger, buy memory card reader, get a student card, print stuff, clean room, pack bag ...and more!
I had my last exam yesterday I'd prefer not to discuss it as if I did, I'd require counselling 
Ugh the Australian dollar only buys 49 Euro cents! I should have bought Euros in October...I guess I hsould buy them now before the Australian dollar loses MORE value. All students going on exchange to Europe were hoping the Euro would go down in value. Well, it did...but the Australian dollar went down even more in value. So, I have lost more than 1000 Euro!!!!
Fridge
Does anyone remember the photo of my fridge that I put on here? It was covered with paper and magnets and more paper and about 3 calendars!
I got back from work last Sunday morning....walked into the kitchen and thought I was in another house. Someone had cleaned the fridge!!
For my parents, cleaning the fridge on a Saturday night is great fun!
Light
In Australia, if you have children, the government will give you a 'family contribution' (or something). It's a payment so that you can look after your kids. In previous years, the government gave my family a $130 payment! WOAH! Big money
Unfortunately, we're now classified as 'too rich' to get this payment.
We calculated, that as a result of our economic standing we'd be able to get some things fixed. We got an original 1967 toilet fitting changed! On Saturday morning we got a new kitchen light fitting!
The original was from the 80s, broken and hanging off the ceiling...
The 'changing of the light fitting' was such a monumental event on our family's 2008 calendar that we took a photo of the electrician!
Other
South Australia from the sky
Curly butter! It's the simple things that amaze me...
It's 3 degrees in Germany at the moment! I was complaining when it was 15 degrees here last week.I have lots of stuff to do:
I had my last exam yesterday
I'd prefer not to discuss it as if I did, I'd require counselling Ugh the Australian dollar only buys 49 Euro cents! I should have bought Euros in October...I guess I hsould buy them now before the Australian dollar loses MORE value. All students going on exchange to Europe were hoping the Euro would go down in value. Well, it did...but the Australian dollar went down even more in value. So, I have lost more than 1000 Euro!!!!
Fridge
Does anyone remember the photo of my fridge that I put on here? It was covered with paper and magnets and more paper and about 3 calendars!
I got back from work last Sunday morning....walked into the kitchen and thought I was in another house. Someone had cleaned the fridge!!
For my parents, cleaning the fridge on a Saturday night is great fun!
Light
In Australia, if you have children, the government will give you a 'family contribution' (or something). It's a payment so that you can look after your kids. In previous years, the government gave my family a $130 payment! WOAH! Big money
Unfortunately, we're now classified as 'too rich' to get this payment. We calculated, that as a result of our economic standing we'd be able to get some things fixed. We got an original 1967 toilet fitting changed! On Saturday morning we got a new kitchen light fitting!
The original was from the 80s, broken and hanging off the ceiling...
The 'changing of the light fitting' was such a monumental event on our family's 2008 calendar that we took a photo of the electrician!
Other
South Australia from the sky
Curly butter! It's the simple things that amaze me...
The Birthday
Tuesday, 21. October 2008, 12:12:40
On Sunday I lost my teenager-hood. I also lost my voice. I don't know if it was from smoke or talking to loud...but my voice decided to go on holiday. It arrived back yesterday But now I'm a bit sick
Anyway, the birthday....I didn't have a party. I couldn't be bothered organising a party. So, as usual we went for lunch at my grandma's house.
After lunch, I asked my dad if he wanted to go for a walk up a hill. He said no, because it makes him too tired. So, I went by myself. It took me only 12 minutes to get to the top; no pauses! It used to take me mroe than 30 minutes!
Then, my sister and her 'friend' went for another walk with me in the evening. They must have felt sorry for me. I think my hobby is walking up hills. My dad thinks I should go in a walking competition
View from half way up the hill
We took walkie talkies with us. We discovered that you can hear other people and talk to other people. We talked to a guy named Troy.
Then we went to McDonalds because I wanted to have an icecream. And because I can afford to eat icecream at McDonalds; $0.50/icecream
No, we didn't buy one for the Hoff. Yes, we were too lazy to get out of the car, so we got drive-through
Eating the icecream in the car, in the car park. Is that bogan?
Then we went home and I did my assignment....and my auntie and uncle visited me.
But today was better than my birthday! Because, I got some mail from Germany, from my favourite German
No one else got me such a nice present.... This parcel was a very special for Intersheep....because....
Intersheep's SISTER was inside!
Now I have three sheep in my flock I must have shown signs of being a good shepherd, and so that's why I have another sheep
This little sheep was very hungry and the first thing she did was run to the fridge...
Then she grabbed a spoon and ate lots of icecream. Next time, I'll just buy chocolate...
Today's German Lesson:
In today's lesson, we will learn some ingredients commonly used in 'Du bist ein Engel' German chocolate bars:
Vollmilch-Schokolade = full milk chocolate = milk chocolate
Zutaten = ingredients
Zucker = sugar
Kakaobutter = cocoa butter
Vollmilchpulver= full milk powder
Kakaomasse = cocoa mass
Suessmolkenpulver= I have no idea about what the English is. Sweet whey powder?
Milchzucker= lactose...milk sugar
Emulgator = emulsifying agent
Aroma: natuerliche Vanille= flavour: natural vanilla
Kann Spuren von Nuessen und Erdnuesen enthalten = May contain traces of nuts and peanuts.
(German people, please explain Erdnuessen and Nuessen )
Now you should be able to understand some German chocolate bar wrappers
And now it's time for me to go to sleep.
But now I'm a bit sick Anyway, the birthday....I didn't have a party. I couldn't be bothered organising a party. So, as usual we went for lunch at my grandma's house.
After lunch, I asked my dad if he wanted to go for a walk up a hill. He said no, because it makes him too tired. So, I went by myself. It took me only 12 minutes to get to the top; no pauses! It used to take me mroe than 30 minutes!
Then, my sister and her 'friend' went for another walk with me in the evening. They must have felt sorry for me. I think my hobby is walking up hills. My dad thinks I should go in a walking competition
View from half way up the hill
We took walkie talkies with us. We discovered that you can hear other people and talk to other people. We talked to a guy named Troy.
Then we went to McDonalds because I wanted to have an icecream. And because I can afford to eat icecream at McDonalds; $0.50/icecream
No, we didn't buy one for the Hoff. Yes, we were too lazy to get out of the car, so we got drive-through
Eating the icecream in the car, in the car park. Is that bogan?
Then we went home and I did my assignment....and my auntie and uncle visited me.
But today was better than my birthday! Because, I got some mail from Germany, from my favourite German
No one else got me such a nice present.... This parcel was a very special for Intersheep....because.... Intersheep's SISTER was inside!
Now I have three sheep in my flock
I must have shown signs of being a good shepherd, and so that's why I have another sheep This little sheep was very hungry and the first thing she did was run to the fridge...
Then she grabbed a spoon and ate lots of icecream. Next time, I'll just buy chocolate...
Today's German Lesson:
In today's lesson, we will learn some ingredients commonly used in 'Du bist ein Engel' German chocolate bars:
Vollmilch-Schokolade = full milk chocolate = milk chocolate
Zutaten = ingredients
Zucker = sugar
Kakaobutter = cocoa butter
Vollmilchpulver= full milk powder
Kakaomasse = cocoa mass
Suessmolkenpulver= I have no idea about what the English is. Sweet whey powder?
Milchzucker= lactose...milk sugar
Emulgator = emulsifying agent
Aroma: natuerliche Vanille= flavour: natural vanilla
Kann Spuren von Nuessen und Erdnuesen enthalten = May contain traces of nuts and peanuts.
(German people, please explain Erdnuessen and Nuessen
)Now you should be able to understand some German chocolate bar wrappers
And now it's time for me to go to sleep.
Week 10 in photos
Friday, 17. October 2008, 03:57:01
After 4 hours,I think I've finished my law assignment *jump* So now I can blog I'm doing a subject where we look at aspects of law affecting companies, under the wonderful Corporations Act 2001. For the exam, I have to print out the required sections of the act. One guy from my tutorial printed it out and it cost him $10 in print money!!
On Saturday night I commented on one girl's head band 'Hey, that's a nice headband!' and then she gave it to me
I'm still walking up the hill (you can see it in the distance here). I like the gates they have at this 'park': one for the human and a litle one for the dog
Some of the orchids are still flowering too. They get hardly any water here, the soil doesn't have any nutrients but they seem to grow somehow. If you tried to grow them in your garden at home, you'd fail miserably.
This is what the Adelaide traffic control centre looks like. Lots of screens
Fritz, the crazy German guy who you've never heard of before is ALREADY exporting Christmas Stollen to Australia! Actually, the Adelaide City council seems a bit crazy too; they've already put up Christmas decorations in the city centre (American/Canadian translation: downtown)!
Last night I cooked a recipe from 'Jamies Ministry of Food'; chicken with prosciutto. It tasted really good, except for the fact that the ham was really salty! Next time: unsalty ham.
And that concludes today's blog post. Now I've got to finish my accounting theory assignment.....
Ahh I nearly forgot! It's time for a German lesson
So now I can blog I'm doing a subject where we look at aspects of law affecting companies, under the wonderful Corporations Act 2001. For the exam, I have to print out the required sections of the act. One guy from my tutorial printed it out and it cost him $10 in print money!! On Saturday night I commented on one girl's head band 'Hey, that's a nice headband!' and then she gave it to me
I'm still walking up the hill (you can see it in the distance here). I like the gates they have at this 'park': one for the human and a litle one for the dog
Some of the orchids are still flowering too. They get hardly any water here, the soil doesn't have any nutrients but they seem to grow somehow. If you tried to grow them in your garden at home, you'd fail miserably.
This is what the Adelaide traffic control centre looks like. Lots of screens
Fritz, the crazy German guy who you've never heard of before is ALREADY exporting Christmas Stollen to Australia! Actually, the Adelaide City council seems a bit crazy too; they've already put up Christmas decorations in the city centre (American/Canadian translation: downtown)!
Last night I cooked a recipe from 'Jamies Ministry of Food'; chicken with prosciutto. It tasted really good, except for the fact that the ham was really salty! Next time: unsalty ham.
And that concludes today's blog post. Now I've got to finish my accounting theory assignment.....
Ahh I nearly forgot! It's time for a German lesson
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Ich esse gern Stollen=I like to eat stollen
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...wenn es Ihnen gerade passt=When it suits you. So you can say....'Sie koennen essen wenn es Ihnen gerade passt'??? (German people, please correct me if I am wrong ) And the impolite is 'Du kannst essen wenn es DIR gerade passt.????
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Schutzengel= guardian angel So, 'Fahre nie schneller als dein Schutzengel fliegen kann'...which means 'Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly'
Snake, happy and two songs
Sunday, 5. October 2008, 09:54:14
After deciding I had done absolutely no exercise in who-knows-how-long, I told myself that I had to do some exercise or I'd end up looking like a lump of lard. Each day for the past four days, I've been walking up a hill. It makes me tired and my legs get sore, but it's good exercise
Saturday’s walk was particularly exciting. I learnt that you should never walk on little tracks by yourself. Why? You might get bitten by a snake! My dad stopped to tie up his shoe on a rock...and there was an Eastern Brown Snake (second most deadly snake in the world) behind the rock.
My dad had his camera with him but the shot he took isn’t the best.. I guess when a deadly snake is in front of you, you don’t really have time to work out the ‘rule of 3rds’, calculate where any shadows will be, set up a tripod etc etc.
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I finished work at 1am this morning. I started at 6pm and it wasn't very busy so they let me go home. I would have stayed there for extra money though! I got home and my dad and I were talking in the kitchen:
*Kimbers is happy and laughing*
The dad of Kimbers: Were you drinking at work?
Kimbers: No.
The dad of Kimbers: Oh...you just seem really happy!
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Two songs:
Somersault from Zero 7
If I ever feel better from Pheonix
Saturday’s walk was particularly exciting. I learnt that you should never walk on little tracks by yourself. Why? You might get bitten by a snake! My dad stopped to tie up his shoe on a rock...and there was an Eastern Brown Snake (second most deadly snake in the world
) behind the rock.My dad had his camera with him but the shot he took isn’t the best.. I guess when a deadly snake is in front of you, you don’t really have time to work out the ‘rule of 3rds’, calculate where any shadows will be, set up a tripod etc etc.
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I finished work at 1am this morning. I started at 6pm and it wasn't very busy so they let me go home. I would have stayed there for extra money though! I got home and my dad and I were talking in the kitchen:
*Kimbers is happy and laughing*
The dad of Kimbers: Were you drinking at work?
Kimbers: No.
The dad of Kimbers: Oh...you just seem really happy!
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Two songs:
Somersault from Zero 7
If I ever feel better from Pheonix
Bay to Birdwood
Sunday, 28. September 2008, 06:34:15
The Bay to Birdwood is held each year. This year the 'drive' was for vehicles manufactured on or before 31 December 1955. The start is by the sea and the finish is a picnic event at Birdwood, a village in the hills and home to the 'National Motor Museum'. The distance is 70km.
If you just thought 'Hey, Kimbers doesn't even like cars!' well, you're right Cars don't interest me in the slightest.
Better explanation:
What did you do on Sunday? I sat on the side of a road with a glass of wine and watched cars drive past
Happy looking people in a green car
The event is not just for cars. If you own an old bike or FIRE ENGINE, you can probbaly enter
Someone didn't want their photo taken...probably knew it would end up on a blog and wanted to protect his identity
If you just thought 'Hey, Kimbers doesn't even like cars!' well, you're right
Cars don't interest me in the slightest.Better explanation:
(source)The Bay to Birdwood Run for historic motoring vehicles, is the largest most continually staged event of its kind anywhere in the world with an average of 1500-1600 entrant vehicles including cars, motorcycles, trucks and vans.
What did you do on Sunday? I sat on the side of a road with a glass of wine and watched cars drive past
Happy looking people in a green car
The event is not just for cars. If you own an old bike or FIRE ENGINE, you can probbaly enter
Someone didn't want their photo taken...probably knew it would end up on a blog and wanted to protect his identity
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GrantTLC
2008-10-02 10:27:54ah birthday, eh? Aren't they terribly old fashioned nowadays? I suggest giving it a miss this year - you'll be more popular if you do. :)
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