Gold Coast/Surfers Paradise

Were in popular Surfers Paradise for three nights.

Bought lots of fruit as avocado, custard apple, mango, chocolate fruit (tha you eat with cream and it was so yummy!) and passion fruit at this tropical fruit farm. 

Hahaha we were laughing about "we'll crack ypur nuts for FREE"

In the city! And we lived in the area called Miami... Are we in America?? 

Haha Swedish pizzeria?? Think they got the wrong country

Had a great day at the theme park Dreamworld. Feel lika a kid again! 

Said hello to the Madagascar 

There were even animals like Tigers! 

This egg is happy to be boiled 

Now we have aten all the fruit we bought

Went up to Skypoint and got an amazing view. We weren't really lucky with the weather here but could still see the blue sea and white beach

Byron Bay

Stayed for three nights in this cool hippie town! 

Sunset in Byron Bay 

The beach on the day. Lovely to have the sun out again and get some tan. Did some surfing as well.

Though a guy died by a sharkattack few days after we where there... Scary. 

Preparty in our van haha and went out to some clubs

Australia

I have now been in Australia for almost two weeks. First I was in beautiful Melbourne which seems to be an amazing town for work and living and now I'm outside Sydney! 

Love from "Down under"

Goodbye New Zealand!

Bourke Street, one of the main streets in Melbourne

Chinatown in Melbourne

In my hostel I met this lovely girl Camila from Chile and we went to town to hang out with her other friends from Chile

Another roomie in the hostel from England showed me town  and here is the river crossed in Melbourne CBD

Tiny and cute street by the hostel in the suburb St Kilda

Luna Park, a small themepark in St Kilda where I lived. 

Saw the sunset with my third roomie I hung out with, a french girl called Suzon

In St Kilda there is a long pier where I walked with Camila

View from the pier

A beautiful park in St Kilda

Not every day you see parrots at the street

Going to the bbq and we couldn't carry the heavy box

Bbq in Albert park with Camila, Suzon and Pedro and the other Chile friends 

Amazing lake in Albert Park

Lovely food and clothes market 

A famous place where they do lots of cool Graffiti.  

Lina is finally in town! 

We had some fun in the night bus to Sydney

Stayes at two nice women's place outside Sydney and they took us to a wonderful buffe! We ate sooo much... 

Bingo time!! Lina won $35 yaaay

Margaret and Suzan at the bingo

Longest jetty ever 

Lina made a perfect Appelstrudel 

It's the final countdown

My year in New Zealand has now come to a end. Next week I will leave this amazing country and I can't describe my feelings. I'm both happy to move on for upcoming adventures, and of course sad to leave the life I built up with friends and host family. Many of my friends have already left so it's not the same as it used to be anyway. Memories of my time in New Zealand make me smile, because I have met so many wonderful people from all over the world and I have seen such a gorgeous places. As the last mentioned, I have never traveled so much in a year as I have done here. 
During my year I have also grown as a person of course. I got a life experience that to be honest changed my life. As I mentioned before I made new friends from different countries and cultures, which have given me a better self esteem. I lived with a family who have taught me so many things like how to take care of a household (cooking, cleaning and do the grocery shopping etc.), how to make a family stay together, how a life with kids would be and to live with a family and adapt to their lifestyle without loosing mine. I can make the list long over what I've learned in New Zealand, but most important is that I feel stronger and more secure as a person and not as stressed as I used to be. The lifestyle in this country can't be more laid back and easygoing. 
Thanks to internet that I have been able to talk to nearest and dearest at home without problem and to show my life through this blog. In the end I didn't uploaded as much as I planed from the beginning... I have also seen whats happening at home by Facebook etc. 
Here's the last pictures from my time in New Zealand. Thanks to you who have followed my trip at this blog and soon a new adventure will be the main theme at www.carolinefrossling.blogspot.com so keep an eye for that. 
Love from Caroline

Hard work work

Make my photo album over the year in NZ. Takes time cause I make it by hand

Day trip with Mary and Nathan to Muriwai beach

Here I have been surfing few times

Went to another beach further away and walked through a horse paddock

Gonna miss these views

Messy time with Tally, last playdate with her

Viggo borrowed my sunglasses when the sun was in his eyes. so cute

Celebrate Jenny's 20th birthday with bowling and then party in town. last time I went out in Auckland :(