Not Special but Pleasant

Many things make me happy, even if they are actually not so special. 

I bought this large pack of TimTam for less than 3 dollar. The price was extremely surprising for me, and now I regret not buying more packs!

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I could get some food for just 1 dollar in Surfers Paradise. This ice cream is available in the shop in the front of the beach. It was so delicious and I really recommend it to everybody. The drink is Frozen Fanta offered by McDonald's, which we can also buy for 1 dollar. To be honest, it is not as good as the ice cream, but I like to spend time at the beach with it.

 By the way, the day I went there was extremely windy, so the beach was closed.

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UQ also has a lot of things which make me happy.

In my class EAP I Red, we have morning tea outside every Friday. On this day, our teacher Glenn brought ANZAC biscuit and lamington. They were so good! This event is one of the reasons why I like Friday.

On 21 May, I cooked lamington in the cooking class held by activity centre of ICTE. I made a group with some of my friends and new students. Our work was going well. However, we run out of chocolate, so some piece of cake were plain. Anyway, the class was funny and lamington was delicious.

I belong to Pokémon Fan Club of UQ. On 22 May, I joined an event of the club. I made some friends and played games together. We talked a lot, eating pizza we ordered from pizza cafe in UQ. However, my English is so poor that I sometimes couldn't understand what they said. Yet, they helped me by speaking slowly or paraphrasing the words. I really appreciate their support, and I'll try hard to keep up with their natural conversation. 

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I found what I've written was almost about food. Anyway, I'm sure that I will find more of something pleasant for me in Brisbane.

Pretty Animals

On 26 April, I went to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary with some of my friends, which has many kinds of animals. Firstly we enjoyed the show of birds'prey. Getting food thrown by the bird keeper, they flew just above my head, which was amazing.

Next, we watched the job of sheep-dogs and sheep shearing. The dogs were so clever and adorable. The sheep were a little pitiful but shearing was intriguing.

Their move was funny.
The flock never split up!

He looked relaxed, but I wasn't able to read a mind of animals, so I'm not sure how he was feeling.

After that, we saw kangaroos. There were a heap of kangaroos in a broad meadow, and they were jumping, eating and sleeping.

They were very familiar with humans, so it was easy to take pictures of them.














The younger and smaller they are, the much prettier they are!

Of course I saw koalas because the place was Lone Pine "Koala" Sanctuary. They were so cute when they eat food. However, I saw more and took more pictures of kangaroos than koalas. I definitely prefer kangaroos. Sorry koalas.

I got relaxed so much in this place, and I wanna visit there and see animals again!

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On 3 May, I went to Sea World in Gold Coast with the members when I visited Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary plus three more. I was thinking that Sea World is like an aquarium, but my expectation was wrong. It has variety of marine animals outside, some attractions and interesting shows.

We watched a show of sea lions. They were skilled and playing very well. The actors were comic, and I found the shows in Australia different from those of Japan in terms of way to make an audience laugh. Anyway, I like both!

We rode on a roller coaster, but the rail was too short and not so thrilling, which made me a little disappointed. There were many kinds of marine animals, like a polar bear, shark, ray and starfish. We also watched the dolphin show. Dolphin is one of my most favorite animals, so I was exhilareted. Four dolphin jumped at the same time, which was dynamic!

A big turtle were swimming slowly, very slowly.

A man was scattering snow. That was making penguins scared and run around, but for their comfortable life.

Parent penguins were feeding their child. I'd never seen it until then.

Sea world was much more exciting than I expected. I could spend a good time with my friends and marine animals