Wednesday 21 February 2018

Hello everyone

This is our last day in Townsville and also our last blog post. Today we had a trip to Magnetic Island planned. Everyone had slept in their host families, so we met each other again back at school. The day started good for Nienke, who forgot her bikini and towel.

We drove our little bus to the terminal where we took the ferry to Maggies. When we arrived at the island we first made a toilet stop. Then we went to the beach, but the sun wasn’t really shining so it was a little bit too cold to go for a swim and we just went in with our feet.

At 12 o’clock we had an appointment at the wildlife park. We’ve held some lizards, turtles, snakes and parrots. We could touch a koala, some of us even held a koala. 

After this we went to the beach to have lunch. We missed our bus, but luckily there was another bus with a lovely man who drove us to the forts. We walked up to the fort, and we even saw some koala’s on our way. At the top there was an amazing view. We also met some other Belgian people.

Ode recited her poem to us. But then Ms Tytgat received a phone call from the mainland warning us about some bad weather, so we quickly went down the hill again. Some of us were a bit scared for the storm that was coming, because last night’s storm had been bad taking out electricity in some of the houses. We hoped that the ferry could take us back to Townsville.

Unfortunately, the barbecue  was cancelled and everyone was disappointed. We had to get back to our host families.

When Emma and I got back at Lily’s place, we went for a horseback ride. After that we played clue because her little sister loves it. We ended our day with a barbecue. Hoping that the others had a great day as well!