This morning school routine got slightly different as one of the boys had an excursion which changed uniforms for the day...so I forgot the youngest fella should have had sports uniform instead of normal which I put on him.

So I ended up racing between home and school twice to bring sports uniform. At the end of the day I brought home three sport bags.

Second picture is funny.in finnish peto is a beast.  Good name for a pet shop, hey?

Last week briefly: host mother bought me german rye bread. It's tasty and something I've been looking forward to find, but no match to legendary "Vaasan ruispalat"!

Second picture is...surfing. suprise suprise. I learned yesterday how to duck dive in a real way without getting washed away

Third pic : at movies with boys. Going to watch pitch perfect 2. It was quite a funny movie

4th pic: could not help buying 4 pack of delish donuts from woollies

Headed surfing again which resulted in surfboard-titanic...

Surf

Good morning starts with good surf. This one is at mona vale beach. It was fun until my leg strap snapped...

Morning walk with Tilly

Past week included fishing, taking dog for a walk in a beautiful view, watching boys playing soccer and rugby....and lots more. But one thing that happened last week was very bittersweet: I sold my car, pulsar, that has never failed me during my copious months of traveling and provided place to sleep and cover from weather.

Au Pair

After a loooong break I continue updating blog but now....as an Au Pair. To you who never heard of it, it is a person usually from overseas who comes to look after children and lives in a family.
 I finished my working and travelling with 121 days of 2nd year visa eligible working days, over 2 months of exploring east coast (love gold coast!) and experiencing life at its best.

I started Au Pair-ing in a town near Sydney two weeks ago by having a handover from Jon, previous guy. It has been quite busy life with three boys to look after. Normal day is:
7 AM -- wake up, brekky, pack school lunch, help getting dressed.
7:50 AM -- drive to school/bus stop.
8:30 AM -- hang laundry outside, wash more laundry, general clean-up around house
Around 11am -- freedom! I'm planning on spending lots of time at the beach
3:50pm -- pick up boys from school/bus stop, snack, homework, prepare dinner, ready for afterschool sports which are usually soccer, rugby or swimming.
4-6pm back from wherever we have been. Dinner, make school lunch ready, get school uniforms ready.............do one load of wash (hopefully just one)
9-11pm own stuff

Three sisters@blue mountains

Random plant

Gymnastics@Ruined castle, BM

Beautiful foliage near echo point, BM

I call it a corn

Suomeksi: piiiitkän tauon jälkeen jatkan blogin päivittelyä, tällä kertaa au pairina. Reissasin itärannikolla, työskentelin ja sain upeita kokemuksia. Viimeisen kahden viikon aikana edellinen auppari opetti mulle talon tavat joten nyt on eka päivä yksin. Ihan ok, vaikka nuorin 5 vuotta vanha minimies käyttäytyy välillä kuin 5 kuukautta vanha...