Woah! ONE MONTH??!!!!!

Sorry. Sorry sorry sorry. The first day I got here I was very tired from the flight, and the next day school started (I did get a bit tired, but I had tried converting to Melbourne time during the flights). Ever since then I've been kind of busy and very distracted. The first day of school I got a whole bunch of talking, but it's getting better (although I am constantly held back by lengthy/ unnecessary ways of the teachers explaining things (mostly because most of the kids in my class don't understand things- in math my math teacher took two lessons to explain something that I learned in 3rd grade- the what I call "Multiple Rainbows").
Anyways, I guess I'll start with the end of Spain. The day before I left I took a l;ast horse- back riding lesson, and got some AWESOME pictures.

This is me riding the same horse as before (Pirate). I was the youngest kid in the class, and it was pretty cool.

This one is a picture of a horse that I just saw standing there, looking sad. And beautiful. Yeah. He's going to get drawn.

Ok, so I was just waiting for my sisters to finish their class, and I saw this pony. He is the CUTEST. This picture does not do him justice, but it was the only one I could get because the camera was dying+ it wasn't really working that well (I got lucky just then). I loved this pony, though, and I'm going to try to remember how he looks like and draw him standing with his tack on.

(this was before the horse-back riding) On the 23rd me and my dad went to the center of the city and took a walk around. We went to the Basque Museum (in the hall of fame there was a guy called Turd Guard, in Spanish "Guarda Mocordos" because he was a police officer, and the badge he had on had the abbreviation "GM" for "Guardia Municipal", or local police, and he was always busting kids doing bad things, and they gave him the nickname) and then after that we walked a bit more to find the Kukuxumusu store, where I got the best shirt EVER (above). For those that don't get the joke the guy on the left is in traditional Basque clothes, and I believe they have this whole thing with axes. I picked this one over a "Yes Tu Can" (a toucan in the American colors, a play on words of "Yes You Can"- guess from where- I thought it was AWESOME) shirt, which shows great praise for it. It is now officially my favorite shirt (over a dark green one with a tiger on it). It came in this bag:

Do you get it?
They have always made the funniest things. I have a journal with Little Red Riding Hood kicking the Big Bad Wolf where it hurts. Those guys are good.
Anyways, onto school. Personally (to put it positively), I'm a bit ahead of most of the people in my class. I've had to sit through many a boring instruction that (in my opinion) are already too obvious. But I'm not other people.
Anyways, since going to High School here I have encountered the strangest fits.
1. In camp (will get to that) I girl threw a big fit at another girl in my cabin because she said her sister was cute. Apparently the girl doesn't like it when people say things when she's away from her sister, even the nice ones.
2. The same girl threw another big fit when we tried to tell scary stories before dinner. Apparently she wouldn't be able to sleep at night if she heard them. So we tried to tell a funny story. She throws another big fit and we tell her she can get out if she wants. She does, but five seconds after we start the story she comes in again, plugs her ears, and starts singing the Smurfs as loud as she could.
3.Yesterday we were doing a project where one person was blindfolded and we had to guide her through a part of the school. In my group four out of five wanted to be blindfolded, so my teacher picked a number between ten and some girl gets the number (I was second closest, so technically I would have been next, but...) one of the girls that wanted to be blindfolded sits down in a chair and starts crying about it. We were the last group to get on with the project and in the end she got to get blindfolded next. I never got a chance. Sure, I was unhappy that I hadn't been able to be blindfolded, but it isn't like that is a reason to sit down and cry. It was ridiculous.
Anyways, I'll run through dates.
The 16th of February- I saw Black Caviar run again live on TV!! Her owners were about to retire her because not only did she get a tiny bit of muscle damage (which wouldn't have stopped her career) she actually got ATTACKED by a swarm of BEES in England. Apparently she was in a really bad way, but now she's back and recovered and is going to race on the 22nd of March!!!! I WILL watch! Anyways, she was racing in the Lightning Stakes, in the race called "The Black Caviar Race" (yes, seriously, now there will be a race called "The Black Caviar Race"forever after). Anyways, I did this:

(yes, I know the guy doesn't have pants, they got lost in his years abandoned in the Barbie box, and I never found them again- I need to make new ones) I think I did pretty good on this (yes, the stirrups are too low, and the tack isn't even the right kind, but I used what I had and the guy couldn't stand up like jockeys do).
On the same day we went to go and see a live Melbourne Victory v.s. the Sydney somethings (the Sydney cheer dudes were WAY overenthusiastic, there were police all around them). The Sydney guys won, and the game was pretty good.
The 17th of February- We went to the beach and played around with the snorkelling gear we got for Christmas!
The 18th- 20th of February- That was camp!
The first day we drove for a while then did our first four activities:
1. The Giant Swing- it was pretty cool (even on the second drop there was a bit of freefall), although not as good as the one that I went to in fifth grade (which was MUCH taller and went over a cliff drop with BEAUTIFUL golden vegetation).
2. The Flying Fox- It was basically a zipline, just you sat on a swing seat. It was kind of relaxing, but not much of a thriller.
3. Then we did some teamwork- building activities instead of damper (because it was too hot to start a fire and we were almost in the middle of nowhere- damoer is a kind if Australian bread that Abiriginals make/ used to make). I think that it was nicer than damper would have been, and I actually saved someone from falling on their back (eeeck! Nice catch!).
4. Last for the day was archery, which was AWESOME. I loved it, even though I did terrible (especially compare to other people). I did hit the target a few times (2 out of 6 tries), but not anywhere close to the middle (basically as far out as you can go).
The next day we did the rest of the activities.
1. We swam in a pool a bit, played a few water games, but mostly it was chaotic.
2. We climbed some climbing walls (I'm not very good at that, so didn't actually do very good), and then did a ropes course (which was much better).
3.We went to the river and splashed around in the shallows a bit. The funnest part was when our teacher let us go upstream and we actually got to walk/ swim (because it got a bit deep!) back to where we had been before. It was super fun but also super creepy because I kept stepping on dead trees that had sunk to the bottom, and someone actually lost their shoe! It competed with archery for the best activity.
4. I played some air hockey, ping pong, and about 30 seconds of soccer.
5. Last we did Mini golf, which I discovered I am really bad at (I got 87 shots for 18 holes...) and where I discovered a cool story/ joke ("I am ze viper...").
That day they also did cabin inspections, and my cabin won!
This was a cool view that we could see from the camp:

I thought this was a cool hill, and the picture isn't very good.
The next day when we went back home they stopped at a cold- climate rainforest and we took a little walk on a boardwalk (one up high, and one down low). Here are some pictures:

There were some seriously huge trees there (apparently some more than 400 years). I saw some tree trunks thicker than two people (they were RIICULOUS).

These were the tops of some very small trees. My teachers were talking about the competition for sunlight, and that's why some of the trees got so big (in my opinion). I also learned this cool thing to find out which way is North: moss grows where there is less sunlight (below the equator in the south side, above the equator in the north side). So if you just look at the direction of where the moss is growing you can tell which way is North. I though that was useful.
Saturday the 23rd of February- We went to a festival called "White Night Melbourne". We saw Jazz, a light show in a church, line dancing, and a cute thing where the people went around and cleaned things (a guy surprised me by all of a sudden brushing my toes). The best, though, was a laser show on the river, where they shot out water in fountains of different shapes and combined them with laser lights to make amazing shapes. It was very beautiful, and it was accompanied by ethereal music (which I usually like a lot). It was pretty awesome.
Sunday the 24th of February- I went to a type of conference (called "The Women's Hackathon") where some college students had been working for two whole days on two different projects. The first was a website that would potentially help girls mostly between the ages 12-14 that were taken by men that sold them for their bodies escape from these men (or, as the case might be women). The girls, if they could get their hands on an electronic device would be able to access the website and get advice on how to escape and where they could escape to. They could also figure where they were and even talk to someone live with a webchat. And on top of that, the second they accessed the website it would not be remembered on the history of the device automatically, so that the trafficker wouldn't know that she had accessed it.
The other project was to do with people that do sports on like mountains and things, and even if you're just doing jogging. They had first aid tips, global tracking/ directions, a call for help button, a heartbeat monitor, and other things. It is very important if you get into an emergency and there is nobody there to help you, or if someone with you gets into an emergency and you need to help them before help arrives.
Both teams did a good job, and later we had a dinner together.
Dates I missed:
We went on a little walk close to school and we took some pictures:

I thought this one was funny.

I thought this ivy on the wall looked all 2D and awesome.

This one wasn't from the walk, I woke up one day and the sun was rising and this tree looked totally awesome from the window, so I took a picture of it.
Saturday the 2nd of February- I got together with almost all my friends and we filmed a horror movie (I got killed because I accidentally fell off a bed and hit my head). It was really fun.
Onto the random picture!

No, that is not a picture. It is a digital drawing! It is by this girl on Deviant Art named Feverpaint and she is SUPER good. She has tons of other awesome drawings.