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Yes, well I’ve been slow to update my Jogger lately.

A lot has happened in the 2 and a bit months since I did last update it. We are already onto the 4th week of the school term. Time is going a little too fast for my liking! I’m back at Box Hill Senior Secondary College and finally doing year 12. The subjects that I chose to do are (call me suicidal if you wish!):
English (Duh!)
Maths Methods
Specialist Maths
Physics
VET Cisco Networking

Christmas was nothing special except I do love my turkey and all the chocolate and other presents that people give me. Christmas Eve was good since we went out for a barbeque next to the Yarra with Tim and his girlfriend Effie. A few hours after we got home the dog was barking and as it turned out in the morning, Tim and Effie camped here (watch out for those tiger snakes in our back yard!).

The following Monday after Christmas I went camping with Tim and Effie. They’d just come from camping in Shepyard Flat so they met us in Lilydale and we took the backroads through the Dandenong Ranges to get out to Pakenham and then eventually onto the South Gippsland Hwy. At one point the road near Gembrook became really narrow to the point that if we were passing a car coming the other direction we had to slow right down and get halfway off the road.

Just before we arrived in Foster where we were staying, we travelled over some rolling hills before seeing an awesome view of Wilsons Promontory. I’d never expected to see the ocean with mountains behind it and it kind of disorientated me for a minute. Though it was kinda magical.

That night we setup camp and went off for dinner, hoping to have fish n chips on the beach, only to get to Port Franklin to find not a single shop and no beach! Just a little harbour. A local suggested that we try Toora so we set off there. As we approached we saw that there was a wind farm. It turned out to be on the hill behind Toora. It was pretty amazing but those 33m blades were pretty freaky. We ended up getting pizza instead of fish n chips, although the pizza place only could cook two at a time and we had to wait 40 minuets. Once we got our pizzas they ended up burnt!

The next day we went down to the Prom. It was pretty amazing the way there are all these boulders perched up on the hills. Not long after we were in the park enterance we saw a Wombat stumbling around on the side of the road. Once we got to Tidal River we decided to climb Mt Oberon. Once we were at the top we saw an echidna then we descended, had lunch and much of the day was over. On the way out we saw another wombat (or perhaps the same one).

New Years Eve was pretty quiet in Foster which wasn’t too much of a surprise since it’s only a small down with no attraction (except the fact that all the other camp grounds in the region were booked out). I’d hoped to go to Invelock but that didn’t happen.

The rest of the holidays were pretty eventless, although we did go back to the usual holiday house in Ocean Grove. I got sick of driving everyone around on the 3rd day and on the 4th day I went home while my mum stayed for the rest of the week.

Well now that school has started again (after having 2.5 months off) I’d better get back to doing some work!