Bonjour! ... Unfortunately.

I’m back again.
Back to shitty Brisbane.

I remember one time when I was talking to one of my friends in Mount Beauty about Brisbane and he remarked “You really don’t like Brisbane, do you?” No, I really don’t! And I especially don’t after spending the last three weeks in Victoria. If all my friends and family weren’t in Brisbane, trust me, I would already be gone.

Anyway.

The last three weeks would have to be a few of the best weeks of my life. I can’t believe that I was ever worried about going down! This year was 100 times better than last year, and I thought last year was absolutely brilliant! This year we were “initiated” into the Mount Beauty group. I became such good friends with everyone, especially Holly. Holly and I are like two peas in a pod! The things we got up to! Jumping off logs and concrete into the river, swimming down the shallow rapids from the spillway, running around, admiring the HOT runners, making friends with the HOT runners, laughing, joking, exploring, having icing sugar fights, running up and swimming down the river 25 times in a row; basically just getting up to mischief and practically being inseparable. We were the crazy twins who did everything first and had a ball doing it! She was my other half while I was down there, my other crazily insane half, and I know I’m going to miss her a lot.

As for everyone else, well you know I’m going to miss you an unbelievable amount as well. When you live with a group of people for almost three weeks straight, doing everything with them, spending that much time with them, it creates a bond which is hard to break and hard to replicate under different circumstances. The things we did together: numerous trips to Charcoal Chicken and Treats, swimming in the river, going down on the li-los, throwing the wooboba ball, making the two hour trip down the river to Towonga, going to the waterhole, jumping from trees, watching a large number of movies, walking into town, hanging out in the TV room, “That’s mad!”, sleeping out under the stars, talking around the table for hours on end, listening to music, going down from the spillway, all of us getting incredibly brown from all the time we were spending outside, and basically just enjoying each other’s company. So thank-you to Tom, Big Sarah, Holly, Tiylar, Bec, Teague, Ruairidh, Callum, Fred, Tayla, Sarah, Zoe, Josh and Nathan, Sharly-May and Keibie, the runners and York, Ben and Stephen, even though I didn’t get to know you guys very well, and anyone else who made my time in Mount Beauty the best ever.

J'ai appris beaucoup, encore une fois. Je sais que ma famille et moi a beaucoup plus étroites, après avoir passé tellement de temps en compagnie des uns et des autres. J'ai changé une fois de plus, bien entendu ; comment vous n'a pas pu changer ?

I have decided that I absolutely love making new friends. The amount of new friends I made! People who I had never talked to before, people who I enjoyed so much getting to know! I love the unknown and meeting new people is like an adventure in a way. I’ve changed so much from the shy Steph who wouldn’t talk to any strangers, and thank god for that too, because I really didn’t like her very much.

There are so many things I want to say here; some the words won’t come and others can’t be said. I know once again, that I had a wonderful time and it was certainly three weeks well spent. I’m glad that we shall be going again next year, because I loved spending time with my friends there. I shall miss you guys, very much, until next time. I do love you all, and already I miss you very much.

p.s. je sais qu'ici j'ai seulement dit les bonnes choses. Mais le pire vous manquait. J'ai manqué vous chaque seconde de chaque jour. J'ai dit à de nombreuses reprises, si vous étiez bas ici et temps pourrait être suspendu, je serais la plus heureux personne sur terre.