Emelie's+Visit

Hi, My name is Emelie Korse and I have been in Australia as an exchange student since the 31st of July 2010. I am going back to my home country Sweden early in May this year but I hope I will make it back here one day. When I first came to Australia I never thought I would have the opportunity to come all the way to //Mimili community// to experience their life, school, nature and culture. My host family's neighbour in Cape Jervis - Christine the principal of Mimili's school - was the one who invited me here. I and my host parents arrived to Mimili two days ago on Sunday the 20th of March. The cool weather and the green ground surprised me, big time. I thought the central of Australia was supposed to be orange and hot? It has been a good rain season for them though, and I probablly would have collapsed if it was to hot here.

After my first two days in school I have met many of the students and they are absolutely lovely. Yesterday I played ball in the pool with two kids after school finished. They are very welcoming and have also taught me some of their language Pitjantjatjara. It is //very// difficult to pronounce I reckon, because they use a different tounge - technique than I am used to. I imagine how hillarious it must have been for them today when they listened to me trying to have a simple conversation with Christine using the sentences they just taught me. They were simple sentences like "Hi, my name is Emelie", "What is your name?", "How are you?", Where are you from?", etc.

I am looking forwars for the next comming days!