Arriving

I'll probably write some more about the journey at some point but this entry is going to cover my time with our first host club of Coomera River. Our hosts and some representatives from District came to greet us as we disembarked from the Plane with flowers and banners and tinny holders or the boys. Slightly after us another group of GSE students were arriving from the Middle East so some of our welcome committee had to run off and meet their plane.

I was billeted with Deborah and Stewart who are the parents of the president of Coomera River Midday Zoe. Coomera River is the youngest club in Australia having only been set up in November and they also have the youngest president in Zoe who is 27.

One our arrival we had the chance to quickly dump our luggage and head off to the Nurminbah Valley where we were told we would have to give our presentation which we were expecting to do until the following day.

The presentation seemed to go down quite well, I couldn't see anyone yawning and we manged to show everything that we couldn't at the district meeting due to over running. I think the changes have helped but I feel like there's still some more polishing I could do.

After that we met a 6 foot python who hadn't been fed for 6 months and for some silly reason we all decided to pose with her round our necks! Luckily her owner was nearby and she didn't wrap herself too tightly round my neck.

That evening we decided to forgo the early night and go for a walk round the natural arch where we got to visit the glow worms, in their little cave it looked a bit like Santa's grotto.