Larry and Johanna are our program directors for the trip. We found out that Johanna's birthday was coming up soon and we decided that we should make her cheese cake for her birthday and Larry said he would make sure that she was at their flat when we needed her to be and that he wouldn't ruin the surprise. We decided to do it after our Australian History class on Friday - we'd go and pick up the cheesecake after our walking tour (probably the 3rd one of Freo but it was in class and we weren't going to complain that we got to leave the class room) and then head to their flat from there.
On the Wednesday beforehand a group collected money from all the CSBSJU students and went shopping for ingredients. Then on Thursday Juhaan (only person who had made cheesecake before) and a few of us actually made the cakes. I made the crusts for both and I must say, I make an excellent chocolate cheesecake crust. One of the cakes was white chocolate and one was chocolate.
Don't worry Mom, I know that their UV is much stronger than ours and I put sunscreen on like four times and only got a little bit pink!
This is Brooke also - this is time number 6 trying to get a picture where she is looking, not drinking water, and not choking on said water.
The view as we left in the evening. (This was supposed to come after the next picture but I couldn't get it to switch with it. So the after picture is coming before the before picture...)
These are the delicious things that we carried over to the flat. :)
So all 13 of us trooped over to their flat and then realised that we didn't have a plan for what to say if it was Johanna that buzzed us in...We made Maddie push the buzzer and when Johanna answered we all whispered things to say and she ended up saying something like "Hi, I was just in the area and thought I'd come by and say hi...". Johanna tried to buzz her in but it didn't work so she (thank goodness) sent Larry to come down and let us in. We all went up the 6 flights of stairs and as we walked into their place we started singing Happy Birthday! This was her reaction:
She teared up a little, just like Larry said she would. Oh and the paper she is holding is the card that Rachel had made that we all signed. Then we took some group pictures before cutting into the cake.
This is almost all of us in the best picture that I have of it.
Needless to say it was a complete success! She loved the cakes and we loved them too! We left there to head to Cottesloe beach!!
The beach was about a 10min train ride away and then a five-10min walk from the train station to the actual beach. It was beautiful!!! The water was cold but once you were in you kind of went numb and it didn't matter anymore haha. We played frisbee, keep the ball out of the water while standing in the water and getting hit by waves that are almost as tall as we are, snacked, and just relaxed on THE BEACH!
This is right after we set up before the waves picked up. :)
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