Sorry!

Hi everyone!

Sorry this is like.. two months late. I've just been so busy having fun and getting set up here in Melbourne that I completely forgot about the fact that if I don't document this year, I will probably (knowing me) forget most of it.

So where to begin... how about we start at the very beginning (that's a very good place to start). My family and I arrived here about two months ago (I know this because I wrote one diary entry on the 20th of August before promptly forgetting to write any more). All I remember from when we got here was that it was cold and dark. This was very unpleasant because we'd been frolicking on a beach in LA only a day before. It didn't feel like Australia at all which was really sad, because I was so excited about coming to the country after having not been in about 5 years. We were bombarded with family almost immediately which was really nice and would preface the rest of the year, as I came to learn.

A few days after our arrival we began preparing for my cousin Jessica's Bat Mitzvah- my two brothers and I were going to play Pachelbel's famous Canon alongside Jessica at her party. Zak didn't have a cello so Leo and I had a couple rehearsals by ourselves. We then had one rehearsal all together and then it was the performance! We dedicated it to our grandma Nomsi. This was a lot of fun and Nomsi loved it :) . You can find the video of this on my Facebook wall.

The next day the whole family flew to Byron Bay for a holiday at my uncle Jonathan's beach house. We do this every time we come and we spend the days lazing on the sand, eating great food, being very familial (and occasionally performing for each other- this year my cousins and I made a cover of the famous Cup Song- found on my Facebook wall), and digging ginormous holes. Don't ask. We also had a surfing lesson and I managed to surf all the way to the shore!

This is me before I got covered in sand and saltwater. 

This is everyone concentrating really hard to learn how
to get up on the board.

After we got back from Byron my family left, and my gap year began! Since then, I've been teaching the violin, working at my uncle Michael's company, babysitting, assisting classes at the King David school, making friends, and seeing lots and lots of family. 

That's pretty much all the important stuff, and you can follow my blog for more pretty-much-the-important-stuff. 

Seeya soon,

Noa