The Buenemann Adventure: Life in Australia

The Buenemann Family

As you may or may not know, we recently have moved to Perth, Western Australia. We have been here a little over a month now and we are getting settled in our new home and our daily routines.

Jason is busy chasing work and "building relationships" with other companies. Hoping to get more work lined up here in Australia. Jason's work contract is only for a year but our visa's are for,four years. We are hoping the company finds enough work so we stay here the four full years. We are ready to be settled for a while. Three moves in the past four years is enough for us.

The city of Perth

We got the girls into a Catholic School here, near our home in Wanneroo. Hailey is in Year 3 (3rd grade) and Jayden is in Pre Primary(kindergarten). They are loving their new school and life here in Australia. The girls go to school, 5 days a week and are at school from 8:30am to 2:50pm. We have Hailey in a after school program playing soccer, so she can spend time with her new friends after school and of course have fun. We also have both of the girls in Grasshopper Soccer. Grasshopper Soccer works on soccer skills and gets your confidence level up. Jayden is the only girl in her group and loves it! Hailey is in an all girls group called "Girl Power". Hailey is enjoying Grasshopper Soccer as well.

Girls seeing the ocean for the first time.

As for me I am busy keeping the house running smoothly and running the girls back and forth to school. I have been exploring all the shopping malls and trying to figure out how everything is ran here.
Everything is different here. Even going to the grocery store. They price meat and veggies by the kilogram. Thank goodness for my handy dandy app on my iPhone that tells me how much per pound everything is, otherwise I would be lost.
The money here is also different. All the bills are different colors and the smallest bill is a five. Then you have coins for two dollars,one dollar, 50 cents, 20 cents, 10 cents, and 5 cents but no pennies. They round everything up to the nearest cent or dollar,so you don't need pennies.
Going to Mcdonald's (Maccer's) is also different. In America everything is super sized. Here with your combo meal you get a drink that is a size of a small back is the US. They don't put mayo on their chicken sandwiches they put a balsamic vinegar on it. Weird but tasty.

Here are some pictures of some our adventures so far.
The girls have seeing the ocean and played on the beach for the first time. We went to a wildlife park and the girls got to feed kangaroos and pet kola bears. On Mother's Day we went to the Perth Zoo. We got to see all sorts of animals that we would never have seen in the US.