Australia is an amazing country, really opened to so many different cultures and with an amazing lifestyle. I lived in the city of Brisbane. I went to study a school year program of English as a second language.
It was a very long trip for me to arrive there. I spent 31 hours flying, in other words, more or less 2 days to arrive there where I really missed one day for the difference in the time zone. Thankfully, when I arrived there, I had one day to rest and get used to the new time zone, which was hard when I needed to call my parents. I had to do it extremely early in the morning or very late at night.
One of my favorite adventures there was going skydiving. I have always been very brave and fearless in having new experiences. When I saw the ads, it said that I could have 2 jumps for the price of one by jumping alone. I invited other classmates and said to myself that I'll do it and experienced it, so I was committed in jumping twice, however when we got into the plane (very small and light plane), I became a coward and asked somebody to jump with. The flight to get the right position and height for jumping made me be sure of my decision. I felt that anything could bring us down, it was so scary. On the other hand, I called my parent that day at 06:00 am -07:00am and they were not at home because it was Saturday night there, so I left them a message saying that I was jumping on a parachute and wish me luck. That was pretty stupid, I let them be worried about me the whole day.
When it was my turn to jump I had to put myself in position as I was doing nothing more than arching and the man that was jumping with me, he was who was doing the jump from the plane. When I got my first leg out, it was difficult to put myself in position with the speed at we were flying, and I guess the friction with air. I finally did it, so we jumped. The camera man was hanging from the wing of the plane waiting for our jump to film everything, because I hired him. I wanted to record that amazing experience.
Having free fall has been the most incredible feelings that I've ever experienced. I literally felt that I was flying. It was scary to see everything so tiny, but my jump had a happy ending. We landed perfect, I didn't brake any leg. So I went back home at 09:00 pm, my host mother was waiting for me all worried and when I got home I could finally call my parents and let them know that I was alright. My mom was angry with me, but she felt so relieved when she knew that I was okay.