the australian connection

hallo

ich muss einen brief schreiben über das buch *the australian connenection* also wir haben das buch bis zum 6.kapitel gelesen und wir müssen jetzt alex`s mutter schreiben was er alles gemacht hat .
also alex schreibt an seiner mutter.das hier sind die wichtigsten punkte in diesen kapitel . das natürlich in englisch

Chapter one: The trip of a lifetime


-Alex passes his exam and he has a deal with his mother that he can travel wherever he wants to go if he passes his exam
-He want to travel to Australia because his father lives there and he wants to meet him
-Before he must work in a factory to collect money for his trip


Chapter two: Hello Australia


-Alex has worked in the factory a few month and has collected enough to fly to Australia
-He flies 38 hours
-Arrives in Australia at the airport and meets his father’s family where Alex lives the next months
-Meets his wife Mary and his two sons Dominic (6 years old) and Luke (3 years old)
-Tom Connell (his father) is on a business trip in London
-The next day Alex, Mary, Luke and Dominic go to Bondi Beach
-At home Alex meets Dani, she lives next door
-Dani tells him that she plays in a band (“The Beat Crew”) and they search for a bass guitarist
-Alex can play the bass well and so he is a member in “The Beat Crew” now


Chapter three: The island and the mountain


-Tom can’t arrive before the 17th January
-So Alex does not wait on Tom and spends the next week in Adelaide with Mary’s brother
-Mary’s brother’s son is 18 like Alex and he has 3 younger sisters
-As he drives to this brother he looks all the time out of the window and admires the wonderful country
-Next day he travels with Kevin to Kangaroo Island
-when they arrive they see a lot wild animals there, it is very exiting for Alex
-The next days they look at many sights there for example underground caves and they snorkel for sunken shipwrecks
-They lie in the sun to chill in the Blue Lagoon
-After some wonderful days they drive back home and the same day they go with the Williams (Kevin’s family) in the amphitheatre in Flinders Rangers
-It’s in the Outback and so they must drive a long distance
-So Alex sees very much of the Outback there
-Then next day, Kevin and Alex climb on St. Mary’s Peak(big mountain) which is 1190 meters high
-After a wonderful week with the Williams family Alex returns to Sydney to the Connells ( his father’s family)



Chapter four: The big decision


-As Alex arrives at Sydney his father is not at home
-He must travel to Singapore
-So Alex plays with the band one week and he sees a lot of the country because they play all over the land
-There first concert is in Melbourne, they play in a club named “Angelos”
-The members of the band are Pete, Joe, Dani, Alex and Terry
-“The Beat Crew” have many engagements, mostly in discos and clubs where they play only some gigs, around the Phillip Islands
-Alex fallen in love with Dani and so he kisses Dani, now they are a couple
-The band must drive to the other side of the island, to Summerland Beach (they have more engagements there)
-Alex and Dani want to meet at Byron Bay but they haven’t got any free time because the band job is hard and there is always hectic
-They must always play gigs and learn new songs
-Alex is very angry about his father because he isn’t it Australia when Alex wants to see him


Chapter five: The face in the crowd


-the Beat Crew travels back to Sydney but the problem is a puncture (in the tyre)
-the spare tyre is also flat and they haven’t got a foot pump
-And so Terry walks back to a garage which they saw an hour ago
-The jack is broken, too
-Their fortune is that another car driver stops and helps them but a bit later they hit a cow and something is destroyed at the car
-But a trucker meets them and helps them but he wants 200 dollar for his help
-The band hasn’t got any choice, they pay it and drive to Sydney where they must give gigs in Sabrina’s Bar
-After these gigs all the spectators scream, it is a very good entrance and Alex meets his father in this club, too


Chapter six: Into the rain forest


-Alex talks with his father Tom a long time in the club
-Tom is sorry that he hasn’t got any contact with Alex all the time
-He wants to have a trip to Queensland with Alex only
-But Alex plans a trip to Bayron Bay with Dani, too
-But he drives with his father to Queensland where Alex looks all time out of the window and admires the country
-When they arrive there, they look sights and go for a walk in the rain forest
-The walk on top of Mount Sorrow and take a stop at the Great Barrier Rief