Christmas Day!

The day finally came! however i was woken up at 6am. :( but none the less it was a good day. The kerwin's relatives all came over for lunch. so we had a big feast for that. then in the evening the 5 of us were invited to go to the symons for dinner. So we all went there, and there were also their friends fran and gary and their kids. So there were 14 of us all together. It was great we got to go swimming on christmas! that was great! Even though we went swimming it wasn't as hot of a day as christmas normally was. it was about 70. normally its about 90. so when we were in the pool i kept jumping back and forth forth from the pool part to the hot tub part. since its joint and theres just a wall between it. That night i spent my first night at their house. The kerwins all went home but i had stayed and then the next day they came and picked me up.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve seemed like a normal day and seemed a lot like how it does in America. For me it always goes by so slowly until the night. We went to Christmas Eve service at the church and then we came home and watched the Christmas carols in Melbourne on the tv. my next host sister Alice was singing in it. she has sung in that choir for many many years now.

Candle Light Christmas Carols

Tonight at 9 the town had their annual candle light Christmas carols. basically the town gets together and sings christmas carols. and a few people sing. I was asked to sing, so i went and sand oh come all ye faithful. and they introduced me as the exchange kids from upstate NY, well a bit different then that but they mentioned that. The newspaper guy took a ton of photos when i was singing. then later on. zoe and i were laying singing the carols and using these glow candle things that we got as light. And the photographer came and got a photo. Susan said she think's well be front page of next weeks newspaper! :D we'll find out! It was amazing the fact that after the carols we got to see fireworks! its the 23rd of December and were seeing fireworks!!! and it was 90 degrees at 10:30at night still! thats insane!

Past Friday

So this past friday Zoe and i took the bus to shepparton where we shopped till we dropped. Literally. We shopped all day. got these matching robes, shorts, and flipflop slippers. It was great! we got ice-cream, tons of food, and we were in target and seriously we dropped. we saw a bench and just got there and sat there. were soooo buggered.

The Tarp is MELTING!!!!

So today Zoe, Kyra and i were on our way to subway. And when we crossed the street our shoes were getting stuck to the ground. we had to wait to get across the second half of the street. and we were stepping fast so we dont stick. then we ran across, since i was wearing thongs(flip fops) zoe was wearing sandals and kyra was wearing crocs, they all would stick easily. unfortunally subway was closed. so we had to go to the supermarket and get chocolate instead.

3rd Host Family

The time is coming, i cannot believe it either! but i'm moving to my 3rd host family in 2 weeks. There is a bit more time to send letters or whatever to this family, but in a week dont send it to this one, You'll need to send it to my 3rd family. Just ask for the address and i'll give it to you.

Holidays!

it feels so weird to be on summer break in December! but its kinda great! i get 2 months off of school! :D but i've been staying busy hanging out with the family, Friends. Etc.

Last weekend i went to my friends house for the night, and we had heaps of fun, then the following day we went to the tatura horse races. My first horse race! we got all dressed up and went and it was a blast. but it was very hot! and we were out all day! In the evening we went to my friends house and we went swimming the channel for a bit, then had tea at her house. It was a great weekend to start the holidays!

The following weekend i went to Shepparton to visit my friend Lisa who is an exchange student from Sweden . We had lots of fun went around the town, went swimming and just hung out. On that monday we meet up with Anja and Will who are two other exchange students. Anja is from switzerland and Will is a rebound who went to Denmark last year. But he is right now Anja's host family. We went bowling and i did terrible. Absolutely terrible but it was still good fun, and we went on a horse drawn carriage ride, and went shopping a bit. Just hung out. We ran into an outbound who is going to france so she later joined us and we all hung out. Sadly i had to go home, but it was a good weekend.

Kaikoura

Well as you may guess i'm not in Kaikoura any more, i haven't been for over 2 weeks now. but i've been very bad at getting time for my blog and so now i'm writing about it.

well when we were in Kaikoura the weather was terrible and since kaikoura is such an outdoor area, and everything is done outside, there wasn't all that much for us to do. Somehow we did manage to find enough for a days worth. We went on a tour of a cave, we went to a winery tour of a bruery that was built inside a cave. We went to this small house that was turned into a musume. We went shopping a bit in the town. went to a really good cafe! and both night we had dinner we went to this restruant which i cant remember the name, but it was really really yummy! that sunday we woke up early, packed up and went right to the airport. It was about a 2 hr drive to get there. And then when we checked in we had a bit of time so we went to the Qantas club lounge room again! it was great! lots of food and drinks and such. We got home safely, then drove home and by the time we got back it was a bit after 9.