My Birthday

Last week, on Sunday, I turned twelve! Mum wasn't home, so I got 3 presents. My grandmother gave me the book "Danny the champion of the world", Dad gave me some fishing lure making stuff and Summer gave me a little case full of random stuff like sand-paper and bulbs.

Visiting!!!!!!!!!!!

On the 5th of July, I went to see my best friend, Arved and his german family near Murchison (they speak both German and English). When we were at the gate, we stopped and got out, because the car had to go through a small fjord. Arved, Alexander and Arthur were all waiting at the gate for us to arrive.
When we had got our bags out of the car, Mum drove off to go to Christchurch with Coral, to check out the university there, as she has almost finished school.
At Arved's place, there was a frost every day. Since it was so cold, all the outside taps froze, and the water just refused to come out! All the ponds froze, and one of them was even thick enough to skate on with our gumboots.
On the 6th of July, it was Arved's birthday, and he got lots of presents. One of them was the new Monopoly and we played it that night. The new monopoly is MUCH more complicated than the old one, and is quite challenging. For Arved's birthday, I carved a small giraffe out of wood. Arved also got Ice Age 3 "Dawn of the Dinosaurs" and we watched it 3 times in English and once in German. It was sad when I had to leave on the 16th of July. I wish I could have stayed for half a year!

New term :-(

It is the new term today, and I wish that it was still the holidays! I wonder what this term's topic is? I hope it is something more fun than the Enterprise thingy. I think something like the Stuctures and Mechanisms thingy would be fun. I suppose that I will only get to know the term topic on tuesday, when the Annoucements come up.