It's finally getting spring here! Last weekend, we were around Blenheim and went to the Japanese Gardens. It's really nice there. A little drive further away there's a little lovely lake. My host sister wanted me to take a swim but she fortunately didn't manage to throw me into the water :-)

 The landshape here is really interesting. We drove along on a road which suddenly turned in a stony path. Honestly, it was like in the wild west...

Now that I've been away from home for already more than six whole weeks, I feel home here in Blenheim. The dialy routine is here again but I'm not bored! Here are so many things I've never seen or heard of and I want to get to know. School is different here, we only have five lessons a day and we usually leave home at eight o'clock in the morning. That's great, isn't it?  ;-)

Unfortunately my cell phone isn't working properly anymore, so I bought a blue, touchscreen camera on Monday to take photos :-) The next day I already used it because there was a ski and snowboard competition in the mountains, at the Rainbow Skifields. The day was awesome, it was quiet warm and the sun was shining the whole day. The only problem was that we didn't win anything, the slalom was icy, so I fell and got disqualified. The most beautiful view was certainly this one...can you see the loveheart?

If you hear a noise outside in the noon here, it's the icecream-bus. Haha I had one with pink Sherbet. The man who selled it thaught all Swiss were blond and was very confused :-P Generally the icecream in New Zealand is just delicious, so I'm having my second for today now... Tonight I played the cornet at a concert in town with the Junior Brass Band, it was fun although it was difficult to follow sometimes because I haven't played the songs before... Now I'm watching TV with my host family and soon going to bed. I'm really nacked. Have a good day in Switzerland, and good night in Aotearoa! xoxo to all of you