School is going really well. I’m still having lots of fun and TODAY we WENT to THE  quai BRANLY museum HERE  in PARIS.

 Recently I joined the INTERNATIONAL MAC PODCAST blog team (www.impodcast.tv) and that’s been really great.

CHEESE!

PIE!

I think that I should stop now

It’s like a giant construction site. There are heaps of cranes and construction workers. Everyone is really polite.

We went to a big water park called Wild Wadi water park. It was very fun but kind of cold.

Today, with friends dad, we did some shooting with an air rifle. Out on their deck, we shot little pallets at water bottles and play dough things. I now know why people like to shoot at things. It’s fun.

I am really tired. Tomorrow we will be selling home made lemonade on the beach. We’ve got all of the ingredients we just need to make it.

Photos may come at a later date.

Merry day!

To get to the church, you have to walk up some big stairs. As we went up the stairs we saw that there were some young African men who were going up to people and trying to sell them little bracelet thingys.

The way that they sell them is really clever. First they select their victim. They then wlak up to them and start tying their small braid bracelet to your finger while trying to engage in a conversation. If you try to walk away they start shooting shouting at you, dragging you into the guilt trap. Apparently they charge about 5€!! ($10).

Thankfully we didn’t get caught but it was quite interesting to see how it works.

I was sitting in the lunchroom and someone walked in. I shouted “Happy Birthday” and started singing the birthday song. Within a few seconds, several other people had joined me in singing. Everyone from the class next door rushed in and started hugging me, saying “Happy Birthday. They thought it was my birthday.

And guess what. It wasn’t even anyone’s birthday.

The first party was on Friday night. It was supposed to be a Christmas party but there wasn’t really anything to do with Christmas. It was really fun. There was a lot of screaming and shouting (not by me, of course). I left early to go to a thanksgiving dinner at a friends place. I was up until 11:15!

The second party was last night. It was a birthday party for someone in my class. It was my first time on the Metro alone (well, actually I wasn’t alone. There were lots of other people who I didn’t know on the train). The trip was fine because it was only 3 stops and then I got out to go to Mr. Thanksgiving’s house. Once I liaised with Mr. Thanksgiving, we (Mr. Thanksgiving and I and Mr. Thanksgiving’s mum) went off to the party. At the party, it was mostly dancing to really loud music — and eating pretzels. On the way home we (Mr. Thanksgiving and I) took a taxi because it was late.

And because of all of this, I’m tired.

Also, today was my sister’s birthday party. We had 20 little people running around the Party room (which is downstairs in the Australian building). For the first 20 minutes I was the “Welcome wagon”. We did games like Musical Statues, Duck Duck Goose, Musical Carpets (like Musical Chairs, but with small squares of carpet) and Captain’s Coming. For the last 15 minutes I was the farewell wagon too.

Today was really fun but tiring. *yawn*.