During the holidays I went over to the Gold Coast in Australia. I was only there for 5 days, but the weather was lovely and hot and I could go for a long walk along the beach front every morning. Because Australian time is three hours behind New Zealand, I was waking up very early in the mornings. I went over to see my Father-in-law as he is almost 89 years old and lives in a retirement village, so we went out to see him every day. We had to do a lot of shopping as he did not have many clothes. That meant that I saw lots of lovely clothes for me too. I did buy some but not very many.
The worst part of the holidays for me was the cold weather when we came back. I found it hard to get out of my cosy bed every morning and go and do some painting of the house. Fortunately we were painting inside, so the rain outside was not too bad. Paint needs to be warm in order to dry properly, so we had to put on a heater during the day.
I am pleased to be back at school again now as I can see all my friends and I love working with my group of students from the senior school. We are going to have some fun times exploring other programmes this term, and getting our blogs looking very attractive for others to want to read.
