Fires and Rain, but who is to blame?

Hi guys!
it's been a week with a lot going on in whole of australia. i take it that you've heard about the bushfires that were and some still are mainly in victoria which is not where i live. many people lost their lifes and houses in the fires and it was a horrible thing to happen. and now so short after the fires there are floods pretty close to where i live. i mean can you believe that? fires and floods within a couple of days! here in forster it's pretty much impossible to get floods so it's no problem here. although it does affect your daily habits because you just can't go to the beach or do sports outside and things like that and especially on weekends this is very unlucky. lots of ways to donate money were going on and are still running. at school there were collections and the cricketers auctioned their shirts and all sorts of things like that. for example tomorrow at my school there is a teachers auction so you bid money for a teacher who then is your slave for the day and the money is donated to the victims of the fires. finally it's payback time for some teachers ;-) .
last week not much was on because from thursday on it would just rain pretty much for the whole day. so no golf no beach and no cricket or soccer. so i'll skip the weekend where the only real thing was the win of australia in cricket against the kiwis. on monday it was rotary time in the evening and it was as usual really good and i really enjoy going there because of the people and also because there's always people speaking about something..last monday it was someone from the local council and he spoke about the wetlands nearby and how a couple of years ago there had been so much litter and all sorts of things and the nature was dying and that something had to be done. so he started a project and this is now succeeding and he sounded really confident that he can help the environment by doing this. also i spoke to a guy from rotary called noel and he does deep sea fishing and he said he'll take me out sometime to go fishing for crabs with him. i'm really looking forward to that and hope that maybe some more people from the club will think of showing me their profession. i can go on the boat with him sometime next week or the one after. speaking of fish that was the meal at the meeting and guess what??!!!i liked it!well sorta i didn't love it so don't get too enthusiastic mom ;-)
on tuesday i had a quite special day at school because the captains of the school introduce us at the assembly and i had to go and speak. so on monday evening after rotary i prepared something and thought that it would go okay the next day...but : on tuesday they told me that i should just say something in my language which made the whole thing too easy to be true but hey i didn't complain! i thought of all sorts of things i could say since nobody would understand me but ended up with thanking them for the way that they integrate me in the school life and that they take care of me and so on.....
today was casual wednesday and i went to school for two hours and then headed back home.i watched a bit of NHL and the played some soccer outside but not for very long because it's no fun crossing the ball when you have to go and get it yourself.so i basically just waited for maddie to come home and since it stopped raining today we played cricket. if it wouldn't have rained the whole time i could've gone to the beach but at them moment the waves are just insane! i don't think it would be good to go out on your own right now.....
as soon as the surf (australian = the sea) calms down a bit i will have two private surf teachers that do some of their courses together with me. i really like that and hope that they succeed in their mission:
making me a surfer(that's their own words!)
so that's pretty much all for the moment.... ah no i signed up for soccer today and training starts next week and i'm really looking forward to that.
coming up:
-thursday : golf and school
- friday : school
-saturday : steve and lisa go to a wedding, maddie and nat stay with grandparents and i stay with a rotarian who has a son in my age
sunday : beach (i hope!)