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hello everyone!

like my new blog? i'm not quite that happy with it but its getting there.... so what i've been up to?hmmm... the holidays started on friday last week so i havent been in school for a while which is a pretty good thing. at the end of last week lyns daughter and her boyfriend came up from sydney and spent the weekend here. they showed me around a bit and we went for a drive on saturday and sunday. on saturday we went to wingham which is where pats parents live. pat is the boyfriend of nicole who is lyns daughter. so near wingham we went to this forest and there weer heaps of fruit bats there. htey sleep during the day just like every other bat so you got a pretty good look at them. i might post some picures or might not depends on how lazy i am...and trust me holidays make you lazy! but this doesnt mean that i dont do anything it just means i only do what i feel like doing... anyways so we went there and also went to the longest single drop waterfall in the southern hemisphere...or something like that. well it was big thats the main thing......
after that i went bowling with nicole and pat in forster just before we had dinner. it was good fun and everyone won once although nicole used what they call the bumpers...a plastic edge at the side of the gutter so the ball cant go down....this helped her quite a bit so pt and i had no choice but to lose ...
on sunday we drove by wingham again where we dropped off pat and then went on to go for a drive to a beach somewhere and also to a light house. it was nice weather so it was a good day...

then on monday it was no rotary because of easter monday, duh :-) ......
on tuesday it was soccer practice and now i'm starting to get my game experience that i need so i think i should be in the starting eleven for sure when season starts on the 2nd of may... cause mate you like it or not but i represent switzerland not only in school but also on the soccer field so i have to show them hoe bloody good we are aye!!

on wednesday i went to paddy burn's place to go fishing with him and his grand kids. i think they were called...cameron and something else..they were really nice. i caught two fish but they were both too small so they were illegal to keep but paddy caught two others that were big enough. one was 37 cm so that was a pretty good one. better to look at than to eat for dinner thats what i figured at dinner table but yeah... "sorta" starting to like it.
on thursday i went to pick up vini from taree. he is an exchange student from brazil staying in coffs harbour which is about five hours from forster. he caught a train in coffs and was in taree at 11 or something... in the arvo we went body boarding at tuncurry beach. BAD IDEA!! when we got there some surfers and scuba divers were just coming out of the water. we went in and the waves were okay but not that great almost a bit too big for us non-locals...
when we got out about one and a half hours later a woman walked up to us and asked us if we knew that there had been a shark exactly where we were boarding but about, yes you guessed it, one and a half hours ago. scuba divers had seen it and recognized it as a bronze whaler. a shark that is usually around 2-3.5 meters long. VERY CREEPY!! luckily we didnt have any rendez-vous scheduled with that creature so we got away nice and easy with an aftershock...
on friday we went body boarding at one mile beach in forster where the waves were now getting outrageously big. just for you notice the biggest waves were just around 5.8 meters. now imagine that in front of you while lying flat on a board and seeing the curl on the top of the wave and then realize its going to dump straight on you. happend to vini and me once each and trust me after that experience you just want to get out of the water and never go back in... but if you stay in you recover quite quickly because you dont have ANY time to think about other things than estimating what the next wave is going to be like....
that day me and vini were in the water for almost 4 hours and caught 2 very big waves each. barrels are the nicest thing you can experience in the surf when its pumping like it was! caught two of those each and then after four hours of swimming in the freezing cold water we went home and were pretty much what you could call "dead meat"....
on saturday we went to forster main beach where the surf is usually calmer than at tuncurry beach or one mile...and so it was. thank god! my feet had huge blisters but hey...gotta get on the horse again right??!! in the evening it was party time and we went to bens house. the fact that we knew that we could stay there for the night was very pleasing. the party was good. not big but still heaps of fun.
on sunday we slept in until after 12.30...so much for the party having been good or not :)
we didnt do too much but then went to forster main beach again and spent little time in the water but much more climbing rocks and then making videos of surfers catching pretty big waves. some pictures in the slide show on the side of this blog at the top are made from the rocks there...
and then today it was the worst weather day all weekend (i do know that its monday)...we didnt do too much at all but check out some beaches but the surf was too muddy and messy so we didnt go in. we wanted to go play tennis but it rained all day so we couldnt do that... and then a few hours ago we went to rotary and then came home and this is where i am now. this must be my longest post so far so congrats if you actually made it all the way through!!

i am still experimenting with some gadgets that i can add to the blog.....so dont be astonished if everything keeps changing for a while....