Whats been hapenin....

i havent blogged in ages and but here i go trying to tell yous whats been going on...

well after the holidays had ended i started school again which was okay to see what everyone had got up to but after a very short time i missed the getting up late..on friday after the holidays i went to gloucester to visit my host family's son anthony who took me to his work place. he is a manager of a coal mine called gloucester coal. i have never been to a coal mine so it was quite interesting to see whats happening. the area was huge and so was the coal piling up on a huge hill waiting to be transported away to newcastle where it is further processed.
we stayed at his place for the night and the next day he showed me all the cattle that he has. he doesnt have a lot and most australians would call him a hobby farmer.
on sunday i played soccer against one of the top teams called taree. we lost 1-0 which was sort of unnecessary but we didnt take it too seriously.
then the weekend after i was supposed to go to sydney to visit my host sister nicole but she had to go to canberra so i didn't go. i played soccer again and sadly another defeat which burried our hopes for making the finals. the good thing about that is that we then just started muckin around in soccer.
now this last weekend i just spent in the blue mountains where we stayed with my host father's sister who lives in blaxland. about an hour out of sydney. on friday arvo we went down and then on saturday we went to an enagement party of my hosts nephew. in the evening we then went to the panthers club to have dinner with some friends. the panthers club is great and huge. the panters are a footy team called the penrith panthers. then sunday we went to visit some of the "mountains". its rather just driving up a hill and then looking down and saying yeah we are pretty high up. but instead of mountains on top of the hill the hill is the mountain.
then yesterday i went to rotary which was a pretty special one. first they told me that they had bought four paves that will be part of a pathway leading to one of the beaches and that they would like to ingrave my name in them. i decided to put my name,hometown,dates that i was here and the logo of rotary youth exchange on them. this is a very nice gesture from my rotary club that will make me stay a part of forster even when i leave.then there was also a part i didnt really like that much but i almost expected it. they told me that i could not go visit my host sister by myself in sydney. which is fair enough because she is only 19 and lives with her boyfriend alone in sydney. i obviously didnt like it but knew that they of course had a point for not letting me go. another member then offered to take me down to sydney the same weekend i was going to go in september. this wont be the same but of course i appreciate the offer and said yes. i will now just catch up with my host sister when she comes up to forster again.

so this is pretty much everything that happened lately in a few words....my plans now are going on my district tour for about 10 days from saturday on. this will be great and i finally get to meet all the new exchangies. then a few days after i move to my new host family from which i only know brian lidbury my host dad so far but i know it will be good. thats about all for the moment. i will definately blog more often again from now on. the only thing that kept me from bloging was that i couldnt use the internet very often.

cheers