thewills\’wanderings

Well at last we are here! Right now I’m sitting in the Nerang Public Library using their internet for free.(You’re supposed to have a library card but the nice man let me have an hour on a courtesy card.) The timeshare internet is being upgraded so we couldn’t use it today.

Yesterday was great. The kid’s loved the flight and because it was only 3 hours long and they all had their own tv screen and food, it was very stress free. The fact that Charlotte sat in the row in front with Tim and Ashleigh had nothing to do with my relaxing flight.(hehe!)

We drove to our timeshare, swam in the pool, had an early dinner and all crashed! We were woken by the VERY loud laughing kookaburras which sent all of us into fits of laughter, only problem being that it was 4.45am! Our body clocks told us it was 7.30 so we were up and into it.  The kids were even doing maths work by 7.30!(don’t worry, I know the novelty will wear off!)

We spent the rest of today looking at car salesyards, getting our bank account sorted and swimming at Surfers, where the water was so warm! The temperature has been quite bearable, 29degrees with a warm wind.

Well, I must go before the nice man tells me my time is up. I’m off to the supermarket to get supplies for dinner. It’s quite a challenge on a tight budget, food is expensive here……………….(I can almost here the girls yelling, please mum NO MORE SAUSAGES!) I’ll see what I can do, I did see some kangaroo mince yesterday!)

by Maddie (aged 9)

Guess what we’re doing? We’re going around the world.   Well not exactly the world, but to quite a lot of countries. There are lots of things I am  excited about and these are some of them. First of all I’ve never been on a plane or to a different country so I can’t  wait to do that.  Another thing I’m excited about  is that we’re going to Australia and the waters there are warmer than New Zealand’s water. I hope I won’t get stung by a jellyfish or stingray.

It’s also really cool that we get to see poorer countries and will get to help out in some places we go. We will get to see our sponsor child Samreth when we visit Cambodia.  She’s the same age as me, I wonder what she’ll be like.

 It will be cool but kind of weird to have Mum and Dad as our teachers.

I am looking  forward to eating yum thai food and a  bit scared about the food I don’t like. I hope I don’t have to eat spiders.

It will be awesome that I will get to spend more time with  my family, especially Dad. He will not have to go away for work like he usually does!

I’m a bit sad that I won’t get to play in any sports teams for the year but guess what dad said?  He said we have to go for a run every morning. I don’t think Mum will be very motivated though.

It will get very hot in Asia so I’m not that excited about that.

I’m going to miss all of my friends but hope they’ll e-mail me and look at this blog.

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