Hey guys. Just updating you all to tell you that it’s still great here – honestly, how could it not be.

Yesterday, we had no school (even though it was blue skies and not snowing - I still don’t understand), so after lunch Charles and I decided to leave the house to get some fresh air. We were going to look at phone deals so I could set up my mobile here, and on the way to the shops we ran into Jean who had just got a hair cut! We got a coffee (a cappuccino over here is a coffee that has a gigantic mound of cream on top – Australia, we have so much to learn from these guys!) and then our hunt for a good phone deal began! Well, I kind of just followed them like a mute/deaf sheep while they talked to the phone people.

When we got home, we discovered that my phone is locked with Optus and I’d have to call optus from France to unlock it which is expensive yada yada yada... so I think I’m just going to get a super cheap, crap phone. gahh.

Then last night Julie - my sister - invited me to go to the cinema to see "shilokom" with her and her teacher. I accepted! But what the hell was "shilokom"? Sounds like a kids movie.... i sat there pondering for a bit...... and then it hit me! Sherlock Holmes! Sweet.
 The cinema was old and beautiful, and the guy who I bought my ticket off was young and beautiful... - but the movie was in French... oh well, I had a huge bucket of both sweet AND salty pop-corn so I was set for the 2 hours of mostly unknown dialogue.

The only negative i have had in the last 2 days was a bit of a security issue with my hotmail account last night. My account has been blocked because apparently someone had hacked it and is sending spam mail?!  So that is annoying. My step-dad Jeff has hopefully sorted it all out.

Yesterday, I was told there was no school today because of the weather, so I stayed up really late working on fixing the problem with Jeff over Skype. Unfortunately, at 7:00 this morning (it’s still dark until about 8) I got a knock on my door saying "school's on"... so I’ve been semi-unconscious all day due to lack of sleep.

I like school though because I get to attempt to speak French. I had my first lesson of physics today... HA! What a joke... so to fill in time, I set myself a task of translating the work-sheet I was given from French to English. I learnt a few new words, so I guess the class wasn’t a total waste of time. And! We shared the class with an older year, so I got to be within touching distance of people my own age - it was actually really exciting..

So this has been the adventures of Danika over the last couple of days.

Until next time! xx