A note from Amber...

I miss OZ alot. The most thing that I miss is the pool and the beach.  I miss my family alot as well.  And I don't really have alot of friends here because we have hedges around our house but sometimes friends come over.  

We have two sheep - a male and a female.  Four dogs - two females and two males.  Two ridgebacks and two just dogs - don't know what type they are.  Four ducks - one male and three females.  Chickens - one rooster and don't know how many girls but we have lots of hens.  Uhm...

We are building a tree house - it's at the way far back of the house.  We have a big back yard and from the tree house there is a log going across to a platform where we can look over the hedge to see the people.  Once we saw a dog that had two broken back legs.  Dad said that he might have been runover because he had a big patch where there was blood and no skin.  I felt sorry for it...these men were pulling it by the two back legs...I felt like getting down there and saying - 'hey stop picking on the dog - why dont you start taking care of it?'  

I ran into mum feeling sorry for it and I said to her 'there's a dog outside that has two broken back legs and a big patch on its back where it's skin has been cut open.'  Mum said that maybe the dog has been run over as well just like dad said and she said somebody might shoot it just to have its life over and done with so it doesn't need to live with pain until it dies. 

I've seen lots of blind people on our street - mum thinks past our street there is a home for them.  I've seen alot of people that like have their fingers chopped off or they're using crutches.  I feel sorry for them as well.  I dont know if they'll grow back?

I like learning the language here - it's really cool.  It's a good opportunity for me to come here and learn a different language and learn different cultures - not alot of kids my age get to do that - except Kirsty and her family [Mike and Lyndall Rothery's daughter].

I did have a chick once that mum and dad gave me for my birthday but I loved it to death - and it died.  Dad said that it had it's head going up and down and it couldn't hold it up for very long so they put him in their room to sleep for the night and in the middle of the night dad said it stopped cheaping and it died.  But now we have three chicks and one turkey chick- we did have two but one died.  So now we have one turkey - it's the male. 

We've connected with a school in Australia called SIDE.  To me it's really hard but I don't know how it is to Kia and Tahlia.  I need to probably do two or three or four pages of maths and handwriting - probably one page; and english I need to do probably five or four pages.  That's a guess!  But the good thing is SIDE is pretty cool.  It has lots of activities. 

This was Amber writing this...

Kwaheri! Tutuonana badai! - Meaning Goodbye!  See you later!  :-)