New host family

Hello everybody!

On Tuesday my flatmate and I had to move to our new host family. They live in Canford Heath (belongs to the city Poole near Bournemouth). Unfortunately, the way to the school is longer than before. We have almost an hour. But I am happy anyway because the new family is lovely. It is an older couple and they are very friendly to us. Our room is bigger than the last one and we have more space for our stuff.

I gave them some Swiss chocolate (Toblerone and an Ovomaltine spread) because I wanted to say thank you to them. First, I thought they don’t like chocolate so I told them they could give it to their grandchildren. But they almost shouted NO and said they will keep it for themselves. I suppose they love chocolate… ;-)

After the dinner Cécile and I went into a forest near our home. We found out that it was a Nature Reserve and it was large and beautiful. We spend some time there and walked along all this paths. Afterwards, we had problems to find the way back… We had to try out every little path on one road because we were not sure which one was the right one. Finally, the 5^th or 6^th one was the correct path and we found our way back home. We were relieved! 

I think this beautiful houses with the bricks have at least one disadvantage: Every road and every house looks like the others. Difficult to find out the way back home…

I discovered a difference between Switzerland and the UK:

In the UK the people wear their shoes everywhere in their house. It doesn’t matter if this is in the living room, bedroom or even the bathroom! I was really astonished.

In the morning I was at the beach. A taxi driver told me that this beach isn't natural. They took sand from South Arabia and made the beach by themselves. However, I like the beach and I like the sea. The water is cold and the weather is too cold so we didn't went to swimming. We were just sitting in the sand, chatted and made some pictures. 

So, this is enough for today. Thank you for reading this and I wish you a pleasant day. By the way my first real school day was good. Not kind of very special but interesting. But to be honest, I prefer to write about my spare time than school. I think you understand that.

Yours, Junia