Astrid's Adventures

This has been a GREAT week. Here are the highlights... This week we went for 3 swims (one of them was my first swim in Spain!). I had so much fun playing in the water with our new wetsuits. The water was beautiful. This week we also went to Tarifa the closest town in Spain to Africa!  You can even see and catch a ferry to Africa.  In Tarifa we also went up this castle! I   quite liked it there with the sun shining on it.  On Wednesday we went to see our new school !  There were 2 separate buildings; I was in one and Esther was in another.  We looked at which class room I could be in first! There were 2 class rooms I could be in one with a boy teacher and one with a girl teacher. I liked the look of both of them! Next we looked at Esther's. They knew which class Esther would be in because there was a  year 2 class with a Australian teacher! I like the school. We should start there in the next week or so! We also got a surfboard for €125 it was blue and ...

Moving houses!!! Steps to moving houses (well how we moved ours) 1. A soon as the owners leave the house your moving into, pack all the ugly stuff in cupboards and on shelves were you can't see them. 2. Make a list of everything you need for your house. 3. Spend 1 thousand dollars at Ikea getting everything you need (and a fair bit more) 4. Make a human chain to get everything inside the house (especially important when your house is upstairs!). 5. Set up the house and unpack your bags. This includes putting table cloths on all the ugly bits if furniture. 6. Call your relatives and show them. Gibraltar On Friday the 7th we went to England, well Gibraltar! Gibraltar is a bit of England which is connected to Spain! So we had to use our passports to get there (Gibraltar is a huge rock). On the rock we saw some good views, went in this really really cool cave which looked like it used to be water and then dried, went through some tunnels.... And saw monkeys! They were so cute (the baby...