Suitcase

We started to pack our suitcases. I have packed clothes, togs, my crocs - Mum thinks they don't know crocs in Germany. I still have to pack entertainment (books, my mp3 player, the iPad, some teddies, my diary). We will have to leave really early on Thursday morning, and Mum says we won't get to our grandma's house until Friday lunchtime which is 10pm on Friday in New Zealand!

Maybe you want to know why their time is different and why it is summer there:

The earth is sort of a ball, and New Zealand and Germany are on opposite sides, so when the sun is shining on New Zealand, there is no sun on Germany so it's night and the other way around. But also, Germany is on the Northern Hemisphere, that is the upper half of that ball, and NZ on the Southern Hemisphere, that is the lower half of the ball. When it's summer up top, it's winter down below and the other way around.
So when the bell goes and school starts for you on a Monday morning, it's still 10:30pm on Sunday in Germany - and we get a sleep in, too!

Here is a picture from the town where we will stay at, it's called Neunkirchen am Brand. My Mum and Dad grew up there.


We have added a new page with important words in German - tell us what other words you want to know in German and we will add them.

Countdown!

Only 10 more days of school until our holiday! We haven't even started packing yet, so we should get a move on! We will need to take:

• clothes for summer (because it is summer there)
• togs (because we will go to the pools - there are no beaches where we go)
• entertainment
• presents

We're going to miss school - boohoo - not! But mum has said she might send us to school in Germany!! I told her holidays are for holidays, and she said that my friends don't get 5 weeks of holidays but still I think it's a dumb idea. She says we will see...

Our blog is started!

With less than four weeks until we leave, we have just set up our travel blog! We plan to share some of the (hopefully) amazing things we will see while we are away. Check back regularly to see what we have been up to!

From the Five Kernz