The next group of pictures below are pictures of Christmas with the Hafner family. I changed host families on the 7th of December. It was a different experience. In Austria they celebrate Christmas on the 24th of December. With the Hafner family their tradition is to set up and decorate the Christmas tree on actual Christmas day. Also it's not all about presents. The day was fairly normal. We went to Midday Mass and Had lunch. Then around 8 o'clock we opened presents. After that you can see that we made something called Brotchen. It was so good.

The pictures below are of the Rotary Weekend In Salzburg. It was the last time we would see our "Oldies" again. The Oldies are a group of people from either Australia, New Zealand or some South American countries. Their school year ends in January so thats when they leave for exchange. We call them Oldies because when we arrived they had already been here for 6 months. It was a sad time but soon we will be getting another group of new exchange students, then my group that I arrived with will be the Oldies.

The pictures below are from a hike to Goasting. Laura (another exchange student from Australia) and I hiked to the top where we saw the sunset and the castle