It's been Christmas and it doesn't even feel like - defs broke my usual routine of cold, rain, snow and working in a restaurant, replacing it with sun, tan lines, swimming, BBQ's and being jobless :-) I got given some amazing gifts, mostly food but also some gifts that will never leave me - one will permantely live around my neck and close to my heart for years to come.

What has been taking up all my time in the day?? Well, we have been playing heaps of board and card games - like hours and hours of playing! We have also been swimming some too! I'm a pretty amazing swimmer you know.

Happy New Year too! What is to come? Well I don't know, life will throw at me as much as it thinks I can handle and I'm ready for more amazing challenges! My time here overall with the Peterson family have been awesome, over the 4 months I have been in New Zealand I have come to love and respect all of them. I'm so very happy and feel blessed to have such amazing people touch my life, but I will be back to see the one and only Kendall Peterson graduate in 2018 I think! :-D

My time is nearly up in this town and I'm off to the 'city' to catch up with some crazy American, Cat and finally meet James. Peace out!

"Do not think of a painful experience as a dark time in your life. You emerge out of everything learning something or becoming a better person. You realise who your real friends are and how much your loved ones mean to you" - Colleen Ho.

"Friends are forever. You might lose them but you will never forget them" - Unknown.