By Hamish (with Belinda helping)

It was still dark when I woke up. I had had a good sleep. Before breakfast, I went to the toilet, got dressed and spoke to my friends called Harvey and Nathan and their little brother called Ryan. They are my mates and they live in Australia, in Wangaratta.

I had a cookie, an egg and some no toast, and I had a squashy fruit and the flavour was apple. I also had some coco shells and a juice. I had another cookie on my way back up to our room.

Then we started to leave from the hotel. Mum and Dad took our suitcases and then they came back for me and Jessie. It was cold in Dijon. We stopped to get petrol and it started snowing! We saw cars with lots of snow piled up on them. It was a little bit bad, but exciting to see the snow. Then we drove along and saw more snow all over the fields and sticks and trees. I didn’t think the flowers would be able to grow through the snow. It was like frozen! It was zero degrees outside, then 1 degree.

In the car I played my ipod and listened to Gorillaz. Then Mum and I did some stickers and then we stopped for some lunch – I had one sandwich (ham and cheese) but I only had one small bite from the second half. Jessie spilled her coffee on the roof of the car and I could see because we can see out the top of the car (sunroof).

We got to our new house in Ballancourt sur Essonne (50km south of Paris) and it is two levels. My bedroom is upstairs and so is Mum and Dad’s. The toilet is upstairs and so is the bathroom. Downstairs is the lounge room and the kitchen and Jessie’s bedroom. We met a dog called Charlie and he licked my hand. Charlie is a small dog and he has brown fur. His owner said he likes to play soccer. Outside there is a swing just for me and tomorrow I might have a go on it.