213 days, 30 weeks, 7 months

As an exchange student, people always ask you if you miss home. I've been asked the same question at least once a week since I first came here. Of course I do, but Australia has also become my home for the last 7 months, I've adapted to the Australian way of living, I go on the school bus, I go to school, I do normal stuff at home, I hang out with my friends, I do all that normal stuff just that I am in Australia. My answer for the question 'do you miss home?' 3-5 months ago, would not be the same answer as if someone would ask me today. 3-5 months ago I replied that I don't really miss home, everything is so different here and I'm taking in so much new stuff that I don't have time to miss home. Inside I think I did miss my friends and family and my school more than I could admit out loud. Today I know that I deep inside miss home, that I want to go back home to my loved ones, but, a part of me want to stay here for another year, maybe I wont feel the same in 4 months time, maybe that's enough to be able to say I want to go home, but today I just feel like I'm all settled in now, it's not very much to take in, I can just live like normal, although I've been moving around to a lot different families I just feel like I've been able to settle in very quick in to the lot different lifestyle as well, I mean, just because you live with an Australian family doesn't mean that they are all the same. I don't really know were I'm going with this. I think I just wanted to give you the message that I'm ok and that I think my last half of the year will be the better half too!     I know my parents asked me what it looks like were I live now. Here you are. The red area is roughly their property. The little white spot in the middle is their house and they have heaps of paddocks around it. I don't know, by some reason I can't see the house from a street view on google earth but anyway.   Some of the cattle in the background (left side of the fence), the four little calves we're raising on the right side of the fence, and one of the horses, Tommy.     Good morning, it's calf feeding time!