Life in Europe has been busy, and tough in many ways. It is more difficult then aspected for me to come back into a rushed society like this, and leave Guppy and New Zealand behind for such a long time. As much as I love to see my Family and work on the promotion of my German book, I realize more and more that this is really not home for me any more. The time spend in Europe I did a lot of promotion for my book, Ein madchen ein traum, that has just been released in Germany. In between I visited friends and surprised my sister by coming to the circus where she worked at for the summer. She didn’t know I would come to europe so it was a very big surprise for her. And I finally got to watch her doing her circus tricks in real life, which I really really enjoyed. We all went to my dad’s place for a while and enjoyed a bit of the dutch summer, with heaps of dinghy sailing, swimming and water-fun. But the fun can’t stay forever, my sister went back to school and I went for a tour trough Germany for my book. After spending another week at my mum’s place, we went to France to celebrait my 18th birthday there. A day that I have been looking forward to for a very long time.. In France we visited Leatitia, with whom I have traveled in New Zealand. Josefien who was also part of our travel team in New Zealand came along as well. And so I spent a great 18th Birthday in France with some really good travel mates I met in New Zealand. We went up the Eiffel tower and visited some beautiful old castles. After three gorgeous days with plenty of france baguettes, crepes, cheese and wine the party was over and we headed back to Germany, doing more promotion and presentations. The weather is starting to change to winter, and I am really looking forward to go back home to see Guppy in a couple weeks and enjoy the New Zealand summer.

Laura