this was written for an exercise which i had to use adjectives and describe a place i have been .... now in its corrected (thanks to s.rolle and f.j?kel) and slightly modified version:
Es ist sehr toll, dass ich von zeit zu zeit Onkel Alberts und Tante Helenas Heim in S?d-Australien besuchen (und dort wohnen) kann. Dort ist ihr selbstgebautes Haus nur 100m von dem blauen Meer und im Sommer kann man ganz herrlich in dem k?hlen frischen Wasser schwimmen gehen. Ich liebe ihr Haus und das Studio wo ich jedes mal gewohnt habe. Durch die Glassw?nde kann man die sch?nen Pflanzen und die typischen australischen B?ume sehen und oft kommen die kleinen V?gel, Igel, oder Eichh?rnchen zu Besuch. In der Nacht, wenn es keine Wolken gibt, sieht man den ganzen Himmel voller Sterne und man ist fast in einer anderen Welt!
(a rough translation of what i had expressed/written in German and some additional ideas/details are in parentheses)
it is really lovely that i could, from time to time, visit and stay with auntie Helena and uncle Albert in South-Australia. there, they live in their (absolutely fun and environmentally sound) abode which they have built themselves (quite literally) and are only about 100 m away from the (beautiful turquoise) blue sea, wherein summer, one can happily swim in the cool fresh water! i love their house and the studio in which i have always stayed. through their glass walls, one has a view of the beautiful plants and the typical Australian trees (which they have planted) and you could often witness the visits paid by the little birds, the hedgehogs, or squirrels?. in the night, when it is cloudless (and blue), you could see the sky full of stars ? and one is almost in another world!
** y'know, even though i thought about most of it in English... i think the German version is much nicer.... weird isn't it? ...translating the ideas back into English somehow modified the 'flow'....i wonder what it would sound like in French... anyone out there fluent in French?!
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