12th December
# 12th December "The hairdresser was closed yesterday and I will go there again with Margot after the breakfast. Do you want to join me?" Sophie asked Maia when they together cleaned the table of the remains of the breakfast. "No, I am still not...
11th December
# 11th December Maia felt hot when she woke up. The sun, that shone into her window, revealed to her that it was still early in the morning. The sun was red and painted the room into a color like fire. Maia had spent the last day in bed, trying to...
10th December
# 10th December When Maia woke up next, the music was silent and only in one corner of the room there were still a few figures moving and seemingly playing some games. She stood up, leaving the blanket fall on the floor, and moved over. Her head still...
9th December
# 9th December The next morning Maia did not feel well. When her aunt came to look for her, because she did not turn up for the breakfast, she had her cover pulled up to her head and looked miserable. "You got a bit a fever I guess." Her aunt told...
8th December
# 8th December The weather changed from one day to the next. The mild and rather warm weather switched over night and when Maia looked outside her window this morning, she saw white flakes dancing around and the whole land being covered by something...
7th December
# 7th December Maia slowly got used to the slow life in this town. Even though all the new experiences were very exciting and exhausting for her, life had a different pace here than in the hectic city she came from. Derick purposed to her a new...
6th December
# 6th December At breakfast Sophie explained to Maia and the rest of the family, that the pastor, Mr. Parks, invited them for lunch to welcome Maia in their village. Derick directly asked, if he could go and visit his friend, Milo, on the way back....
5th December
# 5th December Maia slowly got used to sleep in the strange room and bed and with her exhaustion from the tour she slept long into the morning. When she got down around 10, her aunt prepared a breakfast for her and chatted while the girl was eating....
4th December
# 4th December Maia was excited when she sat behind her aunt in the car. Sophie decided to go alone with Maia because going with the men was just no real shopping. They were always so hectic and had little endurance. Derick had left after the...
3rd December
# 3rd December At the second day Maia still felt weird waking up in the bed that felt foreign for her. The room was so different from her room at home and in the first minutes she had to think where she was. Like the day before, no one was in the...
2nd December
# 2nd December The next morning Maia overslept and her uncle's family let her sleep. When she woke up she could hear them in the dining room downstairs and she hesitantly took the towel, that Sophie left for her, and checked a few doors before she...
1st December
# 1st December Maia looked at the clouds that lay under her like a big snowy landscape. The only time she had seen snow had been in television, but the clouds looked just like that. There were hills, where the clouds piled up, and big plains, where...