Melbourne friends-By Amelie

My parents met a couple named Kelly and Paul last time they were here, so we got to hang out with their daughter Siena. The first time we met them was at the beach when we learned how to play beach tennis, which is tennis on the beach with no second serve. We played a couple games of that, got dinner, had ice cream, walked on the beach and played some other fun games. There was also another couple there named Kylie and Stuart. The next week we all had a barbecue at Kylie and stuarts place where we played Just dance which was so fun! We went down to the park and played cricket. Cricket is a popular Australian sport that requires a ball, a bat and three sticks. The positions are: the bowler (who throws the ball to the batsman). There are two batsman (who bats the ball that the bowler throws). Then there are the Fielders, there can be as many or as little as you would like. There job is to try and catch the ball that the batsman hit without it touching the ground. If it does you have to throw the ball to the fielder behind the three sticks and they have to touch the three sticks before the bowler passes the line that is about two feet from the three sticks. The reason there are two batsman is because one of them has to stand beside the bowler and the other one has to bat the ball. Once the ball has been hit, the two batsman have to run as fast as they can and switch places. That’s when the fielders get into the action.