Translation of Stummel

I like writting you messages although most of it is really pointless. I mean it is very good for my English studies, but except that I could not understand why you would be interested in reading it.
We would love, if you could renew it, since we did a lot of updates to our site, such as visual lessons (lessons with images), lesson sharing, dictionary, verb conjugation tables and much more...
The next day it we had another hike, this time much further away, but luckily downhill. We again walked through various rice fields and rice terraces, along rivers and through hill tribe villages.