Finally here!

Tuesday, 26th July 2011

Kia Ora, how the Maoris say :)

I already landed on the 23rd July at 10 am (local time) in Auckland, New Zealand, but I haven't had time then to post something - sorry :(

New Zealand is sooooo beautiful....
One time you have the feeling you're in Ireland, because the grass is so green. Then you see palm trees everywhere and you're in Spain. The other time you see conifers (hope that's the right english word :D) and think of Germany, as well as the houses are really american.
The shopping streets are one store or restaurant after the other - Hongkong.
So everything at once :D

The 22 hour flight was really exhausting, because I haven't been sleeping that much... We had around 3 hours stopover in Singapore and wasted our time and/ or had a shower.
Sfter that we continued the journey to NZ... :)
When we arrived at the airport we had to go through the passport check and the immigration, to wait for our hostparents afterwards.

My hostparent (for this week) are really nice :)
Furthermore I'm here with two other girls, from who one is staying in the family. The other girls is going to Orewa College with me and is living in Red Beach. That made me really happy, because before that I didn't know anyone from my school.

The first day we went shopping and just wanted to go to bed as soon as possible -.-

We managed to keep up until night so that we wouldn't have that much of a jetlag :D
After that I slept as good as I haven't been in a while (especially not on the plane ;))

In our preparation week they divided us (around 96 germans) into groups and each got an English speaking teacher. On monday we 'should' have learned something about school and the schoolsystem.... 'should'... I haven't actually learned something about it.. but nevermind :D
After that we went to the Sky Tower (328 meter high) and had a great view over Auckland on 220m.

We went home later on and spent the whole day in the living room, because there is the only heater. It was 6-9°C and it was raining -.- Winter in the north of New Zealand ;)

Today we were learning about food in NZ and we tried some as well, like L&P, coco-cookies, ice cream and other things. Our teacher brought his drums and was playing something for us until we could have a try :D yeah that's all about food :P

We went to the harbour later on to catch the ferry. Along the Skyline of Auckland we went to Rangitoto, a volcanic island (which volcano errupted the last time 400 years ago, if I was listening properly :D)

So that we can skype in the morning my roommate and I get up at 5am and go to bed at 8pm. After a exhausting long day pretty reasonable ;)

I miss you all sooo much and I was soo happy about the book my friends and family wrote for me and I already had to cry on the plane :'( But I get used to be with all of you guys even if it's pretty hard...

I'll write the next time when I'm with my actual hostfamily and will upload some pictures later :)

See ya and good night (it's already late here)
greetings from New Zealand
yours Lea ♥