Kia Ora :)
I'm already in New Zealand since 6 weeks and time passes by so fast (okay I write that in every post, but it's true). It feels like it has only been 2 weeks since I'm here.
Unfortunately I still don't know when I'll be going home, because my parents can't book a flight yet. But I guess it's around 11 month left (or a little more).
The weather this week wasn't that nice, lots of showers and rain. At least last weeks weather was gorgeous, so we spent the weekend on the beach. On Sunday we finally went to (the beach of) Red Beach. The beaches here are just amazing and this fresh salty air. I'm gonna miss that so much when I'm back home!!
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| Orewa Beach |
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| Red Beach |
The traffic here is just horrible sometimes!! You have to wait hours for the traffic lights just to stop 20m further again at another one.
Then there aren't traffic lights at each crossing and sometimes I'm really scared of getting run over by a car that come around the corner, when I cross the street.
So a pretty dangerous way to school :D
As well as the people on bikes who don't have a bell or ask you if they can pass, no the just drive past you how they want... left or right and you get narly run over again ;)
Another hting that annoys me: the bus connections! If you miss your bus you have to wait an hour for the next one (at least on the weekend, but when do I take the bus during the week??). Most of the times the busses aren't on time and we once had to wait for the bus for 20min, just to miss the second bus we had to catch -.- As well you have to somehow understand the bus timetable, which doesn't even has my busstop on it, so we have to look it up on the internet each time.
There is a positive thing as well: all the busses have a ramp for weelchairs (which most of the German busses don't have), just needed to notice that ;)
Last Thursday we went to the Wavebox in Albany. There you can surf on produced waves (wet) or on a surfsimultation (dry). Of course I didn't go in the water (even if I regreted it a bit afterwards).
You could climb on the walls, go down a massive slide or play pool as well. The surfing was still nice and fun to watch. It's obviously not that easy to stay on the board (I couldn't even stay on a surfboard with real waves for more than 5 seconds) :D
This weeks we have 'Mock Exams' (final exams) at school and the Internationals who are here since 3 month now don't have to write then, therefore we are off for one week ;)
However my art teacher said we can't do exams so we all have to come to school for 2 hours to finish our paintings. Therefore I have to come to school on Thursday, not happy... but it's art ;)
Oh and I booked my South Island tour and I'm sooo looking forward to it (even if it's in January) :D *yaaay*
Nearly forgot: 'HAPPY FATHERSDAY'!!! Thats today in New Zealand, as well as my hostbrothers birthday.
So we went to Auckland with the whole family to have a walk in the harbour (yeah sounds interesting :D), because they built all kind of things for the Rugby World Cup. There is a massive Rugby ball (from England) next to the Ferry Building and a big hall behing it, to party after the games :D
It starts in five days and whole New Zealand goes crazy, because it's RUGBYTIME!! :D
Go the All Blacks!!
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| Rugby Ball in Auckland Harbour |
Lea J
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Oh and I changed my blog layout, I hope you like it?!
I really need to catch up with my posts... don't wanna write them all when I'm back home ;)
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