Monday:
I just had an average day
I guess. During PE we played really funny games like „Brennball“
with a tennis racket and „long ball“. That is o much more fun
than in Germany.
Tuesday:
It was really sad... I had
my last student assembly. In assembly all students meet in chapel and
play games, get study tips and talk about the daily notes.
Wednesday:
That was a very sporty
day. Before lunch we played basketball in PE and it was actually
really hard exercise. Over the last month I lost a bit of my fitness,
but it was really good. Unfortunately I had a little accident with
another girl and now my nose hurts and I have sore knees. Later in
Outdoor Education I was very disappointed, because we wanted to go
surfing, but instead we just had a hot chocolate in a cafe. Finally
it was nice and relaxed, a good ending. Ms Fletcher also offered us
to go to the rail trail biking tour in Clyde in December.
In the evening was
Halloween, but in New Zealand it isn't really popular same as in
Germany. There were still groups of kids outside who knocked on the
doors to get sweets. The first time we pretended to be not at home,
but he second time we had to open the door, but we only gave the kids
sweets we didn't like :)
Thursday:
On Thursday we had a whole
year assembly. This was an art award ceremony and the choir and some
other girls sang songs. It was impressive and overwhelming. It didn’t
know that the girls are sooooo talented and I thought about my own
life and that I didn't even know, that you have so many opportunities
in New Zealand to succeed in.
Friday:
Friday was a really
exciting day with a lot of surprises. In the morning we had quiet a
famous guest at school: the prime-minister of New Zealand John Key!!!
Pretty amazing uh? :) He visited the lessons and gave a speech in
front of the school. I know that a lot of people have different
opinions on him, but to me he seemed really nice and his speech was
very funny. Unfortunately me wasn't given the opportunity to shake
the prime minister's hand rather than taking a photo with him, but
some other girls were lucky enough to do this.
Some other international
girls from my year and I had to go on the stage too, because we were
fare welled.
Then we had a special
chapel. It's called prefix chapel and it means that all the head
girls prepare a movie or a play to present to the school. The played
„The St. Hilda's Games/Hunger Games) and it was pretty amazing how
many details from the movie they brought into their acting.
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| Clyde |
How I already mentioned we
were planning to go on the cycling trip (which is now set with my
parents). It is from the 2
nd to the 4
th of
December and we will bike to Clyde. We are going with Mr West's PE
class and we will stay at a camping ground for the night. I will
share a tent with my friend Zoe. But first we had to practice how to
built a tent. I've done this before with my best friend in her
garden, but that was five years ago, so this refreshing exercise was
very useful. It only took us a couple of minutes, but when we tried
to back everything back in the bag, it was so windy that the
different layers almost blew away.
I also have to add, that it has
been a really hot and sunny day with probably 25 degrees and I almost
died in my uniform. But it was so nice to feel the beginning of the
spring. But later you will read that the weather developed a by
different than expected. :)
In lunchtime I did
something good for people who doesn't live such an fortuned live as
us by buying a cupcake. The earned money goes to a charity
organization.
In my French class I had
to sit a french vocab test with 60 words, but it was actually
alright, because my french crew (Alice, Karri, Harriet, Kayla and
Georgia) helped us and so we all got enough words right to get a
little present (in my case it was a pencil).
During my English class we
had a party (party= everybody brings something t eat or drink and we
eat it together). That sounds lame, but it's always really nice with
a relaxed atmosphere. I already did this I French before the holidays
(we made Crepes) and next Tuesday we'll have a french breakfast.
I finally came home and we
had pizza (yummy) with salami. Then when we wanted to put the washing
outside it suddenly looked really dark at the sky and there appeared
huge clouds. But it didn't rain yet.
It got really
windy and then... Boom, the power was switched off!! It was just for
a few minutes and not serious, because it was still light outside.
Later it actually happened again, but this time the power-cut was for
two hours and we had to put candles in the whole house. It was so
quiet then.. no TV, no radio, no CD.
It was funny but I
couldn't live like this longer than a few hours.
When this happened I
realized how hard it must be for the people in New York not living
with an access to power and only limited water. I feel really sorry
and I hope the situation will be better soon. We can only hope for
them.
This was an exciting day
with lots of things I've done.
Saturday:
Tomorrow I will stay at
Sophie's and will cook spaghetti carbonara for her and her host
family, because she never gets pasta :( pour girl.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I will still have school, but from Thursday next week we will do day trips with Maggie. (We= German and Japaneses girls)
But the school isn't finished yet. Next week we will have three more school days.
