Internatinal Farewell (13th November)

In the morning I had a nice sleep in and a delicious breakfast with berry cornflakes, jogurt, bananas and grapes. I took the bus around elven o' clock to town. Then we had a rehersal for the upcoming international farewell in the evening. My task was to „host“ the farewell. That means I before and after a performance (mostly speeches or music performances but also one comedy act) I had to go up on stage and announce the next act, thank the last one. First I was a bit nervous but I made some notes and I hoped everything we will go right.

I was also involved in a reflection of our (German girls) time in New Zealand accompanied by a photo presentation. We had more than hundret photos and I think we gave a good insight of the half year we spent here.

The actual farewell started at 5.30 pm and there almost everything went right.

The older girls from Year 13 gave speeches and it was so sad even the teachers were crying. Because most of the Thailand girls stay here for 5 years and it was pretty hard for them to go back home.

After we got our certificat and the Teddy bear wearing an St Hilda's T-shirt I forgot to say that there was a last performance (a song sang by every internatinal girls) and wanted to end the farewell a bit earlier. Fotunately everbody else knew what was coming next and we dind't forget it.

At the end we could eat some sandwichs and cakes in the library.

And if you wonder why Sophie and I look a bit odd in our uniforms it's because we wanted to receive our cerificate in the traditionel uniform. And also for the photo.

from right: Celine, Karla, Chiara, Jess, Sophie and I

An performing a Rakugo (japanese sit- down comedy)

Me receiving the certificate from Mrs Maw

All international girls singing a song

photo with Maggie and Mrs Maw

Modeling at school

On Monday a woman, who ownes a model agency came to school and taught us how to do our make up properly. First she did Maggie's make- up and after that she looked so different and so pretty. Unfortunately we had to do the make- up on our own and after some first trys that looked a bit aweful we all looked beautiful and transformed. It was so cool and we could use all that expensive make- up stuff. After that we did a photoshoot in the school court. And it wasn't as easy at it always looks like but everyone of us girls got at least one beautiful photo.

Kie and I

Jess in the middle of her photoshoot.

weekend 10th and 11th November

That Sturday I visited my friends Karri and Alice at the school's hostel. But first I had a the problem to even find the place. I took the wrong street as long as I finally noticed that it was not the right one I was totally exhausted, because I had to walk back all the way.

The hostel is so cool, everybody is relaxed, you have a lot of space to spread out and you are always together with your friends. Best thing ever: they have a outdoor swimming pool! We wanted to swim but the water was ectually pretty cold and we just decided to try throwing each other in. We had a lot of fun, but I had to leave quite early again because they were going some study for their exams.

On Sunday it was the 11^th November but I did nothing I actually forgot about it until I saw all the photos from my German classmates on Fb.

Settlers Museum (Friday, 9th November)

 On Friday we visited the Settlers Museum in Dunedin. The actual museum was still closed because of renovation work, but we where in a room and listened to a power point presentation about the first settlers of Dunedin. It was reall interesting and I learned a lot I didn't know before. -->

Then we could dress up like the people in the 19^th centry. It was so much fun. I wore a nice blue dress and a hat.

Unfortunately the museum had no air conditioning and after a while it got quite hot under the heavy dresses, because I think it was the hotest day I ever had during my time in New Zealand! 28°C and luckyly I just wore hotpants and a tanktop.

At half past twelve it was finished and Kie and I went to the Meridian to grabed some lunch. Of couse I ate subway (since I'm here I really started to like it).

Orokonui and Port Chalmers

Thursday (9th November):

Because of the German and Japanese girls don't write the exams Maggie organised a whole lot of trips for the next weeks for us. Today we went to the Orokonui birs reserve. I've already been there with Outdoo Education but it was alright. Then we drove to Port Chalmers where we did rock climbing a few times. It was really nice wheater and when we walked along a long path we saw 2 seals!!! There were so cute and looked os fluffy :)

Tuesday and Wednesday (last school days)

Tuesday:
We had a french breakfast in French with croissants and chocolate croissant which was so delicious!!
It was really funny, eating and talking.. But after 10 min we had to do a listening exercise for the rest of the period.
The other lessons weren't more interesting than usually..

Wednesday:
Wednesday I had my last school day :( It was so sad... I don't want to realize that my time will be over in less than one month. My last French lesson with Karri, Alice, Harriet, Kayla and Georgia was sad, but funny too and the girls wrote in my memory book. Unfortunately I was told off by Mrs Kruger for distracting my friends in their last lesson (which means last chance to study French, as if that would be the only thing we do there).
Science lesson was also very funny, because our teacher didn't show up and our whole class hid in the room next to the class room. Of course we were found and Mr Janessen made some awkwards jokes when we had to keep on pretending to work. Haha :) If I seriously had to sit the exams I probably would fail..
After a short lunch time the Year 11 girls met in the Whitby Hall for a meeting with Mrs Kruger.
She gavw all of us cupcakes in yellow, orange and red. Every colour had a different meaning eg. Red= strengh and determination for the exams..
I chose orange which means happines and enthusiasmus. Seriously that was one of the best cupcakes I have ever eaten.

After that we had to go to the Chapel and got the information about the prize giving on the 6th December and the upcoming exams.

Weekend (3rd and 4th November)

From Saturday to Sunday I stayed at Sophie's house. Her host parents are really nice and friendly. They also have a brown labrador dog named Coco, that is really energetic and hyper active.
Sophie and I went for a run with her. We wore PE gear and ran for approximately 45 minutes when it suddenly started to hail! After minutes we were wet and freezing :(
We called her host mum to pick us up, because we landed on a place where we didn't know the way home.
On the ride home we stopped at Countdown where we bought the ingredients for spagetthi carbonara. On this day there was a food carnival at the supermarket and Sophie and I tasted a lot of food like wraps, fairy floss, chocolate and seafood. We had a lot of fun and the food was so yummy :-)
We also picked up Karla and brought her to Sophie's home too. We went for a walk with the dog with Karla and visited the Brockville Park.
We cooked spagetthi and German chocolate pudding. It was delicious and Sophie's host parents also like it.
At night we watched movies and ate cake... relaxed evening.
The next day we had eggs on toast for breakfast and watched more movies.
You should really watch „Just Go With It“, that is one of the funniest movie ever.