NELSON

Hello. long time no see.
Yes i know i havent blogged anything for ages. three weeks actually. Well i have an excuse. We had holidays and i went on a 12 days South Island Trip. It was really impressive, ive seen so many different places. We went to 6 different towns in two weeks. I met 24 amazing people and i had the three best tour guides ever.
Our timetable:
Nelson for two nights.
Athur's pass for one night.
Lake Tekapu for one night.
Queenstown for three nights.
Dunedin for three nights.
Kaikoura for two nights.

Ill do the different town on different days along this week. Ill start with nelson of course, so here is nelson for you :)

NELSON:
Friday:
Last school day, lily and me quickly said good bye to all our friends and then we sprinted to madeleines  car. She was waiting for us with our suitcases and bag. We drove to the train sation and lily and me got changed in the car from school uniform to normal casual clothes. We catched the train straight after school to wellington. She, because she was going to meet her mother in Petone for one week, me, because i went to my friend Salome to stay the night at her house because we catched the plain on saturday morning. As i arrived Salome's host family picked me up and we had a nice lovely dinner and night at her house. The next day (Saturday) we woke up around 6am. we took a shower and ate breakfast. After that her hostmother dropped us at the wellington airport and we made our way to the plain. After just 20minutes we got off the plain again and we were in NELSON.

Antonia from Study Nelson was welcoming us and we got our suitcases and got on the bus to our hostel in Nelson, After we arrived there we met our tour guides and other students who were on the tour. We all became friends very fast. About 2 hours later Jakob, Annika, Paula and me were on our way to the ABEL TASMAN SKYDIVING OFFICE: We booked the extra activity Skydiving and it was right at the first day of the tour. We were really excited. It took us 1 hour to get there and on our way the guids were making fun about us being scared and about how skydiving is pretty decent and not special or dangerous. They said for example: So we are on our way to the skydive now, thats propably the most dangerous part of our journy. then you will quickly do a skydive and then we will drive back to town, thats another dangerous part today. And we were all laughing.
Arriving there we got more excited. We watched some movies, looked a t some photos. and then they introduced us to our guide. This guide was right behind us the whole jump and he was managing all the technic stuff with the parashoot yeah. I was really excited because i was one of the first people going up in the plain. BUT IN THE END IT WAS SO COOL!! back to track. we were in this reeaaaally small plain and i was the second to jump. i was so scared. toni my guide said, relax and close your eyes. I did and suddently i felt myself feeling really weird. i opened my eyes and BAM i was flying, well i was more falling than flying but i didnt realised that. It was a 60 seconds free fall and another 6/7 minuted flight until we landed on the ground. Toni showed me some places down there. He was like: thats the beach, thats the forest blablabl but i was busy realising that i just jumped off a plain in 13.000 ft high!! On our way back we were talking like the whole time and our adrenaline was on top. It dropped so fast again as we arrived at our hostel and we went straight to bed.

The next morning we had to get up at 6am because breakfast was at 6:30am. I was so tired but excited.
We all went to the Abel Tasman National Park. 12 people, screaming and talking, laughing and eating (including me) got off the bus and suddently we were quite. It was like we went to the paradis. A beach, blue water and some beautiful islands in the back.. it was amazing. we stood there for about 30minutes taking pictures of every little sandcorn in 1000 different perspectives. With and without people alone, together, running, standing everything.
Then 7 of us went to their extra activity: Kanueing trough the abel tasman. Salome me and raphael didnt book this activity, so we went for a walk with our tour guide olga. We though its going to be a pretty easy walk. Nothing special !! BUUUT it turned out to be a 4 hours walk! Up and down and up and down. Salome and me were singing: Bob der Baumeister and Jim Block. Old children songs. After 3 hours we had a half a hour lunch break and we ate everything we had which wasnt less. As we finally arrived at the bus we were tired as and we could stand or walk anymore.
But the walk was beautiful. We didnt see any birds or other animals. But it was beautiful as. So many different flowers and trees. the landscape changed after every second corner. it was amazing. We saw New Zealands National tree. We took so many pictures and we were proud of ourselves that we managed to make this really exhausting walk!!

On our way back, the bus dropped salome and me at our old three days host families house. You remember, because of the earthquakes we didnt go to wellington for the introduction days but to nelson so we had a 3-days-hostfamily. Salome and me decided to visit them and so we did. They were reeeaaally happy to see us and we had a nice dinner and a ice talk after. Drank some tea and then Jeremy drove us back to the hostel. It was quite sad to say good bye again, but they invited us over to come in the holidays. We will defiantly take any opportunity to go there!!
We went to sleep quite late but we were happy.

The next morning we got up at 5am because our bus left at 6am. We had a long drive infront of us. 6 hours to be honest. Too long for 25 teenagers. But i wont tell anything now :) To be continued tomorrow or the day after tomorrow :)!!!  LOVE PAULA