10/14/2013

ATHUR'S PASS

Okay.
After we caught the bus on Monday morning, early morning! Like 6am we went on a trip for about 6 hours to Franz Josef. We made plenty of stops at some weird stone gardens haha. sorry but they were pretty and all this stuff but kinda weird to look at stones aye. (aye is new zealand slang and means, am i right). So we stopped at the Pancake stones and it was amazing. i didnt know there were stones actually looking like on pancake on top of another one and so on. it was really beautiful and the weather was okay so salome and me took plenty of photos.

The bus tour was pretty average. not bad but not good. it was okay. we had plenty of food and drinks and different card games. although it was really hard to play like Mau-Mau in a moving bus haha. I was sleeping about 4 hours and listening to music the other two hours.
Half way our Tour Guide Holger, we called him Holly but anyways, made an important announcement. We were not about to go to Franz Josef for two night, because the road we would have taken was blocked. There were several earth slides recently and they didnt want to take any risk. So instead of going to Franz Josef, making an amazing Glacier Walk and Glacier Helicopter flight, we went to Athur's pass.

Athur's Pass is so incredible small. We expected something small, but not that small. Like maybe a supermarket or a little, really tiny park to go and sit down on a bench or something, but NO nothing! Im actually not kidding, there was nothing! And if we ever found something where we could bu< food it was closed. So we stayed at our hostel the whole day and did pretty much nothing. I took a shower, started a fire in the lodge and then i was texting and we played more card games.
For dinner we had to cook something ourselves. Holger, Olger and Amy our tour guides bought stuff to make chilly concarne (dont know how to spell and i cant be bothered looking it up). So we spend about 3 hours trying to find out how to use the heater and how to cook our own dinner. in the end it was alright and we all went to bed pretty early because we had to get up at 6am the next morning to go for another 4 hours bus drive yey!

I didnt take many pictured at Athur's pass. There was literally nothing to take a picture off. so i just charged my camera for lake tekapo the next day and took some photos with my phone which is unfortunately broken now so i cant show you any pictures from athur's pass :( sorry g.


10/13/2013

NELSON PHOTOS.



 The Paradis. You may know now what i was trying to explain to you. But its nearly impossible to explain something that beautiful!!

 Jakob and Fenna taking pictures.

 Me at the abel tasman beach :) 

 Ready to walk :)
 Our walk through the National Park. Amazing nature, flora and fauna. 

 Salome and me in the beginning of the walk. Still happy and smiling :) 
(Mutti see the shoes and the shirt :))  )
 View from the top.

 On our way to the top and then back down again. Looks comletley different from what we expected.

 One out of 6 bridges we crossed. In the back, Raphael he is in nz for only 3 months.
 Around the corner waits a whole new world.

 NZ's national tree.

 Salome and me. Really proud and exhausted after a 12km walk for 4 hours.

Love my dad <3 :) !!

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

9/20/2013

Summer uniform

Hey ho!
Long time no see!
New zealand is amazing!!
I cant say more its incredible! I think Oskar definatly has to go on an exchange to new zealand and to the same college!! Its so beautiful here. I have so many friends. im so happy. And when i think of me being here for 2 months already i think its far to less time. 1 year maybe sounds long, but people. its too short for an exchange. The time runs so fast when you enjoy your life!
However. This week wasnt that interesting.

Monday:
Monday was school, normal. All good. It was okay. school starts to get interesting. We are doing more work. For example i have to finish my connectives work until next friday and i only have 2 out of 4 paragraphs yet. haha ill do it today, dont worry Mutti :D!

Tuesday:
On tuesday i went home with shayla. She lives far out in the country and she and her dad have about 1.8 thousand sheep and 400 bulls or something. incredible. they so much land. its so big. their house their garden. they have 6 dogs and 2 cats. and so many little cute lambs uuugh <3 :))!!!
On tuesday afternoon i stayed the night at shaylas place because on wednesday morning we were going to go skiing with her "brother" ben (they've known each other like i know rabea) and her dad colin!
So we took a shower and went streight to bed.

Wednesday:
WE HAD TO GET UP AT 4:30AM BECAUSE WE HAD TO LEAVE THE HOUSE AT 5AM.
Okay. we were really tired though. of course we were sleeping in the car. We, that are Shayla, her dad Colin, Ben her nearly brother and me. We drove around 4h all together. After 2 and a half we stopped at mc donalds and had breakfast :)! Tasty! We went skiing on a beautiful mountain. Our ski area's name was taupo. It was incredible, so amazing and beautiful! it looked like a dream. the land around the mountain was green and brown and then the mountain, BAM white ! So beautiful!
After 5h of driving and sleeping, eating and going to the toilet. after we lend our skiing gear we finally were on top of the mountain. it was warm. funny as. i was wearing fleece and jumpers and it was way to warm haha! The mountain was amazing, but the snow was...shit. sorry it was either icy or it was slushy snow. but no normal powder skiing snow. It was okay though. i really enjoyed it. At lunch Ben met his sister Alice and i met Mrs Ogilvie who was on the mountain for the international skitrip. So of yourse i met Ellen and Klaara the other international students. The second half of the day i skied around with ellen and klaara. It was pretty much fun.
At 4pm we had to bring our skiing gear back and ben, colin shayla and me met at the truck. we had a short tea and some muffins and cockies. Lovely :)! Then we drove back, 4h first to palmerston to pick bens sister up and then to mc donalds again for dinner. We were home around 10:30pm. We just wanted to go to bed so we quickly took a shower and fall into sleep after 2min.

Thursday:
We had to get up at 6:30am to catch the bus to school. it was a nice skiing day but my legs were really sore though. I was quite tired in school and me, jared and eden slept in drama because we had a study period. (study periods are pretty much: having fun with friends, talking and making snap chats)

Friday:
On friday night i had a birthday party at my friends house. but before i went there Madeleine Ian lily and me had a little party at our house. Yesterday was a big event in japan. an event for the moon i think :) SO everybody invited friends over who brought some food. Then we had a big dinner. it was lovely and so much fun. i was playing the piano and lily and me danced haha! We have so much food left though! After the dinner madeleine drop me at annies house and we had an amazing birthday party. we were around 15 people and the living room was full. We had a little flashing light that totally cracked me up haha! At 11pm we were really tired from dancing and cooking and fell asleep on a big bed that was out of 10 mattresses. It was so much fun though.

Saturday:
So today is saturday. i had pancakes for breakfast and i came home around 2 hours ago. Im a bit tired and im drinking my 3rd tea at the moment. At 1pm ill start doing my english connectives. Its an essay about 4 different texts who have to be connected by the topic: man's incredible will to survive. Its quite interesting but i cant be bothered. ill do it anyways. it all good.

I hope you are good too. i miss you all very much. i wrote some letters though. i think they take about 1 and a half week to come from new zealand to germany :))

PAULAAAAA

Last week: it was really windy. The news paper was full of articles like this ...

 On friday afternoon. Laura, Laila, Ruby, Maria and Me on our way to a cafe for breakfast :)
Me and Shayla on Tuesday afternoon :)) Cute little lammiie  


left: The mountain .. white on green. beautiful contrast.. 
right: Haha picknick on the mountain. we carried the food in our pockets and on the lifts we sometimes ate some hahahah :D
 I was so excited as we were finally at the mountain. took us 5h to go there ...

INCREDIBLE

 Me Klaara and Ellen on Wednesday :) Beautiful skiing day !!


 left: Me in my summer uniform :)
up: Annie (right) and Olivia in the tattoo studio. She got her nose pierced aaaah :D



 Left: lilys and my normal after school snack, really tasty!
Up: Megan, Connor and Kodee saturday morning after the birthday :)
 Maths assignment on tuesday. It was in the assembly hall and really exciting. so much different to germany though!

9/11/2013

first day of spring

Hey hey hey
How are you guys. Im super duper fine. everything is perfect, i'm fully enjoying my time!
Last week was interesting. We had mofty day, its a day when you dont have to wear school uniform. everybody just wears whatever they want to. It was really interesting to see what people look like in normal clothes.
Lily and me went to our neighbor Richard to see the little lambs. sooooo cuuuuteee. They sooo small and cute and adorable and lovely uuugh !!!
My family also bought a piano. not just for me, lily and ian want to learn how to play the piano, and ill teach them. Will be so much fun, i hope!! Lily is already learning her favourite song: Amelie.
I got a package, aha aha aha a package, with lollies. so many lollies. German lollies. Haribo, chocolate, ahoi brause, maoam, Kuh Muhs and Nimm2!! FROM PAUL!! I miss him. it was always nice hanging with him, and we have the same name haha! Thank you sooo much :))!!

As i already said, not long ago there was the first day of spring. 1st september. It wasnt special though, but now i know why most new zealanders dont like spring. ITS SO WINDY! i mean really windy, the houses are out of wood and so you can here the wind and feel the house moving and stuff! its creepy and a bit scary. The wind is about 120km/h fast. And when lily and me walk back from school we walk really slow and careful.

My school is superb. Im happy that i chose Wairarapa College. So many nice and friendly people! In the beginning Drama was really boring and i though of changing classes, but its getting better :) We have a roll-play named: Not even a sparrow. Its interesting. I found many friends in my drama class who i can hang with at interval or lunch :)
Steph invited me to her birthday in November :)

Today is Wednesday. At lunch there was the sgn in for the summer sports. I signed in for Volleyball with Laura, maria and ( Sjaan (i think) and Laura Maria, Kayelle Elena and Ata also signed in for Social Tennis. The difference between social tennis and regional tennis is that regional tennis is more competitive than social tennis. Social tennis is just for having fun and playing tennis with your friends.
Kane and me also signed in as a team for regional tennis. Haha i hope i can still play tennis. I played it ages ago and im not sure if im good at it. hahahah!


WEEKEND
on Saturday i had dance rehearsals from 10am to 3pm. Really exhausting but funny and it was nice to dance after a long time. Lily and me have a quite important roll in the performance. Lily is a girl and im her Angel.... to be continued :)
On sunday i went to wellington on the train to see my german friends. I really missed them and it was good to see them again. We spend time together until 3pm. Then Moritz had sport activities and Salome had to go home, she felt a bit sick. Mattes and me visited his family. They had a big Rugby game and afterwards we went to his school and stuff. He lives like 2 min away from the beach. really cool.
It was quite nice seeing my friend again. On the way home i met two of my new New Zealand friends, Megan and Cael :)) They are so lovely!

To be continued


Up left: Me and Shayla making funny faces on Mofty Day :) Right: Me and Ruby: She is taller than me
 
 
up left: Me and the other international student klaara in drama :) up right: Lily learning how to play Amelie on the piano :)
   WELLINGTON:  NO COFFEE - DEPRESSO HAHAHAHHA


 up left: Me and lily had some fun with my hoodie :D!!  up right: Silent reading! He was too loud, as you can see he is sitting on a chair in a square. its called the noisy square hahahah 





 down left: On my way to wellington in the train. Some random sheep staring at me hahah 
down right: PIANO a beautiful one! In wellington at the waterfront :)



  
 left: Salome and my food. We had amazing Wraps. Super tasty and not too expensive (: 
right: Mattes ordering his food haha 


Wellington Beach. Last sunday with Mattes. down left: Rugby Game from Mattes family
Down right: Me on my way to the train station around 5pm. 
down down left: Me in the amazing shop: cosmic hahah love the hat!



 Me in my Winter Uniform. Its really uncomfortable but i enjoy having a uniform..


LEFT:Drama Room: i often hang here at lunch :)  RIGHT: Lily and Amy. it was really windy!