Hello Friends and Family,

today at school: - in Hospitality we baked Apple ccrumble Tarts
-in Drama we played little parts of the new class play to find the roles
after school I went with Mel, Anaelle, Ebba and Maria to KOPE. That is a kind of shopping street close to our school. We went to a nice Cafe, where I had a delicouse big Mocha!
That was cool. We talked a lot and had fun!

Than I went to the Gym, which is two houses next to the Cafe.
After my workout I met (without knowing/planing) Mel and Ebba on the way and walked to the Tennis court to meet Karina and drive home!

Now I just had a nice shower and ate a crunchie bread. This bread Karina made with a bread machine! It´s really Yummy!
In 10 min I will leave and go to the Quiz night of the girls soccer team. With this acttion the team races money for their tournament and we have fun :)

Best wishes
your Anni

HEY
Last weekend I went fishing on the river with Mel and her family. She is also an exchange student, but from Norway! I am already good friends with her.
The parents showed us how to throw the root out and than we fished. I got the first and second fish !! In the end we had 6 fish! After it we went to her families home to have the fish for dinner!
It was very yummmy :)

Before they picked me up I went for a short walk into the Bird Walk, where i took some pictures for Photography ( the school subject). The Memory stick was very fast full! I really like doing this and there are quite a few nice results!
Here is one example:

Its so cool to have this nice walk so close to my house!

On Sunday we went to Opotiki. You say Oporiki! We went there for lunch and looked at a big swinging bridge! At least we visit the sister of my hostfather. There I showed them Munich and my house on google earth. That was funny :D Everything looks for them so new and big.
The houses in germany are a lot older and bigger. Mostly all houses are here only on one floor!

Okay thar were now some new Informations :D
Best wishes Your Ann Carolin

Saturday was a very funny day!
I was a kind of Clown with 5 other boys and girls!
At 9 o´clock I came to Christine, the mother of a good friend of Annalees and friend of Karina, and we all took on our costumes, which we tried on and decided on the day before.
We also made our Make up! That took a bit longer, but we already had really fun with it. First step was get the whole face white. We girls also wore false lashes and pink/purple lipstick and eye shadow. The Boys had triangles and circles in their face and looked like real funny clowns.
From 10 to 1 o´clock we stood on 3 different places and showed people the way to the shop “Smiths City”. Every time two Clowns stood on one roundabout , hold a sign and point to the shop, where also a bouncing castle. This shop has its 94th birthday. Everybody looked at us and smiled. The most children  looked so happy J We really had fun. In the end we were really glad to get the colour out of our faces, because the white really got sticky and cracked. When I ate something I felt it in my whole face and could not really open my mouth.
After wearing normal clothes again we went to have a pizza! YUM !!! I really had fun with the others and enjoyed this day.
We also get payed for our job. On Monday we all get a top up for our phones (-> 20 $). We got this job because Christine works at the radio station one double X. This Radio Chanel organized the whole program. She tooks us also in her car to the places and this car is  a really cool coulored one of the radio station.
 In the evening Nora was at my house and we watched sisters act!  J
Sunday I had a Hockey tournament. This is just a fun tournament with the first Hockey team of the school. I can´t play in the school team at normal games because it is already quite full, so I really enjoyed playing on Sunday. The level of the team is the same like mine! The first game we won 4:0. I played the whole second half as a wing (Stürmer). Than we had one hour break, where I only stayed with Michelle at the Hockeyturf. But it was cool, because we talked a lot and the time went fast. After the break we had our second game. I played all the time as a HIGH BACK ( eine art Außenverteidigung, die immer ein bisschen mit vor kommt.) It was the first time I played this position, but I really liked it to play there. In the end we won 1:0. This was good game and I had fun. After it the trainer and the other girls told me that I played really well :))
It would be so cool if I could go with this team on tournament to Tauranga, but they already told the names of the player in February and now is everthing organised.
 Best wishes of Ann Carolin

Hallo ihr Lieben,
hier kommt mal wieder ein Bericht.. sorry dass ich euch so lange warten lassen hab aber in den letzten Tagen gab es entweder nicht so viel zu berichten oder ich war einfach zu beschäftigt.

1.The Food:
The food is different but has also many same things. The hardest thing to change is that we only have for dinner a warm meal. For lunch we only have a sandwich or some other little things. For dinner we have have a lot same things. Sometimes we eat some things, which are really funny for me: one time we had spaghetti with tomato sauce on a toast and this was with cheese on top for a while in the oven. We have about every evening meat. Since I am here I recognized how often we have pasta in Germany. Normal noodles we only had one time! This is one thing I miss a bit. One other thing I miss is Chocolate. My family never has Chocolate at home. You can buy it but it isn´t cheap. Ich hab schon eine gekauft und in meinem Zimmer für ganz schlechte Zeiten versteckt. ;) I also found out that they don´t have quark here. Nuts are really expensive here, so never have some like in Germany. Some times I had a little package of raisins with me. @Mum: they really often use brown sugar, more than white and one time in a café they only had brown sugar on the tables.
2.Last Sunday I was the first time at the nice farm of Annalees´ dad. This farm has about 360 cows. Now is the time for the babies. The calves are soooo cute and there are so many!! There was also one, which was just born this day. They were shared in little stabled. I went into the stables and hugged them. They sucked on my fingers and I pet them!! I love them. They also showed me a second place with only boy calves. The most were brought away... . They easily talk about it and it is normal-I am shocked!! After that we drive a bit around with the car and look around. Her dad has a really big green area with lots of fields for the cows and also a second farm. On the first one a family lives with two daughters. Finally I really enjoyed the nature and the fresh air, which Is full of farming smells.

3.I am also already a member at a fitness gym (Fitnessstudio), where I have some workouts after school or later with Karina together. There I like to train to stay fit and don´t to save fat :D
4.At school the people are really nice. Everybody is so nice and friendly. I have never seen that somebody get treated badly or is not allowed to be in a special group of persons. Everybody is a part and today at lunch break we had a big fun soccer-game,where students of different classes and years play together. AND I already found my twin :D
>>> PICTURRE<<<<
One girl is me the other Samantha. One international boy already walked to Sam and thought she would be me and one time a friend of Sam comes to me, because she thought I might be Sam :) She also loves Chocolate and Nuts. We find more and more similar things :)
5.On this weekend we will go to a sleepover to a friends house because of her birthday! I think it will be a great event.
Best wishes from the other side of the earth
Your Ann Carolin