Last Weekend was a long Weekend, because Monday was a holiday( Labour Day). That´s why Brit came from Wellington and Jemma from Tauranga at home.
After my diving on Saturday I went a bit shopping with the girls and in the evening we went with the whole family to the cinema. We were Karina, Annalees, Jemma, Brit, me and also Norman. We watched “Pitch Perfekt”. That is such a good and funny movie.
Sunday was nothing special exept for that some more girls were at home.

But Monday was the best day of the weekend!
Lees, Norman, britt and me drove to Rotorua to drop Brit at the bus station!
After that the fun part started. Norman took us to a place, where we took the gondula up the mountain. Lees and me did the Luge thing. We sat in little karts and drove down. There are different pacoures with different levels. The first one is long , the second one is middle one, so it is a bit steeper and shorter and the advanced one is pretty steep with many curves. So you get much faster at the last one. On my first ride I drove against the border in the second curve. BANG! Scream! Mess of bruise!! You always take then a little lift(Sessellift like at skiing) up again. After an ice cream we go bck down with the gondula! Norman couldnt do it, because he had a hip operation a few weeks ago.
Next stop is at the Agrofarm. This is a place, where they get the wool of the sheep. We see a little show, where they show us how a dog guides the sheep without barking. Inside we could see then a hundreds years old machine, which works with the wool. It brushes the wool and presses it thinner. In the same room is a big souvenir shop, where I find a cool T-shirt for me and some body else in germany. Along sheep, cow, ducks and emu we go to another palce of the Agrofarm. It is a place, where you can do Bunge jumping, Freefall Xtreme, the Swoop (similar to bunge), Shweeb ( cycling in a kind of “Schwebebahn”) and have a ride on the Agrojet. We take the last one. We sit in a speedboat with helmet and safety belt. The diver goes with speed through a water pacour. He makes many quick curves, what causes big waves. Screaming! Laughing!Having FUN!!
After lunch we drive back to Whakatane. Its good that we came so early, so we didn´t really had to wait at the Luge and we are early back. We had to go that time, because Brits bus came at 9 o´clock.
The distance takes about 1,5 hours with the car. Lees met then at a friend to study a bit and I hang out with Anaelle.
That was such a cool ACTION-DAY!!!

Saturday I had my last dive training!
It was at the lake Rotoma again. The first time, when I tried to go down my ears source so much and I couldn´t equalize! After a while I had a better feeling in my ears again and I tried it again. This time I went really slow and equalized every few meter and I got down to my group. We had to show some skills again, which we learnd in the pool. It were two dives. That means we have to go up between the dives and change the tank. We finish it cold and tired, but also happy because we passed the course.
On Thursday we had our last meeting, where we signed the last papers and now we are a Open Water Diver! When I talk about “we” then I mean the course member, but exspecially Nora, Maria and me. Nora and Maria are also exchange students from Germany. Together we mainly speak English! I am so used to English that I have problems to talk German!

I coudn´t take a photo with the tank and all the other stuff on,because it is together so heavy that we only want to get into the water as fast as possible!!

Hey here is a Update about my school subjects:
Photography: finished the Project with the Bird Walk and started a new one.We work now with film cameras and take some photos like David Hockney.
Maths: sometimes I cant be bothered to do some work and other time I really enjoy working with Ana and Cameron.
Marine Studies: we are talking about Whitebait, which is a fish group they catch here. You can see the fisher everywhere on the river. The fish is really small (between 25-50mm) and expensive. You mainly eat it here as a whitebait fritter! I had one already at home! They taste good.
Hospitality: We cook two times a week. Every time some new dishes and with some body else !Today we just made Wedges!
Drama: we are practicing the class play. In two weeks we will show it inffront of some audience at school.
Textiles: Last weekend I finished my dress! It looks pretty cool!

Hey my holidays are going on pretty well! I stayed a few days with my sister in Ohope at my Hostdads. So we hang out together and went to town one day. It was pretty much realaxing! The weather was always so nice, that we only wear mini shorts and tops. Feeling of summer!!
On Saturday was a cool Masquerade Party, where I was dacing the whole night through.
This week I am back at home and stay with Karina. Since yesterday i have to study quite hard for the diving licence!
Tomorrow evening is the theory test and on saturday is then the Pool training.
On Sunday we hav a open water dive in the lake by Rotorua! Hope that will be cool.

Photos of Auckland will come soon when i have time again.. Probably in the beginning of next week!

Kind regards Anni