After a lunch at town with Karina (my mum) I was sun bathing with Lees on the beach!
It was so nice and warm and you can already see a tan ;) ! We both were realxing on our last day of the holidays and had fun!

Finally we went into the sea for a swim! First it was quite cold but the it was nice. Lees took her surf board and showed me some basic skills. there were no good waves to surf really, but it was pretty nice just to let you go with the little waves! When we came back i had soooo many freckles and they were so extreme!! :D

Haha but now you can also see the bad side off laying too long in the sun! I didn´t exspect the sun to be so strong already.
I am a little sun burnt in my face!

Today I had then my first dive training in the pool. That was exciting but also quite scary in the beginning. You have to get used to the breathing with the tank. We trained diffrent things underwater like changing the relator or mask. Finally i recognized how hard and tiring it was. But the weather was so bad today!! It was raining the whole day like mess.

I hope tomorrow will be cool and we will see quite a bit in the Lake Rotoroma.

The test on Thursday was pretty good. I exspected it to be much harder!
After it I went to a BBQ, where i met some more friend of my school year. ( year 12)
My most Kiwi-Friends are in year 11, because they are many also leeses friends and she is in year11. Of my age i would be in the same year, but they put all exchange students in year12. okay thats confusion I know :D

Anyway we were hanging out together outside and inside and playing some fun games as like hide and seeking, flash light or a funny card game, where we create funny sentences!
I enjoyed this evening after all this studying.

Best wishes from the sun Ann Carolin

Hey Guys,
On Wednesday all Internationals went to the Marae. We saw an interesting light show. We were shown a story about Wairaka, a woman who saved some man in the kanu with leading the boat, and about the Whale Island.
We could have a look around and take some photos. Finally we had Maori bread and tea together.
Here is a picturre of the hall. It is really high(about 7m) and big.


Today I was in Te Puke at the Kiwiland.
we sat in little kiwis as a train and drove through the whole area to the kiwi plantation along many other fruit trees.We learned a few things, e. g. Kiwi is the worldst healthiest fruit.
And at the Plantation we learne about the work , which has to be done with the fruits and the trees through the year. You need one male for 4 female trees. Only the female produce fruits. Here is a picturre of one plant. Of course without fruits because they get picked between april and may.

In front of the main house is a big kiwi fruit which you can see from the road. we went the stairs up to the top and took one group picturre with friends (Ebba, me, Nora, Eve and Maria). It is on the one side green and one the other side more a yellow colour, because there are two types of the kiwi fruits. There are the golden and the green one. On the way to the Plantation we also saw a big figure of a kiwi bird.
On the right bottom it´s me and Kine (from Norway) in the kiwi car.


So tomorrow i go to Auckland for the weekend.
I will tell you about it later..

Best wishes
Ann Carolin

My sister and ME :)


p.s. Papa wollte mehr Photos! ;)

Hellooooo
This weekend the weather was so nice. I got Summer feelings and my freckles came out!
On Saturday I had fun with my sister an Robbie. We were just at home and watch "The Notebook" and i made us chocolate Pancakes! hihi they were yum! ;)
In the evening I was at the hot pools to celebrate Marias Birthday! I bought her a pandora charm in form of a kiwi bird! We were all the time in the hot water. There were just a break for eating cake. We had fun together.
Sunday was than more a relaxing day! I was laying all day in the sun with music in my ears and my diary, which is now full :S !!
It was so nice to feel the summer coming!

This Week is Exams time! Everybody is just studying and only has to come to school to the Exams! We Internationals have our own Programm and dont have to sit the Exams.
Everyday we have one our a KIWIANA lesson, where we learn special things about New Zealand. On Wednesday we will visit the TE MANUKA TUTAHI MARAE and have some Maori Bread and Maori Tea. Another trip to the Kiwi land in Te Puke is on Thursday.
But I will also sit the Textiles and Photography Exam. These are just practical Exams, where I´m going to sew my dress and in the other print my picturres. You can see that i will have a nice Programm this week!
After this week the holidays begin! We have 2 weeks free! I will go for a weekend to Auckland and will probably visit my other sister, Britt, in Wellington.

Okay I have to go to school now.. Hope i have some time to tell about the news this week and can tell you about my trips!! Seeya Ann Carolin ex oh

Here is one of my best Photography picturres.

Hey Friends and Family,

sorry that you had to wait so long for a new report, but I am at the moment so busy and enjoy my new life that I forgot my blogg a bit and didn´t really had time for those things...( My diary writing is also still in the past!)
Okay I start with my last week!
On Monday ( 27th of August) Lisa Carrington came to our school. She is a Gold Medallist of Olympia in Rowing. In the past she went also to Whakatane High School and lives in Ohope, so she came and visit us. The Maoris made the Haka for her, which is a typical maori welcome ceremony.
They shout and it is a bit scary! After a little speech of our prinvipal and a sport teacher she came to the microfon and answered some questions to us. The first came from Josh:”Do you have a boyfriend.” :D Her answer was “ Yes, sorry boys ;)” After this Assembly you could get some autographs and meet her. I got a autograph!!
After school I had my last hockeytrainig, because my team is on tournament this week and after this the season is done. Hockey is only a wintersport. In summer you can play it like a social thing. So I can play but there are no games or special trainings.

On Wednesday was only school until 12:15, so I went with many friends together to Mac Donalds, where we met some more. We stayed there for longer time and had fun. Than some people left our group and we went to town. This was such a sunny and warm day that we stayed we really the whole day outside. We walked around(->slow), sang, sit on a sunny bench, talk and LAUGH !!
I enjoyed this day!
On Thursday and Tuesday we stayed at Annalees´s Dad (Norman). We go quite often out for dinner to the Ohope Chartered Club. I like the food there. Norman likes games very much, so we play every time one or more games (cards/ kind of Domino or bread games).

On Thursday we got our roles for our class play in DRAMA! It is a play about a school scene with the problems of teenager. I am the understudy for Kathy( a girl which dont likes her image and wants to change it, but always when she trys something new she dont like it and started smoking then).
For MARINE STUDIES I had to study about the Greenshell Mussels. On Thursday I had than a little test about the things in the mussel and on Friday than a big test about everything we learned or is in the book. Now this week we started a new topic: Fisheries.
In MATHS we still calculate and count.. but I like the people there.
Today I finished my dress out of the simple fabric in TEXTILES. I think next week, when Mrs Harper is back I will start with the real one. We had to make one out of the simple fabric, because we make a dress out of two pattern and changed a few things. So we had to see how this works and looks like!
In HOSPITALITY we cook twice a week. Every Tuesday we cook something savoury and on Friday morning we bake some muffins or cakes. The food is always very yummy-> I save the recipe! The other two periods we have to do bookwork or just chilling...
For PHOTOGRAPHY I am sorting my photos, which I took of the bird walk.

At lunch I spend more and more time with the Kiwis! All the international students always sit together and join their break together. The first weeks I did the same and hang out with this group, but now I spend more and more time with the New Zealand friends and they become better friends.

So yesterday I went after school with Ashlee to town and hang out a bit. We bought some school stuff and sit in the sun at the river. Ashlee is drinking a milk shake. I dont have one because I already got a Mocha and cooked some really nice Butter Chicken at Hospitality. But it was really nice to talk with her. It try to do some more things after school with friends, because Annalees is this week also on tournament. This week is the girls Hockey and soccer team and the boys hockey team on tournament. It is different without her but Britt, her older sister from Wellington, is here since two weeks. So I am not alone and Karina is also still there for me!
On Sunday afternoon I went for a nice long walk with Karina.
We started on a different part of the bird walk, which goes more up the hill. Than we look for the right following way. We went on walking but it was the wrong way. It was a adventure. We walked trough the bushes, climbed over fences, saw many kind of plants and animals. There were horses, donkies, goats, sheep, a pheasant and different kind of cows. The normal black and white one are called the fresian. Other are the jersey ( light brown one), the hereford (the brown or black one with a with face) and the settleback ( black with a big with strip on their back)!
After going a wrong round we finally find the right way and walk up the hill and on the other side down bit back home. When we come back it already gets dark outside and we recognized that we walked for one and an half hour. We walked quite fast so I felt really warm and sweaty than.
After a shower and dinner I went early to bed, because last night was very short.

Saturday morning I baked some nice scones with my own recipe. So I used a very easy one for savoury and mixed some things in. In the end they were kind of sweet with cinnamon and nuts.
At lunch time I met Anaelle at town. We walked a bit around and went shopping then. I try some things on, but didn´t buy one of these. In the end I find nice blue jacket (Blazer) and Anaelle liked this jacket too. On the way to me she found some nice glasses. Finally we both bought the same jacket and glasses. When we walked out of the shop we were so happy and had fun!
Than we walked with a smile on our face to my home. We first tried our new clothes on and took than some pictures with these on the beginning of the bird walk.
When we come back we got dressed and had dinner. Than Karina brought us to Jackies and a bit later we went with her and Nora to the beach, where Tassos leaving bonefire is.
I have really fun and hang with nice friends around. The cops shot it down at about 11:30 so we had to leave...I stayed than the night with Nora and Anaelle at Jackies. We fell late to bed and dont sleep long, but we had fun. The morning I stayed longer with Jackie and watched a movie.

Ya I think now you see a bit that I have a good time and enjoy my new life!
Best wishes and hugs from Anni