I'm still doing well at school, my host family is very nice and I think my english has improved a lot yet; so I'm happy to be here! But unfortunately, there was a terrible storm last weekend: a cyclone. It started on saturday morning and lasted until sunday afternoon. The cyclone was really horrible: it was raining and the storm reached up to 100kmh(some trees of our garden fell on the property of our neighbour; one nearly hit his car!), so we stucked in the ho...

Last week wasn't that exciting: I had a day off on Thursday because it was work day (the kiwi students didn't have to go to school but they had to do a job instead) and the International Students didn't have to work. On Friday wrote a Chemistry test - it wasn't too hard, I gained an Excellence(see picture):). In New Zealand you can get 4 marks: Excellence, Merit, Achieved and Not Achieved. But the marks are not really important - you only have to get an Achieve...

I had another exciting week in New Zealand! On Wednesday we had Mufti Day at school, that means the students didnt have to wear their uniforms but everybody had to wear the color of his year. Year 10 was green, year 11 yellow and year 12(my year) - pink. I didn't have anything pink, so Natasha gave me a scarf - but I found out that I could wear it like a head cloth, too. That's how I became an old russian grandma for one day. On Saturday I wanted to do the trip...

My last week was quite busy: On Thursday I went kayaking (you can see it on the picture) with my Outdoor Eucation Class for 3 periods. We went to the Main Beach near the Mount and it was really funny! There were huge waves, so sometimes I just fell over because of them; but I didn't care. Everybody had to have a buddy at the beach who watched you all the time, just in case you get in trouble. However, one time my partner fell off the kayak and I wanted to help hi...

School wasn't very exiting last week(It begins to get as boring as my school in Austria :) ), but my weekend was exiting: I had a barbecue with my family in a park on Saturday which was very nice. We went there with another family (they were a bit weird) that had an exchange student from Japan. He was quite nice but his English was not so good so it was hard to talk to him. On Sunday I met Logan(a guy from my Outdoor Education Class), his friend Mathew and Joj...