I'm always busy now, because I've school all day (from 8:45 to 3:15), I play tennis and at the weekend I do something with my family or my friends(I already have friends :D). I'm doing well at school, I get to know new people every day, so I'm not lonely and I don't have to learn to much. I'll try to write a blog entry every week from now on and when I do a trip to an interesting place I'll show you some photos. This week I played tennis, was at school, went to a...

On Wednesday I was really nervous, because I met the other international students for the first time. I knew nobody and of course I wanted to make some friends. However, after I arrived at school everybody was welcomed with a traditional Maori-welcome, which lasted for about one hour and was really weird: Somebody held a speech in Maori which was interrupted by children who sang Maori songs - I've never seen something like that before. After that the internatio...

I've been here for one week now and I really enjoy it! My host family is still very nice (I'll introduce them when Joel, my host brother, is back from his stay in Canada(He spends 6 months in Canada)), the weather is warm and I do lots of exiting things: On Saturday, for example, Ryan, his friend Fergus and I went to an adventure park. It was very cool and bigger and mre difficult than the adventure parks in Austria.Anyways, I did not find it too hard, but Fergu...

Sorry or my late update, but I've already written this entry 3 times during the lat few days and it never worked. Hopefully it is working now... However, I was very happy when I finally arrived at my family on Tuesday because the flight was long and exhausting( I flew 6 hours from Munich to Dubai, stayed there for 4 hours, flew 13 hours to Sydney, stayed there for 1 hour and finally I flew 3 hours to Auckland where a taxi picked me up and brought me to Tauranga....