A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DARIO BRANDER

different people asked me to write something about my daily routine. well, in the morning i usually get up at 7 o'clock. then i take my shower and eat some weet-bix which are some kind grain bars which are eaten with milk and sugar (mmh...). then i make my lunch. this is most of the days three toast sandwiches with peanut butter and berry jam and two nut bars for the morning tea. at 7.50 i leave the house with my school bag of course. i then go and pick up johnson (exchange student from hong kong). he lives one road away from my house. we then make our way to upper hutt station which is a small train station from which we use to leave to wellington. this is a 10 minute walk. at the station we enter the bus to ride it for about 10 more minutes. then we get out the bus again and walk past a primary school to upper hutt college which is a big school comparable with a swiss gymnasium. upper hutt college has around 1300 students and all of them wear a uniform except of me some other exchange students and all 13th year students. we are usually 10 minutes early so we often go to the school library before our first period starts. we have 5 periods every day and every period lasts for 1 hour (but often their just 50 minutes because it can take quite a while till everybody is seated). after period two we have morning tea which is actually just a big break. two more periods and and i can eat my lunch. i usually have it outside in front of the cafeteria. after i ate my lunch i always go to the library because thats one of the places where we can get internet access. after lunch time there is just one more period before school finishes at around 3.15 pm. i then go home. depending on my mood i spend more or less time in upper hutt 'city'. i have to say im very lucky because my school way leads through the city. so sometimes i go and put some money on my prepaid card or i go and buy something we need at home (eg. peanut butter or nut bars) and sometimes when im really, really hungry we go to mcdonalds which is a dangerous place because if you go there too much u can loose lots of money. my day often ends at home where i first get the dried laundry in and fold it. the tv is often on. but i also read a lot. and i do my homework as im supposed to do. i go to bed (ooh i love my bed. its sooo comfortable) at around 10.30 pm.

so see u dario