christoph was very right when he told me in an email i got from him lately that i promised you a bit too much when i said i would write in my next few blogs everything that happened in the time from november to now. but i also think that i owe you an explanation about what really happened that day after we visited the paua shell factory. so- where was i? ah, yes.
all the other international students and the teachers that are responsible for us drove back to upper hutt in a van leaving anna, johnson and me behind at the souvenir shop of the factory. now the spy story is a rather small thing. we were sitting at a little table in a corner of the shop and drunk some coffee we got for free when an elderly man presumably a tourist came up to us and started talking. so we had a little conversation and he gave us advise on how to live our lives and such things. luckily he noticed himself after about ten minutes that this might be quite boring for us and so he stopped. somehow we came to speak about his profession and he told us that he used to travelled around the world for his job and that he worked for the british government but he wasn’t an ambassador. so we thought he must be a spy then because he wouldn’t tell us what exactly he was. and that was the spy story.
andrew my support coordinator and some of the other AFS students from upper hutt picked us up from the factory in masterton(for all google earthlers) and drove us to 'castle point' at the beach where the AFS mid-stay camp took place. Again a great event like the first AFS camp loaded with different games and activities. including races, tournaments and swimming in the pacific ocean.
so, now enough of long past events and back to some very recent happenings.
first things first.
After Julie i went to stay with Andrew, Cathy and their daughter Kate(14). very nice funny people. i enjoyed my time at their place very much. they have a dog and a cat and a small messy house but are very loving and great fun. a laughed a lot with them. they all work and go to school in wellington and therefore leave the house very early in the mornings which left me alone with the dog i had to put in the bathroom before i left to school. this is because she barks when she is outside too long. and the neighbours don’t like that.
kate goes to a catholic school in wellington and her school was chosen to carry the flags at a big rugby tournament opening ceremony. this gave me the opportunity to go and have a look when they practiced at the westpac stadium in wellington. i didn’t have tickets for the tournament itself though. the event is called the sevens. it is played with rugby rules but only with seven players and seven minutes of play time each side. this makes it a very quick event of only two days. two days in which all young adults in wellington dress up and get drunk. i did neither of them because police controls of younger-than-eighteen looking people are of a high frequency during this two days. and i didn’t feel like dressing up either.
and then on the second day of the sevens there came the reason why i couldn’t stay at andrew and cathy's house directly form finland. OLLI. he is a very nice guy and we had and still have a lot of fun together. we shared a room for about two weeks and it was really messy in that room.
on sunday two weeks ago we had a AFS chapter meeting at andrew’s house with all the students that arrived last august (johnson, anna, annie and me) welcoming all the new students (wendy, olli and paulina). the janssens were there too with their daughter rebecca who left last friday to germany. right after the meeting when they were at home they called sue the upper hutt valley chapter president and responsible person that they would like to have me as their new student and before i knew it i was in another family again. THE JANSSENS
family janssen live in a very nice house in silverstream another suburb of upper hutt. and again i can still go to school by bike. i live here with john, christine, michael(14) and sophie(11). very nice people! the son is just a bit quiet. but i think that’s just how he is.
i started back to school about two weeks ago with a new subject that immediately became my favourite one. DRAMA. i love it. good people and a good teacher and its just great fun to improvise in english. i won’t be here for the big drama production at the end of the year but there is an assessment before that which contains performing a monologue. today we got our monologues. all of them about one A4 page long. we have to perform them on stage and design and direct the whole little scene for ourselves. a big challenge but a good one.
i am still member of the dragon boating team but i have been promoted. remember how i said that I’m in the second team and that i think that they don’t take any international students in the first team? however, i was wrong. last week my trainer came up to me and asked me if i wanted to join the first team. of course i said yes which means that i can go to the nationals in auckland. isn’t that great. you go to another country, to another school and after 6 month you’re in a team and can compete for the whole school at the nationals. something i wouldn’t even have dreamt of in switzerland!! that’s just great.
now tomorrow i have training before school and after school. first muscles building in the gym and then paddling on the boat in wellington harbour. the last training on the boat was great. you forget about everything. nothing matters anymore. just you and the paddle and the team in the boat. and you have saltwater all over you and it might be cold but you don’t care. all you think is 'keep paddling'. that’s just great. i never had this experience before.
all the other international students and the teachers that are responsible for us drove back to upper hutt in a van leaving anna, johnson and me behind at the souvenir shop of the factory. now the spy story is a rather small thing. we were sitting at a little table in a corner of the shop and drunk some coffee we got for free when an elderly man presumably a tourist came up to us and started talking. so we had a little conversation and he gave us advise on how to live our lives and such things. luckily he noticed himself after about ten minutes that this might be quite boring for us and so he stopped. somehow we came to speak about his profession and he told us that he used to travelled around the world for his job and that he worked for the british government but he wasn’t an ambassador. so we thought he must be a spy then because he wouldn’t tell us what exactly he was. and that was the spy story.
andrew my support coordinator and some of the other AFS students from upper hutt picked us up from the factory in masterton(for all google earthlers) and drove us to 'castle point' at the beach where the AFS mid-stay camp took place. Again a great event like the first AFS camp loaded with different games and activities. including races, tournaments and swimming in the pacific ocean.
so, now enough of long past events and back to some very recent happenings.
first things first.
After Julie i went to stay with Andrew, Cathy and their daughter Kate(14). very nice funny people. i enjoyed my time at their place very much. they have a dog and a cat and a small messy house but are very loving and great fun. a laughed a lot with them. they all work and go to school in wellington and therefore leave the house very early in the mornings which left me alone with the dog i had to put in the bathroom before i left to school. this is because she barks when she is outside too long. and the neighbours don’t like that.
kate goes to a catholic school in wellington and her school was chosen to carry the flags at a big rugby tournament opening ceremony. this gave me the opportunity to go and have a look when they practiced at the westpac stadium in wellington. i didn’t have tickets for the tournament itself though. the event is called the sevens. it is played with rugby rules but only with seven players and seven minutes of play time each side. this makes it a very quick event of only two days. two days in which all young adults in wellington dress up and get drunk. i did neither of them because police controls of younger-than-eighteen looking people are of a high frequency during this two days. and i didn’t feel like dressing up either.
and then on the second day of the sevens there came the reason why i couldn’t stay at andrew and cathy's house directly form finland. OLLI. he is a very nice guy and we had and still have a lot of fun together. we shared a room for about two weeks and it was really messy in that room.
on sunday two weeks ago we had a AFS chapter meeting at andrew’s house with all the students that arrived last august (johnson, anna, annie and me) welcoming all the new students (wendy, olli and paulina). the janssens were there too with their daughter rebecca who left last friday to germany. right after the meeting when they were at home they called sue the upper hutt valley chapter president and responsible person that they would like to have me as their new student and before i knew it i was in another family again. THE JANSSENS
family janssen live in a very nice house in silverstream another suburb of upper hutt. and again i can still go to school by bike. i live here with john, christine, michael(14) and sophie(11). very nice people! the son is just a bit quiet. but i think that’s just how he is.
i started back to school about two weeks ago with a new subject that immediately became my favourite one. DRAMA. i love it. good people and a good teacher and its just great fun to improvise in english. i won’t be here for the big drama production at the end of the year but there is an assessment before that which contains performing a monologue. today we got our monologues. all of them about one A4 page long. we have to perform them on stage and design and direct the whole little scene for ourselves. a big challenge but a good one.
i am still member of the dragon boating team but i have been promoted. remember how i said that I’m in the second team and that i think that they don’t take any international students in the first team? however, i was wrong. last week my trainer came up to me and asked me if i wanted to join the first team. of course i said yes which means that i can go to the nationals in auckland. isn’t that great. you go to another country, to another school and after 6 month you’re in a team and can compete for the whole school at the nationals. something i wouldn’t even have dreamt of in switzerland!! that’s just great.
now tomorrow i have training before school and after school. first muscles building in the gym and then paddling on the boat in wellington harbour. the last training on the boat was great. you forget about everything. nothing matters anymore. just you and the paddle and the team in the boat. and you have saltwater all over you and it might be cold but you don’t care. all you think is 'keep paddling'. that’s just great. i never had this experience before.
i live at
22a Chatsworth road
Silverstream
Upper Hutt
New Zealand
greetings from new zealand
dario
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