tsbinawile

Kia ora,
I have just recently changed addresses! Thats right i am now with my second host family, living in Scott's Landing. It's another very rural location but instead of being at the top of a hill i'm near the bottom, VERY close to the water.

My family consists of Keith and Joan Jones (parents) and a brother Calum. Calum is 17 and is a very avid sailor. he's very sporty as well and plays hockey (feild hockey) squash and a little bit of rugby. There's is also an older sister, who went on exchange to Denmark a few years back.

So far things are going well, i'm just off school holidays and so now i'm on study leave haha. this is exam time for the Kiwis and the teachers have been given the option to give us international students exams or not and the majority have decided not too. To be perfectly honest, i am not impressed with how the internationals are treated at Mahurangi College. We're never given much attention and often separated from the kiwi students. Many of the Germans aren't impressed either.

Although school is slowing down, Rotary events seem to be coming more freqeuntly. A week back from this past weekend was a training session for us inbounds who are involved with the Targa Rally. It's a Rally which runs for 4 days and there are races from Auckland down to Wellington. These kinds of things are always great fun.. whenever the inbounds get together we always have a blast. After the training, we went down to Queen St. (it's like barrington st. or.. st catherines st.) and hung out/ate/went to see a movie. The next Rotary event is a Marae Weekend which looks to be a super experience. We (inbounds/outbounds) will be sleeping in a Marae for a night and learning a lot about Maori culture.

on the whole i'm disapponited about the directoin school is going butthere is not much we can do to change things. i'm gonna peace, i have some speeches to write for Marae weekend.

new addresss:

4 young st.
RD2 Warkworth,
Auckland, New Zealand