Holiday Fun

Hey everyone!
So so so sorry I haven't posted for so so long! Well I will tell you everything now.

My family trip to Auckland was awesome! We went on the 14th of January for about 2 weeks, and stayed at our friend's house in Omaha which is north of Auckland, in this really fancy neighbourhood where the houses look like gigantic building blocks stuck on top of each other! The house we stayed in was a 2 min walk from the beach, which was amazing! The weather was hot and we went swimming every day. In the mornings when the tide was low I went shell collecting, the beach was full of beautiful shells, like the ones from the Disney movie little mermaid! I ended up bringing home about 2kgs of shells!

Playing tennis

One day I went into central Auckland to visit my friend Theresa Yong, and we spent the day together. I met her in 2005 when I went to Otago hands-on-science camp and we keep in touch quite a lot. This year she is doing a Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree at Otago (last year she did health science).

We also went for a cruise on a small boat around a marine reserve, where the scientist talked about all the life under the water. The boat had a glass bottom so we could clearly see everything below us, so many pretty fish! It was quite interesting!

Unfortunately the time came when we had to come back to Lower Hutt, and it took us a while to get used to life back at home where the weather was not as hot and we didn't go swimming every day at the beach. Although recently the weather has been quite nice so we did go swimming several times.

Last week my sister Linda started SHC college. It is so strange seeing her wearing my uniform! Last week they had yr9 orientation and put on a concert, which me and Mum came to watch, it was so nice to come back to SHC and see that it is still the same, I felt like I never left! Linda is in Lisiux the pink house, (I was in Barbier, blue) they have sports day coming up, but I'm sure Linda will have no problem finding what to wear since most of her stuff is pink anyway! On Monday Linda started classes and got her timetable. So far she is enjoying college (I think) although she comes home quite tired, and has been getting homework every day! She is lucky to have one of her friends in her form class (her form teacher is a new one) and I think she has friends in most of her classes. Linda has Mr Pipi for Social studies, Mrs Wootton for Religious Studies, Mr Boyle for English and Drama. She also has Mrs Spencer for Maths and new teachers for PE, French and Science. At the moment she is in my old biology classroom, E24 (she says my project about Charles Darwin is still there!) but I think they might be changing classes soon, after doing a test on the first day (at least that's what happened when I was yr9).

University is about to start for me in a couple of weeks, but I am getting really innoyed because I still haven't recieved my confirmation of study, and I sent my application in a month ago!!! Grr!!! I rang up the enrolment office several times but every time was told that my application is getting approved at the faculty. And courses will start in a week!! I wrote them a very stern e-mail yesterday but so far have no reply. If they don't reply by tomorrow morning I am going to ring them up and yell at them!! ...Hopefully it will all work out though!

Me at Omaha Beach, Auckland

Well that's all from me for now, hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday! :):):)