trip to the south!

On Monday this week was our first day after th holidays back in school. It was a bit different without Teresa and Christina but over all like every monday morning. :)
With Outdoor Education we went rock climbing again this wednesday. It was a practice lesson for next week, where we will have a rock climbing assessment. There are three different types of walls we can climbe: Achieved wall which was allready very hard, merit wall and exellent wall.

Jessica doing the saving and me helping as a back up 

This Thursday we had student assembley like every thursday. In Assembley the whole school comes together in the chaple and Mrs Bell the head teacher holds a speach about what happened in the last week. Also the students who achieved something are named and get their certificates. This time Sophie and I were named...we both were really surprised about that because we couldn't remember doing anything special. After a few second we realized that we had participated in a french test before the holidays. So we both got a certificate an were really proud. :)

my certificate :) 

Friday was Karla's birthday so we went to a restaurant and had a nice evening together.
On Saturday my hostparents, Kirsty, Heidi and her mother took me to the Bottom of the south island. We left home about 9:30 am and stopped after an hour at cafe where we had a brunch. After that we went on and stopped the next time at a waterfall which was really beautiful in the middle of a rainforest. On our way we stopped one more time to see a really beautiful beach. Than we finally arived in Bluff, the city at the south end of New Zealand. So now I've been to the Northern and Southern end of New Zealand with in two weeks. :) On our way back we stopped in Invercargill to have dinner. We arrived at home at about 8pm. After my trip to the North island and now my Saturday down at the bottom of the south island I really can say: New Zealand is such a beautiful country!!!

the three steps waterfall 

beautiful rainforest 

really cool beach 

18958 km from London :) 

the Southern end of New Zealand