I'm sure this will be great!
Mittwoch, 20. April 2011
Easter holiday trip
Today is the last day in school this week. At lunchtime we'll get our car, pick up Vincenzo and Daniela and buy some food in two world. After that we'll drive to Anna and pick her up at home.
I'm sure this will be great!
I'm sure this will be great!
Montag, 18. April 2011
4rd week
On Tuesday was a BBQ at Victor’s home stay. The reason for this was to help the Thai students at school to meet other people, because they were normally all together and speak Thai instead of English. Before dinner they played a game, in which they had to find out who lives in Europe, on an Island, etc. In a nutshell, it was pretty noisy.
However, there were lots and lots of sausages and sliced bread, different salads and of course some local beers. After all had eaten enough we watched a movie about the south of the Southern Island on a big screen, in the basement of the house. That was pretty impressive and confirmed us to make a trip to Milford Sound in May. After all Victor’s host parents drove us home in a mini bus. They seemed to me very friendly, but I heard that this was an extraordinaire day at this home stay and didn’t reflect the normal life there in any aspects…
Thursday, 15th of April was New Year. Ok, not the New Year we normally celebrate but the Thai New Year. So it was quiet different and also a bit funny for us no Thai speakers. They celebrated with splashing water at each other until they were completely wet. (Un-)Fortunately we were a bit late and missed the big splash and were dry enough to stay in town and went on with our study group, this week we were at starbucks café, where we discussed our homework.
On Friday after school I stayed and watched the film “Despicable Me”. It’s an animated film about a super villain, who has to adopt three children to rich his aim, and of course they changed his life. It was quiet fun and for the first time we had popcorn and something to drink. After the film I took the next bus to Frankton, put my school stuff in my room, changed my clothes and took the next bus back to town. In the bus I met Anna and at the bus stop in Queenstown Joan and Victor. Together we looked for a good restaurant for dinner. We had some ideas where to go and at the end we went to "Ballarat Trading Company". I had a sirloin steak and we all enjoyed our meal with a glass of wine - delicious. We didn’t take any desert (or pudding) and walked through Queenstown to the next pub. Surprisingly there was nothing on (at half past eight ;-) ), so we moved on and passed Patagonia, where we couldn’t resist to buy an ice cream. It was quiet windy and when we finished eating our pudding; we went to cowboys, a nice pub in wild western style. You can play pool there or even riding a mechanical bull! But when time went on it became crowded, so we left the place, went to Winnies, just to see that nothing was on there and walked further to Buffalo. It was alright and about half past ten, Romana came a last time to town to enjoy going out in Queenstown. Unfortunately Joan wanted to catch his last regular bus at ten to eleven and Victor and Anna their bus at ten past.
So Romana and I went to Dux sub-culture, where Carina and her friends already rocked the place. A live band played well some good cover songs and it was just awesome. When the evening went on, Sabrina, Mana and one of his brothers joined us and we went to Winnies (again) where was now a bit of a party. Romana had to say goodbye, because she wanted to catch the bus on Saturday morning to Christchurch, where she’ll start her New Zealand trip. Carina knew a club at the steam wharf, where se had gone earlier this evening and they told her, she should come again after twelve, then it would be like a atomic explosion! Well, when we arrived at the place, it was like after an atomic explosion, almost dead and nobody there.
So we went to Buffalo (again), danced and played pool. When the girls disappeared, we left the club and found them outside coming back from Ferg Burgers, where they recharged their batteries. We passed the world bar (strange music) went into skyline bar (a bar, nothing more, boring) and tried to come into cowboys again, but we couldn’t and didn’t find out why not. So we went to the mini bar, which is in the opposite of cowboys. The bar is, like its name, really small and nothing more like the first floor of a house. It was ok to spend some time there until the night bus took me home at three o’clock.
If you could imagine, I didn’t save the world on Saturday morning, I slept in. xD
Then I listened to music, did some exercises in the workbook, read…, but I’m sure you don’t want to know this.
Sunday started even earlier, at six o’clock. I don’t know why, but I was a bit tired and didn’t get up quickly. In fact of that, the bus drove away, when I was leaving home. Fortunately I had enough time, so I walked to the bus shelter in Frankton, which wasn’t a big deal, although it was raining. Of course the bus to Wanaka wasn’t punctual and we (Victor, I and Vincenzo) had to wait. It was a small bus, which could take the smaller and shorter way to Wanaka and we arrived at half past eight. The weather was still bad and we decided not to take the glacier track, instead we would walk along the lake. But before we could start with our walk, I needed a real coffee (not an instant one) and Victor and Vincenzo a second breakfast.
Vincenzo stayed in town, because he wanted to visit a museum and so only Victor and I walked on. Along the lake were many coloured trees and so it took us longer because we stopped very often to take pictures. Some parts of the track were quiet boring and we had to walk on a gravel road or even beside a road. We had the chances to take a track around or up to Mt. Iron, but Victor wanted to go straight back to Wanaka. We arrived there at quarter to two and asked at the information centre how we could go to the plane museum. The woman at the desk told me that the museum is closed until August, but there is also a toy museum which has some real planes and vehicles. It didn’t sound so bad but there is no bus to the airport, where the museums are. In fact Wanaka has no public transports at all! So we walked through the city, which is really small and has no really centre, and met Vincenzo again on the beach. That’s the best part of Wanaka, because all the shops are at the other side of the street and at the beach are no buildings. We enjoyed the afternoon with beer and crisps (and Camembert!).
At 5 pm the bus came and we all left Wanaka. On this time the bus took another route over Cromwell, which is longer and not so exciting, but it didn’t matter because we all were tired.
42 Robertson St, Frankton
However, there were lots and lots of sausages and sliced bread, different salads and of course some local beers. After all had eaten enough we watched a movie about the south of the Southern Island on a big screen, in the basement of the house. That was pretty impressive and confirmed us to make a trip to Milford Sound in May. After all Victor’s host parents drove us home in a mini bus. They seemed to me very friendly, but I heard that this was an extraordinaire day at this home stay and didn’t reflect the normal life there in any aspects…
Thursday, 15th of April was New Year. Ok, not the New Year we normally celebrate but the Thai New Year. So it was quiet different and also a bit funny for us no Thai speakers. They celebrated with splashing water at each other until they were completely wet. (Un-)Fortunately we were a bit late and missed the big splash and were dry enough to stay in town and went on with our study group, this week we were at starbucks café, where we discussed our homework.
On Friday after school I stayed and watched the film “Despicable Me”. It’s an animated film about a super villain, who has to adopt three children to rich his aim, and of course they changed his life. It was quiet fun and for the first time we had popcorn and something to drink. After the film I took the next bus to Frankton, put my school stuff in my room, changed my clothes and took the next bus back to town. In the bus I met Anna and at the bus stop in Queenstown Joan and Victor. Together we looked for a good restaurant for dinner. We had some ideas where to go and at the end we went to "Ballarat Trading Company". I had a sirloin steak and we all enjoyed our meal with a glass of wine - delicious. We didn’t take any desert (or pudding) and walked through Queenstown to the next pub. Surprisingly there was nothing on (at half past eight ;-) ), so we moved on and passed Patagonia, where we couldn’t resist to buy an ice cream. It was quiet windy and when we finished eating our pudding; we went to cowboys, a nice pub in wild western style. You can play pool there or even riding a mechanical bull! But when time went on it became crowded, so we left the place, went to Winnies, just to see that nothing was on there and walked further to Buffalo. It was alright and about half past ten, Romana came a last time to town to enjoy going out in Queenstown. Unfortunately Joan wanted to catch his last regular bus at ten to eleven and Victor and Anna their bus at ten past.
So Romana and I went to Dux sub-culture, where Carina and her friends already rocked the place. A live band played well some good cover songs and it was just awesome. When the evening went on, Sabrina, Mana and one of his brothers joined us and we went to Winnies (again) where was now a bit of a party. Romana had to say goodbye, because she wanted to catch the bus on Saturday morning to Christchurch, where she’ll start her New Zealand trip. Carina knew a club at the steam wharf, where se had gone earlier this evening and they told her, she should come again after twelve, then it would be like a atomic explosion! Well, when we arrived at the place, it was like after an atomic explosion, almost dead and nobody there.
So we went to Buffalo (again), danced and played pool. When the girls disappeared, we left the club and found them outside coming back from Ferg Burgers, where they recharged their batteries. We passed the world bar (strange music) went into skyline bar (a bar, nothing more, boring) and tried to come into cowboys again, but we couldn’t and didn’t find out why not. So we went to the mini bar, which is in the opposite of cowboys. The bar is, like its name, really small and nothing more like the first floor of a house. It was ok to spend some time there until the night bus took me home at three o’clock.
If you could imagine, I didn’t save the world on Saturday morning, I slept in. xD
Then I listened to music, did some exercises in the workbook, read…, but I’m sure you don’t want to know this.
Sunday started even earlier, at six o’clock. I don’t know why, but I was a bit tired and didn’t get up quickly. In fact of that, the bus drove away, when I was leaving home. Fortunately I had enough time, so I walked to the bus shelter in Frankton, which wasn’t a big deal, although it was raining. Of course the bus to Wanaka wasn’t punctual and we (Victor, I and Vincenzo) had to wait. It was a small bus, which could take the smaller and shorter way to Wanaka and we arrived at half past eight. The weather was still bad and we decided not to take the glacier track, instead we would walk along the lake. But before we could start with our walk, I needed a real coffee (not an instant one) and Victor and Vincenzo a second breakfast.
Vincenzo stayed in town, because he wanted to visit a museum and so only Victor and I walked on. Along the lake were many coloured trees and so it took us longer because we stopped very often to take pictures. Some parts of the track were quiet boring and we had to walk on a gravel road or even beside a road. We had the chances to take a track around or up to Mt. Iron, but Victor wanted to go straight back to Wanaka. We arrived there at quarter to two and asked at the information centre how we could go to the plane museum. The woman at the desk told me that the museum is closed until August, but there is also a toy museum which has some real planes and vehicles. It didn’t sound so bad but there is no bus to the airport, where the museums are. In fact Wanaka has no public transports at all! So we walked through the city, which is really small and has no really centre, and met Vincenzo again on the beach. That’s the best part of Wanaka, because all the shops are at the other side of the street and at the beach are no buildings. We enjoyed the afternoon with beer and crisps (and Camembert!).
At 5 pm the bus came and we all left Wanaka. On this time the bus took another route over Cromwell, which is longer and not so exciting, but it didn’t matter because we all were tired.
42 Robertson St, Frankton
Mittwoch, 13. April 2011
3rd week
I summarise the whole week in one part, because I don’t want you fall asleep while you reading my blog.
On Monday after school I played pool with Victor, Andrea and Romana. Despite the fact that Romana had played pool the first time here in New Zealand, she played very well with Andrea and we needed a third match to find out who played better.
It was one of the last days for Andrea in Queenstown and so we walked down to the beach and enjoyed viewing the beautiful panorama.
The next days were quiet normal and nothing special happened. On Thursday we went on with our study group. This time we studied at the airport after we found the juicy desk (local car rental) to book a car. The airport was the right place to study. It was calm, enough space on the tables and in a break we could watch the planes starting and landing.
Friday was finally good enough to go paragliding again. On the second flight there was a quiet strong wind, so I could soaring in front of the take off place for a few minutes- Awesome!
On Saturday I rent a bike and did a biking trip with Victor and Romana to Moke Lake. Victor had his own bike, which he bought this week, and Romana used the one of her host mum. Unfortunately it wasn’t very suitable for biking and had a baby seat on the back! xD
The first part of our trip was on the board of the lake and it went up and down. Then came a first steep part of the total 350m altitude difference. After that part the street changed to a gravel road and went slightly up to the highest passage of our trip so far. Actually we were now higher than the lake and we could easily drive down to the lake. The view there was magnificent and it was almost quiet around us.
After the lunch we decided to take an other way back, though that Romana had to go back to Arthurs Point, which is higher located than Queenstown. Firstly the way was comfortable and went slightly up and down, on the same gravel road. Then it started to go up and down more steeper and the road changed to a path with smaller and bigger rocks on it. Most of the path were so narrow, that you touched the ground with the pedals, when you wanted to bike! So we walked and on some places you had to carry your bike, because there was no other option.
Despite of that it was a great journey and we finally came to Arthurs Point.
Just in time I arrived at the bike store, to give my bike back at half past five. I went home by bus and after dinner I fell asleep quickly.
On Sunday I woke up at half past six, but not of the fact that I couldn’t sleep, no, it was because my alarm clock rang!
The reason of this early Sunday morning was that I met Victor at quarter to eight in Town. Together with his home stay mates (Vinzenzo and Daniela) and some girls from school (Sabrina and Carina) we wanted to climb Ben Lomond (1500m difference). After we bought something to eat and drink in the local bakery (really good) we started our walk at the gondola station. It took us over an hour to go up to the upper station, but because the gondola started to run after nine o’clock, we had to wait for Sabrina and Carina. They both have the annual pass for the gondola (like me) and didn’t want to walk up when they could take the gondola for free.
We walked about 3 hours from the Gondola Station to the summit of Ben Lomond. Normally we walked together, but for the last part we split up in pairs, so that everyone could walk in his own speed. I and Victor had the aim to stay on the top at midday. We increased our speed and reached the top at three to twelve-yeah! I was very hungry and the first thing I did was to eat a banana- I’ve never eaten a so tasty banana before! ;-)
On top we had a full 360 degree panorama. We could see Queenstown and most of Wakatipu Lake. Furthermore we saw where we biked yesterday, because the track went around Ben Lomond. It was also a bit windy up there and I was glad to have a jacket with me.
The way down wasn’t a big deal, but I would remember it the next few days, specially my thighs. In total we needed eight hours to stand again in Queenstown, inclusive all the little and bigger breaks. This evening I was even more tired and I went to bed at 9 o’clock.
42, Robertson St, Frankton
On Monday after school I played pool with Victor, Andrea and Romana. Despite the fact that Romana had played pool the first time here in New Zealand, she played very well with Andrea and we needed a third match to find out who played better.
It was one of the last days for Andrea in Queenstown and so we walked down to the beach and enjoyed viewing the beautiful panorama.
The next days were quiet normal and nothing special happened. On Thursday we went on with our study group. This time we studied at the airport after we found the juicy desk (local car rental) to book a car. The airport was the right place to study. It was calm, enough space on the tables and in a break we could watch the planes starting and landing.
Friday was finally good enough to go paragliding again. On the second flight there was a quiet strong wind, so I could soaring in front of the take off place for a few minutes- Awesome!
On Saturday I rent a bike and did a biking trip with Victor and Romana to Moke Lake. Victor had his own bike, which he bought this week, and Romana used the one of her host mum. Unfortunately it wasn’t very suitable for biking and had a baby seat on the back! xD
The first part of our trip was on the board of the lake and it went up and down. Then came a first steep part of the total 350m altitude difference. After that part the street changed to a gravel road and went slightly up to the highest passage of our trip so far. Actually we were now higher than the lake and we could easily drive down to the lake. The view there was magnificent and it was almost quiet around us.
After the lunch we decided to take an other way back, though that Romana had to go back to Arthurs Point, which is higher located than Queenstown. Firstly the way was comfortable and went slightly up and down, on the same gravel road. Then it started to go up and down more steeper and the road changed to a path with smaller and bigger rocks on it. Most of the path were so narrow, that you touched the ground with the pedals, when you wanted to bike! So we walked and on some places you had to carry your bike, because there was no other option.
Despite of that it was a great journey and we finally came to Arthurs Point.
Just in time I arrived at the bike store, to give my bike back at half past five. I went home by bus and after dinner I fell asleep quickly.
On Sunday I woke up at half past six, but not of the fact that I couldn’t sleep, no, it was because my alarm clock rang!
The reason of this early Sunday morning was that I met Victor at quarter to eight in Town. Together with his home stay mates (Vinzenzo and Daniela) and some girls from school (Sabrina and Carina) we wanted to climb Ben Lomond (1500m difference). After we bought something to eat and drink in the local bakery (really good) we started our walk at the gondola station. It took us over an hour to go up to the upper station, but because the gondola started to run after nine o’clock, we had to wait for Sabrina and Carina. They both have the annual pass for the gondola (like me) and didn’t want to walk up when they could take the gondola for free.
We walked about 3 hours from the Gondola Station to the summit of Ben Lomond. Normally we walked together, but for the last part we split up in pairs, so that everyone could walk in his own speed. I and Victor had the aim to stay on the top at midday. We increased our speed and reached the top at three to twelve-yeah! I was very hungry and the first thing I did was to eat a banana- I’ve never eaten a so tasty banana before! ;-)
On top we had a full 360 degree panorama. We could see Queenstown and most of Wakatipu Lake. Furthermore we saw where we biked yesterday, because the track went around Ben Lomond. It was also a bit windy up there and I was glad to have a jacket with me.
The way down wasn’t a big deal, but I would remember it the next few days, specially my thighs. In total we needed eight hours to stand again in Queenstown, inclusive all the little and bigger breaks. This evening I was even more tired and I went to bed at 9 o’clock.
42, Robertson St, Frankton
Sonntag, 3. April 2011
2nd Weekend
The Saturday wasn't very exciting and I did some excercises in the book.
On Sunday morning we went white water sledging, which is something between river rafting and canyoning. We weared some good wet suits, so we had warm enough, despite the water was about fourten degrees. We took the 5km long river track twice and it made a lot of fun. It was absolute the right way to wake up on a lazy sunday morning! xD
On Sunday morning we went white water sledging, which is something between river rafting and canyoning. We weared some good wet suits, so we had warm enough, despite the water was about fourten degrees. We took the 5km long river track twice and it made a lot of fun. It was absolute the right way to wake up on a lazy sunday morning! xD
Friday
After school we watched a film at school about some Australians who were camping while a foreign army invaded their country. The name of the film was "Tomorrow, when the war begun". Sometimes it was a bit ridiculous but it was allright.
After the film we went to mana's flat, which he shares with his brothers. Victor cooked spanish tortillia and I helped him. Mana also cooked some good spicy food and we shared it all together with other students (We were about 10 students in there :-))
We heard to different music before we went out to the town. The clubs here are great, but sometimes a bit overrun.
Finally I took the nightbus at two o'clock back to Frankton.
After the film we went to mana's flat, which he shares with his brothers. Victor cooked spanish tortillia and I helped him. Mana also cooked some good spicy food and we shared it all together with other students (We were about 10 students in there :-))
We heard to different music before we went out to the town. The clubs here are great, but sometimes a bit overrun.
Finally I took the nightbus at two o'clock back to Frankton.
Thursday
Today we (Vicor and I) started with our study-groupe. We went to a little café near the harbour. It was quiet nice there and we stayed there for hours. Actually we just did our homeworks, which was a reading taks, and improved our vocabulary. We will go on with this groupe in the next week and search for other students, who will join the groupe.
Wednesday
On Wednesday I directly went home after school, picked up my glider and went back to the town. So I could do three flights. Every time I arrived the take off place, I was exhausted, because I had to walk up from the gondola station a 300m long steep path to the 100m heigher located take off place.
But I it was worth, so I don't have to go to a gym! ;-)
But I it was worth, so I don't have to go to a gym! ;-)
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