Places to go, people to see

First of all - thank you so much, Chris and Adrian for taking me to NZ, and for have given me an absolutely fantastic time. 

It isn't possible to write about all the things we did - but here are some:

We arrived in Auckland Saturday night, and stayed there for the first night. We then visited to of their friends in Hamelton where we spent the second night.

We travelled further to a place called Rotarua on Monday. This is known for its hot smelly pools. It was an absolutely terrible smell, but still nice to watch and take photos of! We stoped at a place where you could have races down a hill in a luge (kind of a go-cart). Heaps of fun, especially because I won :3

We had planned to visit an active volcano in Whakatane, but the tour got cancelled because of too much rain. We therefore decided to travel back north again to Bay of Islands. If you have the chance to visit NZ, definitely stop here! We spent two nights at a motel, visited a Maori Museum, chocolate and fudge factory and went on a day trip with dolphin watching.

We arrived back in Auckland on Friday, and stayed there for the rest of the time. The SkyTower was a bit higher then what we thought, so we didn't do the 360-walk on the outside. On Sunday, one of my biggest dreams got fulfilled. I got to swim with sharks - or as close as possible. This was in Kelly Tarltons Underwater World. Together with 3 others I swam in a cage together with 25 sharks! :D

It was a fantastic trip, but I was still quite pleased to go back to school on tuesday to meet my friends again! My "host-grandfather" took me to a club in Newcastle where a Jazz-concert was held in the evening. Two absolutely great funky bands!

It's still spring down under with only 38 degrees. Where is this going to end???

- Beccy