ROYAL ALBATROSS COLONY

bees: Today all the international students from St. Hilda's went to the Royal Albatross Colony on the Otago Peninsula. We saw albatrosses and fur seals. I had to dress up like an albatross which looked quite funny. I will show you some pictures later.                                                                                                  

Albatross Colony

Ann: Today all the "new" Internationals went to the Albatross Colony instead going to school :):):) We saw albatrosses and seals, but no penguins. We learned a bit about the albatrosses, for example that they are 3m large. Bees had to be a albatross and we put all the important things on her, so she looked very funny. We took a few photos of that which we'll show you here later.
It was really cool to have another day where we didn't go to school.

ABEL TASMAN!!!

THE BIG STARFISH

ME AND ONE OF THE GIRLS THAT DISCOVERED THE MAGIC SAND

A TURTLE SHAPED ISLAND

bees: I´ve been on Abel Tasman, too. It was the best thing I´ve ever done. I´ve never seen anything like that before. There are so many trees and plants at once, the water is bright blue, the wheather was amazing and I´ve seen animals I had never seen in wildlife before eg. big starfish, baby seals and glowworms. Me and two kiwi girls also discovered some "magic sand": when you rubbed over it it started    glowing. That was so pretty!            

Abel Tasman, again!

Marie: I know I am a bit late, but I still want to write about the amazing trip to the Abel Tasman National park. This week is my highlight of the whole time here. The landscape in the Abel Tasman was just stunning. You could see beautiful beaches and not far away you were standing in the jungle.
Of course the tramping and kayaking was hard sometimes, but it was much easier than I thought it would be. I really enjoyed the kayaking, because you could see seals and it was cool to be on the water the whole day.
My group was really nice as well. While we were tramping everyone was singing, which was funny. Sometimes there were some little arguments in my cooking group, but it was still a great experience to cook all your food and to carry out all the waste again.
In the end I just can say: Go and visit the Abel Tasman National Park and if you don’t have the possibility to do so, than at least check out the pictures I took :)

Abel Tasman National Park

Katy: Hey everybody!!! Yesterday we arrived back from the Abel Tasman NP after a 10hour bus drive. Now it's sunday morning, and lie have to recover from this most exhausting week of my life:


1 Day: We drove 12 hours to a Backpacker hostel for the first night. We all had a day pack fith us, that means a small bag with lot's of food for the drive, and what elso you need for a day:-D And a big/gigant pack with sleepingbag, tent, bedroll, cooker, pam, billi, food for one week, which we had prepared and bought before and everything you need to survive oe week without supermarkets, cellphones, house and showers.



2. Day: We had to do our first own breakfast the first time, which was very exciting, although it wasn't that brilliant breakfast. After we had put our day pack in the bus, we went to the sea kajak company, for be introduced in kajaks, how to put all your staff in there(which isn't that easy) and so on.Then we drove to the sea to start tramping or kajaking. I was in the tramping first group. On this day we walked about



4-5 hours with a pack a 30Kg. At the evening we had to make or tents and did our first meal with choclat pudding for desert.Yummy...we also had a swimm in this caribean blue water...
3. Day: The third day was nearly the same like day 2 exept, that we had to walk about 7 hours........
4. Day: At the fourth day we didn't have to carry our tents with us because we went to a place, were the kajaking groupe swop with the tramping group, so we could leave our tents on the campground. The walk without the tents, sleepingbags and bedrolls was like flying, so the walk only took us about 1 hour. At a beach, we changed and so we had to go back with the kajaks...which is even more exhausting, than tramping.
At the evening, when it was dark, we could see the billion stars in the sky and even the southern cross and the milyway. Besides we went in a whole covered in glouworms(!!!)This was amazing.



5. Day: We were kajaking for 5hours and then made flip overs in the water, which was sooooo cold.But we could warm up afterwords in the sun. And this night we had a nice animal in our tent: A mous!!!




6.Day: On this day we had our last 4 kajak hours and went back to the backpackers to stay there the night...in this night we had our first fisch&chips for one week! They were aawesome.






All in all this week was amazig and I am so lucky to had the chance to go there!!!

Abel Tasman

Ann: Hey everybody!! We´re back!! The last week was so awesome! Kathy, Marie, Bees and I went to Abel Tasman National Park with our PE group. We went tramping two and a half day and kayaking two and a half day. It was very hard and hot, but it was so much fun!! And we got to know all the kiwigirls better.
The water in Abel Tasman National Park is so blue, I´ve never seen water like this before. We´ll post some photos later!!

Subjects

Krissy:

Hey everybody!!!

I decided to tell or write something about my subjects.

Music is the first one because I like it so much...

Last week I get a Merit, which is a really good mark from four. They are Not Achieved, Achieved, Merit and Excellence but Excellence is actually a really exceptionally mark. So I was so happy!!!

At the moment we are doing compositions, which makes a lot of fun.

Bye the way, we are just 4 persons and I'm in year 13 because there isn't this subject in year 12.

All in all I like Music a lot especially because it isn't as boring as other subjects.