My Home Stay In New Zealand !
reported by Takako Uchida
24. July 1999
I took the plane to New Zealand from Nagoya airport.
The members who went to New Zealand with me were 10. We were selected
as the exchange students of Okazaki city. This trip was my first
trip abroad. When I came through the detector, my FIREWORKS were taken away. I only wanted to show the fireworks
to the host family...
25. July 1999
The plane stopped over in Fiji on the way. Green
island and blue sea... The view from the plane's window was very
beautiful ! I arrived in New Zealand. Going out of Auckland airport,
it was cold. I went to Tauranga by bus. In the afternoon, we each
met our host family. But my host family didn't appear, because
they all were busy. So I stayed at another host family's house
until my host family came to meet me. My host family were Kate
(mother), Kerriden (older daughter), Rennaya (younger daughter)
and Jaim (son). At night I gave them Japanese souvenirs- T-shirt
and print of Okazaki castle. Then Jaim said, "NINJA are fighting
in the castle!"
26. July 1999
From today I started to go to Mt. Mounganui College
to study English. We took MAORI Welcome. MAORIs are the native
people in New Zealand. Among MAORIs, the way to KISS is to touch each noses. We
met the mayor of Tauranga. He is very kind. In New Zealand there
are many orchards of KIWI
as I had thought.
27. July 1999
We climbed Mt. Maunganui. Mt.Maunganui
is not such a high mountain, but it was very hard for me to climb
Mt.Maunganui. The view from the top of the mountain was very very
beautiful! I thought it was good that I succeeded in climbing
it.
When I reached the top of the mountain
I took the above picture. 28.
July 1999
We went to elementary school to
teach Japanese culture to students. I made KABUTO with newspapers
and ORIGAMI. The children of school were a lot
of fun and cute! They often said " SUSHI!!"This
word was well known.
This night I ate PAVLOVA.
29. July 1999
Tonight's dinner, I made OKONOMIYAKI and SHIRATAMADANGO with Azusa. Azusa is Kerriden's friend.
She had stayed at Kerriden's house before, and now she came back
to Tauranga and lived near Kerriden's house. It was delicious
for Azusa and me but not so much for the host family. Jaim only
like the OKONOMIYAKI sauce. He ate bread with this sauce.
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