JJ's Three Weeks in Auckland

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JJs Three Weeks in Auckland

October 7 28, 2012


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Day 1: Sunday, October 7

Depart Bangkok

Today we went to the airport at10.30 am. We went past the

security cops then waited for a few hours for the plane toarrive. We went on board and some of us were terrified to

leave Thailand. We arrived at Changi. The airport of

Singapore. We spended an hour there then we went on

board to the trip to nz.


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Day 2: Monday, October 8

Arrive Auckland International Airport/ Transfer to host family

Today it is our first day at Auckland. It was very exiting

there but its still very cold. We just arrived at Auckland. Wetook a bus to the school and our host family. Actually our


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host was late for the pickup but he brought his awesome

jaguar car. We were very tired about the trip and we went

to our hosts house. I cant remember what the food is but

its good. We had a little shower and then went to bed.


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Day 3: Tuesday, October 9

Orientation/ Sky Tower and Mt. Eden


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Today I woke up at eight oclock this morning but I couldnt

move my feet because the blanket was too heavy. Today we

had a long orientation at the school. After that we went to

our classroom. I felt sad because I didnt bring any cup

noodles.


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We studied the rules of the school and the money. It was

not real money but money that we could trade for things on

Friday. When we finished our school work we went to the

Sky Tower. I felt a little bit car sick. When we reached theSky Tower we took a glass-floor lift. It was scary. When

were on the top we looked out to the city below. It was

high enough to see everything. Next we went to Mt.Eden. It

was a good high hill with a lot of open space. I ran to the

bottom of the hill. It was very tiring. When we are back at

the school we went to the spot that my host mom said weneeded to meet at that spot. I gave all my leftover food to

the birds then we went home.


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Day 4: Wednesday, October 10

Museum/ Cultural Show


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Today I wake up at 8 oclock. I had cereal again this

morning. We went to school faster. I felt a little bit sleepy

and tired. We studied about the present simple and

continuous tense. We did some worksheets then at 12.00

we go down to have lunch. My host mom gave me some

sandwich and snacks. We went to the museum at 12.50.

When we are there we heard a horn to let us know that theshow is beginning. We watch the Maori things for about

half an hour. Then we got to look for thing. I go with some

of my group to look at stuff. We found a axe and a shield

near the toilet. My friend go in the toilet. When were out

we saw a shop. I bought 2 Kiwi bird doll. It looks like a fun

ball. When we went home we had a bowl of noodles. While

I am writing this diary for the first time. The second time Iwrote this diary is when we were finish with the shower.

We stayed in the room for a while to do our things. Then

our host mom said we forgot to come down and play cards.

I forgot all of it. We went to bed at 9 oclock. It was a very

tired day so I went to bed quickly.


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Day 5: Thursday, October 11

Auckland Zoo

Today we went to the Auckland Zoo. I was very sleepy

because this morning I didnt sleep well. We went to school

as usual. We changed our class because the other room is

... So Lin our teacher will teach that class. We

were so happy to be down stairs which is easier to walk. We

have a break then we ate some noodles. It was so delicious.

When we finished the class I went to buy some snacks and

then went to the zoo. When we were there I got map to


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look and went to the entrance. There were a lot of animals

in the zoo such as tigers, gibbons, zebras, lambs, goats and

giraffes. I got lost several time in the zoo. At last we made

our way back to the entrance. I was so happy that I could

get out of the zoo. We took a bus back to the school. My

host father came to pick me up at 5.00 then we went home.

We ate some cup noodles and . Before playing an

Uno game with my host. I went to sleep at nine.

Day 6: Friday, October 12

Davonport Ferry Trip


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Today we went to the port to get on a ferry across the bay.

After we arrived we went on a mountain that we didnt

know its name but theres a really cool army base on themountain. There were a lot of canons and firearms. We

even jumped out the lava hole that was the place that lava

made when it was a volcano. Today exhausted me a lot so

we went to bed at eight.

Day 7: Saturday, October 13Free day with host family/ Shopping at Albany Mall

Today I woke up at seven thirty. We planned to go to the

Albany mall. We went there when suddenly the rain started

so we went into the mall. We walked for a while then we

realized that its half past two now so we went to the

nearest food shop and then we ate some sushi. We walkedpassed a lot of stores then we walked into a store and I

bought a p.m.c (portable mobile charger) we went outside

to wait for our host then we went home. We did the same

thing that we always do every day like having dinner and

get a shower and then went to bed.


Free day with host family/ Yacht yard


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Today I had a free day with our host. The only exciting thing

that we did was the yacht yard. We went to the yard then it

sudd3enly rained and hailed heavily so we needed to go

back to the house. There were a lot of big ships and

machinery stuffs there at the yard. We walked for an hour

then had dinner and went to sleep.


Ice skating

Today we went to the dining room to have breakfast. We

finished having breakfast at half past eight. We are excited

because today we are going to the skating place. I arrived at

school at nine oclock and started our lesson. Today we

learned about the present simple and past simple. We read

about an unusual boy with great skill. I thought he is

very creative to make a conversation with people using his

pictures. I went to the ice skating park when the time was

one oclock and played for a while (normally fell down every

two minutes). When I went home I had some cup noodles

(it was my last one) and watched TV with my host familyand then ate some mashed potato and went to bed.


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Sailing on the harbor


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We woke up at seven this morning and came down to have

breakfast. I argued with my friend about the cereal because

it looks like some snacks When our host dad came down we

asked him what is it. He said its a cereal. We thought it was

kind of snack. After breakfast we started to brush our teeth.

After that I packed my things and went to school. When we

arrived at school I looked at the time in my Iphone. Its only

8.35. I cant believe my eyes that we arrived faster than

every people in the group. I started to play my phone to

wait for class and then everybody came in. We waited for

20 or 30 more minutes and the bell rang. We separated into

our classes. Today we worked very hard in the morningpart. We were rewarded 3 classroom dollars for that. At the

break we went to look . the school and into the

shops. When the bell rang again we went back to our

classes. In the afternoon part we played games until 1.20

oclock then went down to get ready for the sailing trip. We

took the same bus to the port and look for our boat. It was

already in the harbor and we waited for the boat to go off.We were very cold on the boat when the wind blew.

Suddenly our group leader told us that we could go into a

seat under cover. We all went down to stay away from the

strong wind. When we came back at the port we went to a

museum. In it was some cool stuff with a big theater. We

were excited about the Maori historical things. It took 10

minutes to finish the movie. Before we took the bus back

we went shopping. I bought a Kiwi statue and we went back


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home. Ugas was playing badminton when we were coming

back home. Our host needed to go get him again. At dinner

we had butter chicken. Its a chicken curry. At night we had

a shower and lastly went to bed.


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Sheep world farm show

Today we woke up at seven. Our host is down and shessurprised that we are awake very fast. We ate our

breakfast. After that we walked up to our room again and

they play some games because its too early to go to school.

I went to school at half past eight and then we waited for

the other guys to arrive. We went around to find others

until we heard the bell. We went in class. Today Caley,

Ugas teacher, doesnt come to teach. So we have to comedown. We did a lot of worksheets and a lot of games. In the

afternoon part of the day we went to the sheep world. It


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was a very good place with a lot of animals. I saw the man

thats showing the sheep shearing the sheep. He is with his

two dogs. One is called Boy and another is Tom. They

were very cute. At last he ??????? the sheep. My friend

Gutta did assistance the man and got wool. We took a bus

back to school and went home. We took a bath after dinner.

We had some kind of food for dinner then we went to bed.


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Waiwera Thermal Hot Pools

Today we are going to the wiveara swimming pool. It was

not really interesting today because we just went around

the park and did some swimming for three hours then we

went to the bus back home. I had cup noodles for dinner

again. Today we took a shower and then came down to play

Uno. We had a lot of games then our host told us to go

upstairs and sleep.


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Shopping at Queen street

Today we went to the queen street yeah! We went

shopping around that district. At first we went shopping at

the ok gift shop which is own by the Korean people. It was

kind of awkward because a lot of Korean lives in New

Zealand. We went around and then we went to the shops

like NZ gifts, IT world, Sports Street, etc. we went back to

the spot we was dropped, But the bus wasnt there so wecalled the bus driver and he said that the traffic was very

difficult to get a park for a big bus so we went to another

bus stop and then got on our big bus and then left for

home.

Day 14: Saturday, October 20

Free day with host family


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Today we just spend all day at home with everything

boring. In the morning we spend our day with a little bit of

game before watching TV. Just like I had said we did two

things play games and watch TV. In the evening we did as

usually watch TV, take a bath, etc.


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Free day with host family

Today we are just staying home for a day with only 1

activity thats right we only watch the tv for all day long and

we didnt do anything so its the most boring day ever.


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Public holiday Labour day / Rainbows End Amusement Park

I know that there were many interesting rides in the

rainbows end amusement park that I would like to talk

about I will start off with the invaders. It is a very scary ride

that is like a double Viking boat that could spin its self 360

degrees. The next is the 3d animated graphic ride. Its a

moving seat and its really cool. The third is the gold rush. It

was not so cool but its a little scary because there is an old

prospector guy that was sitting on a fully loaded gold cart.

And the last thing I am going to talk about is the bumper

boat. It was faster than the Thai forms and it was a bitwetter too. Today we had a lot of fun and by the time we

went home we went up stairs and take a nap.


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Laser Force/ Ten pin bowling


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Today we woke up at seven oclock. I felt a bit sleepy

because I was very tired from the Rainbows End. We wentdown and had cereal as usual then went back up again to

brush our teeth. We went off to school at eight thirty. At

the school I had some snacks then went to our classes.

Today we are going to learn how to spell new speed spelling

words and its meanings. We played some games and I got 6

dollars for it. Later that afternoon we went to play the ten

pin bowling. I got several strikes and a lot of spares. Then

our friend Tum got triple x in a row. We had left the bowling

at half past two then went to play laser force ???. We

played for several times xxxxx we got our score board. I just

got hit 10 times by the destroyer. We went home at five

oclock. It was very tiring by the laser force then we had

supper then played some card games with our host. Finally

we had shower and went to bed.


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Kelly Tarltons Underwater World

Today we woke up quietly because everyone was asleep. Iwent down to search for the cereal box then had some

cereal. As usual, we went up then brush our teeth. We

played game for a while. Suddenly, our host came into our

room and said it was time to go to school. We took our

hosts car and finally arrived at school. Today we learned

something that I couldnt remember. At lunch we had

sandwich again. After lunch we walked to the bus stop andtook the same bus to the underwater world. Its a very very

big aquarium. At first we walked pass a spinning tunnel. I

dont know why they made it, but I felt very very very dizzy.

After that we went to the penguin tank. At first I thought

the brown baby penguin was a mutant kiwi because ofits

brown feathers. We looked at a lot things like giant squid,

tuna fish, catfish, sharks and scuba shark feeding. At theend of the aquarium we saw a camera man whos taking a


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video for the TV show. At last we took a bus back to school

and took our hosts van home(busschool host car

home). We did the same thing, watched TV, ate dinner,

played cards, had a shower then went to bed.


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Beach BBQ

Today we wake up late about eight oclock so we quickly

came down to have breakfast. We did everything quickly

then we went to brush our teeth, grabbed our bags and

went to school. Im not good at remembering but today we

studied about clothes adjectives and spelling at the end of

the class. We played a strange game called circuits. Its a

game that we needed to connect the dot until the other

team couldnt connect any more and we would get a point

and the most point wins.


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Graduation Party

Today is our last day at school. We went there and had a

congratulation party we ate a lot of pizza and coke. After

that we all got our certificates and went to the back of the

school to have a little picnic and then went home.


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Day 21: Saturday, October 27

Packing/ Depart from Auckland

We traveled to the school at nine pm for the bus to the

airport. We grouped up at the school. I had a lot of freespace in my bag so I said to everybody that they could get

their extra stuff in my bag. Then we saw our bus. We went

on the bus then minutes later we arrived at Auckland

airport. We passed the security guys again then walked into

the plane. I was very tired but I stayed up all night until

there was nothing to watch or play anymore so I went to

bed after I brushed my teeth.


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Arrive Bangkok

Today I woke up when we were flying above the Pacific

Ocean. I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and then

took another plane to Bangkok. We got down and passed

the security check again. We entered the baggage claim

then I found out that my bag belt had been gone so I asked

my group leader what happened to my bag. She said that it

might be opened at Singapore. I lost the bag belt but that

was not what I mostly cared about. I was worried about the

things inside. Luckily, they were still in there. Then I went

out to find my father then went home.

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