Preparations

In addition to the booking with Boa Lingua I already took care of the flight. The flight down is already clear, as I mentioned in my first post. But the flight back I can change for free. If I want to stay there a bit longer, I can do it, and I also will visit Sydney, because the flight will make a stopover there.
I also looked after a possibility to play my Tenor Horn down under. I found a Brass Band in Nelson and I will play with them at the West Coast Brass Band Contest (Friday, May 23 to Sunday, May 25). Unfortunately the Band will not be participating at the Nationals this year, but there will surely be a possibility to go hearing some bands with other people from Nelson City Brass Band. At this contest I will also participate at the slow melody competition. And perhaps we'll play with a simple quintet, Andrew Clark, my contact from the band, asked me for it. So I think I'll be in good hands, also because Andrew offered me help, if I have some problems.
Yesterday I received the information about my host family in New Zealand. They live outside the town and the way to school is about four kilometer (ten minutes by bus or twenty by bicycle).
You can see the two places and the bandroom on the map: A) My home B) School C) Brass Band Bandroom

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My blog goes online!

Hello everyone!
Here I am to keep you up-to-date about my language courses in New Zealand. On April 26th at 10:15 PM I will departure from Zurich to finally arrive in Nelson. But first I have to change the aeroplane after 6:10 hours in Dubai and after 18:35 hours more, with stopover in Melbourne, I'm in Auckland. I'll catch the flight to Nelson, just 1:20 hours away from there and will arrive in my new Hometown Sunday, 27th of April at 5:40 PM. Because I want to be ready for blogging, when I'm in Nelson, I start today. By the way I can also inform you about my preparations for the big journey!
I hope you enjoy my blog!
Best regards