My travel to New Zealand started very stressful. As I'm always doing, I didn't expect it would take me so long to prepare all my baggage. In the end I was very glad my father helped me to pack all the stuff i prepared into my backpack. If he hadn't helped me, I definitely would have had a big problem. It was not only my father, but also my mother who supported me very well. I wish to thank them for everything they have done for me, I really appreciated it. When I was going to the airport by train, my home said goodbye to me with a beautiful sundown and a great atmosphere.
Also, my father accompanied me to the airport and helped me with all the luggage. Concerning luggage: I was really happy that I could take all my stuff with me without paying any fee. The allowed weight was 20 kg luggage and 7 kg hand luggage. Unfortunately I read something different in the internet and just packed all the stuff I wanted. At the end I had 27.5 kg lugagge and exactly 7 kg hand lugagge, but fortunately an overweight of 8 kg was allowed. :-)
Now I was ready for the first step out of switzerland. 
Unfortunately the space for my legs was a bit limited, but apart from that i had a great flight to Dubai.
Here's what they offered us to eat:
I never ate in an airplane before, but I think it tasted good.
In Dubai I had to wait a couple of hours for my following flight to Auckland, with a stopover in Melbourne. I was not sure where everything is, but finally I found the right gate and the right airplane. The upcoming flight till Melbourne was about 18 hours. After watching films, sleeping and eating we finally had a save landing in Melbourne. Here I had to go out of the plane, pass the security and wait for the boarding time for the following flight to Auckland. Here I had to take all my luggage and move it from the international airport to the domestic airport. Now my overweight was going to be a problem. But tired from the long flight I decided to just pay $20 overweight fee. ( Allowed would have been 3 kg, and every kg above costs $5).
Now it would take only one hour and twenty minutes to my destination Nelson. 
But unfortunately the flight was delayed more than an hour. The plane should have started at 4:20 PM but when the plane took off, it was nearly 6 o'clock.
Also the weather was not very friendly and when we were on the runway, it even begun to rain.
If there hadn't been any clouds, I would have had a beautiful view on my flight. Even though there was a beautiful scenery above the clouds.
When we flew above Nelson, there was unfortunately fog and mist. After two tries to land, the pilot decided to land in Blenheim, where the next airport was. So we landed in Blenheim and went to Nelson by Bus. After some time and 120 km we finally arrived in Nelson about 11 o'clock in the evening. According to the plan we should had landed in Nelson at 20 to five :-(. The main thing is we got there without any damage, we had just to cope with the time-delay.
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