Second Week

Monday: Today I rode to school with my bike. A helmet, which is compulsory, and a lock, I got from my homestay family. Today, a new student from South Korea, Pil, joined our class. After school I went home pretty fast to write my Blog for the last week.
Tuesday: In our morning classes we had the first part of a series of tests to look at our English improvement. This test takes place every six weeks, so it was the first time for me. After school I was pretty tired and slept for half an hour. Then I begun to write all words which were new for me in a book. Like this I can better revise them. After watching TV I practiced Tenor Horn for a little while and then watched the “Step Up” DVD. It was then after midnight, when I got to bed, but despite this I couldn’t sleep. So I begun to read the book I borrowed from school, Jules Vernes “Around the World in Eighty Days”.
Wednesday: Today we finished the series of tests with the listening and conversation-tests. When school was finished I joined the yoga-class for the first time. It was pretty exhausting. But I hope, that’s normal for the first time. After dinner I first wanted to join the youth group of the church, but I was a bit late and finally decided not to go. Next weekend probably.
Thursday: Our afternoon class was the last one with Tim, because he is going to leave us and goes back to England, where he comes from. Today I had the second salsa-lesson. It was pretty good, I felt I already danced better than the first time J. Probably still “not so good”, but I was happy. After the Brass Band rehearsal tonight I wanted to go dancing with some other students, because every Thursday we meet at the Little Rock, a dance club in Nelson. Unfortunately I didn’t bring my passport and so I couldn’t stay there (I could get in because there had been no one at the doors when I had come). The police must be pretty strict here. But I can still go next week. That doesn’t matter anyway, because there was only my salsa teacher and no other students. Still, I was a little bit disappointed.
Tim and John...Tim and me... Friday: This lunchtime I spent, like Tuesday and Wednesday with three Asian girls. It was pretty funny, but a bit special for me. I don’t know what they think of me, perhaps it’s just the different cultures. In the afternoon I got home and slept a little bit. Then I went on reading my book.
Saturday: I didn’t do a lot of things today. I just went to the supermarket to buy the things I needed to bake a cake and after that, I went running. It was a pretty long course, it took me about one hour and fifty minutes, and I was pretty tired after it. I first wanted to go out tonight, but because Marc didn’t want to, and because I still was tired from my run, I stayed at home.
Sunday: This morning I went to church. It was once again a good chance to meet other Kiwis. And I saw Rosie again, the girl I already met a week ago. We talked a lot together and Jude, Ralph and Ashley had to wait for me to go back home. Finally we arranged to meet on Tuesday. I’m looking forward to meeting her again and I’m curious what it'll be like. Between the church and the brass band rehearsal I baked a cake for Jude, because it’s mother’s day and she, of course, is my hostmother. The band practice started again with marching, but then it started to rain and we went inside the rehearsal room to go on. In the evening I chatted with my mum and updated my blog with these lines.
The cake a baked for Jude...Jude and "her" cake...