Thursday, April 12, 2012

coromandel adventures

This year my family and our friend's family ( as usual ), Justine,Janna and jv, has decided to go to coromandel peninsula. According to the internet this place was filled with white sand, beaches , and view.

When we finally arrived after a long 2 hours drive, we first went to this place filled with pots and trees. They had a tower there which they called "eyefull" tower, they said they named it the eyefull tower because its filled with scenery. To get to the tower we took a small train up to there which we had to wait about 2 hours for,which pretty much wasted time on our first day.


This was the train we had to ride


After the train ride we have decided to finally check in to a cabin but too bad there wasn't any vacancies left as it all was already booked ,so as last resort we were going to sleep in a tent but luckily we found a campervan where we slept in. it was cool inside who could have believed that we'd get to spent a night in a campervan.

that's our first sleep over!!
the next day the weather hasn't been quite nice to us, IT WAS RAINING!!!
because of that we weren't able to do the following things:
  • walk around early in the morning              
  • "hike" down to Cathedral cove
  • do whatever we wanted in a sunny day
  • enjoy dry sand
this was the beach beside the campervan we rented.


And finally final destination: Hot water beach,

the weather was starting to get better


A place to dig sand, make saunas that can heat up up to 60 degrees celcius ( our hole was too shallow for the volcanic rocks underground to heat it up), and surf!!!.We were too young to surf so we just body boarded. Even though the weather hasn't quite been nice we still enjoyed every single moment of it!!

And that was coromandel peninsula ................










Thursday, April 5, 2012

Last day of term

early in the morning my sleep was devastated by my dad's big voice, even though it wasn't a good way to start a morning I was still excited as it was the last day of term!! meaning , 2 weeks of vacation!!! I was so excited that I was left behind by the school bus so I had to go with my dad's friend.

The first thing I did at school was play with my classmates then I had my last walk around the school with my friend.the last activity for the term was to finish our info report about a very old tragedy "the Christchurch earthquake", then we had a quiz . every answer we get right earns us a chocolate, the questions were hard but it was just ordinary for us to answer them. After the quiz we had a very boring duffy school assembly,its when a special someone comes to our school and tells us about reading books. During this assembly kids get awarded with certificates and books,then there comes a part of the assembly when they raffle names of the best homework made by students and award them with either 2 rainbows end tickets or paradise Ice skating tickets ( too bad I didn't put much effort into my homework and I wasn't selected to go to the raffle), one of my classmates was selected.

And so school ended and I went home to rest and I went straight to my soccer training,I was really tired
but we went to our friends house to play with them afterwards.We went back home near midnight.So that's last day of term!!