Daily blog #4 reflection of the day

Today was AMAZING!! i wish i never left but of course we have to keep going on our trip and eventually go back home. Although the morning was rainy and nobody was in the mood to walk around in the forest, singing Disney songs kept our spirits up and made the hike seem much shorter. It got our mind off the chilly rain and the boringness of the hike and made something that wouldn’t have been so fun really fun. I think this experience gave us time to bond more with some of the people on the trip. Personally I love the rain, I like to go outside when it is warm out and just chill in the rain but I haven’t been able to do that and it was refreshing although it was a little colder then I would have liked. The most amazing part of the day though was going to Rangitoto College! The students and the principle were SUPER nice and welcomed us to their school as family. My pen pal gave me a shirt and I gave her something’s that they don’t have in NZ. I hung out with a ton of people there and had a blast. I wish we could have stayed a lot longer! I loved the part where we could just walk around campus the most because it was cool to see how different their school was, not only by how the kids were and they classes were set up, but how the building its self was set up. I also really liked that we could just talk and see what is different in each country like what we say and how we act. For example, we say cool: they say mint; we say weird: they say buzzy. The people were so amazing and fun to be around. They represented themselves, their school, and NZ very well. I have changed because of this experience by becoming more comfortable being myself around new people. I cannot get over how amazing the people were there. Thank God for facebook!! If I didn’t have that in my life I think i would miss them all so much more because I would never be able to talk to them again. That, so far, was the highlight of my trip Down Under and I will absolutely never forget it, ever. The only thing I would wish for is more time with them. Maybe next year if you decide to go back to a school the students that go on the trip should spend a day at school with the kids like how the Spanish exchange students do at our school. Another idea would be to be hosted by their pen pals. That would be awesome. Well lastly I wanted to thank you, and my parents, for this wonderful opportunity, I loved it.