Homestay

Tmrw is a holiday......which means everybody must leave the school, including boaarders. So be it. I go this house, arranged by my teacher, called the McKinnie's. I and my taiwanese friend Andrew live up in the attic, but holycow, there's like a ps3, computer, aircon and keyboard in the room. !!!??? and for dinner we had 2 pizza's! (d dominos here n malaysia's has diff menus...@#$!) INcredible>>>>..... here's some pictures

newzealAANd

School and friends

My school XD Wrestling Small 14yearlold james

Pro micheal owen(reallname) todd sickler reid(stifler of my year)

i dun wanna post anymore cuz its taking like 5 mins for one pic to load...so i'll up load to my flickr album. When i'm done uploading them i'll post it on d blog.

Pics of my DorM

Yesterday was athletics sports and i did really bad........but i seen incredible performances by the students. If i had a camera i would taken pics but its NOT ALLOWED....stupid aye? I took part in all events...(all the students has to neaway)and i got 2 for 400m....got thru 2 rounds of high jumps...and 3 for long(there was this guy who could jump 5.3 crazy). and 2 for 3rd for 100m hurdles.....and others...100,400,800,javelin,discus....i did really bad. Saddos.. =( The systems on how people are sorted out in categories is like this

-We have athletics standards, everybody does all events, their throw lengths, run times are all recorded. Points are given according to their distances.

-Then top six fastest/furthest are put in to first grade. Second top six put into second. And so on.

-There are 24 grades all together, 1grade the fastest guys, 24 the slowest. I was d 14-16 grades for running events. =D

There's this dance...not much of a dance, kinda fierce and no-nonsense thing, called the HAKA, which is like the pride of newzealands culture, and is performed on important occasions like sports day, concerts, or a football match, even a funeral. I had to learn it, part of the rule and we have like a dayboys vs. boarders haka match...and i gotta admit, its like really dominating and kinda owns malaysia's dances...go see it on youtube and myb u'll get an idea what i mean. XD Here's a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG9qz8RfmD8

I must thank mdm kaithri her drilling of drawing anatomies of bodies and structure in our practical books because its now proving to be useful in my science classs.......where like our teacher ask us to draw a electrolysis apparatus with picture given, and the whole class goes AWWW!! NO SIR COME ON..i'm like this is nothing man(compared to what mdmkaithri gave us to draw)then the next day 90% of d class didn't do their work cept' me and 2 guys....=.= this school ain't that brainy hahah............there's six subjects i take alltogether, accouting, economics, esol, english, maths, and science. ESOL means English for Speakers of Other Languages. LOll i like speak english as first language in my country and here, i'm wasting one subject for more english training. what i do for d subject

-Listen to interviews with famous people

-REad newspapers

-Do reading assessments =.=

What would u feel if u were placed in this subject eh? howard/candice/jiayeei? hahaa

THANk You for commenting...guys miss you lots!

WEEKENDS are pretty boring......its like 10.30am brunch, then u got all the free time until 5.30pm.

Today and yesterday i had hilarious sports sessions. first was yesterday's volleybal training session....(for sports team i got in to the tennis and volleyball team, for winter i'm playin soccer and badminton).
- During volleyball, there was one return that was goin towards me.....i screwed up and hit the ball wide. One of the guys, TeArepa, said 'Chin! don't worry bout it.....just hold your hands together and set it up. I got an idea! y don't you just chin it? I'll show you.' then everyone's like 'yea! chin it!' and cuz there was no teacher...everybody was fooling around using their chins to return the balls and hit it up unto the air....i just roolled my eyes..=.=

-Today i was playing RUGBY with some of my newz friends.......(funny all of my asian friends don't play outdoor sports, except one the korean)..it was kinda rough and stupid for me, cause it was my first time...my friends taught me abit about d rules, then we started a game...Reid(one of the players) kicked the ball up and i caught it and started running....Then suddennly someone tackled me from behind...and i was like fell on the gr0und...allmost out of breath..had to rest for a while. Then afterwards when i cont. the 2nd time i got the ball, this guy was like chasing me and pulling my shirt...i tried running away but this guy's hand was strong and RIPPED my SHIRT Right off! it was like a reebok expensive shirt..and it was teared..i decided to quit and head back to my dorms for a game of table tennis...=.=

Rules here r pretty strict tho. To wear your own clothes during weekends or after school u hafta do eight hours of any service.(sweeping, cleaning, weeding) i did like one hour of weeeding and my back was aching like shit and my hand bit bleeding and dirty...HARD aye? neaway i completed my hours after two weeks...did abt one hour everyday. The computer rules are like shit too. Websites like friendster, bebo, myspace or even gaming websites are blocked. You can't even access your own yahoo mail...so the skol gives u an email and you email ppl with tat address. Kinda Dumb.

Ppl are kinda wierd too. I have teachers/students looking almost like hollywood stars. There's one teacher who looks bit like diane kruger...and one EXACTLY like sean bean...i was like isn't that boromir from lordoftherings? my friend said, no thats mr. rogers head of swimming department. =.= There's john terry lookalikes too....WIEEERRD

Thats it...gotta head back to school, can only stay for one hour in downtown...another one of d stupd rules....CiaoZ!

New Zealand..........totally different..of course manyyyy surpriising thgs and ppl.

d school is called lindisfarne college..in a town called Hastings.

There are 15 international students.........whom four i have allready friends with. ONe is a taiwanese, two are koreans, and one new caledonian. The sport here is incredibly emphasising...as EVERYONE Has to participate. Wooo first there's the swimming sports, which like everyone swims on a normal day to get point for their own houses. (Btw I"m AIDAN red house! haha but there's no yellow, jz green, black red and blue). Then the best gets pick to swim on a special day......Then there's a athletics standards........which everyone has to participate in ALL events. I did good only in d 100m and long jump........gett 12.3secs and 4.7m respectively. Javelin and Discus was totallly different and i got a sucking 14m and 16m for each of thme. a form 2 guy could throw to 30m!

However...this school regards asians as brains of the worlds and shits of the athletism. =.= I thought this school was like veryholy and strict with rules, but once i entered my dorm i hear ppl swearing everywhere on the while plying ping-pong...yea there's one in our dorm so pretty much i play pingpong EVERYDAY. Even the newcaledonian guy who doens't speak english at all, now 90% of his english is swearing cuz its what he and everyone hears all the time.

The academics here's kinda same in malaysia.......they seperate the stupid and the clever...i was placed in the low class of every subject...so i end up learnign form 3 syllabus in maths and science....=.= I'm learning like pythgoras theorum in maths and metals and nonmetals in MATHS and SCiencE. HAIHZZZZZ

MUSIC's pretty nice....i'm in the jazz band for piano....AND a orchestra with the HASTINGS GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL. Girls there are not bad all.......having their uniform quite revealing as its summer. lol

WEATHER- i haven't bath for 2 days cuz everytime i wake up and walk in open air...its like in genting highlands....below 10degrees....and everytime i shower, i walk out shivering because the air outside so cold, even inside the dorms.....Swimming sports was the worse.....i had to walk around for 6 hours topless in cold air in and out of the WATER. i only had a towel to warm myself.....
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Untill here then........i'll UPDATE my blog another time......leave comments! wanna c what u think of my school...THX