Lea’s exchange year in New Zealand

Heyya, today I'm going to write a bit about the advantages and disadvantages of a year abroad, or half a year? First of all, I have chosen a year because obviously, your English is much better after one year, than after half a year. The other reason was that a lot of people told me that you start feeling like home after 6 months. If you have to leave after 2 Terms ( 6 months), it feels like being ripped out, and you might have the feeling that you haven't experienced everything. But how was it for me? Was half a year enough? Definitely NOT! Why? Because my first half was so different, compared to how my second half is. My life changed a lot in New Zealand after half a year. Why is that? Probably the biggest change was that I changed host families. ( I may explain it to you in another entry why I changed families, and how my new family is.) Another reason is that I live now in town because of my change, and everything is a bit easier to reach. Also, a lot of my frien

heyya, here the last part of my south island trip. I'll probably write a short summary about the trip later on for those who are too lazy for long blog entries ;). The next morning started with a hiking trip after breakfast. We walked to the base of the Fox Glacier. It was fun, even tho it was really rainy but you must be really lucky to catch a good day without rain on the beautiful west coast. Afterwards, we headed to Wanaka with a stop at Puzzling world. Before we had yummy Nachos for dinner, I went with some other people to the lake. We had for about one hour a lot of fun on stand up paddle boards. Fox Glacier The next two days were just really amazing and unforgettable because we went on an overnight boat trip! We had a lot of fun on the Doubtful Sound (Fiordland), and amazing food :). We enjoyed our life on the boat, inside, outside, one a kayak, and even tho the beds were really small, they were cosy. By the way, we bought the best kiwi-fruits on earth for the bo