Continuing on!

I don't have a good picture of Rose yet, so I will wait to introduce her until I can show you who she is, instead I'll introduce you to the babies today, they love to be in pictures so I have tons of them!

Foo Foo is 6, her real name is Snowden and she is a character. She is really sweet when she wants to be, and really crazy when she wants to be, her mood changes often! She is loud and crazy, and I never realized how much I'd miss that when she wasn't at home, until they went to their Nan's house for the last few days and the house has been so quiet without them. Foo is not shy at all, she tells you what she thinks! Now, in this picture, ignore my scary hair...I pretty much let it do whatever it wants to here...it is easier most days than trying to get it to do anything else...Oh, and in this picture, you can see my first experience with Hot Milo...similar to hot chocolate, but not nearly as sweet...we all added a lot of sugar and it was so much better once we did!

Sizzle (Danzel) is 4, and she is quite a spitfire! She is not afraid to tell you exactly what she thinks and how she feels, and every day you just have to wonder if she will be your friend that day or not! The last day I saw her she told me that she wasn't my friend she was only Micah and Sarah's friend...She is pretty cute! (This is Sarah, one of my roommates, with Sizzle in the pink and Foo in the purple).

These two pictures are from our first day of school, The first is of Me, Sarah and Ati, who was kind enough to walk with us that first day so that we wouldn't get lost! Yes, I am wearing a sweater...it was kind of rainy, but because it is so humid, the sweater didn't last long!

Well, after our first day we dove right into school! We are taking 5 classes while we are here, plus our practicum and an online class. Those 5 classes will be done after the first 3 1/2 weeks we are here so we are almost done with the first two which are Literacy and Assessment, next week we start Math (called Mats here) which we will do all day for four days, and then we will move on to Science and Social Studies on Friday which we will then have for 6 days. Anyway, our first day of classes began with a morning of introduction. We learned some Maori words and we learned about the Maori ceremony we will have at the beginning of our practicum to welcome us into the schools. We learned some Maori songs, including the National Anthem of New Zealand in both Maori and English...I don't really remember it, but I do remember that it was beautiful. We played a few Maori games including the stick game you will see a picture of. It was a very interesting introduction into the Maori culture. Carol Anderton is our teacher here for Literacy, so that first day she taught us about the culture first, and then she taught us our first literacy lesson in the afternoon. It was a really fun first day of classes, and it was even better when we realized that we only had 16 days like that left!

 Us playing the stick game at school

We went to Ramona's house after school that day in order to use her internet for a little bit...since we still didn't have any. I don't think that I can ever take internet for granted again because it was really hard to not have it for a few days...I'm very thankful that we have it figured out now! So by the time we got done at Ramona's it was getting kind of late, so she drove us home to save us from the hour walk...which was so lovely of her! So we got home, Sarah, Rose, and I had a jam session on the Uke, singing Disney songs and other songs that Sarah new how to play. It was a lot of fun just to be singing! Then we had some dinner, and helped do the dishes (those of you who know me well should be proud of me, because you know how I detest dishes, but I've been doing a lot of them since I've been here and I don't mind) Then we had to do the dreaded homework...but luckily it is only homework for two classes so it wasn't too bad to do.

Well, this is all for now, I am still behind, but our internet has been really slow and I've been trying to post this for like three days...maybe two...but it hasn't worked until today with getting the pictures uploaded so I think it is getting better now so maybe I'll get another post up tonight. Love you all!