Day 13

So today was actually not that bad! I woke up and ate some cheerios.... I am thinking about opening one of my American cereals tomorrow just to have a little more taste of home! My wrist hurts because when I went orienteering i slipped and fell on barbed wire and cut my wrist! No fun! But I have my first orienteering competition in two weeks! I'm so excited and wish me luck! I won't be posting until my tuesday because I will be out exploring the country. I am really excited! I leave for Turangi and the central mountains tomorrow, and I'll be staying there until sunday. Then on sunday a class geography trip will be picking me up in Taupo (a city on a lake) to go to Rotorua and Waihi to look at the gold mine. But today I talked to Molly on ichat and my friend emily on skype! I really didn't know that I had a lot of people like me! I love that feeling of being loved! But any way, I met a lot of new people today at school and saw my first Maori Haka today which was pretty awesome! I hope that my family are enjoying themselves in Aruba! It was really warm here today...15 so times it by two, 30 and then add thirty-two to it and it was 64 degrees Fahrenheit. That's pretty warm for their, "Winter." Buurrr that is so cold! But in all seriousness, it's hard being away from everything that you have known and loved! But that just makes you appreciate what you have and what you HAD! And that's the important thing...appreciating what you are given so you don't spend so much time worrying about what you had or could have!