NEW ZEALAND!! First week, 19th to 27th of February of 2011

My first week… we arrive to New Zealand on 19th of February… what a long trip, two days travelling, in the planes more than 30 hours and waiting too much hours in the airports! This is the farthest place in the world that you can go! It´s call the Antipodes!

Everybody talk about the jetlag…but not at all! I am so excited with the place, and the good weather (now is summer!!) and the people that I don´t feel tired!

My kiwi mum, Denise, is a great woman, and in just two days I almost know all her life! I ask her everything… she was born in Christchurch in a farm, she has eight brothers and sisters, she was married with a Maori… really interesting!

And I don´t know why but I though that Maori are going to be wild, living in the forest and with loincloth, not completely integrated in the society! And in my suburb there are a lot of Maoris, I asked: where can I see Maoris? And my kiwi mum answer me: visit your neighborhood!


I am going all the days to WBS, Wellington Business School, to learn English, but I´m completely sure that I will learn much more going to the school that wasting time here! Our teacher is Rini, she is from Netherlands but she spends all her life in Australia!

And in my class there are too much Spanish speakers, so it´s not really easy to talk in English! We are three from Spain, one girl from Colombia, other girl from Peru, two girls from New Caledonia, other from France and one girl from South Korea.

The first day they just told us how they work, the timetables and that we can not speak Spanish in the school, and with this rule we have more than one warning!

And the only interesting thing at class is listening to the news everyday! But the worst thing was this Tuesday the earthquake of 6.3 on Christchurch, and everything is really sad. And the population of New Zealand is only 4 million, so it´s really easy that everybody have friends or family there! Really scary...

But I spend an awesome week... and the weekend in Wellington! It´s a really cool city, but we are not exactly living in the center, we live in Lower Hutt and we need to take a train to go there!!

We love CHCH!