First Day of School!

As the title implies, today was my first real day of school at Marlborough Girls' College. After donning the required uniform that I have previously described, Sonia and I walked to school - which is about a mile or two away. There were tons of girls there, but we went and met up with Sonia's friends, all of whom were very nice and incredibly welcoming. The first thing we had to do when school started was go to the gym for a meeting, where we were then sorted into our form classes (essentilly advisory class in the US). My form teacher seems nice, while he made me introduce myself to the class he also made an effort to make me welcome, which was greatly appreciated. Basically all we did all morning was sit in our form classes and not really do anything. We had interval (recess), more form class, and then lunch. We (me and Sonia and her friends, who were nice enough to invite me along) went off campus to a nice park with a little creek and ate lunch there, which was nice because it was about 90 degrees out and very humid. After lunch we had a house meeting, then more form class, then school pictures.

That essentially concludes the school day from what I remember, so we walked back home and changed out of our hot, sticky uniforms. I discovered that, as expected, my new shoes gave me blisters - funny thing is though I got them on the bottom of my feet as well. Oh well, they will callous over and all will be well again. When we got home we spent some time cooling off and just relaxing. Basically all we (Sonia and I) did later was draw cool pictures and have a good time lauging at them. Tomorrow we start real classes for the first time, so that should be another adventure... And thus concludes another day of my exchange to the land of the Kiwis!