This morning was the meeting for the new students at Marlborough Girls College, my soon to be school for 6 months. I got to wake up bright and early at 8 and put on my uniform, which consists of a blue and plaid skirt, a white blouse, and white socks under black strapped shoes. Its pretty hot. In all seriousness though its quite nice to know what you're going to wear to school and not have to worry about being judged by your clothes. Anyways, my host sister (Sonia) and I walked over to the school and met with the other new students who came - 4 of us in all. We went to the school's welcome meeting (much of which was is Maori) and then had a tour of the school and got our schedules etc. Everyone was really nice so far. Then Sonia was nice enough to show me where my classes are, so hopefully I don't get TOO lost tomorrow...
After we got home we went downtown to buy "stationary," or school supplies. There are all these cool pre-made notebooks that they use down here for homework and classwork that have certain sizes and paper inside, which I thought were pretty cool. I realize typing that that it basically sounds exactly like our notebooks in the US, but they were all made by the same company and they looked more scholarly I guess you could say.
Later we went to the theater and saw "The hopes and dreams of Gazza Snell," a Kiwi film about a man in Auckland who wants his son to race go-carts but then his youngest son gets hurt (is in a coma!) and theres all this self realization and cool metaphors. I won't spoil the ending, but I will say I found it enjoyable. Tonight we spent time covering our new school books, but then became sidetracked by trashy tabloid magazines and the faces all too ready for someone to draw on them (including Angelina Jolie and Taylor Swift). Basically I thought it was a good use of time.
The first real day of school is tomorrow, and I'm excited but also really nervous because I've never been a new student before. Hopefully all goes well, wish me luck!
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