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April 22 2010

Starting at the 1st of April we had school holidays up until this previous monday. The first half of break consisted of hanging out with friends from school, mountain biking, hiking and other activities around Rotorua. For the second half I went out to Otorhanga and stayed with a family on their farm. While there we visited the Waitomo caves, which are famous for the glow worm caves. The first night out there we went abseiling (basically repelling down rope) into the caves. The next day we went black water rafting through the caves which was freezing cold but awesome none the less. Unfortunately I couldn’t get any pictures, well I could but they would just be all black. Anyways, later on in the week we ventured out to Raglan to surf on the black sand beaches. We had made plans to hike the Tongariro Crossing (Mt. Doom from Lord of the Rings) but it decided to rain that day so that got pushed back to sometime next month.  Aside from all of the adventuring activities, I helped out on the farm most everyday which was interesting. We did the usual dairy farm ordeal; driving ATVs, milking cows, feeding calves, herding cattle. All in all, I’m glad my actual family decided to move from Minnesota before I was born.  Eventually I headed back to Rotorua and for the last day of holidays, my host family took me to go Zorbing. Previously we had run around in the Zorbs at our school but this was much more fun. Basically it’s a big plastic ball that you crawl into, filled with a little water, and rolled down a massive hill.  That’s more or less the awesomeness that occupied my 19-day break from school. 

Starting at the 1st of April we had school holidays up until this previous monday. The first half of break consisted of hanging out with friends from school, mountain biking, hiking and other activities around Rotorua.

For the second half I went out to Otorhanga and stayed with a family on their farm. While there we visited the Waitomo caves, which are famous for the glow worm caves. The first night out there we went abseiling (basically repelling down rope) into the caves. The next day we went black water rafting through the caves which was freezing cold but awesome none the less. Unfortunately I couldn’t get any pictures, well I could but they would just be all black. Anyways, later on in the week we ventured out to Raglan to surf on the black sand beaches. We had made plans to hike the Tongariro Crossing (Mt. Doom from Lord of the Rings) but it decided to rain that day so that got pushed back to sometime next month. 

Aside from all of the adventuring activities, I helped out on the farm most everyday which was interesting. We did the usual dairy farm ordeal; driving ATVs, milking cows, feeding calves, herding cattle. All in all, I’m glad my actual family decided to move from Minnesota before I was born. 

Eventually I headed back to Rotorua and for the last day of holidays, my host family took me to go Zorbing. Previously we had run around in the Zorbs at our school but this was much more fun. Basically it’s a big plastic ball that you crawl into, filled with a little water, and rolled down a massive hill. 

That’s more or less the awesomeness that occupied my 19-day break from school.