This is me pulling my suitcase at Glasgow Airport.
This is me and the air hostess. There were two air hostesses, a man and a woman. Here I am with one of them - the other one is taking the photo! I spent a lot of time talking to them during the long flight.
This is a photo looking outside the plane, near the "B" door.
This is me at Singapore. I was on the climbing frame at the airport.
This is the important thing that you need to look at when you're on the plane. It's the rules to follow if you have an accident.
Here is the flight map on the TV screen, and the stars in the ceiling.
This is our plane - we've now landed in Auckland airport!
We came from Scotland to New Zealand and were tired and we are asleep!
(Aidan dictated the text of this post.)
Wednesday 18 February 2009
Monday 16 February 2009
Aidan's Big Adventure!
Hi from New Zealand!
I'm now living in Manapau Street, which is in the suburb of Meadowbank, in Auckland. Auckland is the biggest city, but not the capital of New Zealand. Meadowbank is quite close to the centre of Auckland, but when you see my walk to school, it doesn't look like Glasgow or Edinburgh at all! It's all so green!
I started going to Meadowbank Primary School. It's quite a big school, and most of the buildings only have one storey. I go to the Junior side of the school, which is where years 0, 1, 2 and 3 are. Year 0 is like Nursery school, for when you turn five. You start school on your fifth birthday in New Zealand. Then you start Year 1 (Primary 1) in the January following that. I'm in Year 1, in Room 20.
To get to the Junior side of the school I have to walk through the senior side of the school, then down one side of a gully and up the other side. The gully has a special trail made in it, and we sometimes go down there with our teacher to go on bug hunts! There are lots of bugs here (especially cicadas :-) and mosquitos :-( ).
My new teacher is Miss Coster (but once or twice a week I have Miss Bracewell instead), and there are 24 children in my class - 12 boys and 12 girls. I wear green shorts, either a green and white striped poloshirt or a red one, sandals, and a bucket hat when I go to school. And of course, sunblock! It's summer here, and if we want to play outside we have to wear our hats.
Everyone takes a packed lunch to school, and we eat it outside sitting in the shade. Then we're allowed to go and play - we have a great climbing frame just outside our class room! Every second Friday some of the parents from the PTA get together and do a Sausage Sizzle for lunch - I had this on Friday - it was yummy.
I'm learning lots of the same kind of things I learned in Scotland - how to read and write, and we go to the school library once a week, and have news time, music, and P.E., and assembly.
I really like my new school, but I miss my friends back in Scotland too.
love,
Aidan x
I'm now living in Manapau Street, which is in the suburb of Meadowbank, in Auckland. Auckland is the biggest city, but not the capital of New Zealand. Meadowbank is quite close to the centre of Auckland, but when you see my walk to school, it doesn't look like Glasgow or Edinburgh at all! It's all so green!
I started going to Meadowbank Primary School. It's quite a big school, and most of the buildings only have one storey. I go to the Junior side of the school, which is where years 0, 1, 2 and 3 are. Year 0 is like Nursery school, for when you turn five. You start school on your fifth birthday in New Zealand. Then you start Year 1 (Primary 1) in the January following that. I'm in Year 1, in Room 20.
To get to the Junior side of the school I have to walk through the senior side of the school, then down one side of a gully and up the other side. The gully has a special trail made in it, and we sometimes go down there with our teacher to go on bug hunts! There are lots of bugs here (especially cicadas :-) and mosquitos :-( ).
My new teacher is Miss Coster (but once or twice a week I have Miss Bracewell instead), and there are 24 children in my class - 12 boys and 12 girls. I wear green shorts, either a green and white striped poloshirt or a red one, sandals, and a bucket hat when I go to school. And of course, sunblock! It's summer here, and if we want to play outside we have to wear our hats.
Everyone takes a packed lunch to school, and we eat it outside sitting in the shade. Then we're allowed to go and play - we have a great climbing frame just outside our class room! Every second Friday some of the parents from the PTA get together and do a Sausage Sizzle for lunch - I had this on Friday - it was yummy.
I'm learning lots of the same kind of things I learned in Scotland - how to read and write, and we go to the school library once a week, and have news time, music, and P.E., and assembly.
I really like my new school, but I miss my friends back in Scotland too.
love,
Aidan x
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