Duty Weekend...

Ok so i was on duty this past weekend... You may think this is difficult, and feel sorry for me, but really there is no need to!
Out of the 50 boarders that are here during the week, only about 8/9 stay over the weekend, and at the moment rehearsals for the school play (Guys and Dolls) is intense, so most of them are at that all day as opposed to whatever we are doing for the weekend.
So on Saturday, we spent some time in the school tech lab, where they made various bits and pieces which didnt resemble anything at all !! Then as the sun was gracing us with its presence, we headed out to Hamilton Gardens for the afternoon ! Hamilton Gardens are beautiful, there are about 5/6 different themed gardens, like Indian, Italian, English Flower Garden etc... They were so nice when we went, and its winter here, so they are definitely going to be the place to go to just chill out in the summer... A bit like York's museum gardens were to me back home ! haha..
So that was that, then Saturday night we watched a film called Inkheart which was gooooood! Loved that...
Sunday morning, the hire minibus arrived and after breakfast we departed for Waitomo Caves... In the bus on the way there, we noticed that of the 11 of us in the bus there were 5 different nationalities.. So we had a National Anthem singing contest.. and were treated to good old 'God Save the Queen'.. The Thai National Anthem, The Korean National Anthem, The South African National Anthem (sung in Afrikaans), and of course the New Zealand National Anthem... Of course majority voted and the Kiwis won !!! So, Waitomo caves were amazing.. Basically there is a maze of underground caves, you can go to different caves to do different activities. Because we had 9 kids with us, we went on the most sedate one, which involved us having a guided tour of the cave 35m underground, then taking a short boat ride on the river that runs through the caves and back out into day light again. During the boat ride, if you looked up onto the ceiling of the caves, all you could see were glow worms... It was sooo nice..
On the way back we stopped to get ice cream... I ticked off something on my list of things to do in NZ, by ordering the native 'hokey pokey' ice cream... which is toffee flavoured ice cream with bits of crunchie bar in it.. It's soooo good ! Next on the list is banana choc chip which was almost my choice !!
Other than that, not been up to much apart from work... It's a leave weekend this weekend, so will be going out somewhere.. Maybe Rotorua, take a trip to 'Hell on Earth'... That should be exciting...

Pictures will be coming sooooon !

Xxxx