Church, Jazz and Jazz

Hey, where-ever you are ;)!

I'm still in New Zealand (Surprise :P ), where the weather was quite ok the last days and where I nearly got knocked out several times xD.
The last days were definetly cool, I played Jazz and met Jazz (confusing, ae?) and ... ah, just read my summary ;).

Sunday:

Sunday morning I had to get up at 6:30. Why should I do that? Well, some friends in Germany were having a party and I told them I'd be on skype at 7:00 on Sunday morning (when it would be 21:00 in the evening on Saturday in Germany) to see them. We skyped for a while and it was really good to see them all :).

Afterwards I went to church with Jim and Heather. This was the first time, that I noticed that there is a big attitude-difference between the church I went to in Germany and the church here.
A woman said something like 'There are heaps of lost people out there, such as the Gay community.' and the pastor himself said something against gays, allthough he said he doesn't have problems to talk to gays on a personal level.
I asked Heather and Jim about that and they said that it's quite normal and that many Christians are 'homophobic' (means afraid of lesbians/gays) because of the Bible. I found that quite surprising but I was happy to hear, that Jim and Heather wouldn't have big problems with dealing with homosexuals on a personal level.
I think in the church in Germany I never heard something like that...different country, different culture.

After church I went with Jim and Heather to Jazz's house to have lunch with her. Jazz is a girl which is going to be sent out by Rotary to the Netherlands in January and she has to introduce me at the next Rotary Meeting, so she wanted to get to know me.
Well, I was wrong with the day. Jazz wanted me to come along next week sunday xD. We decided to go into town on Monday.

Somewhere around 15:00 I went into the city and bought a book, topped up my phone and bought a CD of a New Zealand Band.
I also met India, who was in town with her mum. We talked for a while (which was great xD ). Afterwards I took the bus home and chilled out for the rest of the day.

Monday:

School on Monday was okay, nothing special. Well, my saxophone-teacher gave my saxophone back to me. He couldn't repair it, so I'll sent it back or sell it.
There was no Jazz-Band, but I brought my second saxophone as well so I went into town to meet Jazz carrying two saxophones :P.
I wanted to drop the saxophones at Heather's and Jim's work, but I took the wrong bus and ended up being somewhere in the wrong part of Hamilton with a school-bag and two saxophones, waiting 45minutes for the next bus to come.
I arrived late for my meeting with Jazz (oh, her name made me think of some more bad word-jokes :D ... I mean...Jazz...Saxophone...Jazz..xD ) And yeah, I took the saxophones with me the whole time. Jazz brought a friend from her school, Stacey, I think...yeah, think she's ok :P. They're both allright.

We went into the library after we grabbed some food. Jazz introduced me to some girls from her school (which was kinda weird. Very weird.) and we talked for a while.
After which I took the bus home, played a bit on my saxophone and...mhm. Nothing more xD.

Tuesday:

Yesterday at school we played dotchball during PE. It was a bit harsh, but ok. Fun. Except, when I stepped backwards and my left foot bend over which hurt a bit, but I think it'll be allright.

Alex and I talked to our dean since we are going to do a double-magic-performance Friday next week.
By the way: The exams are coming up, I need to ask the dean if I need to participate, actually I don't think so.

After school I went into town with Jerry.
I ordered a Visa-Debit-Card at the bank to be able to pay for things from overseas. Could be usefull.
When a drop of water fell on Jerry's head he believed a bird dropped it's ... poo on him (ok, I didn't tell him it was just water 'till he went to the bathroom, totally embarassed, to see that there was no white spot in his hair :D ).
We went to Subway's and a book-store and then we both grabbed our buses home.
In the evening I just surfed a bit on the internet, answered mails and went to bed to late. That's why is was very tired on....

Wednesday:

Today was pretty cool, allthough I was tired sometimes.
At school we played Moonball during PE. Moonball is very harsh. It's played with a huge rubber-ball and the aim is to get that ball into the goal.
Rules: None.
So you can kick, throw, push the ball and moreover you can kick, throw or push the people from the opposite team xD. I got heavily tackled a few times, my left foot bend again. But I tackled back. :P.

There were also some band-auditions (had a look in there, was fun to sing again ;P ), a boring school-assembly, a trash-to-fashion-competiton (they really made up creative costums :D )...that's it pretty much.

After school I immediatly went home and slept for nearly two hours because I was so tired. I had a quick shower and some dinner, then Heather took me to the dance-center.

Dancing was very cool today, I danced with several people.
Terry told us about the Medal-Test which will be somewhere in October. If I can affort it I think I will participate =D.

So, that's my summary of the last few days... I'd say see ya next time ;)! Have a good time!

Ahhh, wait. Here are some links I highly recommend to you:
http://www.sciencecrazy1.blogspot.com/ it's Parham's Blog.
http://svenja-in-australia.jimdo.com/links/ The blog of an Ex-Classmate who's in Australia at the moment, so she's not that far away :p.

So, That's it. See ya!

Yours,

Timon.