Blog de paris-2-auckland - une Frenchie chez les KiwiS!^^

IN the Beginning.... / AU commencement... :)

Au depart, je ne devais pas faire de voyage.. mon projet était une prépa d'été de la mi-juillet à la mi-août.. soit rien de super palpitant! Mais voila avec le stress et la fatigue de mon année de terminale S ,ajouté a la certitude d'integrer, quoi qu'il arrive ,un hypokhagne a la rentree ,on a tendance à changer d'avis!
Sur conseil de ma famille, je decidais de faire un voyage linguistique dans un pays anglo-saxon : le Canada ... oui mais voila en feuilletant la brochure de vacances je tombai sur une proposition extraordinaire " L'hemisphere sud : Auckland - NZ "... Soit 10 heures de décalage horaire, 24 heures d'avion --> le bout du mondeeee!!
Une occasion comme celle la ne se presente pas tout les 4 matins! Alors grâce a mes parents et un peu de ma participation, je me suis lancée et ... J'AI BiEN Fait!

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At the beginning, I mustn't have gone at all for holidays... My plan was a summer preparation class from middle July to middle August ... Nothing exciting...! But you know with the stress and the tiredness of my Scientific "terminale" class ( last class in high school that you can quit by passing with success your " bac " ) and with adding the certainty I will ( no mater what it may happen ) integrate in september a litterature class , we tendency change of plans!
Following my familly advices, I decided to go in a foreign country to improve my English : Canada. Yes, but whereas I was looking to the travelling brochure, my eyes fixed on an uncredible proposition : " Southern hemisphere auckland- NZ " ... what it is to say 10 hours more and 24hours of flight ---> the end of the world!!
That kind of occasion doesn't come so often ... So thanks to my parents and my little contribution , I just did it... and I have done it WELL!

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# Posté le lundi 15 août 2005 09:13

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C'est où la NZ??? / where is NZ???

ALors hein! C'est où??? Prenons la mappemonde.... regardez tout en bas à droite ... juste au dessous de l'Australie... Aotearoa se trouve ici ! Aotearoa est le nom Maori, peuple polynésien de la NZ, donné à la Nouvelle Zélande.. il signifie le pays aux longs nuages blancs ( ce que je confirme pour les avoir vusss!!)
Ce pays de 4 millions d'habitants ( pour 60 millions de moutons... soit 15 moutons par habitant! impressionnant!) se divise en 2 îles ( celle du nord et celle du sud ). Moi je n'ai pu voir que quelques endroits du nord ( il faut que j'y retourne alors :) )

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Let's take the World map... look in the right corner...yes under Australia...! Aotearoa is here! Aotearoa is the Maori name ( Maoris are the polynesian people of NZ ), given to NZ ... it means the long white clouds country ( i can confirm it's true coz i noticed it too in auckland lots of mornings!)
This country of 4 millions inhabitants ( for 60 millions of sheeps.. that is to say 15 sheeps a inhabitant! Impressive!) is divided in 2 main islands ( the north one and the south one ) .
Personnaly I was just able to see some places ( beautiful !) of north Island ( I have to come back so! :) )

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# Posté le lundi 15 août 2005 09:59

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6 juillet 10h heure francaise.... / 6 july 20h NZ time.

the great departure is now... Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport
Luggages, check in ,passeports,customers, goodbye mum, dad,sister, Paris, Stress and routiNE! I felt just a little bit afraid of the long flight but it was nothing if i comparated it to my general feeling ... WhaoWW i have my exams and In "few" hours i will be in NZ !

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Le grand départ est pour maintenant... aéroport roissy-CDG, baggages, enregistrement, passeports, douanes, aurevoir m'man, p'pa, Soeurette, Paris ,stress et routine ! Je me sentais juste un peu effrayée par la longueur de ce vol ( 24 hrs c po rien tt de mem!) mais ce n'était rien comparé à mon sentiment general... Yaaaaoouuu! j'ai mon bac and ds qques heures je serai en NZ!

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# Posté le lundi 15 août 2005 10:26

a long stop in Hong kong - ChiNa

First time in Asia : HG KG! After 11 hours spent on my 56E seat to watch tv and listen to the radio, I needed to walk a little!
We went out of the airport and took immediately a coach. Let's visit HG KG in few hours... with a Chinese guide very competent in French and who gave us a lot of cultural, politic, economic and historic informations... !
How does HG KG look like? I really think that I stayed not enough time to describe rigorously that city... I can say I saw a lot of buidings , it's a high city , busy but clean ( i didn't see any papers or things like that in the streets ( Good point! ^^ ) , we can find some " traditional" places like the beach and its temple ( great one with Buddhas ^^ ) not so many because the city is very modern ( we mustn't forget : HG KG has been English for years until 1997 i think )
The weather is heavy ( humid and hot -> not the best when you're sick.. :x )
( in fact i was quite pleased to be in China ( ASiA!) but at that moment I just thought NZ- OceaniaaAAA!!! ) Sometimes I would like to have some magic powers and just be able to change of place in a slapping of fingers ;)

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# Posté le lundi 15 août 2005 13:27