Sunday 19th Feb. Went to Cornwallis beach which is one of the more popular beaches in the area that a lot of the Pacific community go to. Very nice beach with a  good view of the harbour. New Zealand beaches have more of a raw beauty than the golden sand beaches in Sydney. Read my book while Toby and Sylvie went to take Snowy in the water. Toby then did a bbq in the evening which was really nice on such a hot day.

Cornwallis beach

Monday 20th Feb. Had my first session with year 2 at Titirangi primary today. Usually we would have gone swimming but today they had a whole school assembly. It was different for me to see such a large primary school altogether with there being over 500 pupils. They all sang the New Zealand anthem which left me a bit stuck! Then they sang another song in Maori and introduced certain pupils to the school like library monitors, zebra crossing monitors and bush walk monitors. We then went back to class and the children did some finishing work followed by maths games. The children don't wear a uniform but in the usually hot weather this is understandable. I've also noticed most of them walk around with no shoes on, the other day when I was at the school they were running around the playground in the rain with no shoes on!