Friday, February 23, 2007

make sure you have 10 minutes!

So I am going to post this right now full of pictures to catch you up on some pictures that I have taken since I have been here.
There are several here of the house and our room, the student lecture room, dinning room, kitchen. etc.







Then we have a traffic jam in New Zealand. This is the sheep crossing. There were hundreds of sheep all along a stretch of about 2 miles. They were being moved from one paddock to the next and it was just two people moving them. It was halarious to watch them run and freak out when they run infront of the car, we were moving sooo slow so we didn't hit them but it was funny.




Here are some scenery pictures and some of when me and 3 other students went for a hike up mount peel. It was 5 hours long! 3.5 to the top! I was honestly so tired cause it was really steep but it was satisfying once we got the top and saw what we had conquered!





Last sunday afternoon, we went to this gorge called Te Moama Gorge. It was so beautiful. We had a picnic and then went swimming in the swimming hole. This place was a deep swimming hole in the middle, surrounded by big cliffs that you can climb and jump off of. Now, if you guys know me at all, you will know that I don't like heights! At work, I am a baby and refuse to do things at high places, even though towards the end when i left, I was getting a bit better. But this one is for the boys at work. I was so proud of this! Okay, so I jumped 30 feet off a waterfall cliff into unknown water!! It took me so long to do cause I was so scared, shaking like crazy. It sucks cause I just tried to put the video of it on here but I can't. We'll see if I can email it. Anyways, it was awesome and you guys should all try it.
Here are some pictures of the gorge and just hanging out in the water!





Nowwww. These are pictures from when we went to the beach wednesday night for family night! yea I know what you are thinking...does this girl ever go to class or just do awesome fun stuff all the time. Well the answer is it seems like we never do work but we actually do! And it's fun and really useful but...we do lots of outdoor fun things too. We played soccer on the beach. super fun! We made sand castles [riah, i kept thinking about you and my name. hah] and our team did not win... but it was fun anyhow! So then the guys tried this thing where they sunk themselves into the sand and water and stood beside eachother and did funny things. Then they got out and we went into their holes [no work for us to do!] and just messed around. The group picture is all 9 of us!









Well now there are tons of pictures and you can all breathe again and stop bugging me about them! haha Just kidding. but this should keep you all happy for a little bit!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those pictures are cool and all, but what I really want to see is the toliet bowl water draining the wrong way! Better yet, let's get some video of it! Poop need not be included

Cassie Jo said...

hah. well i have some pictures of the toilets here. they are kinda different from in canada. but the water doesn't go down the other way. it goes straight down instead. i will have to take a picture of the bathtub or sink. then it goes the other way.

Anonymous said...

yay cassie!! we actually got to see pictures! ill try and send you some right away i promise...so now we kinda need names to uh go with the pics of all the people please :) i miss yoou!!

Cassie Jo said...

okay i'll do names for ya but i can't right now. next time im on i will for sure. annnd. i just realized that the picture with the three guys, with the one short one is a cut off pic. he's not actually that short. the funny part of that picture was SUPPOSED to be that he is burried in the sand up to the top of his shins and the other two guys are just standing normally beside him. buut it's a cut off pic-sorry!

Anonymous said...

I want to go to your school! Everytime I read I get more and more jealous Cassie! I hope your still enjoying yourself! Talk soon! xo

Anonymous said...

Ok by that I meant to say I am glad your still enjoying yourself! Oops! Hahaha!

Cassie Jo said...

hah. sweetas. everyone should come to this school cause it's wayyy fun!