New Zealand _ Youth Exchange Programme!!

NEW ZEALAND__ HOMESTAY

New Zealand, a peaceful .. quiet .. lovely country, it was an amazing trip for me and I have a lots of sweet memories from Lumb family and the International Youth Camp.

First of all, Sincerely Thank you Tom Lumb & Anne Lumb provided us (amery & I) to stay at your lovely home from 8th December until 26th of December' 07. I really had great time to stay with you all just like a family. Every morning & every night Tom has an habbit that he will go to check his emails... (before the breakfast and also before sleep) haha..... Anne can cook very well, so we had nice meals every time...

In front of Tom & Anne lovely home.^^^ Banner and souvenirs for them.
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Rivendell

One of the LORD OF THE RING scene.... Can you recognize where is it?? Replay the film again then you will know... haha...

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(i forgot the hill's name) somewhere near to Tom & Anne home.

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Stonehenge Aotearoa, carterton

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Lindale, paraparaumu

Farm walk & Farm shows, I had a milking certificate because I had tried to hand-milk a cow!!

COOL..... I watched the live shearing of sheep skin...

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Car Museum

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Sell Saugage @ Lions Club of Karori



Was a great experience for me to sell saugage... It was a lot of fun!!!

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Nga Manu Nature Reserve






This is KIWI bird.................
Is rarely that you can see a KIWI bird in New Zealand...
but I did see , I was so lucky, thank you Tom & Anne brought us to Nga Manu to watch kiwi birds and ohters birds as well...
Kiwi birds always hide themselves on the day time, they come out at night time...
When my camera has flash, the Kiwi bird stood there and doesn't move just like a fake bird..
it's amazing!!!!

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Tepapa, Wellington

Experinced a lots of things in TePapa....

the picture above is the Maori Culture house.....

Great place to visit!!!!!!!

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Stansborough, Lower Hutt

The entrance is a wardrobe ( from the film of Narnia )
The Stansborough supplied all the customes for the films of Narnia & Lord of the Ring!!!

Journey from the history of the flock,

the factory, and the fabric

to the fashion, the films

and the future!

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Owlcatraz, shannon

It's named Big Snow... It's the land of Giant!!

Besides, we meet the native NZ Owls, owls stay in dark as well and they can't move their eyes.

And The Wairuru caves was an awesome experienced, we walked in the dark cave without any torch light just can see the grow worms...

Wonderful!!!!

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Cable Car, Wellington

Foundly described as " relentless red rattlers", Wellington's cable cars have transpored people between the harbour and the hills for more than 100 years and are an iconic image for the capital. The Cable Car is connect to Botanic Garden.

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Botanic Garden, Wellington

find out what's the time now!!

Rose Garden at Botanic Garden, a lots of beautiful roses with different colours...

I love this place!!!

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Karori Wildlife Sanctuary

With the Lions Club members, Sally and Amery...

Listen to the birds sound.... lovely and peaceful.....

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Tom's choir group performance!!!

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Banner Exchanged!!!


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Sunset

BEAUTIFUL SUNSET!!!!
the weather was extremely cold for me...
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Tawhiti Museum, hawera

Bringing you face to face with your Heritage!!

Extensive use is made of both life sized figurers and smaller scale figures in the displays. The life size figures add something of a social perspective to the displays while the scale models depict scenes that would be impossible to recreate life size and help to display artifacts in a meaningful context.
The features are creating the very real image!!!
I took a lot of pictures of the models that I can't post all of them to here...

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Christmas Day (lunch)

Christmas day spent with Tom, Anne, Mike, Jo and Amery!!!

Was a special christmas!!!
with delicious lunch and deserts...
opening christmas presents....
watched King Kong & Ratatulie

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Tom & Anne Lumb

Tom & Anne, I miss you, thank you for everything!!!!!!!
with LOVE....
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Mike & Marlion Kelly

1 night stayed in Waiuku, thank you sending us to Auckland International Airport..

GOOD BYE, NEW ZEALAND