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Rotorua Visit

My name is Caspar Husmann,

I am 15 years old and I am from Bonn, Germany. Last year I decided to do an exchange in Gisborne, New Zealand at Gisborne Boys High School for one term. 

In March we went on a four day trip to Rotorua. We started on a Tuesday afternoon and stayed at Whakatane overnight. 

The next morning we drove to Rotorua and we did wild water rafting in the morning. It was a lot of fun and a great experience. After that we went into our hostel and that was the first time we smelled the Rotorua smell. It was very bad but after some time you got used to it.

 On Thursday we needed to wake up early at 7am, which I did not really like but in the end it was good so we could do more activities. We went ziplining in the morning. It was fun because we learned about the nature of New Zealand and did a fun activity. After that we took a gondola to get up a mountain where we went on the luge. I was really enjoying the time on the luge there because we all had a lot of fun driving and crashing into each other. In the evening Mr. Arthur took us to a natural spring. When we came back we went into town and had dinner at an Italian restaurant which was really good. 

On our last day Friday we went to Tauranga and walked up Mount Maunganui where we had a beautiful view over Tauranga. Then we went swimming and into a shopping mall, which was the end of our trip.

All in all it was a great experience and a lot of fun.

White water Rafting!