One Act Plays and some Snow!

Wow! Its February already! Time seems to be flying bye! I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while, I had one been quite busy and two didn't want to just do a short post and not have anything in it and so here I am. I'm not sure if it was mentioned in my last post but I ended up being part of a One Act Play in out Student Directed One Act Festival at school, and I had so much fun! I was in the play Imperfect Proposal. A comedy about a man trying to propose to his girlfriend and getting interrupted by many people, while learning about his girlfriend and himself on the way. I had a wonderful time meeting new people and getting to know the few I knew already!

At Applebees for cast bonding dinner!

After our final dress rehearsal!

We have also had a little bit of snow and ice! Something we dont get in Auckland! So I took some pictures of the dude clearing out street!

Well thats all for now folks! Ill keep you posted, next challenge The Wizard of OZ!

Christmas, Road Trip and 2012!

Hey yall and welcome to 2012 and my first post of the new year! So first a little sports news after the 6 games before Christmas out basketball team is now 5-1 (wins-losses) so looking to be a great season! Here are some photos!

They show a little of the school spirit over here which is super fun and nothing like school sports back in New Zealand!


Now onto Christmas. Unfortunately I didnt get the white Christmas like I was hoping for but it was still pretty cold! So I started Christmas day off finishing off my pavlova which I feel was a success, bringing my kiwi touch to Christmas in America!

Marc also added his Swiss touch to Christmas making Cheese Fondu

During the day Jim and Debbies kids and grandkids were over which was fun, having the little kids around really made it feel like Christmas! Here are some more pictures of the day :)

Tree and Presents

Even Abby got in the Christmas Spirit with her bows

Tyler and Kenzie

On Boxing Day (26th) we packed our car and left for our family trip to South Dakota. On our first day of travel we went through the 'I' states, Indiana, Illinois and just into Iowa where we stayed the night just after around six hours of travel. Day two lead us across Iowa and Minnesota and into South Dakota where we were spending our trip visiting Jims family and where hes from.  Here are some pictures from the trip.

Somewhere in Indiana

Kinda in the middle of nowhere

Driving

South Dakota

Farm Jim grew up on

Humboldl, a city near where Jim is from. Population.... 521

Buffalo Ridge, SD

Sioux Falls, all lit up from Christmas

After a few days in South Dakota it was time to go home and we set off on our long drive home. Getting home on New Years eve we arrived just in time to watch UC (University of Cincinnati) play in their Bowl Game which they won! The we all decided to stay in and chill.

Now Im back to school, still waiting to find out about the musical and for a cast list to be posted. Happy New Year everyone ill post soon :)

December Already!!! Thanksgiving and our Christmas Tree

So I just realised it is already December and I have yet to post an update since like the begging of November. So, we are now really getting into the holiday season with Thanksgiving having past and Christmas creeping up quickly!

Thanksgiving is a truly amazing holiday and I have decided I am bring it back to New Zealand! Not only the meaning behind it is cool but what beats lots of food and football! I think I ate enough food in that one day then the rest of the week! It was a fun day spending time with not only Jim, Debbie and Marc but the extended family as well! and just to let y'all know we still have turkey in the fridge! Im starting to think I will be taking turkey sandwiches to school until Winter Break!

With Christmas coming up we went to the tree farm to pick out our tree, even with the possibility of rain! (which we just missed). After looking at many different trees we found ours!

Now its really starting to feel like Christmas as the Tree and house are starting to get decorated!

It is also now Basketball season! and I am proud to say I have been the all three of the games so far and have had so much fun! More pictures to come! Our Student Section gets pretty live!



Happy Holidays everyone! Ill update again soon :)

Northern Ohio :)

So in the first week of November we as a family ventured up to Northern Ohio to go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton and on the way back we spent the night in Mansfield which is Debbies home town.

Our Friday started with some packing, we then dropped Abby(our new dog) off to where she would be spending the weekend and then we headed onto the road. The drive wasn't to long, only about four hours and it was cool to pass by the Amish horse and carts! Once we got to Canto we checked in to where we would be staying and the headed on to one of my now favorite places to eat! Roadhouse Brown Derby! Unfortunately they only have them in northern Ohio. The meals were huge, and when I say huge I mean huge! The sweet potatoes were like the size of our heads! Sadly no one took their cameras so your just going to have to take me word for it ok!

Next morning was Hall of Fame day! It was such a cool place and really interesting. Ive been loving playing Football and watching every weekend so seeing all the history was cool. Its a hard place to explain so ill just post some pictures for y'all.

Family Pic :)

Helmets. Sorry its sideways!

After we finished looking around the Hall of Fame jumped back in the car and headed on our way to Mansfield. Once we got there we had dinner at a Sub and Pizza place Debbie has been going to since she lived in Mansfield! The Subs were great.  On the way to Mansfield we stopped at Malabar Farm, which was a nice little place with some animals and building to look around at. Again it is photo time.

US and Ohio Flags

Gofer. Its real!

Marc and his buddies!

Malabar Farm House

On our way home we made a stop to pay our respects to Debbies late father. It was lovely to see where she is from and where she grew up. It was a great weekend and we had so much fun! Big thanks to Jim and Debbie!

Football season is all over now, we have the end of season ceremony on Tuesday so I will write and end of Football post after that.

Spirit Week and Homecoming!

Homecoming is a big event on the school calender. It involves Spirit Week where each day is themed and people dress up accordingly, a football game where the Homecoming Queen is announced and a dance. This year the Spirit Week days were Marathon, Elderly, Amurica, Neon and Fairfield Spirit.

Marathon Monday... wear your best running attire! Unfortunately I didnt take photos on Monday.
Elderly Tuesday... a days its ok to wear your grandparents clothing. It was so funny but I had nothing to wear.
Amurica Wedensday... wear your red, white and blue, cammo and nascar shirts.

Neon Thursday... wear your brightest cloths!

Fairfield Friday... wear your red and white. The halls were also decorated today which was really cool!

Friday Night was our Homecoming game... unfortunately we didnt come away with the result we wanted :(

Saturday was the big day... The Homecoming Dance! My day started with our JV football game which we WON 20-14! While we were playing all the girls were getting their hair and nails done. At around 5 we all met at Tawny's to go and take pictures before we went out to eat.

Our Group :)

Lexie, Twany, Christian and I

My beautiful date Lexie and I

After photos we went out for dinner and then went onto the dance :) It was a great week finishing with a great night!

More Football, BonFire at Joes and a little school

Lots to talk about, but ill start with school to get it out of the way. Its pretty different and ill get some photos soon so everyone at home can see. Ive had my first tests and quizzes over the last couple weeks. So much different than NCEA! Loving the multi-choice, its great! Ill talk more about school once I get around to photos.

Its been two weeks since my last post so Varsity has had two games and JV has had one. Varsity had there first away game of the season. We traveled to Brookhaven in Columbus, it was around a two hour drive, luckily I slept the whole way. Unfortunately the game didn't go our way and we lost. JV didnt have a game on Saturday because Brookhaven couldn't make it down to Fairfield. We were at home again the next week, which is always fun! Home games are a blast. We played Sycamore in our first GMC (Greater Miami Conference) game of the year. Unfortunately it didn't go our way again. Since Varsity was at home JV traveled to Sycamore for our game on Saturday, and the result was good. We came out with a 12-6 win! Here are some pictures from the game. Im #77

Later that night I was invited to a Bonfire at my friend Joe's. He plays football as well. It was really fun and I got to meet some new people! We started off just chilling playing some Xbox. Once more people arrived we went out back and played an intense game of backyeard vollyball which got pretty competitive! Once dark we got the fire going and made smores over the fire! Much better than making them in the microwave! The night ended with my first Taco Bell Experience. Here are some pictures.

Brandan playing Chubby Bunnies. I think he got like ten marshmallows in his mouth at once!

Me and my Taco Bell!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last Sunday was also another family fun day Sunday. We watched the Bengals win their first regular season game! Wooohoooo! Marc and I were decked out in our Bengals gear. Unfortunately we didn't get a photo. Will have to get one next time. It was great to watch them win while we ate nachos!

Ill post again soon!