THE WALK

Well seeing how I do a lot of walking over here, and it's my new favorite hobby (or it has to be seeing that it is my form of transportation a lot of the time), I decide I would show you my morning when I go to school! To start off I have to ride a bus, then walk about twenty minutes to get to the church. Not too bad when you use to be walking for about forty minutes! ha ha! But each morning waiting for the bus stop I sing "Back to school, Back to school, to prove to dad that I'm not a fool. I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don't get in a fight." I feel Billy every time I wait for the bus. Plus to top that off once it even drove right past us. That was very sad. But no worries we are best buds with Checko now, and he won't leave us.

 

 After we take our twenty minute bus ride we get to walk down Rathgarth. It's just a block down to our street. Don't let the block  word fool you...it is a very long block! As we venture our way down the road, we see very many pretty things. First is the little park, this is a normal park like in the states.

 

Then we pass tons of beautiful flowers! 

 

Then we pass the 7th best school in Auckland. Whenever I walk by this I am always so surprised! It makes me laugh 7th best!

A little farther down the road we have our little strip mall. We have the lottery, a post office, a two dollar store, and a few others! One day I'm going to go exploring! Oh yeah and there is a fish and chips place. Maybe one day I will try it out...or then again maybe not, it doesn't look very clean. ha ha!

 Then after we pass all of that we finally get to the rode to our short cut! We get to walk half way down another block then we walk into the park! These are the street signs where we turn!

After that we walk till we get to the park! But first we get to cross a little bridge. Of course there is bush there! 

Then every morning we take a little swing on the playground, and on a good days we even take a trip down the slide.

 After we play and get all excited we walk by the trees. This park is dedicated to the children born in a certain year. A lot of the parks have an area designated for this in them over here..

Then after we pass this, we finally get to school. But since we go by the bus schedule there, we usually get there about ten minutes early. This is our relaxing time where we sit in front of the church and get honked at several times! It's crazy I bet we get honked at on our way to school at least 5 times a day! It's crazy! I usually eat a snack here too. I'm not sure why, but by the time I have walked and done all of that, I am ready for my second breakfast! Then we go to school, and we get to walk it all the way back home at the end of the day! Except lately, Paea has been surprising us and picking us up! She is so cute! She's like, "The girls need a ride! They spend way too much time walking!" But that is what a typical day walking to the church where we have classes is! It's a pretty walk!