the first missed day of school in New Zeland by Zander

                8-15-11

                Today was the weirdest day of my life. When I woke up this morning and looked out the window, there was snow every ware. I was surprised about the snow because we were right on the beach and they are supposed to be warm.  So I got up and got ready for school. Then I went to the bath room down stairs and it was snowing in there. It was like that because the window had to slots that faced out and the hail would hit the slots and bounce into the bathroom. Then, we got in the car to go the school.

                When we got to school all the gates were closed and it turns out that they had shut down the school. I thought that they did it because it was hard to get to school. I had some mixed emotions because I wanted to learn the named of my friends but I also dined like to do work. The roads were really hard to drive on because it hadn’t been cleaned and there were lots of ice and snow on the road.  So we drove home and went inside to heat up our house. We had to because it is really cold in it because there is no insulation in it. Plus we didn’t have many heaters and the heaters we had didn’t work very well.

                So instead of going to school I went on a walk on the beach with Mia Sarah and my dad. We had a big snow ball fight. I thought that it was enjoyable because I hit my dad and my sister a few times. Then while Mia and my dad walked on the pier, Sarah and I built a snow man. It was really entertaining but my hands stared to tingle because they were numb because of the cold and we didn’t have gloves.  Then when they came back we went to check and see if the library was open. I like the library because you can play video games on the computers there. It turns out that it was closed so we went home to lunch. I was sad because I wanted to play Eragon on there computers.

Zander