My Nashi Tree!!!

I can see my Nashi Tree outside of my bedroom window, the nearly three years that we have had it planted there since we moved down to Orewa it has pretty much stayed the same... it grew one fruit partially on it last year, it got its leaves and lots them again once.....

It now looks like this!!!!!

It has established leaves that have been there for the past month at least!! It has five fruit buds! I am EXCITED!!!!

the reason that it has two different types of leaves on the different sides is because one side (the one with the smaller leaves) got grafted onto the other one when it was a tree-ling (don't know the official name) and so the tree has two different types of Nashi on it!!

By the way... a little tid bit of information you may not have known:

Ever since we lived on the farm in Wellsford 10 years ago... (time goes fast!!) I found a Nashi tree by the pond and have loved the fruit ever since!!!

No.. they are not full grown Nashi Trees..... They are plum trees... (They are also where the water use to reach when it flooded as we had a stream running through the property- bottom of photo)

Exams and Updates

About time I posted something...

I am in the middle of a 12 day break between my third exam and my last! I have been full on studying, shopping, working, sitting exams, and touring.

I have sat three of my four exams now and I think I have done pretty well in biology, not sure about english or classics.  I have social studies on Tuesday 3rd Dec, so as of 12.30pm at the latest I will have officially finished my high school exams and as of Friday 6th Dec I will have officially signed out of school and completed a whole 13 years and 6 weeks at school!!! Its pretty exciting when I type it out and think about it!

I also have the last two PORSE booklets to complete to get my New Zealand's Level 3 Nanny Certificate- I am aiming to have these completed and signed off by Friday!

Next year I will hopefully be moving forward and onto tertiary education, studying a three year degree to get a Bachelor of Nursing- I will be finding this out in just under two weeks if I have officially gotten a place a Massey!!

I have been doing a few shifts caregiving as I am trying to work around my exams, studying and also other things I have to do and want to do.  Also, getting the only shifts that are really available as there is quite a lot of staff at the moment.

Last Thursday I went and toured one of the accommodation villages for Massey University, and then went late night shopping with a friend and came back to my house and wrote and card and wrapped a gift for one of our teachers- last year Taylor (friend) and I were in her class, it was her first year at Orewa and we were known as the ones that were constantly talking, laughing, giggling and so on- I also managed to continue that particular trend on this year with Danielle as I was this particular teachers class again this year! .... we decided on getting her a mug that had "little miss giggles" written on it from the "little miss" series by Roger Hargreaves.  Our teacher laughed and said, yeah, I will think of you two every time I drink from it- our aim! :)

Found This... (From My Birthday)

My Apple Crumble Birthday Candle Cake when we went out to the city... I got Mum to ask them to put a candle in it :) I got an actual cake on the Thursday which I need to get the photos off friends of it.

Graduation

On Wednesday 6th November I had my high school graduation! I have now officially done my time at high school and once my exams are over I will be free!!!  My whole year level graduated (Maybe a couple didn't?) It was a more formal occasion so majority were wearing dresses, and the guys dressed up in shirts and long pants. Here are some of the photos that Mum took.

My Graduation Dress

My friend Taylor and I

Getting my certificate :)

Graduated!! Im right over in the corner under the projector screen

18th Birthday!!

Well, yesterday, November 5th was my 18th birthday and also my last day of high school ever!!!!!!!!!

Pretty good day to end on too!
I had Lisa be the first person to sing/ say happy birthday to me, I had my last day of school, with no school work being done, playing cards in study, pranking the school/ teachers, had ALOT of fun, and got to go out to dinner.  Highlight would be my brother Daniel remembering and calling me during interval at school!!!
Here are some photos from my birthday dinner last night, in Mission Bay in the city with Mum, Wendy, Danielle and I.  I will add more picture when I have got them from Mum's phone.

I also have my graduation tonight, so I will post on that soon too, with more photos :)

More arm wrestling in Bio, for the last time ever!!

Taylor and I at lunchtime at school!

 This is where we went in Mission Bay, Auckland

Danielle and I

Mum and Wendy

Danielle and I afterwards... It was dark and freezing cold!!

One more day left!

Down to one more day of high school ever!

I had a shared lunch for my last lesson of classics, I had to say good luck and good bye to a good friend as it was my last class lesson with her forever! I mean, I will see her and all, but I don't know when.  After this lesson- English, I have to say good bye to another two.  Then I have four more lesson of high school ever! Biology, Study, Study, and Maths.  Then a practice graduation assembly for what happens, where we sit and finalizing all the details.