Tim Tams!

Friday! Woot woot! However, it was a looooong day. We started our last two classes today: Teaching Science and Teaching Social Studies. I already learned some pretty neat stuff in science: 1) I learned out to drop a piece of paper straight down but make it move horizontally across the room, and 2) If you put a metal hexagonal nut inside a balloon and move it around, it sounds like the balloon is screaming—some crazy noise. In social studies, we explored the real meaning of social studies, and it was actually much more interesting than I thought it would be. This next week is going to be wayy busier than any other because we have a bunch of assignments and assessments. My motivation is our excursion down to the South Island a week from Monday!

Kerry and Sheryl took us out for Indian food tonight. It was more like fast food Indian rather than sit down Indian, but it still was sooo good. We tried four different curries; my favorite was the mango chicken, followed by the butter chicken. Delicious!

There was a regional YSA (young single adult) “Milo-side” tonight. There was a big dance party, games, incredible musical performances, and video from the variety show at their huge YSA conference two weeks ago. It was really neat though because I have never seen so much diversity at one event. All the diversity should have hidden the fact that there were an extra 16, very white, girls from America, but it definitely did not. Ha! Especially when they turned the music on, and we were all out there dancing, and most of them stayed up against the walls. We were surprised that more weren’t dancing, and thought maybe it was because they couldn’t dance, but that was proved wrong as we watched the videos of the variety shows and everyone was a million times better than us. Hopefully we’ll come back with a few new moves :) Oh, and I am so excited because Natalie—one of our new New Zealand friends—is going to introduce us to the New Zealand music. We were kind of disappointed because so far we already know the majority of the music on the radio, but Natalie will be our in to finding some new music. Yesss!

Ever since day one, we have all talked about Tim Tam Slams. According to Wikipedia, this is how it’s done: “Opposite corners of the Tim Tam are bitten off, one end is submerged in the drink, and the drink sucked through the biscuit. The crisp inside biscuit is softened and the outer chocolate coating begins to melt. Ideally, the inside of the biscuit should collapse but the outside should remain intact long enough for the liquid to reach the mouth.” The goal is to get the cookie all the way into your mouth before it completely melts and makes a huge mess. Anna and I are proud to report, we both successfully accomplished our first Tim Tam Slam in New Zealand! And let me just say it was soooo yum!