Saturday, June 26, 2010

Dzien Dobry from Krakow in Poland !

Hello Room 5 and Friends !!

Thank you for the lovely messages! They brought a big smile to my face! It sounds like the musical went well and that you are having a good time with Mrs Wyllie and working hard (although I'm not sure if making pizza and doing art attack is working hard ??!! : )

At the moment I am in a beautiful city called Krakow which is in a country called Poland. I have been here 2 days and I have seen a lot ! Today I went to a very very old castle (1000 years old!) called Wawel castle. I saw lots of very old canons and bow and arrows! There are also lots of really old and really beautiful churches I have visited. Yesterday I did a cycle tour, but sadly it was raining a lot and I got really really wet. I have also found a little shop that sells the best sausages in the whole wide world !!!!! They cost 8 zloty, which is what they called the Polish money. It is about the same as NZ$3.50

I still have 3 days here and still have lots of things planned to see and do (and eat!) Then I am going to fly to another city called St Petersburg which is in a country called Russia. I am very excited and a little bit nervous about going there as it is very different to New Zealand.

I hope you're all keeping warm and I look forward to your messages !

Big hugs for everyone !

From Ms Ashford

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Hallo from Holland !!
















































































Hello Wicked Room 5 and friends !!


Hope you're all doing well. I am now in Holland, I arrived yesterday. First I spent 4 days in Vancouver in Canada which was great. It's a beautiful city with lots to see and do. I saw lots of totem poles, rented a bike and rode around beautiful Stanley park where I saw racoons, I had a tour of the Ice Hockey Stadium which was huge and I even went up a mountain (in a Gondola) called Grouse Mountain and saw Grizzly bears and wolves.

I hope you have all been supporting the All Whites ! I watched their game against Slovakia in Vancouver. In Holland everyone is crazy about soccer. I just watched their game against Japan and Holland won 1 - 0 ! Everyone in Holland wears orange to support their soccer team, so everyone is very happy and orange right now !

Tomorrow I go to Amsterdam for a day. There is a zoo there called Artis that I am going to. On Wednesday I fly to Poland for 5 days and then I fly to Russia.

I have attached some photos. I hope you like them.

Let me know how the Jack and the Beanstalk musical is going! I'm sure it will be fantastic !!

Tot Ziens !! Ms Ashford


























Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Ms Ashford's trip around Europe !

Kia ora,


As you know, I'm jetting off this Sunday for a month. Needless to say I am very much looking forward to my trip and I'm sure there will be many adventures to be had along the way.

Obviously I will be taking plenty of photos along the way, and with the wonders of technology these days I will post the odd photo on our blog. I have attached a basic version of my itinerary, so if the Wicked Room 5 children would like to follow my adventures around the globe, that would be fantastic !

Obviously I would also love to read messages on our blog written by the Wicked Room 5 (and parents, teachers, friends ofcourse!) to let me know how they're going and how the musical is going!!

Ka kite ano!

See you in Term 3 !

Ms Ashford’s Travel Itinerary

13 June

Christchurch to Auckland to Vancouver (Air NZ)

14 June

Vancouver

15 June

Vancouver

16 June

Vancouver to Amsterdam (KLM)

17 June

Amsterdam (KLM)

18 June

Den Bosch

19 June

Den Bosch

20 June

Den Bosch

21 June

Den Bosch

22 June

Den Bosch

23 June

Eindhoven to Krakow (Wizzair)

24 June

Krakow

25 June

Krakow

26 June

Krakow

27 June

Krakow

28 June

Krakow

29 June

Krakow to Warsaw (LOT Airlines) Warsaw to St Petersburg (LOT Airlines)

30 June

St Petersburg

1 July

St Petersburg

2 July

St Petersburg

3 July

St Peterburg

4 July

St Petersburg to Moscow (Airline S7) Moscow to Berlin (Air Berlin)

5 July

Berlin

6 July

Berlin

7 July

Berlin to Den Bosch (train via Deventer)

8 July

Den Bosch

9 July

Den Bosch

10 July

Den Bosch

11 July

Den Bosch

12 July

Amsterdam to Shanghai (KLM)

13 July

Amsterdam to Shanghai (KLM)

14 July

Shanghai to Auckland (Air NZ) Auckland to Christchurch (Air NZ)