Sweet family life
Hello!
It has been lovely over the last few days. Well, as you know, I decided to visit an ordinary New Zealand family here, so I could get an overall picture about the family life. So I went out and from nowhere I find myself in a heavenly neighborhood somewhere in the beautiful part of Auckland. It was full of wonderful houses with New Zealand`s flag in perhaps every property. Which I thought was a good sign, cause it was probably many ordinary families who where living here, so I have found the right place for the right business. I knocked on some doors to ask if I could be allow to stay with them a while. This was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, because it was like 100 families who ignored me. But I would do exactly the same thing as them if a stranger knocked on my door and asked if he could stay with me, so I can`t sit here and complain about them. However, at last I found a family who finally let me in after my kindly presentation and a talk. I hope they got a good picture about me.
Trust me, it was not a small family at all, because it consisted of four children and a father and a mother. To be exact there were three boys and one girl. The children`s names are, Jack (8 years), Lachlan (10 years), Sophie (14 years) and Ryan (15 years). The mother`s name was Charlotte and where 36 years old, and the father, James, where 37 years old. Anyway, the family in its entirety was lovely, pleasant and friendly. They stick together as a family, which was very important according to them. This family such as other families here usually lives in houses which are built separately from their neighbors. But the houses here looks like Australia’s, you know a house with one floor and a big garden outside.
It took a while before I understood how the school looks like here in Auckland. But after some info from Ryan, I finally got it. The fact is that I think that the students begin the school quite early here, because they namely start year 1 when they are five years old. Compare to Sweden, we begin year 1 at the age of seven. So you could say that a five year old student was as smart as me when I was seven. Wow. But I think that a child who is five years old shouldn`t begin school yet, he or she should play instead, because they are still a kid. Anyway, Jack and Lachlan are studying at the primary level by now, but when Lachlan gets eleven years old he could either pursue two more years at the primary school or at a specialist intermediate school. Sophie and Ryan are studying at the high school though. In fact, you start the high school at the age of thirteen which is divided into two divisions, the junior secondary and senior secondary. In total the children spend thirteen years in schooling where you high schooling five of those 13 years. To be precise the junior secondary is between year nine to eleven and the senior secondary is between years eleven to thirteen. However, after the school Jack, Lachlan and Ryan usually went out and played rugby which is a huge sport here, but Sophie was rather with her friends.
The living and the lifestyle here is very good, it`s even so good that it is the third best country in the world to live in! I think I have already told you about the things like activities and such. But I can tell in brief again to you that here is everything you can imagine yourself. Speaking of which, Auckland has one of the best lifestyles in the world! Quite amazing, right? Nevertheless, it`s a really friendly city where everybody seems to live healthy and happily. Apart from that, everyone seems to enjoy their lives as well, so no wonder why it is a friendly city. Sweden is also a really good country in my opinion, because it`s an open country which make Sweden multicultural. But there are some things that could be better in Sweden, like that the people should be more kindly, because sometimes they are cold and selfish.
The children must be so lucky to live in an awesome country like New Zealand which is modern and has a democratic system where the human rights are 100 % respected like Sweden. The people here are also very broad-minded and different, and therefore New Zealand also got a multicultural mix. Due to New Zealand’s social welfare don’t almost things like hunger and such exist, and it also reminds me of Sweden’s welfare which is also quite good. But I think that these good welfares depends on how much dwellers a country have, because a country who got smaller population and a good economy like New Zealand and Sweden, they got better welfare than a country with many residents and bad economy. However, here you are open and welcoming to everyone which I saw in this family that I visited.
There is every type of work here, but James works as a doctor and Charlotte is a teacher. Every morning Charlotte drives the children to the school so that she can go to her own school thereafter. She ends her work at 2 o’clock and directly picks up the children on the way home. James starts his job early in the morning and end at 4 o’clock, and he is always home in the right time to eat some delicious food which Charlotte has made for the family. You can think that it is the mother who does all the work home and taking care of the kids, but it´s not always like that, because sometimes if James have holiday it`s his turn to taking care of the children and the home. But about the income, it`s of course James who got a larger income than his wife, so it`s basically the father who livelihood the family. There is almost in every family in the world where the father got a better job than its wife and earns more money. I don’t know what it depend on but it may have connections with the deficient equality.
Alright, this was basically all I could tell you about the family life here and I hope you got a nice picture of it. But sadly I have to inform you that this was my last post, which means that we never gonna see each other again. I`m actually going to leave this country tomorrow, so this is my last day here. It`s so boring! I wish that I could stay here for a longer time and share every moment with you guys. But the time runs fast when you got fun. So before I finish, I hope you enjoyed my posts and got a lot of new knowledge about New Zealand. I had a hell lot of fun!!!
Farewell, visitors.
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