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Topic: Letter of Introduction from Diocesan School, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND (1 of 7), Read 146 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Mrs. Linda Macdonald (lmacdonald@diocesan.school.nz)
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:10 PM

8IN is a class of year 8 ( 12 year old) students at Diocesan School for Girls, in Auckland, New Zealand. Diocesan is a fairly large independent school, with 1400 students ranging from new entrants to senior ( year 13) girls. We are part of the Middle School, where there are five other year 8 classes. There are 28 girls in the class. The school’s web address is : www.diocesan.school.nz

Auckland is a geographically large city with a population in the greater Auckland area of over one million. It is located at 36o51’ South, 174o36’ East. Auckland is located on an isthmus between the Hauraki Gulf on the Pacific Ocean, and the Manukau Harbour, which empties into the Tasman sea, so the climate is fairly moderate. Our summer daytime temperatures are often in the mid to high 20’s (celsius), and in the winter while we occasionally have frosts, day time temperatures range between 12 and 16 degrees C.

Auckland is known as the “City of Sails”, and we are proud to be the host city for the America’s Cup defense. The city is built around numerous volcanic cones (hopefully extinct!), and extends for many kilometers north and south from the Auckland isthmus. Surrounding the city are farm lands to the north and south, and Regional Park land to the west.

We enjoy a host of sporting and recreational activities, including sailing, tramping (hiking) and winter skiing (a four hour drive south to Tongariro National Park). Rugby is the national game, but soccer, netball and hockey are popular too.

The class looks forward to participating in the Global Sun Temperature project.

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Topic: Do you have earthquakes?? (2 of 7), Read 85 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Kara (judith_husker@evertt.wednet.edu)
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 12:12 PM

Hello Diocen school,
My name is Kara I go to Monroe Elementry in Everett Washington home of rain and earthquakes.Last Febuary Seattle had a big earthquake it was a 7.6 .Do you have earthquakes ? My school has grades Kindergarten trough 5th grade. Next year I will be going to a different school. Do you have to wear uniforms ? We don't but sometimes I wish I did because I can't get up in the morning. My class has a total of 25 kids . My teachers name is Mrs.Husker. My principles name is Mr. Holzman he is new to our school. We mostly do the same sports as you. I think the most popular sport in our school is soccer. The weather in Seattle is Rainy Cold and cloudy but it never really is sunny. The Temperature is about 40F to 50 F. In the summer it sunny and the temperature is 60 to 70.
From Kara
PS please write back !

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Topic: Earthquakes. (3 of 7), Read 22 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Helen Brown (garfields_guitar@hotmail.com)
Date: Sunday, May 27, 2001 11:13 PM

Hi Kara.

My name is Helen. I go to Diocesan School in New Zealand. Yes we do have earthquakes but they are not very common and the last big one we had was something like 7-8.3 on the Richter Scale. That was about 50-60 years ago. That happened in Napier, in the North Island of New Zealand. We have classes of 28 at our school and our science teacher is called Mrs MacDonald and she is from America as well. Our principal is called Mrs Thompson and we don't see her all that much. Anyway, I hope that this e-mail has answered your question.

From Helen aka. Garfield.

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Topic: Earthquakes. (4 of 7), Read 17 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Liv babe (da_voice88@hotmail.com)
Date: Sunday, May 27, 2001 11:21 PM

Hi Kara,

My name is Olivia and yes we do have earth quakes in New Zealand. I have never experieced a big one though because in auckland where i live they are not very common and if they do happen you can't really feel them.

Well cya later
Olivia
ps please write back

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Topic: Hi from Texas (5 of 7), Read 83 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Chenoa (dmiller@esc6.net)
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 11:48 PM

Hello!

We are a class of 22 students at Livingston Junior High SChool in Livingston, Texas. We're in the seventh grade.

Livingston is a small town with a population maybe over 5,000 or 6,000. There is nothing really to our town. (You can find out more about us in our introductory letter.)

So, what kinds of things are your class doing? Our class is recording temperatures all week. We're also studying how the sun damages the skin. Well, we'ld like to hear more about your project and we hope to write back.

Chenoa
Livingston Junior High School

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Topic: Hi from New Zealand (6 of 7), Read 16 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Sarah & Stella (dmiller@esc6.net)
Date: Sunday, May 27, 2001 11:15 PM

Hi,

we read ur letter and wanted 2 reply as we really like Texas. me sarah has been to texas many a time to Austin, Dalas and Huston and really enjoyed it when we stayed withour friends and relitives. have u had fun doing the sun project we didnt test the effect on skin because we were studing another topic and didnt have time by the way my teacher lived in Texas for a while. Keep writting to us
bye from Sarah, Stella and New Zealand

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Topic: Hi from Texas (7 of 7), Read 15 times
Conf: Letters of Introduction
From: Hi again from Dio!
Date: Sunday, May 27, 2001 11:18 PM

Hi, how are you, my name is Kathleen and i go to dio, in auckland, New Zealand, or Aotearoa. in science at the moment we are studying electricity, but our teacher Mrs Mac decided that we could do Global Sun anyway. Everyone in our class is really weird, but I suppose you get that too! Our class is the only class in New Zealand participating in Global Sun and we think that is quite cool.
Bye for now, write back soon!