1987

11th bday and spent it in the rental place in Wellington.  All lookin forward to moving into our new place.  Also stoked at starting skool at Tawa Intermediate... lol first time ever in skool uniform.  No uniform in Pri skool and no uniform in America either so this was wierd.  haha anyway i survived.  We did get homework but not as much as in america.  So much more relaxed in NZ.. it really is... well back then anyway.  Dunno bout now... guess it depends where you are in NZ or America.  But i was still a naughty boy.. not doing my homework etc haha.  not as bad as America though.  omg it was great to run around again... on GRASS.  No grass in our skool in America.. concrete jungle, bloody hell.  Great to play rugby, bullrush, tag again once back in NZ.  back to being kids again lol.  Back then everyone walked home from skool and our walk once we got our new place involved going up at least 250 steps to get to our place on the side of the valley... we got fit haha.  it was good fun we used to go through so many shoes, jandals etc zooming down st aidens way on our skateboards and trolleys etc.  What was really cool was seeing some of the guys i used to know at Linden Skool before i went to America. that was cool.

At the end of the year as was the case with every year we spent in Wellie we would drive up to akl at christmas to see the rellies as all our Family was up there.