Students from Around the World at Geraldine High

NAME: Abigail

AGE/YEAR LEVEL: year 12

HOME TOWN: Johannesburg, South Africa

WHEN DID YOU ARRIVE IN NZ?

5th of April 2022

LIKES/FAVOURITE THINGS:

Braai vleis (barbecue meat)

FIRST THOUGHTS ON NZ:

No gates around houses and extremely green

WHAT YOU MISS BACK HOME:

Braais, and rugby nights

INTERESTING FACTS:

South Africa has 11 official languages and is known as 'the rainbow nation'

South Africa has the big five: lion, leopard, black rhinoceros, African Bush elephant, African Buffalo. The first heart transplant happened in Cape Town, in 1967, Dr Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital.

Although I love New Zealand, I'll always be a proud South African and proud to call it home.

Thank you, School!

- Abigail