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CARROT CAKE

If you ask me which New Zealand food I like best, my answer is carrot cake. Yes, it's my favounte food because my home stay mother is good at make this cake. When I ate first time in my home, it's too delicious so home stay mother make carrrot cake every week. Last night, I asked my home stay mother where did this cake originte from. Her told me that long long age, people had already used the carrot cake in the important party. The first carrot cake is made in New Zealand. Right now in New Zealand, Australia, and Europe, the carrot cake is very popular, famous on the world. Before I came to New Zealand, I thought make cake is very very difficult, but now I can make the carrot cake, because I study it a mounth. If you never eat this cake,and want to taste, follow me I can show you how to make. Before you make, you should go to the supermarket buy some eggs, wholemealflour, some carrot, a bottle of milk, some desiccated coconuts, a little chpped walnuts. If all the ingredients are here, we can star. At first,wo should beat eggs about 3 minutes, put in sugar and oil beat again, than add flour a little sclts and spires, mix together and fold in the egg. Second, add some milk, a carrot, little coconut and walnuts, must stir gently. Then bring a tin, put the mixture into the tin. Bake the tin about one and a half an hour, turn out the tin, reuevse on the pan, you can finish. So do you think the carrot cake is best food in New Zealand?

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Last weekend I went to Rotorua.

The smell there is too strong for me. It gave me a headache.But there are a lot of interesting things to do, such as the Zorb. The Zorb is a very funny game. There are some balls and one or two people crawl into a ball, then roll down the hill. If someone wants to play this game with water, the staff will put some water into the ball

International students often find life in New Zealand difficult

Today, more and more international students are studying in New Zealand. Sometimes they find life in New Zealand is too difficult. They have many problem, include: language, different food and homesick.
In fact, every international student has the same problem -language. Yes, language is the biggest problem of them. These students come from different countries, but they also can’t speak English in their homeland. Maybe a little students can speak English very well, but lots of students just have poor English. So they often found difficult to communicate. They will make mistakes, for example some students live in home stay, when the home stay mother tell them something can’t do in the room, if they don’t understand what the mother said, it will be unhappy. So the international students have to study hard in the school. Then they can talk with New Zealand people and other students, it’s very important.
No one can lives without food. When the international students arrive to New Zealand, a lot of students feel NZ food is unsuitable for them. It’s true, because different countries have different foods. For example, Indian people like eat curry and hot food, but most New Zealand food taste too bland, so many students don’t like to eat. Another reason is many rubbish foods were sold by food shop, if you eat too much, you will put on weight. It’s bad for your health. Right now, New Zealand’s exchange rate is too high and goods are expensive, when the students want eat their own countries food, they should spend extra money on food, it will be increase their burden.
After a few time when the international students arrived, most of them began to miss their family and friends and dislike much of what they saw in New Zealand, they are homesick for motherland. Most of students feel lonely, bucause they can’t be used to own language to talk in New Zealand. When they want to talk with their family by phone, they should spend lots of money. The international students also don’t like the weather in different country, because here’s weather changed dramatically. Maybe some students want go back, in fact, it’s unnecessary. If they study hard, make some friends and do some sports, the homesick will disappear.
Of course, when people study or live in another country, they will find difficult. Don’t worry, they need time to suitable for New Zealand. They should believe themselves.