Thursday, March 5, 2009

A first in New Zeland

Now I would love to say that it is the first time that one of my favorite people/celebrities etc. are going to visit New Zealand. But I can't.

On Tuesday the 3rd of March there was a stabbing at a school in Auckland - the city I live in. This is a very first for New Zealand. There have been two occasions in the past where there was some other violence in the classrooms of New Zealand schools, but nothing like this.

A teacher was stabbed in the back by a student while writing on the whiteboard. It really comes as a shock as this type of stuff doesn't happen in New Zealand. We don't have a police officers in our schools, we don't have security gates when entering schools, we don't have a high history of violence in school.

So that was a big event in my week. Although I did not attend the school where the stabbing took place it still came as a shock.

On a higher note. I managed to find a New Zealand confectionery website that sells milk duds, 5 boxes for $4.00. What a steal!