LAST FULL DAY IN NZ

Well the excitement is indescrible! Only one more sleep until we leave for Europe. YAY!!! Finished school for the next 6 weeks, thats pretty exciting too! I'm pretty much all packed and ready and rearing to go. Make sure you guys post me heaps of comments on here k!! the countdowns nearly over...................!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE GIRLS' TEAM

Luuka, Louise and I will all be competing in the K1 women class. We will also be racing teams together, should be good!!!

BUB

the famous Eric aka BUB or BUBBLES!! Eric's racing K1 over in europe along with Chris Akinston and Tom Murray.

NEARLY THERE

Only today, Wednesday, Thursday and then I'm off on Friday. AHHH only 3 more sleeps. Super exciting!!

COUNTRIES

The Junior Worlds is a huge international competition with over 40 countries battling it out. Each country is allowed to bring three paddlers in each class, K1W, K1M, C2,C1.

BRYDEN AND ANDREW

These two holagins are part of the Junior NZ Kayak team. Bryden and Andrew will be competing in the C2 class and with their results to date they should do pretty well. This photo was taken just after the boys had decided to comp it out to see who could last the longest in stinging neetle. Not too sure who won!

SINGLE FIGURES!

And now down to single figures! Only 9 days to go!!!

Nikki, Sally, Ella, Louise, Luuka and Myself

Nikki,

12 DAYS

And the countdown continues!! Only 12 days left! Yesterday a few of us went training at Kawerau, got some sweet coaching from Heather, thanks Heaps heather!! Today I'm off to Kaituna for a local race, should be good!

ME PADDLING

MORE PICS OF SOLKAN

Here's some more pics of Solkan. Just beside the course brand new clubrooms have been built, especially for the Junior Worlds. 3 bars have also been built beside the river, all within 100 metres of each other so that's where we will be hanging out after the competition!! yehaaaaaaaaaa!!











Top of the course

SOLKAN

This is the river where the big JUNIOR WORLDS are being held. It is in Solvenia and is a natural course. It does have any major features but the water is quite deceptive and moves faster than you would think! The Junior Preworlds were held there last year and it rained constantly for many days before the race so the river flooded. being opimistic kiwis we thought the river would go down before we had to race on it. It didn't and the river was completely different!! Fingers crossed it says at race flow this year!!

15 DAYS TO GO

Only 15 days left in New Zealand till we depart for Europe! Exciting stuff!!!

MY BIG BROTHERS

My two big brothers! James and Mike will both be competing in the Senior World Champs. Mike heads over to Europe tomorrow and James in late June. GOOD LUCK BOYS!!!

THE GIRLS!!!!

The Girls!!! Huge thankyou to Katherine, Sally and Rosie for helping me and Luuka with our fundraising BBQ. It was an awesome night, made a few dollars and we couldn't have done it with you guys. Thanks heaps!!!
All you guys better keep in conact with me when I'm away!!! Keep me informed with the haps in Tga!!

Me In Europe last year, working hard to keep up with my school work while I was away. This photo is evidence of the one time I actually did it!

THE COUNTDOWN

And the countdown has began. With only 17 days left till I depart for Europe time seems to be dragging as I get more and more excited! Training has been going really well and I can't wait to race against the top junior women paddlers!!!