Megan: Hey Haley how’s it going?

Haley: Good thanks.

Megan: Have you got any plans for the Easter holiday?

Haley: Yeah, I’m going away for Easter; it should be great. My friend’s auntie has a bach on Waiheke Island so we are just going to hang out there and eat lots of yummy Easter eggs and hot cross buns.

Megan: Oh cool, that sounds really fun! You should have a treasure hunt in the bach like when we were kids.

Haley: That’s a great idea! I remember when I was a kid my Mum used to hide the eggs all around the house and me and my brother would go crazy trying to find them. It was so fun; we would have chocolate eggs to eat for ages.

Megan: My Mum did that for us too. Me and my brother and sister used to ration out our chocolate for weeks to see whose would last the longest. By the end the chocolate would taste a bit funny but we didn’t care.

Haley: Oh the good old days.

Megan: Tell me about it.

Haley: So what are you doing for Easter?

Megan: I’m going away with my church for the long weekend to a camp. Hundreds of people go every year - it’s so much fun.

Haley: Cool. Well hope you have an awesome time away.

Megan: Yeah, you too. See you after the break.

Haley: See you.

Glossary:

Bach: A New Zealand word for a holiday home. Normally it is a basic house by the beach. People often own these houses with their extended family and will allow their friends to borrow the bach from time to time.

Hang out: This means to spend some time with a friend, not doing a special activity, but just enjoying each other’s company.

Eg. “Hi Sara, do you want to hang out with me on Saturday afternoon?”

Eg. A: Lizzy, shall we hang out together this Saturday?

B: Cool, what shall we do?

A: How about having a Movenpick ice cream at Mission bay?

B: That’s a good idea!

Yummy: This means delicious, but it is word that is often used by children, or by anybody referring to lollies or sweet food.

Eg. “Those lollies you bought the other day were really yummy, thanks Nathan!”

Easter eggs: These are eggs made from chocolate. At Easter time parents give out these chocolate eggs to children. The Easter eggs make Easter a very exciting time for children.

Hot Cross Buns: These are bread buns with white crosses on them. They have raisins and cinnamon in them, and at Easter time people heat the buns up and put butter on them. Easter eggs and hot cross buns are the special foods that people eat at Easter time.

Go crazy: In this sentence this phrase means that the children were extremely excited about finding the chocolate. (In another context however this may mean that a person is losing their sanity).

Eg. It was the school holidays so all the children went crazy running round on the beach.

For ages: This means for a very long time. The exact time is not mentioned and does not matter. It can mean hours, days, months or even years; the listener (or reader) will know the approximate time by the rest of the sentence.

Eg : “Where have you been? I have been waiting for ages !”

Oh the good old days: This is a common phrase used when expressing a happy memory from the past. It is implying that the particular situation that the people are talking about is from the past and is not happening in the present. It is a wishful phrase suggesting that the past has many things that are better than the present circumstances.

Tell Me About It: This phrase means that a person agrees strongly with what another person has said.

Other ways to say this would be: “That’s right’ or “that’s true.”

Time away: This means a certain amount of time that a person is on holiday from work or studies, or anything that they normally do.

Eg. “I hope you have a restful time away from work.”