This weekend was Boyz Noize. It was packed on Friday. They had flashing lights, fog, and confetti everywhere! It started at 10pm and went till 5am. I knew I couldn't make it that long. We got there around 11pm and I left with a group a little after 2am. Saturday was the horse races. It was SO great! We all wore our 8 dollar hats and dressed up. Even the guys ;) A few of us girls bought a bottle of champaigne and it was a party. Blaire bet on a horse and won 75 dollars! Woohoo! We were all absolutely beat after a day in the sun. I needed to get groceries so I went to countdown. I walked all the way back up in my heels, jacket, and hat. It wasn't just a quick five minute walk either. It was more like 15-20 minutes. I was exhausted. I crashed for a few hours before we went out to celebrate Rebecca's 21st birthday. I got ready in 15 minutes after my nap. I almost didn't go out, but I was glad I did. It was fun to dance and be there for her birthday.
Today Mallory and I went shopping. I did some damage. The first store we go to I was just like hmm...let's try this on. BAM. The dress was perf. It fit like a glove. It's a more neutral tone dress, chiffon, lower cut in front with lines of "goldish" beading. The back has a few strands of those as well. I planned on getting a dress from New Zealand I'm pretty sure this was the one I "needed." Chaching. Got it ;) Can't wait to wear it out! I'm sure there will be pictures. Gosh. I'm such a girl!
I just remembered my dream. I think it was from the nap I just woke up from. I went to a movie with Ava and then it was girls night out so we went shopping. I don't remember everything we bought, but I got her a couple of cute oufits. I do remember there being something specific that we bought though that was important. Anyways...we ate our dinner at the food court and Ava was falling asleep on my lap. I asked her if we should go home and she said yes. I started carrying her back to the car, but then suddenly realized everything we had was missing. The bags, my purse, the car keys. We go to the last place that I may have set the bags down and he says they found someone by the name of Thompson's belongings. Ava was excited that they found our stuff, but I did not have a good feeling about it. The janitor dude comes back with a red vacuum cleaner! What the heck? I don't know what this dream is all about, but I vacuumed my room the other day. Maybe that's why that was in there. And then I kind of broke down because I was so tired from the day and I had my niece with me and didn't know what to do...maybe that represents being kind of tired and worn out from the weekend. I don't know. I thought it was hilarious though. I saw that dream in good detail. There was more to it, but that's the jist of it!
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Week 1
Wish I had shade
So I just have to say I had class today from 9-10am and now have a break until 4pm. I'm sitting in the computer lab with my fake ray bans on because the sun is beating down on me. I'm so hot! Ugh. Gross. It fills up pretty fast in the lab. You can definitely tell that school is now in session. Today is Wednesday. Week one of class, third day in! I can't believe we have started school finally. I love my dance classes. (like I figured I would) My professor, Ralph Buck, is amazing. He is the reason I came to this school and I don't think I will be dissapointed. He did his undergrad in Physical Education, running around a track and doing all that sort of stuff. He ended up furthering his education and realizing that he could dance and did a dance studies major in London, England. After that he was writing curriculum's for dance in Australia. He ended up moving back to New Zealand and is now pretty much a head of the Dance department. I really like his teaching stlye. It's very laid back, but organized and fun. It reminds me of the teaching styles of Veronica and Julia. All have the teaching style I aim for. Yesterday we had our first class of studio work. We sat in a circle before class and played the name game. You know that game. Here's an example: hi, I'm Haylee, and I like hippos! Ralph could have stopped us when class started, but instead he let us be. We didn't officially start the class until 10 or 15 minutes after we were supposed to. It was cool, because it created a certain vibe for the class. Everything was relaxed and we were just getting to know each other. He talked about improvisation and the fact that even though he had a lesson planned, in his head he quickly improvised and changed it. We will always have choices when we are teaching. We did some other activities that made me think a little more abstractly. I was constantly thinking how I could incorporate the contexts of the lesson he had. I won't bore you with anymore of that, because that's what my other journal is for, but lets just say this is exactly what I wanted to learn about.
Fireworks!
I forgot to tell you about the AMAZING display of fireworks we saw on Sunday, the night before our first day of classes. The chinese new years festival had been going on all weekend at Albert Park and I believe it was the last night of it. There was food, live music, and lanterns that were lit up all over. It was one of the most unique festivals I've seen. The fireworks started out just being like normal fireworks, but the finale was the just outstanding. They shot off firework after firework. The sky was lit up with my favorite ones too. The ones that are just white and trickle down and sparkle. I don't know what they're called, but they're HUGE! Fireworks aren't always my thing, but I loved it.
So sore.
Yesterday I shouldn't have done the "Pump" class at the Recreation Center. I went to my first hip hop class after that from 4-7pm and had a hard time keeping my arms out to the side. Oh well, it's worth it. I actually enjoy being sore in a weird way. I feel like I really did something then! The classes at the wellness center are really intense. They sure like making you sweat. Although that's pretty easy to do especially when a gym is not air conditioned! Eek! Back to my hip hop class....it focuses on "breaking." Breaking comes from the bronx whereas poplocking etc was first started in California. Different styles. Not to be confused with one another. I learned about top rocking and how to go down to the floor. We did a six step, CC's, and some stalls. If you're looking for a workout, breaking will make you sweat! It's a three hour class, but it seems like it will go by pretty quickly.
Right now.
I have been thinking about this weekend. I'm so excited! We have our Boyz Noize concert, Rebecca's 21st birthday, and the horse races! I think we're goin to get big hats today if we can find some at a thrift store.
XOXO
Haylee
So I just have to say I had class today from 9-10am and now have a break until 4pm. I'm sitting in the computer lab with my fake ray bans on because the sun is beating down on me. I'm so hot! Ugh. Gross. It fills up pretty fast in the lab. You can definitely tell that school is now in session. Today is Wednesday. Week one of class, third day in! I can't believe we have started school finally. I love my dance classes. (like I figured I would) My professor, Ralph Buck, is amazing. He is the reason I came to this school and I don't think I will be dissapointed. He did his undergrad in Physical Education, running around a track and doing all that sort of stuff. He ended up furthering his education and realizing that he could dance and did a dance studies major in London, England. After that he was writing curriculum's for dance in Australia. He ended up moving back to New Zealand and is now pretty much a head of the Dance department. I really like his teaching stlye. It's very laid back, but organized and fun. It reminds me of the teaching styles of Veronica and Julia. All have the teaching style I aim for. Yesterday we had our first class of studio work. We sat in a circle before class and played the name game. You know that game. Here's an example: hi, I'm Haylee, and I like hippos! Ralph could have stopped us when class started, but instead he let us be. We didn't officially start the class until 10 or 15 minutes after we were supposed to. It was cool, because it created a certain vibe for the class. Everything was relaxed and we were just getting to know each other. He talked about improvisation and the fact that even though he had a lesson planned, in his head he quickly improvised and changed it. We will always have choices when we are teaching. We did some other activities that made me think a little more abstractly. I was constantly thinking how I could incorporate the contexts of the lesson he had. I won't bore you with anymore of that, because that's what my other journal is for, but lets just say this is exactly what I wanted to learn about.
Fireworks!
I forgot to tell you about the AMAZING display of fireworks we saw on Sunday, the night before our first day of classes. The chinese new years festival had been going on all weekend at Albert Park and I believe it was the last night of it. There was food, live music, and lanterns that were lit up all over. It was one of the most unique festivals I've seen. The fireworks started out just being like normal fireworks, but the finale was the just outstanding. They shot off firework after firework. The sky was lit up with my favorite ones too. The ones that are just white and trickle down and sparkle. I don't know what they're called, but they're HUGE! Fireworks aren't always my thing, but I loved it.
So sore.
Yesterday I shouldn't have done the "Pump" class at the Recreation Center. I went to my first hip hop class after that from 4-7pm and had a hard time keeping my arms out to the side. Oh well, it's worth it. I actually enjoy being sore in a weird way. I feel like I really did something then! The classes at the wellness center are really intense. They sure like making you sweat. Although that's pretty easy to do especially when a gym is not air conditioned! Eek! Back to my hip hop class....it focuses on "breaking." Breaking comes from the bronx whereas poplocking etc was first started in California. Different styles. Not to be confused with one another. I learned about top rocking and how to go down to the floor. We did a six step, CC's, and some stalls. If you're looking for a workout, breaking will make you sweat! It's a three hour class, but it seems like it will go by pretty quickly.
Right now.
I have been thinking about this weekend. I'm so excited! We have our Boyz Noize concert, Rebecca's 21st birthday, and the horse races! I think we're goin to get big hats today if we can find some at a thrift store.
XOXO
Haylee
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Camping at Motutapu
I woke up late and didn't have my poop in a group. I had to shove everything I needed into a backpack for the day/night in a half an hour. I was definitely scrambling around to get stuff together when I should have been taking it easy and getting ready with plenty of time to "scramble" some eggs! Oh well. We made it on the 9:15am ferry and realized there was going to be another one later...we didn't think there was so that's why we got up so early. It was going to be a LONG day. We got to the beach and settled down. I contemplated whether or not I wanted to head back at 4:30pm on the last ferry because all I had were nuts and pretzels and I was getting nervous about classes starting Monday. I ended up staying which was a good choice.
We ended up hiking to the other side of the island. We stopped and looked at old World War I bunkers which was awesome. I love history. So crazy. "Scottie" also known as Blaire (he's from Scotland) had a sakata on his shoulder. I was like why does that bug sound like it's sooo close. Sure enough it was because it was just chillin there. I thought those things were invisible cause you always hear them, but you never see them!
You never know what you're going to smell when you're traveling. Sometimes I smell flowers or mint. That is how I want to remember New Zealand. I have to admit though...sometimes it doesn't smell pretty. Even New Zealand has cows. Yeah...I'm talkin about cow dung. Mmm... :) It's pretty sweet though that the only wild animals they have are cows, sheep, and horses. The island that we stayed at was preditor free. Except cats or something? I don't know. It was creepy cause when we got there this dude was like...you guys probably know the drill, but get inside this shed and close it and follow the directions. Get inside a shed? Hmm...kinda "dodgy" if you ask me. We had just talked about how someone had gone to another country and they were locked in a room and the guy wouldn't let them out even though they were dying of heat. Literally. He died. Sad story. We were kind of weirded out by this, but it was just to make sure we didn't have any "stowaways." Such as mice, or other animals in our bags. I'm pretty sure that was more so for the people that had been traveling for awhile already, but we went in the shed and just stood there until we thought it had been long enough. I was pretty sure I didn't pack a rat in my bag, but I dunno...I WAS in a rush that morning ;)
When we went back to the campsite Robbie had already tested out his stove he made. He made it out of a beer can, had fuel, and a copper coin in it. It was amazing. We weren't allowed to have open fire or whatever so he created his own concauction. He made lamb and rice, and Mike made some ramen noodles. I was so jealous. Here I was sitting with my nuts and pretzels and he whips out a gourmet meal. Typical. I was so excstatic though that Rebecca gave me one of her apples. I didn't have one that day and if you know me....you know I don't go a DAY without them. It made my night.
Our tent consisteted of a tarp on the ground and a tarp hanging between two trees. It worked for us I guess! We were really roughin it ;) All I had for covers was a sheet, fleece blanket, pillow and a towel. I was a little chillin that night. Apparently Mallory was perfect and she just had a fleece. Between Robbie having a sleeping bag and me warming her with my bum I guess she was warm as can be. Turd muffin. Oh well.
That night was so fun. Just gazing at the stars, jokin, and getting tired so everything was funny and worth laughing at. Love those times.
The morning. So we wake up at the crack of dawn. El baile de perrito comes out again. (joke from last night) and a ranger comes by and says there is a tsunami warning and to get to higher ground. Apparently an earthquake hit in Chile. Where I come from we just worry about floods, and snow storms. This was new to me. We were kinda freaked, but also excited at the same time. The ferry wasn't running though so we were kind of frustrated. After all, we DO have school on Monday! Luckily we had a ranger take us to Rangitoto and we got on the 12:45pm ferry. We couldn't have been more thrilled! We got back to Auckland and ate mexican food and then headed home and passed out. I was one tired cookie!
What a weekend!
I ended up getting off the trail a little bit and walking on all the big rocks by the shore in my flip flops. Smart. Wear flip flops when you go hiking, really? Yeah...I woke up late okay! Couldn't bring everything I needed. Along the way I saw snails, sardines, a starfish, and crabs. Nature is so funny.
We ended up hiking to the other side of the island. We stopped and looked at old World War I bunkers which was awesome. I love history. So crazy. "Scottie" also known as Blaire (he's from Scotland) had a sakata on his shoulder. I was like why does that bug sound like it's sooo close. Sure enough it was because it was just chillin there. I thought those things were invisible cause you always hear them, but you never see them!
You never know what you're going to smell when you're traveling. Sometimes I smell flowers or mint. That is how I want to remember New Zealand. I have to admit though...sometimes it doesn't smell pretty. Even New Zealand has cows. Yeah...I'm talkin about cow dung. Mmm... :) It's pretty sweet though that the only wild animals they have are cows, sheep, and horses. The island that we stayed at was preditor free. Except cats or something? I don't know. It was creepy cause when we got there this dude was like...you guys probably know the drill, but get inside this shed and close it and follow the directions. Get inside a shed? Hmm...kinda "dodgy" if you ask me. We had just talked about how someone had gone to another country and they were locked in a room and the guy wouldn't let them out even though they were dying of heat. Literally. He died. Sad story. We were kind of weirded out by this, but it was just to make sure we didn't have any "stowaways." Such as mice, or other animals in our bags. I'm pretty sure that was more so for the people that had been traveling for awhile already, but we went in the shed and just stood there until we thought it had been long enough. I was pretty sure I didn't pack a rat in my bag, but I dunno...I WAS in a rush that morning ;)
When we went back to the campsite Robbie had already tested out his stove he made. He made it out of a beer can, had fuel, and a copper coin in it. It was amazing. We weren't allowed to have open fire or whatever so he created his own concauction. He made lamb and rice, and Mike made some ramen noodles. I was so jealous. Here I was sitting with my nuts and pretzels and he whips out a gourmet meal. Typical. I was so excstatic though that Rebecca gave me one of her apples. I didn't have one that day and if you know me....you know I don't go a DAY without them. It made my night.
Our tent consisteted of a tarp on the ground and a tarp hanging between two trees. It worked for us I guess! We were really roughin it ;) All I had for covers was a sheet, fleece blanket, pillow and a towel. I was a little chillin that night. Apparently Mallory was perfect and she just had a fleece. Between Robbie having a sleeping bag and me warming her with my bum I guess she was warm as can be. Turd muffin. Oh well.
That night was so fun. Just gazing at the stars, jokin, and getting tired so everything was funny and worth laughing at. Love those times.
The morning. So we wake up at the crack of dawn. El baile de perrito comes out again. (joke from last night) and a ranger comes by and says there is a tsunami warning and to get to higher ground. Apparently an earthquake hit in Chile. Where I come from we just worry about floods, and snow storms. This was new to me. We were kinda freaked, but also excited at the same time. The ferry wasn't running though so we were kind of frustrated. After all, we DO have school on Monday! Luckily we had a ranger take us to Rangitoto and we got on the 12:45pm ferry. We couldn't have been more thrilled! We got back to Auckland and ate mexican food and then headed home and passed out. I was one tired cookie!
What a weekend!
I ended up getting off the trail a little bit and walking on all the big rocks by the shore in my flip flops. Smart. Wear flip flops when you go hiking, really? Yeah...I woke up late okay! Couldn't bring everything I needed. Along the way I saw snails, sardines, a starfish, and crabs. Nature is so funny.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
The Uni
School.
So I forgot that I'm here for school. I have honestly had since December until well Monday is our first official day of class...so it's been my summer technically. At the "Uni" (what thie Kiwi's call the University) I am here for their first semester. It's sort of opposite of ours. I am officially enrolled in all my "papers" (classes). Such a relief! I am, however, still wishing I could just take dance courses. I went to the dance studies orientation today and met some of the students and faculty. I'm in love. It's exactly what I want. The professors are nice and seem to love their job. They make it interesting and it looks like it will be challenging. I hope I can open my mind and let myself be as creative as I hope to be! I like being an international student. Everybody here seems to love the way we talk. I don't know why, because I feel the same about them. Theirs is just...cooler! It will be funny to come home and think that I will still be the center of attention cause I won't be, or will I? That's kind of who I am so maybe. Haha...I am the princess! Just kidding, but it's really cool to know that they are just as intrigued by American culture as I am about theirs.
I'm a bit nervous about my business courses. I'm taking Macroeconomics and Marketing Managment. They have finals at the end of the semester and have two WHOLE weeks off before for preparation: a tad intimidating don't you think? I'm not very good at econ so I might be bustin my butt in that class, but many people like macro better than micro so I hope I'm okay!
Dance.
That's what I'm most excited for. I'm taking Dance Education....perfect if I want to teach dance, Dance and Technology, and maybe a Hip Hop "paper." I have to decide which ones I will keep yet, but Professor Ralph Buck saaaaaaaid that I could come to whatever class and get it all situated. Being here I just want to go ahead and major in dance. I could be done in no time at all. There are so many things you can actually do with it that people don't even think about. I won't go off about that, but it's a long list.
Orientation Week.
This week has flown by! Monday was the first day of orientation, but we felt like it was more for first year students so we just went to the welcome and got things taken care of that we needed. We ended up hiking from the East coast to the West coast. This was about a ten mile walk mind you. Worth it though. We got to see the Tasman Sea! Yeee dawg. We got to see Mt. Eden again which is the Volcano we saw on the first day. Tried to go in it, but someone ruined our bad-a behavior and was like "not supposed to go down there retards!" Psh...duh..we knew that dude! We were being total rule breakers. Whatever.
Anyways...we went to a place called Margharittas and got our dance on one night, went to another beach...I believe it was called Waheiki. The ferry was a little spendy...30 dollars, but the views were incredible. We laid on the beach for a few hours. I actually fell asleep it was so peaceful. I never fall asleep on the beach! Always too hot, but it was just right. This island had wineries all over. We hope to do a wine tasting at some point. Had a meat pie. Reminded me of Sweeny Todd so I was hesitant about trying it, but dang it was goooood! Try one if you haven't.
I don't know if I've mentioned their milkshakes, but they are the BOMB! I had one today. We went down to the harbor the other night and I got one too. This little Italian gelato place is our go-to spot. We love it!
Hung out with a Kiwi.
Yesterday while everyone and by everyone I mean my gang, crew, wolfpack, peeps, or friends, went surfing and got burnt, hit their heads on their boards and their muscles were giving out, I spent a relaxing day just shopping Queen Street. My friend Grant from Minnesota did AustraLearn last semester and studied at Waikaito and his friend Olivia added me to Facebook. She said she was from Auckland and would be willing to show me around when she was in town. I met her yesterday and she is such a sweetheart! Love her accent. We just talked about some of the differences, sterotypes of americans and kiwis. We didn't have time to go to the Auckland museum, but she said she comes home every couple of weekends and whenever I head to Waikaito to give her a ring! We both share a love for clothes so it was fun to see where she liked to shop here.
Boyz Noize
Mallory, Robbie, Rebecca, and I got tickets to Boyz Noize. No idea who this band is, but I decided to be a sheep and follow the others. It sounded really fun...kind of technoey (that's not a word) style of music. I don't know...I'm just super pumped for that and going to Backstreet Boys with Connor! That's like a dream come true.
Camping
Just booked our campsite for the weekend. We are going to take a ferry to another island. This place is supposed to be good to fish, hike, swim, and camp. This is our last hoorah before school starts. We are going to get children's sleeping bags so we can do this camping thing tomorrow night. I'm sooo excited! Haven't been camping in awhile. Well...we can't cause you all know it snows in Minnesota! I won't be by a computer for awhile, but I will let you know how the weekend goes! Ps. Anyone in need of children's sleeping bags?
Ouch. My fingers hurt.
♥ Haylee
So I forgot that I'm here for school. I have honestly had since December until well Monday is our first official day of class...so it's been my summer technically. At the "Uni" (what thie Kiwi's call the University) I am here for their first semester. It's sort of opposite of ours. I am officially enrolled in all my "papers" (classes). Such a relief! I am, however, still wishing I could just take dance courses. I went to the dance studies orientation today and met some of the students and faculty. I'm in love. It's exactly what I want. The professors are nice and seem to love their job. They make it interesting and it looks like it will be challenging. I hope I can open my mind and let myself be as creative as I hope to be! I like being an international student. Everybody here seems to love the way we talk. I don't know why, because I feel the same about them. Theirs is just...cooler! It will be funny to come home and think that I will still be the center of attention cause I won't be, or will I? That's kind of who I am so maybe. Haha...I am the princess! Just kidding, but it's really cool to know that they are just as intrigued by American culture as I am about theirs.
I'm a bit nervous about my business courses. I'm taking Macroeconomics and Marketing Managment. They have finals at the end of the semester and have two WHOLE weeks off before for preparation: a tad intimidating don't you think? I'm not very good at econ so I might be bustin my butt in that class, but many people like macro better than micro so I hope I'm okay!
Dance.
That's what I'm most excited for. I'm taking Dance Education....perfect if I want to teach dance, Dance and Technology, and maybe a Hip Hop "paper." I have to decide which ones I will keep yet, but Professor Ralph Buck saaaaaaaid that I could come to whatever class and get it all situated. Being here I just want to go ahead and major in dance. I could be done in no time at all. There are so many things you can actually do with it that people don't even think about. I won't go off about that, but it's a long list.
Orientation Week.
This week has flown by! Monday was the first day of orientation, but we felt like it was more for first year students so we just went to the welcome and got things taken care of that we needed. We ended up hiking from the East coast to the West coast. This was about a ten mile walk mind you. Worth it though. We got to see the Tasman Sea! Yeee dawg. We got to see Mt. Eden again which is the Volcano we saw on the first day. Tried to go in it, but someone ruined our bad-a behavior and was like "not supposed to go down there retards!" Psh...duh..we knew that dude! We were being total rule breakers. Whatever.
Anyways...we went to a place called Margharittas and got our dance on one night, went to another beach...I believe it was called Waheiki. The ferry was a little spendy...30 dollars, but the views were incredible. We laid on the beach for a few hours. I actually fell asleep it was so peaceful. I never fall asleep on the beach! Always too hot, but it was just right. This island had wineries all over. We hope to do a wine tasting at some point. Had a meat pie. Reminded me of Sweeny Todd so I was hesitant about trying it, but dang it was goooood! Try one if you haven't.
I don't know if I've mentioned their milkshakes, but they are the BOMB! I had one today. We went down to the harbor the other night and I got one too. This little Italian gelato place is our go-to spot. We love it!
Hung out with a Kiwi.
Yesterday while everyone and by everyone I mean my gang, crew, wolfpack, peeps, or friends, went surfing and got burnt, hit their heads on their boards and their muscles were giving out, I spent a relaxing day just shopping Queen Street. My friend Grant from Minnesota did AustraLearn last semester and studied at Waikaito and his friend Olivia added me to Facebook. She said she was from Auckland and would be willing to show me around when she was in town. I met her yesterday and she is such a sweetheart! Love her accent. We just talked about some of the differences, sterotypes of americans and kiwis. We didn't have time to go to the Auckland museum, but she said she comes home every couple of weekends and whenever I head to Waikaito to give her a ring! We both share a love for clothes so it was fun to see where she liked to shop here.
Boyz Noize
Mallory, Robbie, Rebecca, and I got tickets to Boyz Noize. No idea who this band is, but I decided to be a sheep and follow the others. It sounded really fun...kind of technoey (that's not a word) style of music. I don't know...I'm just super pumped for that and going to Backstreet Boys with Connor! That's like a dream come true.
Camping
Just booked our campsite for the weekend. We are going to take a ferry to another island. This place is supposed to be good to fish, hike, swim, and camp. This is our last hoorah before school starts. We are going to get children's sleeping bags so we can do this camping thing tomorrow night. I'm sooo excited! Haven't been camping in awhile. Well...we can't cause you all know it snows in Minnesota! I won't be by a computer for awhile, but I will let you know how the weekend goes! Ps. Anyone in need of children's sleeping bags?
Ouch. My fingers hurt.
♥ Haylee
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Playing catch up.
So I kind of touched base on arriving in Auckland, and settling in. I haven't, however gotten to the good stuff. I'm playing catch up before I forget all of it. I am at the computer lab with Robbie and Mallory and we were trying to think of what we even did on Thursday night when we arrived. Robbie replies back with; "What day is it?" That just shows how much everything is running together now. Thursday. Okay. We figured it out. When we got to our apartments, brought our junk upstairs, etc, we went to the warehouse. It's like worse than the old Walmarts, but it's cheap and we can get the things that we needed.
NEXT!
Friday. Friday we got up and went to get our classes figured out. They are pretty laid back here and said if I want to just walk into classes to figure out which ones I want to take to feel free to do so. It's a good thing too because one of my classes overlaps with another so I will have to find a substitute. After we did all that we went to "Slurp." Slurp is a cafe on campus, very good btw. I have to fix my computer still, but we went to a store and I spent about 75 bucks for them to instal a pointless program. Yeah...don't wanna talk about it.
Mallory and I needed grocery store so we went to O'Rorke Hall (right next to our apartments) and asked people at the front desk. They were very helpful, printed out maps, and even highlighted them. Matt, one of the RA's, said that he would be willing to take us to the grocery store even! So, we took him up on the offer. He drove us to "Countdown." Good thing too, because that would have been a mighty walk! He said he would pick us up in a half an hour. It was sooo nice! Mallory and I decided that we needed some wine with our meals for supper, because we were going to make dinner together. When Matt picked us up he took us out to Mission Bay and saw an awesome view of the ocean. He mentioned that he and some others were going to go to Phia on Saturday (the black sand beaches on the west coast) and invited us to join! We were ecstatic! Espessially since he was a kiwi and we were actually going to hang out with locals.
That night we made dinner: carrots, celery, and dip, apples slice (of course) and spaghetti with wine to drink! It was awesome. I "dined" with Robbie, Kathlene, Mike, Mallory, and Connor. We had a blast. That night we decided to go out and about. We went to the club called Crow. Let's just say Mallory and I danced our booties off! My body hurt the next day. Kiwi people usually don't go out till midnight and well....we were about done at midnight so things were just getting lively when we left, but it was still great. I think from all the travel and being so busy made us tired.
Phia-the black sand beach.
Can I get a b-e-a-utiful? Oh my word. I felt like I was on a different planet. Like serioulsy.
When Matt picked us up it was kinda funny cause my roommate, Zac, was there too! Small world. It took about 40 minutes to get there, but Matt got to take the "Uni" (university) car. Their boss is very chill and said to take people out and show them around. How fun that WE got to be those people huh?! Anyways...we just hung out at the beach for a couple of hours. Shaina and I went for a yawg, saw some jelly fish eggs or something, and caught some rays. I was like one of the only ones who didn't burn that day. Go me! Didn't your mother tell you guys to apply sunscreen? ;)
Nightlife
Saturday night was a blast. We went out on the town again. The group consisted of Mallory, Rebecca, Robbie, and me by the end of the night. We went to "Holy Beans" and danced some more. I got hit on a few times. One dude was just NOT getting the picture. He was like "do you want to dance?" and I was like no thanks...taking a break...maybe later. "Why not now?" I was like I'm tired and then I don't know if he didn't here me or what but then asked if I wanted to dance a couple more times. No buddy! No...I don't. I didn't say that, but I was just more persistent about saying no. Really? Come on peeps! Then he was like "can I buy you a drink?" And I asked "right now?" He said no...like tomorrow sometime. I'm busy...sorry! Haha wow. He was annoying. Then Robbie interupted and was like hey man do you know where we are? The guy seemed kinda pissed. (the kiwi version of pissed means wasted, but he was both that and the american version!) He didn't seem to understand what Robbie was asking so he finally stopped bugging us.
Went back to Crow to finish our night up, but before that we stopped at Nachos. Robbie stole a poncho, stuffed it in his pants. It was hilarious. He was like I want one of those...I'm going to the bathroom quick. Didn't think he was actually going to take it, but he needed a blanket! Haha
Stealing is bad. If you're reading this...don't do it!
(but not gonna lie it was pretty funny)
SUNDAY
We took a ferry to Rangitoto Volcano, took an hour to climb up and we were hot, sweaty, tired, hungry, and dying of thirst by the time we got to the top, but it was entirely worth it. The view was amazing. It is a small Island so you can see EVERYTHING around you, the city, other islands, the blue ocean. It was amazing. We then explored some caves that developed from the volcano. Cool stuff.
I'm tired of writing though, but I think I pretty much caught up. Today was orientation. That's all that's happend so far.
Over and out.
NEXT!
Friday. Friday we got up and went to get our classes figured out. They are pretty laid back here and said if I want to just walk into classes to figure out which ones I want to take to feel free to do so. It's a good thing too because one of my classes overlaps with another so I will have to find a substitute. After we did all that we went to "Slurp." Slurp is a cafe on campus, very good btw. I have to fix my computer still, but we went to a store and I spent about 75 bucks for them to instal a pointless program. Yeah...don't wanna talk about it.
Mallory and I needed grocery store so we went to O'Rorke Hall (right next to our apartments) and asked people at the front desk. They were very helpful, printed out maps, and even highlighted them. Matt, one of the RA's, said that he would be willing to take us to the grocery store even! So, we took him up on the offer. He drove us to "Countdown." Good thing too, because that would have been a mighty walk! He said he would pick us up in a half an hour. It was sooo nice! Mallory and I decided that we needed some wine with our meals for supper, because we were going to make dinner together. When Matt picked us up he took us out to Mission Bay and saw an awesome view of the ocean. He mentioned that he and some others were going to go to Phia on Saturday (the black sand beaches on the west coast) and invited us to join! We were ecstatic! Espessially since he was a kiwi and we were actually going to hang out with locals.
That night we made dinner: carrots, celery, and dip, apples slice (of course) and spaghetti with wine to drink! It was awesome. I "dined" with Robbie, Kathlene, Mike, Mallory, and Connor. We had a blast. That night we decided to go out and about. We went to the club called Crow. Let's just say Mallory and I danced our booties off! My body hurt the next day. Kiwi people usually don't go out till midnight and well....we were about done at midnight so things were just getting lively when we left, but it was still great. I think from all the travel and being so busy made us tired.
Phia-the black sand beach.
Can I get a b-e-a-utiful? Oh my word. I felt like I was on a different planet. Like serioulsy.
When Matt picked us up it was kinda funny cause my roommate, Zac, was there too! Small world. It took about 40 minutes to get there, but Matt got to take the "Uni" (university) car. Their boss is very chill and said to take people out and show them around. How fun that WE got to be those people huh?! Anyways...we just hung out at the beach for a couple of hours. Shaina and I went for a yawg, saw some jelly fish eggs or something, and caught some rays. I was like one of the only ones who didn't burn that day. Go me! Didn't your mother tell you guys to apply sunscreen? ;)
Nightlife
Saturday night was a blast. We went out on the town again. The group consisted of Mallory, Rebecca, Robbie, and me by the end of the night. We went to "Holy Beans" and danced some more. I got hit on a few times. One dude was just NOT getting the picture. He was like "do you want to dance?" and I was like no thanks...taking a break...maybe later. "Why not now?" I was like I'm tired and then I don't know if he didn't here me or what but then asked if I wanted to dance a couple more times. No buddy! No...I don't. I didn't say that, but I was just more persistent about saying no. Really? Come on peeps! Then he was like "can I buy you a drink?" And I asked "right now?" He said no...like tomorrow sometime. I'm busy...sorry! Haha wow. He was annoying. Then Robbie interupted and was like hey man do you know where we are? The guy seemed kinda pissed. (the kiwi version of pissed means wasted, but he was both that and the american version!) He didn't seem to understand what Robbie was asking so he finally stopped bugging us.
Went back to Crow to finish our night up, but before that we stopped at Nachos. Robbie stole a poncho, stuffed it in his pants. It was hilarious. He was like I want one of those...I'm going to the bathroom quick. Didn't think he was actually going to take it, but he needed a blanket! Haha
Stealing is bad. If you're reading this...don't do it!
(but not gonna lie it was pretty funny)
SUNDAY
We took a ferry to Rangitoto Volcano, took an hour to climb up and we were hot, sweaty, tired, hungry, and dying of thirst by the time we got to the top, but it was entirely worth it. The view was amazing. It is a small Island so you can see EVERYTHING around you, the city, other islands, the blue ocean. It was amazing. We then explored some caves that developed from the volcano. Cool stuff.
I'm tired of writing though, but I think I pretty much caught up. Today was orientation. That's all that's happend so far.
Over and out.
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