Finding My Fix: Chronicles of a Travel Junkie

Yesterday was incredible! I had spent the night at Jency’s because I felt lonely when I got home to such a quiet, empty apartment (as my roommates were out of town) after an exciting night of dancing to 80’s music with the girls. I went home and showered, and headed up the hill to spend time with the other (or German) Andrea since I hadn’t really seen her since she fell in love a few weeks ago. We sat at the top of the hill at the Carter Observatory in the Botanic Gardens for a while, taking in the view of the city and the beautiful sunshine and 14 degree weather (celcius that is). Then we decided we were going to swing on the swingset at the playground, so we did, until spiderman came and asked if he could use the swing. He was very happy to show us his spider garb. And spiderman’s brother also wanted to use the swing, so both of us got off since we figured we better let the other kids on the playground have their turn at being kids, it was only fair. So we went off to climb trees.

That evening, Jency, Tess, Caroline, Lindsey and I all went to Camilla’s and had a great girls night of pizza, poker, beer and wonderful conversation. I have never had such a wonderful conversation with anyone before. I have to say I had no idea I would ever be able to have a conversation like that with anyone. In a month and a half, I’ve become even more amazing friends with these people than I have ever been able to before. Maybe I’ve always been too closed, or I don’t really know what, but this is incredible! It’s going to be VERY hard to leave!

I have a midterm tomorrow and another one on Thursday, wish me luck! Spring break is four days away! Fiji is 10! I can’t believe this trip is halfway through already!

And some pictures I took after mum left, also the last ones I was able to get onto my disabled jumpdrive… I suppose sometime soon I should actually describe Wellington [read on]

So finally some pictures of the city I call home! These were all taken while mum was still here... At Te Papa (the museum about NZ) Te Marae at Te Papa Coffee vendor outside the International Student ... [Continue reading this entry]

I promise that next time I post pics, they will be of Wellington, the city I'm spending most of my time in, and maybe I'll even include some description of it. And soon I'll be able to post pics of ... [Continue reading this entry]

Now this is the New Zealand I was expecting to see... One of the major highways that cuts through this country Mud with sheep prints [Continue reading this entry]

Tongariro National Park with Mt. Ruapehu A view from the plateau Another view from the plateau You can kind of see the fields at the foot of the mountain below the clouds The road ... [Continue reading this entry]

Here are some more pics finally of Wai-o-Tapu I believe it's called. It's a geothermally active area with lots of pretty colors. Unfortunately it was raining, so the colors weren't quite as spectacular as they could have been, but hey, ... [Continue reading this entry]

My subconscious has the best sense of humor. (I was just so tempted to write "humour"). Last night I dreamt that I went to the post office because I was getting someone else's mail. So I handed the two packages ... [Continue reading this entry]

So my jumpdrive decided to die on me. It claims it's been write protected, although according to the software, the drive is not write protected. It lies! Anyway, the story got interesting when I overheard a New Zealand guy talking ... [Continue reading this entry]

On Friday we left in a rental car and headed up to New Plymouth, stopping at a beach outside Paraparaumu to have lunch. Friday night, Denmark (Camilla) convinced America (me) to declare war on Singapore (Jency) while Germany (Stephanie) stayed ... [Continue reading this entry]