Finding My Fix: Chronicles of a Travel Junkie

So finally some pictures of the city I call home! These were all taken while mum was still here… [read on]

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 to a girl while we were all waiting in line (queue) for a computer in the library.

“Oh don’t worry, I’m a computer geek, I’ll figure it out.”

They went off to their computer, and I went off to mine, and when I noticed that my jump drive wasn’t working again, I decided to hell with it…

“Hi, sorry to bother you, but I overheard you say you were a computer geek. Is that true?”

The guy blushed, laughed a nervous laugh, and punched his friend in the shoulder in embarrassment. “Yeah”

I explained my dilemma and he told me he’d be over in a second to help me.

He couldn’t find the problem, so my jump drive is still being an dick (as so many Kiwis seem to like to use this word).

Am I ever going to have a normal interaction with a New Zealander?

Today in our Maori class, the one about the origins of the Polynesians, we were discussing linguistics. Crazy to think New Zealand is a different dialect from American English, and each of these English dialects branch off. CRAZY!

I had a dream about an earthquake. And another one about Zombies. Our trip to Fiji has had some interesting rather quick developments. The other American who was supposed to be coming on the trip has dropped out due to financial ... [Continue reading this entry]

I did my laundry today, and when I got to the laundry area, there were no free washers. A guy was standing waiting for one to finish. When it did finish, he opened the lid, and looked inside, stepped back, ... [Continue reading this entry]

I think I would like to report that this afternoon, for the first time since I arrived on this island, I felt fully comfortable with everything, with my decisions in coming here. I felt almost at home you might say ... [Continue reading this entry]

HAPPY FOURTH! First day of classes went well. I met one Kiwi in my Maori studies class, she seems like a cool person. My cognitive psychology professor is either American or Canadian and has the most obnoxiously inflected way of talking. ... [Continue reading this entry]

The All Blacks slaughtered the Lions, again. 48:18 I believe, effectively winning the series and giving all of New Zealand an excuse to drink, a lot. And maybe I should mention also that it gave the Brits an excuse to ... [Continue reading this entry]

This entry is basically only to say that after the nature reserve, we drove to Wellington. It's also to inform you that I'll write about our arrival in Wellington at a later date, because right now I need to go ... [Continue reading this entry]