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Friday, June 15th, 2007

Because I am back at uni, and its mid year so it means exams. Thats right, evil nasty exams designed to make you have nervous breakdowns trying to fit all sorts of useless information into your brain. Especially with subjects like management, which is a total waste of time but will hopefully balance out my arts degree and get me a job. I actually only have 2 exams as I had 2 in the last week of term, so its not too bad. But its saturday, and I was gutted to find out the library closed at 5…see how sad my life is?

But the good side means its already half way through the year, which means exactly 1 more year till I finish and can go overseas again. My plan is fly to Bejing and go overland through Russia to London. Should be fun and its not too far so I can start some vague planning and of course saving.
But more about that after Tuesday…then sweet sweet holidays!

Abel Tasmen, NZ

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Well I haven’t really been travelling overseas but I have done a bit of travelling in my own lovely country. I went up to the top of the South Island to Abel Tasmen which is the most amazing place in New Zealand, well I think so any way.

I went with a bunch of people I’ve been working with over the last few months organising a massive event called Easter Camp, which was a camp for 3800 young people. Pretty intense but very fun. We are luky enough to have Luke and Tim working with us who happen to be kayak guides so they hooked us up with some sweet deals. We kayaked for 5 days and camped in little bays, it was beautiful! Even though it was technically autumn it was still fantastic weather and even got to go swimming a few times. We built a dam one day, caught fish and cooked them on the beach, had massive feeds every night, caught crabs and cooked them up….the whole trip made me realise that NZ isn’t actually a bad place and if I can get to this place in 5 hours I’m pretty lucky considering people travel across the world to get to places like this. So here are some photos…

Abel Tasmen, New Zealand