So it’s actually been over a week since I last updated, and this is my first post in May! After finishing my paper in time for class on Monday, the rest of the week has been spent trying to get back into school mode. Turns out it’s kind of difficult to do when you just spent two weeks traveling full time! Hopefully it will continue to re-emerge (and soon!) since there is a lot of work to get done this month.
This past week, keeping with the “something new” goal, I went to not one, but two rugby games! It just happened that the Hurricanes, Wellington’s regional Super Rugby team, had home games on Saturday and then the following Friday. On Saturday, they played the Reds from Queensland (I think…somewhere in Australia). Anyways, it started out not looking too good (the Reds got a try, similar to a touchdown, within the first two minutes), but came back to win it by a kick (similar to a field goal) on the last play of the game. Hooray! This Friday they played the Blues from the Auckland region. They were trailing for a lot of the game, but again on the last play it looked as if they had pulled off a try to tie everything up. However, the referees ruled against it. How rude. I enjoyed both of the games, especially because everything was a little more “laid back” than American sports. This is basically their equivalent to the NFL-if you want to go to an NFL game, you have to pay out the nose for bad seats, get there hours beforehand, and pay ridiculous prices for food. At the rugby game, we walked up to the ticket counter and got a student ticket for $20 half an hour before the game started, hung out and watched the game which lasted eighty minutes plus halftime, and could eat a full meal for about $10. The atmosphere was much more relaxed and it was nice to see that the players were doing what they loved even though they weren’t being paid millions and millions of dollars.
On Tuesday, the four of us regular girls went to Southern Cross because Laura was doing a landscape project on interesting outdoor spaces. Turns out that her professor had changed her mind earlier that day and it wasn’t for class anymore, but we went anyway. Jessica tried apple cider and we all tried a little bit, so we may start going that route in the future as it’s cheaper than cocktails but doesn’t taste like beer. Hooray! Laura, Jessica and I went out on Thursday night to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and our lack of Mexican heritage. We stopped first at the Flying Burrito Brothers, but it was a little pricey so we moved on after one margarita. We wandered by a few other places before heading for the old stand-by, Alice, which was closed (I should mention that it wasn’t even nine yet). So we continued our walk down Courtenay Place and ended up at the restaurant where we had eaten with Mom and Dad when they were here. We stopped in for some fondue to pass the time, and Laura and Jessica tried some more apple cider. Afterwards it was back to Alice, where had our now-customary pink lemonade. However, it turns out that stomachs don’t necessarily approve of the combination of margaritas, fondue, and gin. Good to know.
Today, Laura and I were wandering around town a bit aimlessly when we walked into Supre, the 80s clothing store. It may not advertise itself as such, but it is definitely true. I created a fun game that involved picking out an outfit for the other person. This is how Laura ended up in a hot pink mini skirt and bandeau with a crochet-like top and I ended up in both a leopard print romper and the ugliest pair of animal print parachute pants I’ve ever seen. Nevertheless, it was totally hilarious and it will probably become tradition every time we walk in (we repeated the experience at the shoe store and both almost broke our ankles thanks to the heels). I’m not sure if the salesgirls were as tickled as we were, and they told us that they don’t allow cameras in the store. Probably because they don’t want people wearing ridiculous outfits all over the internet. Where’s the fun in that?!
Today was the day of our Maori Studies class field trip to Palliser Bay, a nearby area that has some archaeological sites. We were mapping out a site and therefore were in need of some graph paper. Turns out that finding A3 size, one centimeter square graph paper is impossible. After two stores, forty minutes and zero luck, I finally settled on A2, 5mm square paper that I could cut in half to make A3 size and double the size of the boxes. After all of this ridiculousness, our field trip was cancelled due to bad weather. Now we have to write an essay instead. Not fair!! On the plus side, there are only four weeks of school left followed by one exam and one paper. Hooray! It seems far off, but a month from now I’ll be hanging out in Tonga. Awesome! Then I can enjoy some warm weather to make up for the windy and rainy Wellington, although I can’t say that I wasn’t warned by Wikipedia. Hopefully everyone is enjoying some nice spring weather over on the East Coast!
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