i had orientation yesterday. we were greeted with maori woman on a stage dancing and singing. it was really beautiful. other than that it was boring like orientations are. cept they had a break for morning tea and these little amazing nibbleys.
we finally got a cell phone yesterday! we bought a sim card to use in jessica's phone but it said wrong sim so whatEVER. we ended up just buying the cheapest phone they had which was $90. the next one up was $150 and thats just the basic. you don't even wanna know how much they were charging for the chocolate..
haha our dandy little nokia makes the iphone look like the pope.
satoko cooked us dinner. a yummy curry dish with brown rice, potatoes, and sausage.
jessica and i went down to the sky city to a bar called Suite last night. met up with this american from chicago we had met at the sydney airport. he was over here promoting a liquor (just our luck the guy that sits next to us sells liquor) called ecstasy (drinkecstasy.com) which is a pomegranate liquor. the funny part is no one here in NZ knows what a pomegranate is.
the night started with our uber nice south african taxi driver who got out of the taxi and pretty much walked us up to the door. once we got in we ordered a couple and found out anything with skyy vodka was FREE! jessica was like "what! why!" and the bartender said "cause its a party. why not." it was like literally Skyy vodka waterfalls and accented men all around us. pretty much dream land except all the men turned out to be super creeps. jessica can tell you all about it! the night ended at a hamburger street vendor (where i got this AMAZING pineapple burger) and an overpriced taxi back to our flat.
today july19:
the weather today was once again glorious. i have yet to expect any less though.
i went up to my design building today and met for their orientation. the building is really cool with these great old wood floors and yellow brick exterior. its one of the oldest buildings in Auckland and used to be the sane asylum. (mom you would love it). the only thing is its kind of hard to navigate around cause the point of the sane asylums was to keep certain people away from others. so there are so many doors and hallways everywhere. almost like a rat maze.
the studio photography class i'm taking is going to everything i've always wanted and more probably. its a double credit class so instead of the typical 3 hours a week its 9 hours. also it has projects and critiques and i get my own studio space and ya. UCM is looking pretty drab and uncool..we shall see though.
Everything here is backwards from back home. It totally messes with my head, especially when you see a little kid in the seat where the driver is suppose to be. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it. However it is quite the ideal world for the left handed person like myself..hehe.
1 comment:
ok, let's think bout that 4 a sec "backwards" almost everything "backhome" at the farm is "backwards" will try & send care pkg soon, sent e-mail, ? if you got, is there landline# to reach you at? sounds like a great time & experience!! miss you lots-it's weird-well much love take care of yourself, talk soon;-) p/s: wolfe's is sending your pkg direct to ya;-) love ya Auntie D'
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