Finally Set up a Blog!

Hey!

So I finally set up a blog after being here for over a month, but now I'm in "uni" so I'm not really doing anything too interesting. The first few weeks here I was traveling all over the north island with my Australearn group and then with my Mom and step-dad. It was nice to get to see a lot of New Zealand in the few weeks before school started. Once I got to Wellington things were a bit rocky with my housing situation, but that has all been sorted out. We just got internet in my dorm last week after living here for around 3 weeks! Which reminds me, we Americans take our free internet for granted. It wasn't until I got here and had to pay up to $10 for a half an hour of "high speed" (as fast as dial-up) internet, that I realized how nice it is to have free wifi hotspots all over in the US!

Like I said, I'm at school now, at Victoria University of Wellington, and things have slowed down a lot. I am lucky that I only have class 3 days a week, but I have started working in a microbiology lab on my days off. The weather is starting to get a bit cooler, but when I first got to Wellington, it was in the 70s or 80s every day! It's still been pretty warm, but we've had some really cold, wet, and windy days. Last Friday there was a mini tornado that ripped the roofs off of some buildings. Apparently, that's not too out of the ordinary for "Windy Welly". There is a really cool picture of the storm front coming into Wellington at http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3443374/Southerly-buster-hits-Wellington. Looking at the picture, it's hard to believe that the next day I was doing homework at Oriental Beach!

Well, I don't have too much to talk about as far as what I've been doing this week. I'll keep you updated if anything interesting happens!

Oriental Beach