This is the last week of school before our autumn break starts. We get two weeks so I'm heading to the South Island with pretty much every International student in New Zealand. I'm taking the ferry on the way there and I'm excited because I hear it's beautiful. I'll put up some pictures of break when I get back.
These past few weeks haven't been too eventful. Last week one of the Americans had a gig at the San Francisco Bathhouse. A good Kiwi name huh? He played the guitar and sang, and we all drank. It was a lot of fun.
Last week I got roped into a interhall swim competition and hopped in a pool for the first time in 4 years. We had a practice on Friday and then the competition was on Sunday. At the practice we got timed so it could be decided who would be swimming in the meet. There were only around 8 events at the meet, all relays, and most of us ended up swimming at least 4 or 5 of the events. The girls team consisted of two Kiwis, another American, and me. A lot of the Americans and other people from our hall came to watch and cheer us on. I was surprised at how much they got into it. One American told me that she felt patriotic cheering for us and joked that she even teared up a little. Haha.
The residence halls here have pretty strong rivalries and their halls are their substitute for the Greek system. Apparently everyone makes fun of the Kiwis that live in our hall because it's a temporary hall and has a lot less people than all of the other halls, not to mention all those damn Americans. The rivalries led to a pretty intense competition and we were kind of feeling the pressure from our hall manager, Helen, to win.
I swam 50 back in the 200 medley relay and then 50 free in the 200 free relay and we won both of those races by quite a bit. The other relays I was in were a wheel barrow relay (where one person is the arms and the other is the feet), a feet first (sculling) relay, and a leap frog relay. We won both the wheel barrow and the leap frog and got second in the sculling relay. We ended up winning the entire meet and apparently earned ourselves a pizza party, so I'm excited for that. It was a lot of fun, but I'm still sore! I forgot what a good workout swimming was.
Now I'm wrapping up my school work that I have to turn in before break and then I leave on Saturday morning. I'm excited and I'll have a lot to blog about when I get back. Until then I'm just doing school work and taking a few breaks to blog and go rock climbing tonight. I'll blog again after break!
Team America
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