I'm pretty sure most people know I'm not dead, but it had been awhile since my last post. My Australian housemate had to move back home on Wednesday, which was really weird and sad. Now it's just me and one other housemate. It's crazy having so much space to ourselves, but we've made good use of it by lying on the couch and watching Dance Moms. Apart from that I've been very busy at work. Thankfully I have my dad visiting next weekend so I get a bit of a break. In case you're wondering what I'm doing on a Friday night, I'm watching Airplane and realizing that as an adult I'm far more aware of how bananas it is than when I was a kid.
Friday 28 February 2014
Sunday 16 February 2014
Sunday Morninging It
Well, I finally made it to church this morning. Most Sundays I'm too lazy for it, but since I wasn't hungover and I went to bed at midnight I figured I'd go. The service was a bit boring and they tried to recruit me to the creepy night service again, but the weather is gorgeous today. The sun is shining, it's relatively warm out, and so I went for a walk through the Common and went grocery shopping. After a bleak couple of weeks it was a good reminder that spring is just around the corner, despite the groundhog's cruel prediction of six more weeks of winter. So, happy almost spring everyone!
Tuesday 11 February 2014
Five Month Anniversary
Normally I'm terrible at anniversaries, but since I arrived on the ominous day of September 11 is an easy one to remember. I'm finding at this stage is weird to be here because I've forgotten that I sound different. It's not until I met someone new and have to one again explain where I'm from and why I'm here. Apart from that things are sinking into a normal routine of waiting for weekends, complaining about the weather, and constantly reminding myself that I desperately need rain boots. Oddly enough a chick on The Bachelor kind of summed it up best. She said something like the hardest part about moving was missing the culture of home. That was total paraphrasing, but you get the idea. I love it here and it's so amazing, but I'm always aware that nothing's as good as home. I also want to point out that The Bach chick was a Canadian living in Germany, so way more intense than my move. Anyway, happy anniversary to me. At this time next month I'll be hanging out with my first visitor!
Monday 10 February 2014
Waitangi Day and McDonald's Brawls
I promise I'm not dead. My lack of posting mainly has to do with the laziness that goes hand in hand with winter. My motivation to do anything is at a low point. It's not even cold here. It's just raining constantly and that means that my main motivation is to stay warm and dry, which involves hanging out in my sweats and staying indoors as much as possible. However, I went against this instinct on Saturday for a "pub crawl." It turns out that Kiwis are the most outrageous of people and when it's Waitangi Day they go balls out and dress up in animal costumes or doctors (something to do with a TV program there). What's Waitangi Day you ask? That's a good question. At the time I had no idea. I actually didn't even know that the pub crawl was in honour of a New Zealand day. I just showed up because I thought I should get out of the house.
Waitangi Day (/waɪˈtʌŋi/,[1] named after Waitangi, where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed) commemorates a significant day in the history of New Zealand. It is a public holiday[2] held each year on 6 February to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, on that date in 1840.
Copied straight from Wikipedia, so you know it's true. Anyway, the pub crawl is meant to go along the Central Line and you're supposed to hit up 28 pubs along the way. Obviously going into this I had no intention of completing it because I would be dead by the end of it. Thankfully the pub crawl was actually just going into off license shops and walking around with beer. It was crazy though. There were like thousands of people there and all so loud and so drunk.
The best part of my night was at the end when my housemate and I went to McDonald's (obviously). Three girls were berating the workers at McDonald's because they were drunk and mean and my housemate ripped into them and because I'm afraid of confrontation I apologized and told them they should just leave, but.....WE GOT FREE FOOD!!! That's right, free McDonald's. Basically one of my dreams come true. It was aamazing!!!! Best part of the day for sure.
As a side note, just watched Charles Hamelin win the gold in speed skating! I love the Olympics and I'm proud of Canada because we're currently in first place for medals. It's weird watching the Olympics here because it's obviously British coverage and therefore they don't care as much about Canada, which is a shame because the Brits aren't great at winter sports. Now on to the moguls!
Waitangi Day (/waɪˈtʌŋi/,[1] named after Waitangi, where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed) commemorates a significant day in the history of New Zealand. It is a public holiday[2] held each year on 6 February to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, on that date in 1840.
Copied straight from Wikipedia, so you know it's true. Anyway, the pub crawl is meant to go along the Central Line and you're supposed to hit up 28 pubs along the way. Obviously going into this I had no intention of completing it because I would be dead by the end of it. Thankfully the pub crawl was actually just going into off license shops and walking around with beer. It was crazy though. There were like thousands of people there and all so loud and so drunk.
The best part of my night was at the end when my housemate and I went to McDonald's (obviously). Three girls were berating the workers at McDonald's because they were drunk and mean and my housemate ripped into them and because I'm afraid of confrontation I apologized and told them they should just leave, but.....WE GOT FREE FOOD!!! That's right, free McDonald's. Basically one of my dreams come true. It was aamazing!!!! Best part of the day for sure.
As a side note, just watched Charles Hamelin win the gold in speed skating! I love the Olympics and I'm proud of Canada because we're currently in first place for medals. It's weird watching the Olympics here because it's obviously British coverage and therefore they don't care as much about Canada, which is a shame because the Brits aren't great at winter sports. Now on to the moguls!
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