Where have all the squirrels gone... Day 49

Today marks the last day of Term 1 of the semester. Roughly translated...I don't have another class until May. I'm super excited. Today itself wasn't bad, I had Phonetics, which is always a riot, then we had a practical in Audiology. I raced back to my flat to take a nap... but I had the weirdest dream: Someone was very offended by what I put in my blog and came after me and my friend Max... with a gun. How awkward. Then they shot Max. Remind me not to sleep in between classes anymore, obviously I can't be trusted. Anyways, I went to Anatomy with an espresso in hand, as that is a very hard class to stay awake in. Today's class was surprisingly upbeat. Then again, it was the last one for a while. I made my way over to the gym, then wound up back here for dinner. Great fun. Now the count is really on... 3 days until Fiji!

I took this picture yesterday... it is slightly perplexing, I know. But this is what it looks like in downtown Christchurch, its most definitely a pedestrian city, everyone just takes over the streets when the cars have a red light. Oh, I noticed something today. You know how everywhere you look in Michigan, especially at CMU, there are squirrels? I don't believe that I have seen one here... I'm beginning to doubt their existence. They are replaced with a multitude of birds. Another point of interest, at least to me, is the way people treat their dogs here, they seem to have them highly trained because I rarely see them on leashes, they are just walking dutifully behind or next to their owner. It's really cute. I saw one dog today that was carrying it's own leash in its mouth while strutting along next to a man. Very cute. Enough rambling, I'm going to attempt to go to sleep... I'll catch you guys later.