Golf Cross... Day 87 & very early Day 88

So yesterday I went on a souvenir hunting extravaganza with Heather, even though I didn't end up buying anything. I did find the most peculiar thing though, I was looking at golf related items, since Bean & Ferzy golf, and I see this crazy golf ball... but it's not shaped like a golf ball. The closest shape that I could compare it to would be a rugby or an American foot ball. I thought it was a joke, then I was proven wrong, there was a book in display called Golf Cross. Basically, you use a golf club to hit this oblong ball off of a golf tee that is shaped much like an egg cup, only smaller. As if this game isn't bizarre enough, instead of aiming for a hole, you aim for goal posts. I kid you not. I'm tempted to buy a ball... or two. In other news, I was introduced to the movie Anchorman today. It was painfully stupid, but there were a lot of funny one liners in it. Other than that, I have nothing to report. Wish me luck on my exam tomorrow!

NZTV... Day 86

So I've recently become acquainted with the television in New Zealand. It's not that great, to be honest. We have thirteen or so channels, some of them come in, some of them don't. In my friend's apartment, they have to use antennas (antennae?) to get most of their channels. Blast from the past, no? I remember when my parents' TV had antennas on it. Quite a bit of time ago. All of the NZ and Australian programming is kind of painful to watch, as the acting isn't up to par. And I'm not just saying that because I'm an American that is used to American TV, I'm saying that because everything that is shown on TV here that is made in NZ/Oz is based off of soap opera acting... and we all know how great that is. There are quite a few American shows on that I had not watched before, which is a blessing and a curse. A blessing because when I am bored out of my mind, I have something to do; a curse, because I keep finding television shows that I really like. Anyways, my computer is acting up, so I should go before it deletes this post again.

All the cool kids call it ChCh... Day 85

New Zealand is starting to get really cold, I can only pull off wearing jandals (read: flip flops/sandals) for another week or two, my toes are getting frosty. I think I'm going to go downtown tomorrow and have a picture taking frenzy, everything looks pretty in autumn. And I need to go to the open air market at least once more, its a fun little place. Oh and I've updated all of my photo albums, I've put all of the photos from Fiji, Australia and Franz Josef Glacier up. I found this one, it's all the way from the start of my program in Roturua, NZ on the north island. This place had so much geothermal activity, one part of a neighbor hood got swallowed into the earth by a small eruption. Anyways, the entire city smells like boiled eggs. But the pools looked really cool.I'm coming up on my exams soon, I have two next week and one the following week I believe. Yuckkkkk. Other than that, I think I'm going to try to fit in one more road trip before I leave, to Dunedin I think. It seems like a cool place and it boasts having the steepest road in the world. Awesome. Oh and ChCh is short for Christchurch...

The Time of my Life... Days 83-84

I cannot stop listening to the sound track from Dirty Dancing. Someone must stop me. Because I had the time of my liiiife, oh I never felt this way before... Oh someone help. In other news, I think I've gotten off of my insane sleep schedule. Last night I passed out around 8pm... that is a new record. I set my alarm for 9pm so that I would say hi to my mom online, then go back to sleep. I cannot remember if I actually did that. But I did sleep for 14 hours. That is disgusting, I must be dying or something. I really don't have anything exciting to report right now, sadly, I have class tomorrow, so that's exciting. Oh and I think my finger is done being infected, so that's also exciting. Okay, this is going nowhere, I'm going to go the gym or something. I'm looking forward to the summer though, look at my girls from last summer. Sadly, Steph is going to be in Louisiana... & Coop might be gone too... looks like it's up to Cat and I to maintain the fabulous four.

Creature Comforts... Days 81-82

So, being in a civilized country, I expect to be able to find Neosporin + pain relief. I went to the chemist (read: pharmacy) and could not find it anywhere, nor could I find anything even slightly reminiscent. I ended up getting some sort of iodine based substance, since it turns my skin and subsequently, everything I touch, a putrid shade of orange-brown. Anyway, I had to find this stuff because the exploding eczema on my hand got infected. It's really quite disgusting. But yeah, this stuff is actually working, so my finger will not end up falling off.

Something really crazy happened this weekend. Apparently a party got out of control somewhere around here and a guy drove, on purpose, into a crowd at a party. I think two high school students ended up getting killed, someone in my classes knew one of them. There seems to be a lot more violence in the news lately around here.

On a much lighter note, I absolutely love the signs for trains here. They look like toy trains. It might as well just say "Choo-choo!" on the sign. Oh oh oh and one more thing, we drove on the craziest bridge on Sunday. First off, it was one lane. Second off, it is also a multipurpose bridge, trains use it too. You have to look first to see if any trains are coming before you can use the bridge. Talk about nerve wracking.