Finally Updating - Blogabond

So I haven't been able to update in a while because whenever I bring this website on my computer, the Internet shuts down - not sure why.
I bought my plane tickets for spring break -- I am going to Tasmania for five days and The Great Barrier Reef for seven days. Very excited, but very expensive.
This past weekend I went cave camping. We went up north a little bit and found a huge cave, which became our home for the weekend. We did some rock climbing as well.
When we returned home there was rugby game to go to. Go Highlanders! Rugby is definitely a new obsession of mine.
This weekend is Wild Food Festival in Hokitika, which is a six hour drive north from where I am. It is on the northwest coast of the southern island. Apparently it is a huge New Zealand event that a lot of students go to. A lot of my friends are going, but I am road tripping with my two kiwi flatmates, their kiwi friend, a few Americans I met through my Butler program. We are camping on the beach, and the Southern Alps are on the other side of us. We have to go through Arthur's Pass to get there. I'm very excited - we're going to get to eat strange exotic food like kangaroo and grasshoppers.
I am joining the kayaking club. I am part of the tramping club, but feel as though I need more water in my life. Every wednesday morning I wake up at 6:30 to get to the pool downtown to learn how to roll. That is when you flip yourself over then use your paddle to flip back up without leaving your kayak. It's extremely difficult. I still can't do it. This is intense kayaking, too. It isn't gentle lakes with quiet water - it's kayaking with helmets down roaring rapids and you flip over about every 15 minutes.
I'm working on getting a volunteer job; I have an interview on friday so I can figure out what kind of work I would be best doing. I'm also working on getting a job. I'm running out of money a lot faster than I thought I would.
Tuesday night was my catch-up dinner with the Butler crew. It was great being with everyone again. We went up the coast about an hour, had an amazing fish dinner on the ocean, climbed rocks, saw penguins - it was a blast.

More on classes later...and the Wild Food Festival once it occurs.
Ta Ta!

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Kiwi-Travels on March 5, 2008 from Dunedin, New Zealand

from the travel blog: I'm going to live as a New Zealand Kiwi for six months!

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