Auckland: 7:57 PM; Boston 3:57 AM
So it’s official. I’ve been in New Zealand for one week. Not too bad I must say, my roommates (flatmates as they say here…) are friendly, social people. There has been a substantial amount of down time, which has led to spurts of boredom at times. Nothing like homesickness or that – though don’t get me wrong, I do miss all back in Boston and Vermont. Although I’d have to say today has been the worst day of all the days I’ve been here, because I’m sick, in a different way – I have a very bad cold. Most likely caught it on the plane or in VT right before I left: I was coughing a bunch on the way to Logan, but I thought that it was just a reaction to the air conditioning in the car, and to be honest, the cold-like symptoms really came on somewhat instantly; I went to bed after a night out Thursday (more on that in a bit) feeling fine, then I woke Friday feeling horrendous. Oh well. At least I’ll get through it (hopefully) this weekend – since the locals are still on mid-year break, the scene hasn’t really gotten underway, or so I’m told. Apparently next week will be parties or some form of get-together almost every night.
In contrast, Thursday has to have been the surprise highlight of the week. After a very bad first experience with the Auckland club scene on Wednesday – the place (called Margaritas) was jam-packed with drunk (and probably high) 18 and 19 year olds (and plenty of under 18s with fake IDs I’m sure), and pretty much sucked. Thursday was the official “Bar Night” as part of the orientation at the University, and when I saw the place was on Queen St (the main road in Center City), I figured it would be as horrid as the prior night. Understandably, I was on the fence right up until I arrived. Though, I’m very glad I went down: it was a much better time than Margaritas. Met a group of girls (and one guy, I wasn’t completely discriminatory) from around Boston, and also ran into another girl I had met at the first orientation session Monday, and had made a complete ass of myself around – at that point, I was still in the “honeymoon” phase of being in NZ, so I said something about how I wanted to emigrate because this country was so amazing, etc. – to be honest that was one of my famous spoken before thought out lines, though I do like NZ.
Enough rambling for tonight, I’m going to watch a movie I think and work on my 3 liter bottle of Orange Juice, and pass out early-ish. Classes start Monday, hopefully I’ll be better for them.
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