Rain Rain Go Away!

Hey again! So it is still raining here in Dunedin...good thing I overpacked so much I brought rainboots!

Last night I met up with a bunch of people from my Arcadia program at Spencers, and we all went grocery shopping and cooked dinner together. Dessert was hokey pokey ice cream which might have replaced black raspberry as my all time favorite flavor ever! SO DELICIOUS. Then some of us went out to a bar and hung out for awhile...I got my brother Nick what I think is the perfect birthday present, a "National Beerdrinkers Association" t-shirt, free with two pitchers, which Kiwis call jugs. Most of the music played here is American, so it feels weird to here Riannah and Kanye playing. "Viva La Vida" came on and it made me miss summer Trinity!

Today I met another one of my roomates, a girl named Ditte from Denmark. She seems really awesome and is really into tramping (hiking) and rock climbing so I'm planning to go on some trips with her this semester. Besides that nothing really uneventful so far today...except while Steve and I were coming back from the grocery store we saw literally hundreds of bagpipers on the streets! I loooove bagpipes. Dunedin was settled by Scottish settlers so there is a heavy Scottish influence. And I had my first taste of "Tim Tams", this amazing cookie wicked popular with Kiwis and Ausies. Ditte told me the "proper" way to eat it is with both ends cut off, and use it as a straw in hot chocolate and then eat it quickly, but I haven't gotten that far yet.

Also, you can't say fanny pack in New Zealand. As Jane described, a fanny is a vulgur word in NZ that means "a woman's front bottom." So here they're called bum packs.