Fiordland

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in awhile...I got a little bit lazy but I'll try to update more. A couple updates since I last wrote...

-Last weekend I went on a tramping club (what kiwis call hiking club) trip to Fiordland. My group was of about 10 (Andee and Ann included) and we were heading to Livingston Ridge. We spent Friday night under an overpass, and then Saturday morning began our walk. We hiked up this one mountain, and then went up even higher to be on Livingston Ridge. It was hard, but sooo beautiful! We hiked for a couple more hours along the Ridge, so it was just insanely beautiful views the whole thing. Then we had to hike down to the hut we were staying at though, and that was a challenge! It was so steep that we were turned towards the mountain holding on to grass, and sometimes we would slip and slide down a little. We finally got to where we were staying though, after about 9-10 hours of hiking. We made a delicious pasta dinner and then played a few games of Mafia. We had a visitor though...one possum kept coming up to us, and it drove the two boys on our trip a little crazy and they made it their mission to throw things at it and try to scare it away. The next mornign we woke up to frost! Winter is coming too quickly. Then we hiked back to where we started, and headed back to Dunedin.

-Spencer, Hillary, Andrew and I bought a car together! It's pretty normal for international students here to get crappy cars and then sell them at the end of the semester. So...I am now the owner of a 1989 manual station wagon!

I have to run because I am leaving for a weekend long Plant Ecology field trip (awful!) Miss you all!