Semester break is less than a week away...I can't believe how quickly time is flying here! Last weekend I had to go on a Plant Ecology field trip (who ever heard of weekend long feild trips??) to the Catlins, which is a beautiful region of NZ between Dunedin and Invercargill. We got there Friday night and then Saturday did two plant field projects, Saturday night identified plants, and Sunday did another plant field project and looked at more plants! Botony overload. One cool thing was we saw this really old huge tree...but then we found an abandoned house and walked inside and there was a dead sheep on the living room.
The week has had some beautiful weather too...and Tuesday was my birthday! After 7 straight hours of class, Ann cooked a delicious dinner and then a bunch of my friends came over for the night. It was really fun! Thursday night was some more celebration...it was also my friend Katie's birthday so we went out for a long Italian dinner (it's nice here because most restaurants you can BYOB) and then went out to town. We convieniently ran into our program director at one of the bars who knew the bartender so got us all drinks for free, which was great.
Yesterday I went to see my flatmate Ditte in a play. She was great, but the play was really strange...I felt like I was at one of Roger's plays at Trinity! Then I went to Sand Fly Beach with some friends. It was so beautiful! We had to walk down this really cool hill which had sand that kind of looked ilke a mountain of snow. Not so fun walking back up it though! There were some sea lions on the beach...and I went swimming in the freezing water! Afterwards some of us went out for Indian food and ice cream, and then went to Spencer's at relaxed. We watched American Idol and Project Runway which felt weird! I don't have a TV here so watching TV on rare occasions feels really strange.
This morning Andee, Spencer and I went to this big farmer's market and stocked up on fresh fruit and veggies, and we are about to head to another beach. We have to take advantage of it now because starting tomorrow it is gonna rain until break!
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