breakfast this morning at 8am with Stine then spent the day working on my essay and completed it!! got ready for the party...lab coat, nice undershirt, fake glasses and my FBI lanyard. I got confused a lot with a Doctor but in my heart I knew what I was. danced the night away with Sarah, Stevie and Stine. Stine got some great pictures. ended up talking with Paul for a good portion of the evening...he went as a cowboy. watched the movie 1408 by stephen king...so scary! then I headed back to my room absolutely certain that there was someone in [View Full Entry]

---

---

no breakfast this morning, slept in then got up to work on my essay. went to my late lectures and came back to work on my essay. treated myself to a break to see "Lars and the Real Girl" with Stine, Chris, Katie, Hairia and Helen. we all crammed into one car to make it to this flash cinema. got turned away as we found out that you have to make bookings. drove to another cinema and made it in time to watch the movie. had a few good laughs and I would totally recommend the movie so long as you [View Full Entry]

---

---

no breakfast this morning. spent the whole day working on my essay assignment and came awfully close to finishing. [View Full Entry]

---

---

breakfast this morning then off to anthro tutorial. studied between classes and attempted to figure out what was going on back home at OSU with the tuition and insurance. went back home after my late lectures and worked on my assignment. pretty boring day [View Full Entry]

---

---

back to reality. ate breakfast, went to lectures, worked on school work and began the steps for traveling to Australia with Kris [View Full Entry]

---

---

breakfast at about 9:20. got to eat the wonderful Muesli Emma's parents buy and enjoy some fresh fruit. got ready to leave and helped clean up the house. drove back a different route, through Hobbiton (the area they used to film more of Lord of the Rings) otherwise known as Matamata. we made it back to Auckland safely, thanks to Paul's driving. we dropped off all our stuff then Paul and I made a run to the grocery store as we had a proper vehicle to carry back all our stuff. dropped off the rental car and turned down a free [View Full Entry]

---

---

woke up at about 8:30 am as we had to check out by 10am. packed the remainder of our stuff and set off for Taupo. we were all a little sore but managed to function. got in the car and drove for about and hour and a half...well actually Paul drove but still. decided to stretch our legs around the town and take a browse at the local shops. found out where are our spa resort was located so that way we could go sit in the mineral pools. beat the crowds to our pool and soaked our muscles for about [View Full Entry]

---

---

breakfast early this morning at about 6:45 as we didnt want to miss the bus that left at 7:15 for the park. the bus ride was cold but it woke everyone up, which was probably a good thing. the day was perfect for hiking, nice and clear with no clouds in the sky. it was a little chilly but we all got warm walking. got some nice pictures with Mt. Doom and mordor from Lord of the Rings. the inclines got progressively steeper and I was huffing and puffing most of the way, but I made it!! :-) got to the [View Full Entry]

---

---

breakfast this morning at 8am then back to bed for about 2 hours. walked down to Uni to turn in my biometry assignment and send off a package home. came back and finished packing for Tongariro. Later I went with Paul to pick up the rental car, he does really well with taking directions so it should be pretty easy, assuming I know where we're going. left Auckland a little later then we were expecting but we managed to get all the proper things on the way down. hit up the grocery store in Huntly for snacks and some of the [View Full Entry]

---

---

breakfast this morning at 8:15am then off to anthro lecture. went straight from there to my inverts lab, we were dissecting lug worms. I felt kind of sad as our worm was still really really alive and they had told us that they weren't going to feel anything....but Sara and I managed to truck on through. we also had a photographer come in to get some shots of "student working in the labs", Sara and I just happened to be one of the 4 groups the photographer chose to take pictures of. should be interesting to see if I end up [View Full Entry]

---

---