Ok so since I haven't really done that much since I got here to Christchurch except look for a job I will put the last week and a half into one blog. Sorry it's a long one. The pictures will be from the past week and a bit as well. Enjoy! Nov 6 I had a terrible night’s sleep. An english guy in my room has a terrible cough and when he wasn’t coughing he was snoring so loud! I asked to move rooms which was no problem. I headed into town and looked around Cathedral square. It’s a bit of [View Full Entry]

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Got all packed up and relaxed around the hostel until it was time for Carolin to drive me to the train station. Checked my bag and found my seat. The train isn’t very big and has an open air car at the back of the train where you can stand and watch the scenery. We stopped in a few smaller towns along the way. The train takes you right along the coast down to Christchurch. Great scenery, which is why they call it the Tranzscenic train. Saw lots of NZ fur seals playing in the water and laying on the [View Full Entry]

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Slept in this morning. This morning i’ve just been relaxing and catching up on my journal. After lunch Carolin drove me down to the wharf to catch my boat tour. There was some really crazy wind all day and clouds had rolled in but they said the tour was still on but that we might not be able go to Motuara Island which is a bird sanctuary island at the end of the Queen Charlotte sounds. We saw a colony of some Spotted Shags which are a bird that live on the rocks. They are cool birds and have bright [View Full Entry]

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Today was my last day of work. Bathroom duty, my least fav. But now i’m done!!! Back to the library after work and talked to the parents on skype and then with the brother. Got back to the hostel in time to make some dinner and we mostly just spent the evening talking and Carolin wrote down all the german i’ve learnt from them for me. [View Full Entry]

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Carolin and I walked into town again after work today. Made a stop in at the bead store (my new fav!) and bought some more beads for one of my bracelets because I want to make it into an ankle bracelet. When we got back to the hostel I made it an ankle bracelet and had enough extra beads to make a ring. Sweet as!!! [View Full Entry]

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I woke up with a pretty good hangover but I dragged my butt out of bed for work. I made some toast and then went to see how Carolin was. She was worse off then me haha. She asked me for some toast so I brought her a piece and then she couldn’t remember asking for it and told me she didn’t want it haha. Silly girl! She had to ask for the day off because she couldn’t get out of bed haha. I was on kitchen duty which was ok. After work we didn’t do anything else. Carolin and I [View Full Entry]

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Happy Halloween!!! After work today we all ended up going to the bead store. 5 of us girls sat around and each of us made something different. I made 2 bracelets. We were there for a good couple of hours again. After dinner we ate the famous Sequoia Lodge chocolate pudding. Carolin and I wanted to go out for halloween so we drank some wine and then walked into town. The Irish pub was open of course and full of people in costumes. It was great! We had a good time and met some cool people who are working at some [View Full Entry]

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After work today we went to the library again. Stayed there for about an hour before Carolin and I went over to the bead store. It’s this awesome store where you can buy any and every kind of bead you can imagine and then sit there and make your own jewellery. You get to design it and make it. We both ended up making necklaces. Mine is with turquoise stars and circles with some hematite. It’s awesome. We spent a good 2 and a half hours there before heading back and making burgers for our woofer dinner. It’s so funny, we [View Full Entry]

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Was on bathroom duty today. Julia helped me which was cool. I relaxed in the afternoon while Carolin and Patty went to get their hair cut. Julia, Yvonne and I were sitting outside when they came back and Patty had her hair hidden under her hood and did not look happy. She hated it and thought it was too short. But they had both bought some hair dye and I did it for them. Patty dyed hers chocolate brown and Carolin dyed hers hypnotic red. We had a good time with it. I think both of them look great! [View Full Entry]

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Was up early and ate some breakfast. Today is my day off so I headed off on a hike. I had to walk around the marina as the foot bridge was being worked on and then started the hike to Bob's bay. It's an awesome hiking trail right along the coast from Picton and you can see the ferries coming in and out. I saw a sign and a trail that headed up so I took it. At the top there was a gravel road that led to the Snout track. It has some amazing views of the Queen Charlotte Sounds. [View Full Entry]

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