Employed in Auckland

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Yay! I am now gainfully employed and a member of the working world! Again. It's a duty manager job in a hostel, which should be interesting, but the best thing about it might be that I get my own double room! No more dorms! At least for a few months anyway.

Auckland is nice. It has a really bad rep, but I think that's just because the center is ugly and grey and blaaah. The posh suburb my hostel (heh, *my* hostel) is in is nice and green and has a volcano. An almost certainly extinct one, but you never quite know. It's a really nice walk to the top anyway. Mt Eden has a book/coffee shop, and an ice cream shop, and a normal awesome book shop and millions of little cafes that do really nice hot chocolate. And I'm getting paid to stay here (not much though) so it's even better!

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Photos

Rose festival in Parnell
There was this rose festival, right, and it was all very pretty. End of story really.

Sky Tower at night
Very dfficult to make out, but it's lit in different colours every month. Also, the highest building in the Southern Hemisphere