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Published: July 20th 2006
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North Head
Annie and Corina at North Head with Rangitoto in the background. I moved into the Railway Campus on the 4th of July. There were no fireworks here, but the day was still wonderful because I watched Lord of the Rings and I got to sleep in my own room, in my own bed. The first couple of days I was here in Auckland I did a lot of shopping, mostly at a place called The Warehouse that is similar to Target or K-Mart. The rest of my time was spent setting up my room and going out at night. The first bar we went to was amazing. It is called Rakino’s and is on the second floor of a building on High Street. The mood was wonderful, candle type lighting, great DJ, leather couches and scattered tables, dark walls, stocked bar and kiwi bartenders…in a word: perfect, just what I’d always hoped bars would be. At another bar 5 minutes from my flat (The Strand) a few of my friends (Anna, Corina, Annie) and I met three Kiwis named Gareth, Glenn aka “Nash” and Daniel. The next day the seven of us drove to a place called North Head, which is across the Harbor from Auckland, at the mouth of the Waitemata
Ice Cream Sundays
Garath and Annie eating sundays made of cheap ice cream. Harbor. North Head is a defense fort that was set up in the late 1800s and expanded during WWI and WWII. There is an elaborate system of tunnels through this old volcanic cone. We returned to The Strand that night to watch the All Blacks (NZ’s rugby team) play Australia on TV.
Megan arrived on the 8th! We went to the Auckland Museum and I learned how to swing dance on the 11th, we went ice skating on the 12th, we went to Rakino’s and The Globe on the 13th, we watched Animal House (which I had never seen but was informed by Megan that that was unacceptable) with Chris and Kyle on the 14th, I went to an ELEMENO P concert on the 15th (kind of punk rock-esque…awesome), we went to Rangitoto Island (a dormant volcano and a brutal uphill hour-long walk that yielded fabulous 360 views) on the 16th and we started classes on the 17th.
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Maryclaire
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i miss you two!!!!!
Yay! Pictures! I'm sorry we didn't connect last Saturday (for me), Sunday (for you). We'll have to try again soon. You guys look like you're having so much fun!! I MISSSSS YOUUUU!