Hey guys! Everything is going well here. Very tired as the RAs have planned lots of things for us to do. Yesterday we all walked to Civic square at around midday for a welcome to Wellington. Each hostel went in their respective groups and throughout the thin g everyone had to do a chant. Kind of like back in high school for the athletics days and whatnot. Our chant was to the Avril Lavigne song, I think it might be called boyfriend? Claire may know what song i'm referring to ^^ Anyway, it wasn't that good because we have so few first years and also because one hostel had done theirs to the same song. The words were a bit different of course, but they booed us a bit... x)
As for the rest of the welcoming, it was fairly interesting. We had a really charismatic guy hosting the whole thing although i'm not sure who he was.... Then there were speeches from the mayor, the vice chancellor and the head of VUWSA. At the end there was an air guitar competition which was very entertaining. Most of the participants were boys but there was one girl too!
After that, we had the afternoon to do as we wished. I walked and met Maja at the end of Cuba street and she showed me her hostel. It's quite similar to mine but layed out a little differently. She has a really nice view though! I was a bit jealous of that. Ryan tells me his view is really nice too but I haven't seen his room yet. He also informs me that it's really small... xDD
Then yesterday night we had a quiz night. At first there were a few icebreaker games and then we were split randomly into nine or so groups. Our group was called 'Ice Ship' after the German book we were handed to lean on. The first round was about Stafford house, the second about Victoria University and the third was just general knowledge. After the first two rounds we were coming third equal but by some miracle we scored 8 on the general knowledge (some others only scored 2) and we were boosted to first place! our prize was a whole stack of subway cookies. Which I was pretty happy with.
Today was much more hardcore. First we walked up to the university for two lecture things just about starting university and studying and alcohol etc. The second lecture was really cool because the guy taking it was very charismatic. And a very good actor. Then we walked back (it is a fairly tough walk up that hill btw... ) and had lunch and from 1pm there was an amazing race. Which involved a lot of running all over Wellington. First we had to go to the Botanical (?) gardens. So we took the cable car and realised that we actually needed to be all the way down the bottom... So we ran down the hill and then had to run right back up it to get to the university library! Afterwards, we went back down the cable car and to Cuba Street where I had to stand in the colourful fountain thing (the one outside farmers (?) with the buckets). Then we ran to the war memorial, then to the backpackers, then oriental bay and finally to te papa. But not really finally because then we had to run back to stafford. The first three groups get prizes and we came fourth in the end. But it was a pretty intense two and a half hours.
I'm fairly tired now. We've got the prizegiving for that at 7. So fairly soon. I think i'll get a good nights sleep tonight....
Despite a whole lot of running and walking and exercise in general, I've been having a really good time! Still kind of looking foward to lectures starting because at the moment, three papers doesn't seem like it'll be that much work.
I hope Claire had a good birthday! Special shout out to you claire!! :)
Don't stay up playing guitar hero all night now....
Love Erin
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