Weekend!

Greetings! I hope everyone is very well~

It is the weekend again but 'weekends' here don't really have the same relevance as they did when I was at high school. My 'weekdays' are pretty much Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Really intense weekdays at that! And then my 'weekend' period starts on Thursday since I only have one lecture on Friday. But I've been using that time to study as well.

Lectures still going well. I'm getting quite into political studies. After learning about the origins (I spose you could call it that) of politics, this week we progressed to learn a bit more about New Zealand politics. The starting point was really good because it kind of tied in with some of what I had learned last year in New Zealand History. For example we did a bit on Vogel and his schemes and on Ballance and Seddon's Liberal Government. Then Grant Roberts came in and talked to us about his job and other various aspects of political life. It was really interesting to get that kind of insight.

Social policy has been interesting as well. What's even better is the two subjects kind of have similar subject matter. For example one chapter I had to read for POLS was a recommended reading for SPOL. I killed two birds with one stone! I have a SPOL assignment due on the 24 which I'm not too worried about yet. I plan to use some of my free time this weekend to get on top of it.

Japanese is fun as well but so far it's a bit of a let down. We've just been doing things that I've already learned and it is just a little basic. I suppose it's good to go back over things and they do it a bit more thoroughly here but it's not really much of a challenge. I'm crossing my fingers that it'll get harder from here.

I haven't really been getting up that that much else lately. Climbing up and down the hill takes a lot out of you... I'm totally getting macho. My calf muscles from the hill-climbing and my arms from the shopping bag carrying. I totally got a tan as well. There is a shoe mark on my feet from it.

Here are some photos of what I've been doing:

There's a Chinese tea shop down Courtney Place which has really good cakes. Really REALLY good cakes. I've tried three from there now, sharing them with Ryan (of course :P) Green tea, Chocolate and Cookies and Cream. The one pictured below is, of course, chocolate. It being a tea shop, there is also tea there. And lots of it. A whole menu full! But having tried two of them I can't say I have a very high opinion of them. The first was green tea. But it tasted kind of like green tea, kind of not. It had a soggy cardigan flavour to it... The other flavour was lemon honey chrysanthemum. It looked really disgusting (in a transparent glass pot with little floating sponge things in it...) and tasted completely like a soggy cardigan... XDD However, Ryan did get a Mango Yogurt Energy tea. And while it looked like it had about as much yogurt in it as a hamburger, it tasted good (but just like juice really). But if you want cake, I definately recommend stopping in there!

Mmmm...


Fish! The fish I bought at the Sunday Market. I was so proud of my creation I thought everyone ought to see. It was very, very delicious.


Last night Ryan came round and we made a feast of Okonomiyaki. I'd just like to let everyone know that it was about seven thousand million times better than the Okonomiyaki I've made for you before. It was very good. The key ingredient, I think, is the spring onions. After such a delicious dinner, we also made ourselves sundaes. Which were also very good. Yummy... :D


What else to say...? Since we're on the topic of food, on Thursday night I went to a gelato shop with a bunch of people from Stafford. It was like the gelato shop in Palmerston North but more expensive and also more delicious. One scoop was four dollars but the main factor which wins my vote is the consistency. It's not terribly hard like ice cream out of the freezer at home. It was soft like ice cream you just buy from the supermarket-in fact a little softer than that. And so very delicious.... Another must go place in Wellington!

The weather has officially turned to custard. Rain. Wind. Cold. I might need some warmer clothes soon! x)

Haha, hope everyone is doing well!

Love Erin