So, left home 2pm Wednesday, 2 days 7 hours 38 minutes later I left Auckland airport. In between that there was three flights, and two stop overs, one in Dubai and one in Brunei. Brunei was cool, had a massive stopover and the plane company put on a free tour which was interesting. We went to a markety thing, which as obviously for tourists, but a full meal cost less that 2 pounds, awesome! Had some weird chickeny thing and rice wrapped in leaves of something, was really nice to try something completely new.
So, eventually arrived in the airport and Dane picked me up. it was 10.30 am and already 25 degrees out, blooming warm! Its crazy, Auckland is twice the size of London, but only 1 million people here. Just from driving from the airport to the city you could see how the country is so different (in a good way). Instead of high rise buildings theres a massive sprawl of homes, all unique unlike England's rows and suburbs. Here it seems like houses just get placed at random, which to me is far nicer.
Anyhoo, we went round the city, looked at hills, and I got shown around. It's strange, the main street in all of New Zealand is just a normal road with no fancy shops or anything, and its really quiet compared to any other main street anywhere. Bridport is even more crowded than it.
We then met up with Josh and Matho and spent the rest of the day skating, swimming, then went out to a 21st in the evening. Tradition here is to do a yard of ale, 4 people did them all with some great projectile vomming! I then fell asleep in the car as was exhausted and literally crashed on Dane's floor around 11pm.
The next day involved a lot of the same, driving around, skating, swimming. Life here is good! In the evening a few of us went to a Chinese New Year lantern celebration thing, which involved a park filled with different lanterns, which was very prettyful.
A picture is worth a 1000 words apparently, so I'll put some up when I'm on my own laptop.
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