Sup beezys

So, another week goes by, another time when I realise I should write a load of goop down. Weirdly, I've been writing loads this week. It all started when we were playing charades type games last weekend, and I began doodling, and then wrote some fact files on things like cheese, sausages, etc. Then it evolved into my thoughts and feelings, then some more on things like pirates, and then on Thursday I wrote a 16 pages story (albeit on an A5 notebook), but still, I was impressed. The story had beluga whales, a nun and a forest fire in it, pretty tight topics.

Anyway, back to what happened this week. I can't remember what happened Monday day, but I do know Monday night was pretty good. In fact I probably spent the day in the lab on Monday. Most likely. Anyhoo, we went to the uni bar on Monday night, it was fairly good, I danced, so it must've been ok. I threw down some shapes, people ran and hid, same as normal!

So, got in around 2, woke up at 7 for a phat day of labs, awesome. Tuesday hailed the first day of my proper experiments, and at the day I had discovered that at around 60% methanol our membrane was completely wetted, thrilling stuff. Tuesday night was bbq night I believe. I only found out part way through cooking, so I took pasta to it instead. Ooooh, that’s when Rosie, James and I went to the sickest little play park. It's got a zipline, a basketball hoop, lots of play things, and a water fountain, what more could you want? Returning to uni I joined in with a quiz thing. We sucked. Team Maggie consisted of me, Danielle, Maggie, Teddy, Fabian and Brady. We came a resounding third from last. Ah, it was after this that the writing began when we were playing charades.

Actually, NZ is pretty like the UK, but with a few subtle differences. Everyone says 'Ai' at the end of each sentence, there’s less ozone here, and mullets are cool. I have no idea, but I need a haircut and think I should get one...

Anyway, onwards throughout the week. Wednesday was good, a morning in the labs, followed by lots of playparking, and sleep. Oh, and pool, blow ping pong, and some mad juggling skills as displayed by me and Maggie.

Onwards to Thursday. Up at 7 as normal, but today no labs for me, oh no. For today was the day of white water rafting. Josh had arranged it for us, and I'm glad he did. After two hours of coach trip (my favourite bit was when we reached a signpost signed 'scenic inland route' each way - can't really go wrong can you!) we arrived at a lodge in the mountains. After lunch and putting on some very sexy clothes for the trip, we headed up the river in jeeps and whatnot. The scenery at the top was amazing. I'll whack a picture up of it later, I haven't taken many, so will probably take other peoples at some point. Rafting was awesome. In one of the practice jump overboard I forgot to hold on and so just floated down the river for a while, was lovely and serene. The water was beautiful; it had been in a glacier not six hours before, so perfectly fine to drink straight from the river. The river was also in a massive game reserve, so occasionally you'd see a huge elk wandering around at a massive distance. Incredible. Also some very interesting birds, saw a couple of hawks of some kind. Oh, and their pigeons and magpies are so much nicer that ours; they're really shiny, and not everywhere!

After thirty minutes of rafting we started to reach the rapids, and after some grade twos and threes we reached our first grade five (the highest grade we can raft - not sure you can do higher if you can actually raft!). We then proceeded to get out and have a gander at it, very scary looking! Jumping back in and pushing off, we were all pretty excited (when I mean we, there’s eight in a raft including a guide) and nailed it down it. Picture Splashdown but way more intense, in nicer water and just hella better! Good times. We pulled in further down to talk to a fisherman who'd caught two salmon that day with four pounds of bate, crazy stuff. The guide said they'd caught a sixteen pound salmon earlier the week, tasty! Carrying on down the river we met our second grade five rapid, awesome. After that some rock jumping; first from a three metre rock, then a ten metre one into the rediculously nice water, which wasn't even that cold.

Wow, this is a pretty epic tale thus far. Exhausted we returned to the lodge after three hour of rafting. It was on the bus ride home that the sixteen page epic tale was started. I somehow managed to finish it about five hours later, whilst slightly intoxicated. Thursday night was also really good, got fairly drunk and chilled with everyone, read my story to about three people at three in the morning, then went to bed. Four hours later up for labs, good times!

Friday morning, two hours into my experiment, oddly feeling really good, and I realised that I'd messed up. Awesome. Restart and another hour happens, another thing goes wrong. Three hours wasted. Eventually I finished my lab around 5.30, with some awesome results, pretty stoked on that. Went shopping, went out for a bit, came home around twelve and slept, which bring me to now, sitting in my Cher shirt and boxers writing this. Tasty.

Yeesh, what a marathon type. Props if you made it this far! Off to the Antarctic museum later with all the Americans, then farmers market methinks tomorrow. I'll whack some pics up later.

Oh, I also go skype; my username is robhanson745 if anyone has it.

Tata xxx