I honestly can't remember what happened on Thursday, maybe a lab day? We'll gloss over that.
On Friday I went to town with Sarah and Brady, and later met up with Teddy and Emily. Firstly we went to the cathedral, and arrived just in time for a small service, which was nice to go to. In the square in the middle of the city there is a giant chess board, and I always walk past it when I'm there, and this happened after we left the cathedral. However this time I started talking to some of the guys there. 45 minutes later I realised how crap I am at chess, and how good some of the locals are! It was really nice to stand outside in the sun playing chess against some strangers, quite relaxing! Luckily the others put up with me, and after my chess failer we headed to the art gallery and the botanical gardens. I feel like I've been there a lot lately, not something that I really mind though. They're really beautiful, and its so relaxing there. Oh, the art gallery was cool, full of paintings and modern stuff I don't understand, you get the gist!
Later that evening we all went to a sports bar to watch the Christchurch Crusdaers take a beating in rugby. The bar looked small from the outside, but once in it was like a cinema, absolutely massive. I also ate susi for the first time, and wasn't overly impressed.
Saturday was fairly overcast, but 12 of us still headed across town to take the gondola to the top of the hills surrounding the city. The views up there were amazing, if a little obscured by clouds. Most mountain biked down, but I wanted to hike and ended up hiking by myself for a few hours. After a couple of hours the rain began, and I got a call from Sarah who told me that Danielle had broken her arm and was on the way to hospital, fairly shitty! I decided it was getting too et and started to head down, but as normal got distracted and ended up wandering around the hills for another hour and half! Eventually I came to civilisation (sort of), and then realised I was in the middle of nowhere, and that the town I could get the bus from was about 4 miles away. After watching some guys surf for a bit, I headed back. Seeing as it was a fair treck, I decided on hitch-hiking. To my joy the first car that came along picked me up, and some Maori guys and a girl gave me a lift. Even better than that, they were passing uni and gave me a lift back, which took about 25 minutes, so stoked! They also wouldn't take petrol money as it was the armys car, awesome :)
Sunday was beautiful weather, and Maggie, Emily, Melanie and I decided to go shopping. Seeing as I only brought a weeks worth of clothes with me I kinda needed some more. Ended up with two more pairs of shorts, pretty useful! The rest of the day was spent in the park playing frisbee and climbing trees, lush.
Monday through to today has been taken up with uni work in the day and hanging out in the evening, not overly exciting, but nice nonetheless. I'm heading off for a hike this weekend with the tramping club, really looking forwards to that, and after that who knows.
I'll leave with a few pictures from the last couple of weeks.
Hope you're all well,
Rob x
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