Hey everyone, how be?

So, another weeks come and gone crazy quickly, and I thought I'd blast out a quick blog entry. I'd like to firstly say I put a lot of pics up on facebook if anyone wants to see where I've been, some of them are awesome, some not so much! I'm going to get all my friends before I leave and make a best of at some point. I'd also like to point out that no pictures really give this place justice, the camera can't capture the colours anywhere near as well as they'd like. For example, I watched Narnia 2 this week, and the rivers really are that blue, its rediculous, my camera just won't pick that up.

Anyways, my week:
Last weekend we did the Twalk. This is a massive 24 hour orienteering/rogaining type of event, and a lot of fun. It started off with a 16.8km first leg, and 14 checkpoints to find. These checkpoints are marked on a map and a clue goes with them, but are still really hard/impossible to find in some cases. We completed the first leg in 7.5 hours and got 12/14 checkpoints. And walked a lot longer that 16.8km!

Everything was set up in a massive sheep hut on a farm, and there was food (and beer!) for the full 24 hours which was awesome. An hour and a half after checking in at the hut we went out on a leg at a night, which turned into a bit of a fail! We spent 5.5 hours getting very lost and found 2 checkpoints... not so good!

I went to bed around 1.30 am and got up at 5.30am for another leg. Teddy, Mel, Brady and I went out for another leg and got 7/14 checkpoint in 4 hours, pretty happy with it. The morning was so beautiful, walking on a hill crest and watching the sun come up over the mountains - sweeet! In total we walked around 40km in 16 hours or so, a pretty good effort I'd say. Oh, and we were all dressed as Ghostbusters as it was themed. The winners did around 80km I guess in the 24 hours and got a lot of checkpoints, some people are rediculously fit here. And seeing as one of the winning teams were over 50 probably, its bloody impressive!

That night we just had a takeaway and nursed aches and pains. Possibly went to the pub as well? I forget.

Monday and Tuesday were fairly un-eventful, I worked on my report in the day, saw friends at night.

Wednesday was Lisa's 21st birthday, so we went to a Mexican restaurant which was nice, and then to a really cool little pub called Cartel, where they played dub and latiny style music. They also has connect 4, I love pubs with games!

Thursday and Friday have been spent writing up my report for my project. I've now finished all of the writing up, its now just going to take a long, long time to correct all of it.

Yesterday (Friday) was Mels 21st birthday, so we went to a rugby game in town and watch the Crusaders hammer the Reds (a good thing). It was a lot of fun, and most of the game was spent messing around rather than actually watching it. Afterwards we returned to Mels for a dance party, had a bit of a boogie, and then slept.

It's now Saturday, and Marks 21st. We're going out for lunch soon, and then to 'putt putt' - what Americans call crazy golf... (All my friends here are American, kinda odd, but also great as they always want to get out and see the country).

So, that's whats happened to me of late, not overly exciting. I've got two more weeks in Christchurch, then around 5 weeks of travel coming up. I'm going to head to the north island which I can't wait for. Then back to England, which I'm sort of looking forwards to, but also very much not! I love this country, its definitely a place everyone should come to at least once in their lifetime.


Rob xxx