newest pictures!
http://picasaweb.google.com/naomibutler/Auckland2
includes going to Russell (leather tannery, printing press), Waitangi (meeting house), sand dunes and mack attack super fast boat in the Bay of Islands. :)
Friday, January 25, 2008
Gastronomy and Kebabs
Well, this has been a looongg week. I started another summer class: gastronomy. It's only 2 weeks, but from about 9-3. ugh. I had a test on thursday, it was okay i think. It is only terrible because it is so slow, there are high-schoolish class activities, and I had class from 5-8 later that day. sheesh. but there is only 1 more week of gastronomy, where there will be a final exam, and a 2000 word essay due.
Also, I've eaten 3 kebabs in the past week. goodness. they are really good, but make me so full that I want to pop. I just ate another, and then about half of a watermelon. this morning I had 6 crepes too! geez. what a lazy eating day. i'm so full i want to just sleep.
Other than that, this week I submitted my Letter of Evaluation/Dean's Letter application for med school stuff, and the SRF application, for researching at KU Med this summer!! Hopefully there will be good results with both of those. :)
Also, I've eaten 3 kebabs in the past week. goodness. they are really good, but make me so full that I want to pop. I just ate another, and then about half of a watermelon. this morning I had 6 crepes too! geez. what a lazy eating day. i'm so full i want to just sleep.
Other than that, this week I submitted my Letter of Evaluation/Dean's Letter application for med school stuff, and the SRF application, for researching at KU Med this summer!! Hopefully there will be good results with both of those. :)
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Northland Trip
This weekend was another traveling weekend for me...
Friday the BU group left UniLodge (where i live), and drove to Dargaville, then the Waipoua Kauri Forest, where one of the largest Kauri tree lives, Opononi for sand dune sledding, then Paihia where I stayed in a backbacker's lodge for 2 nights. We had a barbeque and bar night, complete with karaoke and everything. The bar we ate at was really quite neat...it had sand/beach floors. kindof a cool feeling.
The next day we went to Russel, where the first Maori people and Settlers were interacting, and we went to see the first printing system and tannery in NZ. (don't worry bruce, i took pictures of the leather stuff!)
We took a boat around the Bay of Islands, a group of 144 islands, on a speed boat. A cyclone was coming in, so it was extra exciting! We went to one of the islands to the Hole in the Rock, but it was far too wavy and dangerous for us to go in. But there was a small cave nearby that we went in instead, which was amazing, because the water was sooooo choppy, but the instant we got into the cave, it was completely calm, and really misty. Cool experience. Another night for everyone in the bars...
Today, Sunday, we left Paihia for Waitangi, to the Waitangi Treaty House. This town is across the bay from Russel, and is where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. This is a controversial treaty right now..because the Maori signed it with the British settlers (Pakeha), assuming equal rights, and protection that land would not be taken. BUT it was. So right now the governemtn is working on trying to right the wrongs that happened because of a broken treaty signed in 1840...
After that, we went to Haruru Falls (waterfalls), took pictures, and made our way back home to Auckland. Now i'm back in my apartment, just made dinner, unpacked, and got my application for a letter of evaluation (premed stuff) completely ready, for me to send out tomorrow. :) yay.
-naomi
Friday the BU group left UniLodge (where i live), and drove to Dargaville, then the Waipoua Kauri Forest, where one of the largest Kauri tree lives, Opononi for sand dune sledding, then Paihia where I stayed in a backbacker's lodge for 2 nights. We had a barbeque and bar night, complete with karaoke and everything. The bar we ate at was really quite neat...it had sand/beach floors. kindof a cool feeling.
The next day we went to Russel, where the first Maori people and Settlers were interacting, and we went to see the first printing system and tannery in NZ. (don't worry bruce, i took pictures of the leather stuff!)
We took a boat around the Bay of Islands, a group of 144 islands, on a speed boat. A cyclone was coming in, so it was extra exciting! We went to one of the islands to the Hole in the Rock, but it was far too wavy and dangerous for us to go in. But there was a small cave nearby that we went in instead, which was amazing, because the water was sooooo choppy, but the instant we got into the cave, it was completely calm, and really misty. Cool experience. Another night for everyone in the bars...
Today, Sunday, we left Paihia for Waitangi, to the Waitangi Treaty House. This town is across the bay from Russel, and is where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. This is a controversial treaty right now..because the Maori signed it with the British settlers (Pakeha), assuming equal rights, and protection that land would not be taken. BUT it was. So right now the governemtn is working on trying to right the wrongs that happened because of a broken treaty signed in 1840...
After that, we went to Haruru Falls (waterfalls), took pictures, and made our way back home to Auckland. Now i'm back in my apartment, just made dinner, unpacked, and got my application for a letter of evaluation (premed stuff) completely ready, for me to send out tomorrow. :) yay.
-naomi
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Hello!!
Hi! This is my first official post!! hehe.
So I am here in New Zealand for 6 months, doing a study abroad program at the Auckland University of Technology. So far, so good.
The first weekend here I went on a trip to Mt. Eden...where we played on black sand dunes, went sand dune jumping/rolling, swimming in the ocean, and wine tasting.
On wednesday we instituted "Wine Wednesday" in my apartment of 4 girls, where we proceed to drink a bottle of 1 white, and 1 red wine (although we also added champagned to the mix), and lots of cheese. :)
The second weekend (this past weekend), I went to Coromandel Peninsula, where I went to Cooks Beach, Lonely Bay, Cathedral Cove, Ferry Landing, Hahei Beach, and Hot Water springs. All very nice places. :) I went with a group of 13 other BU study abraod students..we rented 3 cars and drove for 3 hours, and it was terrific. We camped the whole weekend, one night at Cook's beach, and the next at Hahei. From Cook's beach, we hiked to Lonely bay, a shell beach (Soooo cool!), climbed on rocks, and hiked back. We had a bonfire later that night on the beach, were a few kiwis joined us. :) After we drove to Hahei, we set up camp, and went to Cathedral Cove - a 1 hour hike to a beach, where at low tide you can walk through a cove to the other side of the beach. very nice. The next day we went to Hot water springs, where you can dig in the beach at low tide and boiling hot water will come up. It was relaxing.
Well, I have rambled for far too long. Just look at pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/naomibutler/Auckland1
Also, for those of you who want my mailing address, here it is:
Naomi Butler
Unilodge, Apartment 1108D
138 Anzac Avenue
Auckland, New Zealand
So I am here in New Zealand for 6 months, doing a study abroad program at the Auckland University of Technology. So far, so good.
The first weekend here I went on a trip to Mt. Eden...where we played on black sand dunes, went sand dune jumping/rolling, swimming in the ocean, and wine tasting.
On wednesday we instituted "Wine Wednesday" in my apartment of 4 girls, where we proceed to drink a bottle of 1 white, and 1 red wine (although we also added champagned to the mix), and lots of cheese. :)
The second weekend (this past weekend), I went to Coromandel Peninsula, where I went to Cooks Beach, Lonely Bay, Cathedral Cove, Ferry Landing, Hahei Beach, and Hot Water springs. All very nice places. :) I went with a group of 13 other BU study abraod students..we rented 3 cars and drove for 3 hours, and it was terrific. We camped the whole weekend, one night at Cook's beach, and the next at Hahei. From Cook's beach, we hiked to Lonely bay, a shell beach (Soooo cool!), climbed on rocks, and hiked back. We had a bonfire later that night on the beach, were a few kiwis joined us. :) After we drove to Hahei, we set up camp, and went to Cathedral Cove - a 1 hour hike to a beach, where at low tide you can walk through a cove to the other side of the beach. very nice. The next day we went to Hot water springs, where you can dig in the beach at low tide and boiling hot water will come up. It was relaxing.
Well, I have rambled for far too long. Just look at pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/naomibutler/Auckland1
Also, for those of you who want my mailing address, here it is:
Naomi Butler
Unilodge, Apartment 1108D
138 Anzac Avenue
Auckland, New Zealand
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