Another "of the week" category I've gotta add: Buzz of the Week!Yesterday's trip to Magic Mountain, a 16-rollercoaster amusement park, wins hands down. A bunch of about 80-odd international and local students piled into buses yesterday to hit the Los Angeles area theme park, and it was adrenaline-adrenaline-adrenaline!Though, to be honest, about 80% of the time spent at the park was spent queuing for rides, often in hot hot hot sunshin...

The Past 7 Days in Review:Gig of the week: Definitely Starfield, a rockin' Canadian worship band who played a free concert at UCSD Tuesday night [see pic left]. Check 'em out at www.starfieldonline.com. Everyone sing with me now: "I wanna hold the hand that holds the world!"Second to that would be Sunday arv's [afternoon's, for all you non-Kiwis who apparently don't get that abbreviation] jazz club. Possibly cos it was the only other...

Started work today.One of my flatmates works at Foodworks, a dining place over the other side of campus, and helped hook me up with a job there.Pretty cruisy stuff, I'm mostly doing hot foods and salads. And of course, tortilla wraps. The Mexican influence here is pretty strong - not just food, sometimes we'll be listening to a Spanish station on the radio, or my workmates will be talking to each other in Spanish. Hopefully it'll rub off on me!

Caught up with the lovely Sabine today.For those of you who don't know who she is, she's a German girl who stayed with our family for a couple months a few years back. I met up with her and Pia, her sister, in Christchurch one night, months later, but sometime after returning to Germany, she lost contact with our family. So it wasn't until September last year when I happened to leave a message on a Kerikeri website - probably during a bored patch whil...

As the big cliche goes, a big part of travelling is about experiencing new things, right?So I thought I'd update you with four new things I've had the pleasure to experience, or at least spectate on, in the case of the latter two:1. Speed friendshipping: "Life's too busy to make friends the long way - why waste quality time? Just spare an hour of your Monday and you'll make new friends in an instant! Four minutes per person is all it takes fo...