There are a few select moments on everyone's life where you realise how much time has passed, how much you have been through, aThere are a few select moments on everyone's life where you realise how much time has passed, how much you have been through, and how much you miss. You may be standing in line at Starbucks, at dinner with friends, or just sitting on your bed reading a book, when it occurs to you quite simply, "a lot happens in life". It see...

Well, here we are. At the end. It has been some ways a very fast and also a very slow 5 months here in New Zealand. After a rigerous semester with 8ams and long days to get through, I am done. So what better way to celebrate the almost end than by going on another road trip? Except minus the whole flat tire thing. So, last Thursday morning we (me, Bethany, and Vanessa) rented a car, dubbed Lilly, and set off to the notoriously gorgeous Coromandel penunsula. ...

I am now officially done with classes for this semester, and it is getting tantilizingly warm in Auckland, so much so that I actually wore shorts today. It is very counter intuitive to be getting into the end of school, start of summer mood in OCTOBER. Not only should I be thinking about Christmas and Thanksgiving, and snow, but I should be in the middle of Midterms, not Finals. Well, to be fair they would have the same level of stress, but still. I have...

Auckland, New Zealand is a strange place. On the surface it appears as though it may have some New York City quality to it, maybe a touch of London, a pinch of Seattle.But after a few months of living here and settling into a groove of the city centre I have found that Auckland really is like no other place I have ever been.First of all, it is not pretty.I will just put that out there.It does not have the ageless beauty of Paris or Amersterdam where even the...

Caving.Yep, that's what it is called. Not "walking through really small, dark, creepy places where there is that dripping sound that echoes across unknown distances".I think that would be more appropriate. However, in movies when characters enter a cave, that dripping sound is actually really cool.And when there is not a killer after you, you aren't searching for your long lost son or something melodramatic like that, the eerie caves can have their...