I find myself...surrounded by newlyweds and old women.There are far too many hideously bright and busy shirts that I hope were just an impulse buy for most of these people and will spend the rest of their lives in the back of a closet, serving only to remind the owners of their brief stay in Fiji. How did I get to Fiji?When I was booking my tickets home over 6 months ago I though "how cool! I am going through Fiji!"...It seems utterly surreal that I am ...

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...