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It's only been about 2 weeks since my blog and lots has happened since then. I was planning on doing snowboarding, but I decided to just get quite good at skiing instead. After the first day of skiing I was feeling pretty confident about my skills and I can turn quite easily and my ploughing was good too so the next day I decided to move up a group so I was in group 2b. Unfortunately I seemed to do quite well in the morning which meant that the instructor thought I was good and should move onto an intermediate slope. I wasn't ready for that, that's what I felt anyway and I fell over quite a few times. My confidence was knocked from that morning and in the afternoon I tried to go down a group, but the same instructor was there and made me do the same slope again. This time I fell and bruised my hip, smacked my head off the ground and hurt my left knee. The next day I was feeling very sorry for myself, but Michelle said I should get back into the lessons, to get my confidence back. My afternoon lesson was much better, although I hurt my right knee that time, but I felt a lot better on the snow and didn't fall over once. That night though my neck was really hurting from when I fell, that has gone now and I am all better.
We left Queenstown on the Wednesday and arrived in Christchurch later that afternoon and went out with some of the guys from the kiwi experience bus. The next day we went shopping and bought souveniers for friends and family and the day after that we went up a gondola and saw Christchurch from the top. We went to the synagogue again that Friday night for a meal and went to the service the next day. Some of my friends from my group in the north island turned up so I spent some time with them and was leaving early the next day to go back to Picton to go to Wellington via the ferry. Michelle left the same day I did and it was weird saying bye to her because it felt like I was moving on with her, although I wasn't. I had come to rely on travelling with someone else and then suddenly I was on my own, but I was ok.
I stayed in Wellington for 2 nights and there were some people in my room who were going to be going on the kiwi experience bus. I bumped into someone else I knew and went flat hunting for them on the Monday, then on the Tuesday I was on my way to Taupo again. This time I decided to to a bungy jump. No-one else came with me and it was over so quickly. I decided to buy the pictures, dvd and I got a t-shirt with it. I wasn't that scared but it was weird freefalling. I think I was more nervous to do the skydive, maybe because I was with someone else (being Michelle) and they were nervous too.
From Taupo we left the next day and made our way to Rotorua, went for lunch at a place called 'Fat Dog' and had a veggie burger which was literally a burger with lots of different vegetables in it, such as carrots, courgettes, mushroom and other vegetables, was really good. A group of us went to the Polynesian Spa where there are hot pools going up to 41 degrees. There were different pools with different temperatures. Some of the pools were alkaline minerals and others were acidic (apparently). That night I was in the bar and I bumped into someone from my South America trip, he was making his way south and I was going back up north. It was very random bumping into him, but really good catching up and talking again about South America.
We left Rotorua this morning and arrived in Auckland at about 3pm and I leave here on Saturday to fly to Australia. Quite excited but nervous at the same time because I will be on my own again and need to look for a job when I'm there. I'm going to look for work in either a hostel or try and get a bar job. Hard times ahead, but that's all exciting!
Send me messages on what you're up to, I want to hear all about your lives at home.
Lots of love xxx
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