Good afternoon readers and welcome to the newest instalment.

Right now I am frankly a little bored and surprisingly tired considering I've done very little in the past few days apart from walk around. I'm fairly certain that I have now seen nearly everything in this city, it's quite small considering it's the biggest city in New Zealand. I walked down to the harbour yesterday where it is very windy, although the entire country is supposedly famous for being windy!

I have yet to make any new friends here, which is strange as I made loads in fiji although I was there for less time and moved around a lot. In fact this may have been the reason I made so many friends there, I was working on a different timescale, plus it's easier when there are only a few of you thrown together on an island with very few facilities and only 1 bar!

I actually ran into three people that I met in Fiji in the space of about 1 hour last night so that was quite nice, but they were people that I only met briefly, I haven't seen any of my other friends yet although chances are I will somewhere in this country as they are all going from Auckland to Christchurch too.

I think I will try to organise something to do for the next 8 weeks or so today before I run out of time at this hostel! I should also go out and do something as it is 2.15 pm and I haven't even left the hostel today. I may head to Auckland domain which is a massive park, it's also near a shopping mall (a very small one though). I willl then do some grocery shopping followed by a stint in the laundry room, oh the thrilling life of me! Aren't you all just dying with jealously! Well I suppose I have to eat some time and I have nearly run out of clean clothes so these things must be done.

I also have no idea yet what I will be doing in Australia though I will probably either work in Sydney or Melbourne through December and January, then travel for a bit until I go to Asia. This is as yet a mere embryo of a plan and in no way certain, such is my life!

I will write another update when I have actual plans, just to keep you all in the loop!

Bye for now

Kate

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