Oops!! Update!!

Uh oh!! I didn't realize it's been a month since I've written. I think it should be taken as a good sign because I've been so busy and caught up in having an unbelievable time here in New Zealand. Instead of writing a bunch of detailed blogs about everything I've been doing I was just going to write a summary list of sorts then say to look at pictures to see what it all looked like.

Here are a few of the highlights from the past month:

• Going to a 2nd and super fun Highlanders Rugby game.
  
• Visiting the Moeraki Boulders- These awesome boulders along the coast that are perfectly round
  

• Made my way up Signal Hill for a view over all of Dunedin

• A weekend trip for 2 day tramps in Wanaka and watching my friend jump out of an airplane. We saw many stereotypical New Zealand sights (huge green fields spotted with sheep, clear blue sky, and snow capped mountains)

• Another weekend trip road trip with 3 guy friends and Lizzie to Queenstown for the Canyon Swing (a 60m freefall then a huge arc through a canyon) then headed to Wanaka for  trip to Puzzle World (a building filled with optical illusions and a human maze). This trip was ridiculously amazing and I laughed pretty much the entire time. Definitely in my top 3 weekends of all time. Some highlights from this weekend: Playing pictionary in the hostel, watching the guys play ping pong for 2 hours, having pretty much all of our original plans fail and making up back up plans as we went along, going to a rifle rane and shooting my first gun (a 22 and actually doing really well for my first time), stopping at random attractions along the drive home, and many more hilarious events. I loved this weekend so so so much. It was the perfect group for the weekend.

• Climbed Baldwin St. (the world's steepest street) twice in 3 days with 2 different people. (It was my 3rd time up)
• Helped cut my flatmates here. It went from long, to a mohawk/mullet, to a mullet, to buzzed. His facial hair was also shaved along the way as well to match the hairstyles.

• Had a 480 Leith (our complex) Thanksgiving dinner. Each flat contributed different dishes and we came together to show the Kiwis what Thanksgiving is like (including going around the table saying what we are thankful for since arriving in NZ). (I made the Pumpkin Pie, which the Kiwis never had-talk about pressure)
• Many other small times around Dunedin with all my friends.

This has been the best experience of my entire life. I will never forget all my amazing memories. My only regret is that I didn't keep a better journal while here.