One of my really good friends from childhood, Megan, is studying abroad in Western Australia this semester while I’m here in NZ. Luckily enough it worked out that she was able to come over to NZ for about a week and we were able to have our very own Middle Earth Adventures!
This past weekend I went on a road trip with some friends around the southern part of New Zealand’s North Island.
Our goals for the weekend: check out some Lord of the Rings filming sites, see some other incredible things, and have fun!
This past weekend I made another trip to down to Wellington to meet up for a TEAN sponsored event to the Wellington Hurricane rugby game against Australia’s Western Force.
By no means am I an expert on rugby; heck, I barely understand the game at all! Even so, it was really neat to watch! And of course it’s enver a dull moment when I’m surrounded by my fellow NZ TEAN’ers 🙂
I broke down my 20 days of traveling and stories in the South Island to day-by-day to make it easier for you all to read (as well as for me to write and keep track of everything). This post is gigantic, but I manged to see and do so many things that there is a lot to cover.
For my adventure I had signed up for a trip down the west coast of the South Island offered by my program, TEAN, which started on March 30th and lasted until April 6th. However, I found out that if I left a few days earlier I could save money on flights so I made a few arrangements and spent an extra couple days in the Christchurch area and visited some friends that attend Lincoln University. My Spring Break also lasted longer than April 6th so I decided to leave tack on an extra week to travel travel further south and then back up on the east coast again to see some fellow TEAN’ers at Otago University in Dunedin.
I would like to wish you the best of luck in making it to the end…Ready. Set. Good luck.
This past weekend I went to Rotorua with some fellow TEAN’ers!
Edited note: The entirety of Rotorua smells of Sulfuric Acid. Essentially it smells like one old big fart- but once you get used to the smell the place is pretty spectacular!
My fellow TEAN-Palmy friend, Ashley, and I decided to get the most out of our time there so we left on the 10:05 pm bus from Palmerston North which was scheduled to get into Rotorua at 3:40am on Friday… We didn’t have any set plans once we got dropped off because nothing was open for at least another 4 hours and we couldn’t check in to the hostel until 11am. So smart of a plan, right? But hey, we managed to explore the city in the very early morning!
Emerson Was Right 