This week has been amazingly busy due to O-Week or Orientation week. Every night the bars in town had different themed parties and they gave out free food and Waikato mechandise every day on campus. I went up to campus early a few times for free “brekkie” which consisted of an egg on bread. Yum.

Classes, or papers as they’re called here, went very well this week. Surprisingly, my monday 8am accounting paper turned out to be really interesting while my theatre class was pretty dull. I switched from my theatre paper to a New Zealand screen paper so I’m hoping to see some of Peter Jackson’s old horror movies. A lot of reading has already been assigned for classes and the workload seems to be more then PSU per class, but since a full workload in New Zealand consists of three papers, it probably evens out.

The sign for Uni that I see everyday ^

This weekend’s plans to go to The Mount again were folied by massive amounts of rain from Friday through Sunday, but we decided to go to a music festival in town and just get drenched while listening to all kinds of music which seemed like a good alternative. Thursday night in town was my favourite of O-Week as it was Fluro Party which basically entailed wearing the most lurid colours possible and dancing under blacklights.

Flatmates, friends and I before Fluro ^

We’ve started booking some weekend trips for March including Lake Taupo to bungy jump this coming weekend, and then the Tongariro crossing hike in two weekends! Very excited to bungy although I know I’ll be terrified at the time!

Cheers,

Karen 

Location: Hamilton, New Zealand